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Call for Participation

The ACRL National Conference attracts and engages many of the brightest minds in our profession. We invite you to participate in this exciting and energizing exchange of ideas - bring your latest research, cutting-edge practices, and innovative developments to share with your colleagues.  The conference theme, "Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend," reflects the promise and the challenge of the Northwest. The ACRL National Conference challenges you to push your boundaries and promises you the opportunity to explore new ideas, engage in new learning, and extend our collective vision of the future of academic and research libraries in the 21st century.  We invite you to send your edgiest, most "out-there" proposals, to help us make Seattle the site of a truly groundbreaking conference! 

Conference themes
The Executive Committee invites you to investigate the issues and topics described as part of the following five themes for the conference and to think about both the future of our field and the practices and plans that are helping us get there: 

  • Cast a Net
  • Feel the Buzz
  • Get It to Go
  • Harvest and Sustain
  • Scale the Heights

Session formats
The ACRL National Conference offers a variety of session formats, from full-day preconferences to informal roundtable discussions.  Session formats include:

  • Contributed papers
  • Panel sessions
  • Preconferences
  • Workshops
  • Poster sessions
  • Roundtable discussions

Program proposal requirements
Please review the program proposal requirements before you begin the online proposal submission process.  You may start and save an incomplete proposal, and edit or add additional information before the proposal deadline deadline date.  An ID number and password will be assigned to you when you submit your proposal. Be sure to print your ID number and password and keep them in a safe place.

Selection criteria and presenter requirements 
Check out the selection criteria and presenter requirements before you start your proposal submission.

Deadlines
May 12, 2008 - Contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals due
October 20, 2008 - Poster session proposals due
November 23, 2008 - Roundtable discussion proposals due

Access the online proposal submission form
All proposals must be submitted via the online proposal submission form.  Click here to access the online proposal submission form.  Questions?  Contact  acrl@ala.org.



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