Subject: Call for Proposals: Northern CA Technical Processes Group 2013
Program
From: Greg Borman <nctpg1_at_gmail.com>
Date: 12/3/2012 5:24 PM
The Northern California Technical Processes Group is seeking speakers
for its 76th annual program to be held in Spring 2013 in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Our topic this year is "Libraries Without Walls
Revisited". When the phrase "libraries without walls" was first coined
in the 1970s, everyone read books the old-fashioned way, while iPads and
the Cloud were the stuff of science fiction. We ask how technology has
changed our profession, made our jobs easier, created new challenges for
us, and how it ultimately will transform the very idea of libraries and
what librarians and professional staff do.
Some ideas that you might consider:
a) How are libraries transcending their traditional boundaries, either
physical or theoretical?
b) How can collections services support librarians and professional
staff in meeting user needs in environments beyond the library – whether
by facilitating embedded librarianship, getting library metadata "in the
flow" where users anticipate and need it, or by engaging with patrons to
describe, build, and re-contextualize collections?
c) How are librarians and professional staff collaborating with other
institutions/staff to support the concept and vision of "libraries
without walls"?
Please submit your proposals (no longer than 250 words) to
info_at_nctpg.org no later than December 31, 2012, at which time we will
choose three speakers. See our Past Programs section at our website
(www.nctpg.org) to see what we’ve been up to the last 76 years. And if
you know colleagues that would be interested in presenting at our
program, please get in touch with them! While we are mainly looking for
presenters involved with collections services, we would also welcome
proposals from people who focus on reference and outreach work (for
example, embedded librarians).
We look forward to your ideas, and to seeing you next spring.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Jackson
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
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