Friday, February 26, 2016

*Deadline Extended* NWILL 2016 Conference – Call for Proposals

The 15th annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference will take place September 8-9, 2016, in Portland Oregon at Portland Community College - Sylvania Campus! Look for registration opening early in May.

The Deadline for Proposals has been extended to March 11, 2016

Char Booth, Associate Dean of the Library at CSU San Marcos and an ACRL Immersion Institute faculty member, will be this year’s keynote speaker.

Call for Proposals
The NWILL Conference Program Committee invites proposals for lightning rounds (7 minutes) and regular sessions (45 minutes) of interest to interlibrary loan and resource sharing practitioners.

The following topics are of interest to the Program Committee, but we welcome proposals on other topics as well:

·  Managing your ILL statistics & taking statistics to the next level
·  Sustainable ILL & green practices
·  Coping with fewer resources
·  ILL for public libraries
·  Succession planning, ILL department management
·  Libraries without books, what does it mean for ILL?
·  Keeping track of licensing of e-content for ILL
·  Training staff and students
·  Copyright, fair use, licensing, and open access in relation to resource sharing
·  Best practices for ILL records management & policy creation


Check the conference site for more information and to submit a proposal. Deadline: March 11, 2016