Call for Proposals – ARLIS/NA Mountain West Chapter Winter 2022 Virtual Symposium – Friday, January 28^th, 2022 at 10am-12pm PST/ 11am-1pm MST.   

 

Dear Colleagues,  

The ARLIS/NA Mountain West Chapter is excited to announce that we are accepting proposals for virtual 10-minute lighting talks and virtual 10-minute poster presentations for our Winter 2022 Virtual Symposium on Friday, January 28^th, 2022, 10am-12pm PST/ 11am-1pm MST.   

 

You do not have to be a member of ARLIS/NA or ARLIS/NA Mountain West to submit a proposal.  

 

Topic ideas may include but are not limited to: 

• Any art library or art institution topic - instruction, outreach and programming, circulation, staffing, collection development, technical services, assessment, open access, digital scholarship, makerspaces or other spaces, etc. 
• General updates from your library or institution, including challenges or silver linings of the ongoing pandemic 
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at your library or institution 
• Artists’ books, special collections, & archives 
• Projects, publications, or research that you have recently completed or are currently working on 

Presentation Guidelines 

• Presenters should be able to attend the virtual symposium on Friday, January 28^th, 2022, 10am PST/11am MST – 12pm PST/1pm MST and deliver their presentation synchronously. 
• Presentations should be limited to 10 minutes, but may be shorter. 
• Presentations will be followed by a brief question-and-answer session. 
• Lightning talks may include slides, but are not required to. 
• Poster presentations should be a short talk about a project alongside a virtual poster. This poster may be a slide or take another format, as long as it is in poster form. 
• Virtual posters should contain the following:  
• Your Information: Your name, title, and institution should be clearly listed.  
• Title: Your poster should have a title (typically, this will be the same as your research, paper, project, or initiative). 
• Summary: Include a brief summary or short introduction to your research or project. If you’ve already had it published, you could use your abstract. 
• Additional items you may want to consider for your poster: 
• Process: Include the necessary information on how you planned and completed your project or research  
• Findings: Your findings, observations, lessons learned, or results should be summarized, along with why they are important to the field  
• Illustrations: These are the most important part of your poster, and will attract the most attention. Colorful charts or graphs are easiest to read. Explanatory illustrations should be substituted for text whenever possible.  
• References 
• Availability Online: Feel free to include other URLs if additional information about your research or project is available online. 

 

Proposal abstracts should be no more than 250 words and are due by January 7^th, 2022. Please submit them here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewGeWOYqZ3PYnejfgQ7pRM2VBV1SYNLau4qLpREQ1EPqc2mw/viewform?pli=1. 

 

Applicants will be notified via email by January 10^th, 2022. Please contact [log in to unmask] with any questions.

 

Be well,

Mountain West Chapter

 

 

Shoshana Vegh-Gaynor, MLIS

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Instruction and Reference Librarian

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