The College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association invites proposals for presentations or panel sessions for the 2012 PaLA Conference, PA Libraries: Leading the Charge. The conference will take place September 30 through October 3, 2012 at the Wyndham Gettysburg, located at the intersection of Routes 15 & 30 In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
If you have a topic of interest to academic librarians, we invite you to submit a proposal for a session. Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
� Academic libraries role in the PA Forward initiative
� Agile budgeting for tight times
� Aspects of managing print and electronic publications
� Assessment of services or programs
� Changing role of technical services
� Community college initiatives
� Digital library projects
� Digital rights management
� Diversity, including GLBTQ topics
� Discovery services
� eBooks and their use on an academic campus
� Fund raising/development in an academic setting
� Grant writing
� Information commons
� Information literacy/digital literacy/transliteracy
� iPad /mobile device reference
� Leadership development
� Legal issues for Academics (Copyright, Patriot Act, etc.)
� Library management and HR
� Library role in instructional technology
� Library security
� Marketing and advocacy in academic libraries
� Mobile technologies
� Partnerships and collaboration
� Planning library spaces (user, staff & collection spaces)
� Recruiting and educating the next generation of librarians
� Research skills – collaborative projects
� Serving remote users
� Social media
� Technology in instruction
� User satisfaction
� Video streaming
� Volunteer management
All proposals should be submitted online via the program proposal link. For a working copy of the form, or to view the questions in advance of submission, a PDF is available for download. The link to both the online form and PDF will also be available on the PaLA web site.
Submission Deadline: The deadline for proposals is Sunday, April 1, 2012.
Proposal Acceptance Notification: The PaLA Program Committee will notify all submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposal(s) in May 2012.
For more information, please contact Linda Neyer at lneyer@bloomu.edu.