Hello, everyone!
We are not doing a Call for Sessions for ARLIS/NA in Boston. We have instead sent out a separate Call for
Papers and Call for Workshops.
WHAT IS A CALL FOR PAPERS?
The Call for Papers will be looking for individual proposals
for papers on thematic areas. The call
does not ask for a fully finished paper or even a published paper. It asks for a 250 word abstract about the
topic you’d like to present.
We are not accepting proposals for whole sessions.
HOW CAN I MAKE MY SESSION IDEA INTO A PAPER?
- Take one of the ideas you have for a
speaker and submit an abstract about the topic.
- Take one of your ideas and find
someone who’d be interested in speaking on that topic and ask them to
submit an abstract.
- Take one of your ideas and ask on
ARLIS-L if anyone is interested in submitting an abstract on that topic.
- If you already had a session with
different speakers in mind, contact those people and ask them to submit
abstracts along similar topic lines.
There’s no rules against coordinating! But we
also don’t guarantee that you will be
placed together!
HOW WILL YOU ORGANIZE THE PAPERS? HOW WILL
SESSIONS BE CREATED?
The Program Committee and the CPAC will review the ideas for
papers and group the papers into sessions. In the early fall, there
will
be a Call for Moderators. The moderators will work on the individual
sessions, working with speakers to ensure that they will present in the
time
allotted, work with the conference planning committee to obtain
appropriate AV
equipment, etc. This will give members another opportunity to be
involved
with the conference. At that time, there will also be a Call for
Poster
Sessions, which will give us more flexibility to address some of the
topics
that arise after the sessions have been set, such as projects and other
topics
of interest. It also gives more time to the membership to think about
the
things they’d like to share with their colleagues.
WHY ARE YOU MAKING THIS CHANGE?
We’ve analyzed the data from the two surveys we sent to
ARLIS-L about the conference, and we’ve noticed some trends that we’ve
incorporated into our program planning. You indicated that you wanted
high-quality sessions, and you've also indicated that you’d like to see
changes in how sessions are structured and more variety in session
lengths. More people would have liked opportunities to be involved in
the
sessions, but the process is not always clear at times.
As a result, we’re doing something different for this conference!
I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS!
If you have any questions, please contact the Program Co-Chairs,
Jennifer
Friedman ([log in to unmask]) or Ann
Whiteside ([log in to unmask]).
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Jennifer Friedman, Collections Manager and Public Services Librarian
Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning
Building 7-238, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 258-5595 Fax: (617) 253-9331
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