Call for Webinar Presenters: LibraryWorks Live Webinars

LibraryWorks Live Webinars

Call for Webinar Presenters

CFP URL: https://www.libraryworks.com/call-for-presenters

​Are you an experienced library professional with insights to share? We invite you to submit a proposal to present a webinar in our weekly series of continuing education sessions focused on advancing excellence in libraries.

We’re Seeking Presentations on Topics Such As:

• Leadership development and staff management
• Strategic planning and organizational change
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion in administration
• Policy development and governance
• Technology integration and digital transformation
• Community engagement and partnerships
• Assessment, data-driven decision-making, and impact evaluation
• Crisis management and resilience in library operations

Presentation Details:

• Format: Live webinar (60 minutes total, including Q&A)
• Audience: Professional librarians and staff
• Delivery: Virtually on Thursdays from 2 to 3pm Eastern

Submission Guidelines:

• Presentation title and description, including 3 – 5 learning objectives (150–300 words total)
• Brief presenter biography (100–150 words)
• Any relevant experience presenting or teaching

How to Submit:

Send your proposal, or your questions, to Kathy Dempsey at kathy@libraryworks.com with the subject line: Webinar Proposal.

We encourage submissions from professionals of all backgrounds and library types. Innovative ideas, practical case studies, and diverse perspectives are especially welcome. Presenters will be compensated.

 About LibraryWorks

LibraryWorks' mission is to help library workers at all levels to make informed decisions about technology, collection development and management, facilities and furnishings, staffing, purchasing, and other areas that drive effective strategic planning and day-to-day operations. Our family of resources can enable you to identify best practices, monitor trends, evaluate new products and services, and hone your skills. Our webinars bring together library administrators, managers, and workers at all levels to explore practical strategies, current challenges, and forward-thinking solutions across public, academic, school, and special libraries.

We look forward to learning from you! 

CFP: EBSCO User Group (Phoenix, Arizona May 25-27, 2027)

Where Your Ideas Shine

Building a brighter library community

Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass Phoenix, AZ May 25-27

Discover how academic libraries across North America are solving challenges, exploring new technologies and supporting their communities through peer-led sessions, networking opportunities and conversations with EBSCO experts.

CFP URL: https://ebscousergroup.org/submit-a-session/

Before You Submit

Please review the information below before submitting your proposal. Then, click the button at the bottom to enter the submission portal.

Proposal Deadline: October 30.

• We welcome proposals from academic librarians and library staff who are using EBSCO products, services or content to support teaching, learning and research at their institutions.

   

  You do not need to have a large-scale project, polished case study or formal presentation background to submit. Some of the most valuable User Group sessions come from practical, everyday work: solving a workflow challenge, improving discovery, promoting a database, evaluating usage, supporting faculty, testing a new approach or learning from something that did not go exactly as planned.

   

  We encourage proposals from a range of library roles, including subject librarians, systems and electronic resources librarians, collection development teams, instruction and outreach librarians, administrators and anyone involved in connecting users with library resources.

• Sessions are held in one of three formats:

  • Standard Presentation – 40-minute presentation + 10-minute Q&A (1-2 speakers)
  • Panel Presentation – 40-minute presentation or discussion + 10-minute Q&A (3-4 speakers)
  • Innovation Session – 10-minute presentation + open Q&A, lightning round format

• To help you shape your proposal, we invite submissions in the following session pathways. These are not formal agenda tracks, and proposals may fit more than one area.

   

  Research Journey and User Experience

  This area focuses on evaluating and improving user workflows through optimization and integration of tools and services. It includes:

  • Improving the research experience
  • Configuring discovery tools
  • Integrating new tools into existing services
  • Reducing friction in access or authentication
  • Understanding user behavior
  • Applying usability findings

  Collections, Content and Database Strategy

  This area focuses on identifying, analyzing, and sharing use cases around library content and collection development. It includes:

  • Database evaluation
  • Subject-specific resource use cases
  • Collection development strategy
  • Faculty engagement
  • Content gaps and emerging needs
  • Managing renewals, cancellations or budget pressure
  • Connecting users with high-value content

  AI, Innovation and Emerging Technology

  This area focuses on use cases and expectations for newer and emerging technology. It includes:

  • AI in library services
  • Linked data
  • Automation
  • New service models
  • Emerging student or faculty expectations
  • Responsible technology adoption
  • Pilots, experiments and lessons learned

  Implementation, Migration and Change Management

  This area focuses on practical tips and storytelling related to new product or service adoption and internal stakeholder input. It includes:

  • Product migrations and new platform rollouts
  • Internal training
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Launch planning
  • Troubleshooting
  • Staff adoption
  • Lessons learned after go-live

  Analytics, Assessment and Demonstrating Value

  This area focuses on how libraries can demonstrate value through off-the-shelf reporting strategies or more creative approaches to analysis. It includes:

  • Usage reporting
  • Assessment strategy
  • Dashboarding
  • ROI and value conversations
  • Student or faculty engagement metrics
  • Communicating impact to campus stakeholders

  Teaching, Outreach and Campus Engagement

  This area focuses on maximizing engagement with students, faculty, and other communities served by the library. It includes:

  • Information literacy
  • Faculty partnerships
  • Student outreach efforts
  • Database instruction
  • Supporting specific disciplines
  • Research consultations
  • Building awareness of tools or collections

• Strong proposals often focus on one or more of the following angles:

  • A practical workflow others can adapt
  • A challenge your team solved or is still working through
  • A decision-making process that helped your library move forward
  • A pilot, experiment or early lesson learned
  • A content, tool or service strategy that improved user engagement
  • A collaboration between library teams, campus partners or vendors
  • A before-and-after look at a configuration, implementation or outreach effort

CFP: NASIG Autumn 2026 (October 6th-8th, 2026 - Virtual Conference)

 Call for Proposals – NASIG Autumn 2026

We are pleased to announce that the NASIG Autumn virtual conference is scheduled to take place online October 6-8, 2026, and the call for proposals is now open.  

We are accepting proposals for the following session types:

• Short (7 minutes): fitting for concise overviews or burgeoning ideas
• Medium (15 minutes): perfect for case studies
• Long (30 minutes): ideal for more detailed presentations

All of the session types are ideal for demonstrations. If you have an idea that would be better suited for a longer session (1 hour), a panel discussion, or a workshop, please consider submitting your idea when the call for proposals for the 2027 NASIG Annual Conference comes out later this year.

Please submit proposals using our Google Form by end of day Friday, August 21, 2026.

Whether you are new to libraries, working towards your MLIS, or have many years of experience, we are interested in learning more about your work on topics including but not limited to:

• New or evolving tools, such as AI
• Electronic resources & serials
• Collection acquisitions, development, and assessment
• Career/skill development
• Accessibility standards
• And more!

Sessions may present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, new findings related to a previously shared NASIG webinar or conference presentation, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the NASIG community. Demonstrations are particularly effective in the virtual format. View the NASIG Autumn 2025 schedule and recordings to get an idea of topics selected in the past. This is not an opportunity to promote or denigrate a specific vendor, product, or service. 

NASIG Autumn is an entirely virtual event, open to speakers and attendees globally. Speakers will receive free registration. We intend to make NASIG Autumn content more widely available after the conference. Additional details will be included in the Speaker MOU.

The deadline for submission is Friday, August 21, 2026, after which our planning committee will convene and review all submissions. If you need an extension, or any assistance with your submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at nasig-autumn@nasig.org. Visit the NASIG Autumn conference webpage at https://nasig.org/NASIG-Autumn-Conference.

We would be grateful if you would share this announcement among your own networks.

Many thanks in advance!

NASIG Autumn Conference Committee

CFP: AI and Academic Libraries Online Conference (Library Journal Conference) - Virtual - November 16th & 17th, 2026

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Share Your AI Insights AI and Academic Libraries Online Conference

Dear Corey,   Artificial intelligence is reshaping academic libraries at every level, from discovery systems to instruction to collection development. As libraries implement AI tools, they're gaining real-world insights about what works, what falls short, and how to adjust as the technology evolves.   Library Journal invites presentations about the intersections of AI and academic libraries in our Fall 2026 online conference.   We welcome submissions on any topic pertaining to AI and academic libraries, including but not limited to: AI and information literacy instruction Implementation of AI in library services, operations, and workflows AI and metadata AI and archives Intersection of AI and discovery systems Managing risks and building safeguards in AI implementations Ethics of AI in teaching and research  All presentations will take place via Zoom on Monday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 17, 2026 and will be recorded for accessibility. Recordings will be available to conference participants, but they will not be downloadable or available publicly.   We welcome individual presentations and fully formed panels.    For individual presentations: Please submit a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, a brief, 100-word bio, and five pertinent keywords to classify your presentation. Individual presentations will be capped at 20 minutes.   For fully-formed panels: Panels should include 3-4 people and be kept to one hour. Please submit titles and abstracts of no more than 200 words for every presentation in your panel. Please also include a brief, 100-word bio for each participant as well as a panel topic summary or overview of no more than 100 words explaining how the presentations fit together in conversation.    To submit your proposal, click here.   Submission Deadline: July 20, 2026   Acceptances will be sent out by August 24, 2026.     Warmly, Dr. Jennifer Tullos (she/her) Director of Online Courses

CFP: Researcher to Reader Conference 2027 (London, UK, February 23-24, 2027)

The Call for Proposals is now open for the Researcher to Reader Conference 2027, taking place in London on 23–24 February 2027.

R2R is a distinctive conference in the scholarly calendar. It places particular emphasis on practice rather than rhetoric, analysis rather than advocacy, and critical thinking rather than fashionable slogans. The conference invites honest feedback, constructive disagreement, and serious discussion across the full scholarly communications ecosystem.

The Advisory Board welcomes proposals for a wide range of session types, including Keynotes, Presentations, Panels, Discussions, Interviews, Debates, Workshops and Lightning Talks, primarily on international scholarly communications and research management. The R2R intensive 3-hour collaborative workshops (spread across both conference days) and the lively debate designed to engage the entire audience are just two of the R2R's distinctive features.

There are two deadlines for proposals:

• 31 July 2026 — early deadline, with review and suggestions for improvement

• 31 August 2026 — final deadline

Submitting by 31 July gives proposers the opportunity to receive feedback and revise their proposals before final review, increasing the likelihood that they will be clearly understood and appreciated by the review committee.

Full details and proposal submission are available here:

https://r2rconf.com/r2r-call-for-papers/

Please consider submitting a proposal and sharing this call with colleagues who may have a strong practical, analytical or critical contribution to make.

With best wishes,

Tiberius

Dr Tiberius Ignat

Director, SKS Knowledge Services

Director, The R2R Conference