Friday, February 10, 2012

CFP: All Sciences Poster Session – SLA July 2012 Chicago, Illinois


CFP: All Sciences Poster Session – SLA July 2012 Chicago, Illinois

SESSION CO-SPONSORS Biomedical & Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, and Science-Technology Divisions

 Conference theme this year is Practicing Agility in an Open World Economy

Your poster presentation could help your colleagues immeasurably as we all seek to cultivate or enhance scientists’ knowledge management skills and to demonstrate the value of our services to our parent organizations or potential clients.  The poster session provides an informal and lively venue for sharing your innovative ideas on an important topic.

Possible poster topics:
v  Library disaster preparedness
v  Automated storage & retrieval systems
v  Measuring the value of information
v  Science literacy; Information literacy
v  E-Science librarianship
v  Be creative … use your imagination


ELIGIBILITY:  Any SLA member is welcome to submit an abstract.  In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the sponsoring science divisions will be given first preference.


GUIDELINES and LAYOUT:  Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Chemistry Division website at:  http://chemistry.sla.org/documents/poster-session-guidelines/


SUBMISSION of ABSTRACT:
  • DEADLINE is April 1, 2012
  • Please submit your name, institution, email address, poster title and description [250 words or less] by e-mail to 2012poster@gmail.com


NOTIFICATION of ACCEPTANCE:  All applicants will be notified re: poster proposal acceptance on or before May 1, 2012.


FOR QUESTIONS, CONTACT:

Cheryl Hansen
ESI Engineering Systems Inc.
630.851.4566  X1238
630.851.4870 (fax)
4215 Campus Drive
Aurora, Il 60504