Monday, July 02, 2007

CFP: SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SARC) IV - Special Libraries Association

CFP: SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SARC) IV - Special Libraries Association
February 27-29, 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida
URL: http://units.sla.org/regconf/sarc4/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CONFERENCE THEME: “The Surreal Landscape: Information professionals mastering the challenges of time and space”

Participate in the South Atlantic Regional Conference (SARC IV), a division of SLA, by proposing a presentation for the Conference. In addition to topics generated by the conference theme, we are interested in receiving presentation proposals in the following areas:

-Emerging technologies
-Interdisciplinary research between information centers of varying types
-Unstructured data and the digital universe
-Scholarly research and publication alternatives and solutions
-Collaboration between business, science, profit/non-profit and information professionals-breaking the barriers
-Emerging special libraries and information centers-where are they needed or disappearing to, what’s needed in the future.
-Digital only “libraries” and the services to support them

Please send an abstract (not exceeding 250 words) of your proposed presentation by August 1, 2007 to the Program Chair. All accepted presentations will receive a speaker’s honorarium of $350. We will notify you by September 1, 2007 if your presentation has been accepted. Send all proposal abstracts via email to: Pam Doffek, Program Chair doffek@ci.fsu.edu Please put “SARC Proposal” in your subject line.

The SARC IV Conference will be attended by approximately 300 special librarians from the South Atlantic Region (VA, NC, SC, GA, FL).