The ALCTS Program Committee invites program and pre-conference proposals for the ALA 2015 Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, June 25 –June 30. The committee will also accept proposals from those interested in planning virtual symposiums to be held in mid-January before Midwinter 2015 in Chicago and virtual pre-conferences held in mid-June prior to Annual 2015.

If you are interested in planning a pre-conference or program, please submit the appropriate web form (see below), and plan to meet with the Program Committee during ALA Annual 2014 in Las Vegas or schedule a virtual appointment after conference. You will be contacted to make an appointment for a 15 minute session during one of the committee’s meetings on Saturday, June 28^th, 10:30-11:30 am or Monday June 30, 1:00-2:30 pm.   Virtual appointments will be scheduled at the committee and planner’s convenience during July.  We intend to finalize the program offerings in September 2014.

The committee and ALCTS staff will help you develop your ideas and plan logistics. It isn’t necessary to have all the details when you initially fill out the proposal form or visit the committee, however we would ask that you supply a working title, tentative description, target audience and relevance to the profession.

The Program Committee welcomes topics that will remain current and of interest in 2015.  We particularly encourage you to employ different program formats:  lightning rounds, learning lounge style, debates, an “unconference” model, or other innovative program model.  Programs will be either 60 or 90 minutes in length.  Preconferences may be one-half to two days in length. Virtual preconferences or symposia usually total one day of contact time spread out over several days.  Programs and pre-conferences often originate with ALCTS sections or interest groups, but they can also come from individuals or other groups.   Proposals do not need to come from ALA or ALCTS members.

Proposal forms are located at:

Pre-conference:http://alctsprogram.wufoo.com/forms/alcts-preconference-proposal/

Virtual pre-conference: https://alctsprogram.wufoo.com/forms/alcts-virtual-preconferencesymposium-proposal/

Program:http://alctsprogram.wufoo.com/forms/alcts-program-proposal/

More information about the planning process can be found at:   http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/howto/plan

Please contact the ALCTS Program Committee co-chairs with questions.

Susan Davis

unlsdb@buffalo.edu

 

and

Reeta Sinha

profdevrs@gmail.com

 

 

 

Susan Davis

Acquisitions Librarian for Continuing Resources

University at Buffalo (SUNY)

134 Lockwood Library

Buffalo, NY 14260-2210

716-645-2784

716-645-5955 fax

unlsdb@buffalo.edu

http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/staff/index.asp?ID=124