Thursday, June 11, 2020

Revised Call for proposals: Entrelib 2020 (Virtual meeting - November 12-13, 2020)

Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference 2020<https://entrelib.org/> (Entrelib) explores how libraries and librarians support entrepreneurship in their communities and campuses. Now happening virtually Nov. 12-13, 2020, Entrelib is open to the academic, public, and special library community, as well as our entrepreneurial ecosystem partners.
The co-chairs invite proposals on the conference themes and session formats below.

The selection team will give priority to submissions that are of interest and value to multiple types of information professionals (public, special, academic, etc.).

  1.  Community Engagement, Economic Development, & Outreach
  2.  Instruction & Programming
  3.  Resources & Spaces
  4.  Entrepreneurship "Outside the Box"

Session formats have been revised to adapt to the online platform. Sessions will be grouped into hour-long blocks by theme.

  1.  Short presentation (15 minutes)
  2.  Long presentation (25 minutes)

To submit a proposal and learn more about the conference, please visit https://entrelib.org/.
Proposal submission deadline: August 1, 2020

Those who have already submitted do not need to resubmit. Successful proposals will be notified by the end of September 2020.

If you have any questions, please contact Concurrent Programming committee co-chairs Gillian Robbins (robbinsg@freelibrary.org) or Carey Toane (carey.toane@utoronto.ca).