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Note: this conference takes place immediately prior to ALA Midwinter. Westminster, CO is a suburb of Denver, CO, site of the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

The Technical Services Education Special Interest Group of ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) seeks proposals for the ALISE 2018 conference being held in Westminster, Colorado from February 6 – 9, 2018. The conference theme is The Expanding LIS Education Universe. This call is open to anyone working in the field of library and information science, regardless of occupational label.

The ALISE Technical Services Education SIG invites proposals for individual papers or a panel discussion related to technical services education such as (but not restricted to): education for cataloging, metadata, bibliographic control, acquisitions, resource management, organization, workflows, collection management, and electronic and continuing resources. Preference will be given to proposals that address the overall conference theme (https://ali.memberclicks.net/assets/media/conf_2018/Calls/2018_alise_call_participation.pdf ).

The Submission deadline is May 31, 2017.

Proposals should include in a single document (PDF, ODT, DOCX format):

• First and last names of all authors
• Email address for all authors
• Institutional/Organizational affiliation of each author
• Title of presentation
• Proposal abstract (300 - 500 words)
• Keywords

 

Interested submitters are also encouraged to talk to the SIG convener (Sarah Sutton, ssutton3@emporia.edu) about their ideas prior to submission. Proposals should be emailed as an attachment to SIG convener Sarah Sutton (ssutton3@emporia.edu) no later than May 31, 2017.

 

All presenters are required to register for the ALISE 2018 conference.

 

Sarah W. Sutton, Ph.D., 2017-18 ALISE Tech Services Education SIG Convener