Tuesday, March 10, 2020

CFP: Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference 2020 - November 11-13, 2020 (Durham, North Carolina)

Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference 2020<https://entrelib.org/> explores how libraries and librarians support entrepreneurship in their communities and campuses. Happening Nov. 11-13, 2020, in Durham, NC, Entrelib is open to the academic, public, and special library community, as well as our entrepreneurial ecosystem partners.
The co-chairs invite proposals in the session formats and conference tracks below.


Conference tracks:
*  Community Engagement, Economic Development, & Outreach
*  Instruction & Programming
*  Resources & Spaces
*  Entrepreneurship "Outside the Box"


Session formats:

  1. Panels & presentations (50 minutes, small or large group)
  2. Lightning talk (7 minutes)
  3. Instructional Laboratory/Experiential Education Exercises (25 minutes) - NOTE: Based on a model used at the USASBE conferences<https://www.usasbe.org/>, these sessions provide opportunities for librarians to demonstrate an active learning technique or an instructional/programming module in front of a small group, and then discuss it with the group.
  4. Discussion group (50 minutes)
  5. Poster session
Proposal submission deadline: May 15, 2020.
Successful proposals will be notified by the end of June 2020.


To submit a proposal and learn more about the conference, please visit https://entrelib.org/.
If you have any questions, please contact the Concurrent Programming co-chairs Gillian Robbins (robbinsg@freelibrary.org<mailto:robbinsg@freelibrary.org>) or Carey Toane (careytoane@utoronto.ca<mailto:careytoane@utoronto.ca>).