Conference: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area
of Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assn. & Southwest/Texas American Culture Assn.
2005 Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque * Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 9-12, 2005
Deadline: November 15, 2004
The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area solicits paper proposals from librarians, graduate students, library school faculty, collectors, writers, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use libraries, archives, and museums!) of popular culture and information settings of all types! We also encourage proposals for slide shows, video presentations, workshop formats, and panels organized around common themes. Among previous presentations were a study of library marketing in Romania, an overview of collection development for feminist spirituality, and a consideration of Gone with the Wind as an information product.
Some suggested topics:
-electronic information-seeking habits
-intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture resources
-book clubs and reading groups
-reports of research studies of popular culture & libraries, archives, or museums
-marketing popular culture materials to library, archives, or museum users
-collection building and popular culture resources
-organization and description of popular culture resources
-new media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums
-knowledge management issues
-profiles of popular culture resources
Send a 200-word abstract to the Area Co-Chairs by November 15, 2004. Include your complete mailing address, school or other affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. Graduate students are encouraged to present, and to apply for the graduate paper prizes listed at http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/Awards/awards.htm
For more information and to submit abstracts, email:
Janet Brennan Croft
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: jbcroft@ou.edu
Rhonda Harris Taylor
University of Oklahoma
e-mail: rtaylor@ou.edu
