As another year comes to a close, and you reflect on all
you accomplished over the past twelve months, the ALA Poster Session Committee
hopes that you will consider sharing your best work and ideas with the library
community at the ALA Annual Conference.
Proposals for poster sessions to be presented at the 2012
Annual Conference in Anaheim are now being accepted. An application form is
available on the poster session website, at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/howto.aspx,
and the deadline for submission is January 6.
The poster session committee encourages submissions from
all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions
may include a description of an innovative library program; an analysis of a
solution to a problem; a report of a research study; or any other presentation
that would benefit the larger library community.
Poster session participants place materials such as
pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually
4 x 8 feet. During their assigned 1½ hour time periods, participants informally
discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Titles/abstracts from
previous years, and pictures of sample posters, are available at the poster
session website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala.
The deadline for submitting an application is January 6,
2012. Applicants will be notified by Feb. 29, 2012, whether their submission
has been accepted for presentation at the conference, prior to the ALA Early
Bird Registration deadline. The 2012 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held
June 23 and 24, 2012 (the Saturday and Sunday of the conference) at the Anaheim
Convention Center.
Questions about poster session presentations and
submissions may be directed to:
Luke Vilelle, chair of the ALA poster session committee, lvilelle@hollins.edu
Or
Candace Benefiel, chair of the ALA poster session review
panel, cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu
Email: ala.posters@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/
