Call for Proposals: ACRL/NY 2020 Annual Symposium Civic Engagement: Democracy and the Library
December 4, 2020
Virtual Symposium
Abstracts of presentations can be submitted here: https://acrlnyforms.
For this year's ACRL/NY Symposium, we are seeking proposals for presentations and panels in the following areas:
- How do libraries and research institutions engage in civics, governance, and democracy?
- How do civic issues impact collections and services?
- How do libraries foster engagement with civic issues and the democratic process throughout the community?
- How do ideas of “library neutrality” affect how we engage with these issues?
We welcome proposals from all levels of library staff.
Potential perspectives include but are not limited to:
Diverse voices: participation of diverse groups in decision making and programming
Ethical Leadership: explorations of institutional authority and power dynamics, formal and informal practices of good governance and resistance
Public Services, Outreach, and Instruction: library programming, creative partnerships in and outside the institution, information literacy
Acquisitions/Collection Development: new and interesting collections meant to encourage civic discussion and activism, purchasing issues, resources sharing
Technical Services and Access: authority control and the algorithmic impact of information retrieval, scholarly communications, artificial intelligence
Format: The ACRL/NY 2020 Symposium will be held completely virtually.
We are seeking proposals to fill 60 Minute (50 minute presentation; 10 minute Q&A) and 30 Minute (20 minute presentation; 10 minute Q&A) slots.
We are open to a mixture of presentation types and formats.
Proposals should be 250-500 words in length, submitted by June 26th .
Abstracts of presentations can be submitted using this form: https://acrlnyforms.
Questions regarding submitting or about the Symposium in general can be sent to acrlnysymposiumchair@gmail.
