From: Linwood DeLong <linwood.delong_at_uwinnipeg.ca>
Subject: Call for papers
Call for papers/presentations for and information about:
Collections 2007:
Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management
INCO Centre
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John*s, Newfoundland
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Collection Development & Management Interest Group of the Canadian
Library Association seeks proposals for papers and presentations for the
fifth Collections Pre-conference session. These can deal with almost any
collections-related topic or topics and should result in a presentation
of about 30 minutes in length. Each presentation should feature one or
two speakers. Papers with broad applications or with applications to
more than one library sector or community of users will be given
preference. Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of three
collections librarians. Five papers will be accepted.
Deadline for submission of proposals: March 16, 2007 (deadline
extended!)
Send proposals, including a short abstract, to:
Andrew Waller
MLB 402B
University of Calgary Library
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3K 2C3
waller_at_ucalgary.ca
(403) 220-8133 voice
(403) 284-2109 fax
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Collections 2007:
Reinvigorating Collection Development and Management
Keynote Speaker:
Martin Levin, the
Books editor of the Globe and Mail. Martin*s presentation will be
entitled Confessions of a Literary Editor.
Martin Levin has been the Books editor of the Globe and Mail since
1996, having been its ideas columnist for three years. Before that, his
journalistically varied, even chequered, career, included stints as
editor of The Jewish Post and Seniors Today in Winnipeg, of Innings, a
serious baseball publication in Toronto and as a publications manager
for Southam. He is also a contributor to several books, most recently
as an essayist for What I Meant to Say...., a collection of essays by
men. His ambition know is to see a play he has co-written about
famously terrible film director Ed Wood, be produced.
Registration fees (unchanged since 2004) for the pre-conference are:
CLA Collections Development and Management Interest Group (CDMIG)
Members: $80
CLA members: $100 (Non-members of CDMIG)
Non-CLA members: $125
Registration includes a morning coffee break (kindly sponsored by
Midwest Library Services), lunch (kindly sponsored by YBP Library
Services), and an afternoon coffee break (kindly sponsored by Coutts
Library Services).
The registration form for Collections 2007 is located at
http://www.cla.ca/conference/2007/2007_Pre-Con_Reg_form2.pdf. The
deadline for pre-conference registration is April 1, 2007.
The registration page for the entire CLA conference is
http://www.cla.ca/conference/2007/2007_Delgate_Reg_form.pdf.
Received on Wed Mar 07 2007 - 01:56:27 EST