The College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association invites proposals for presentations or panel sessions for the 2013 PaLA Conference in Seven Springs. The conference will take place Sunday, October 20 – Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at the Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Seven Springs, 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: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013PaLAProgramProposal. To view the questions in advance of submission, a PDF is available for download: http://palibraries.org/associations/9291/files/2013ProgramProposalForm.pdf.
The deadline for proposals is Monday, April 15, 2013. The PaLA Program Committee will notify all submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposal(s) in May 2013.
Please contact pproces@gmail.com with any additional questions.
Paul Proces
CRD Chair