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In response to requests from proposal submitters who need some extra time,
ACRL/NY is extending the deadline for proposal submissions through
Wednesday May 9th.
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The Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of ACRL is soliciting
presentation proposals for its December 1st 2017 Symposium.
The theme of this year’s Symposium is the academic library mission within
the twenty-first century information environment. The planning committee is
accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations on the following three
topics:
1) *Ways in which librarians at institutions with limited acquisitions
capacity can contribute to the preservation, accessibility and
discoverability of research-valuable information*.
How do librarians at smaller institutions participate in
inter-institutional efforts to build and maintain rich shared collections?
How do they advocate on behalf of students and faculty to ensure that
materials required for teaching, learning and research remain accessible?
2) *Benefits and challenges of academic libraries’ collaboration with their
commercial partners*
What are the roles of libraries and vendors within the academic information
ecosystem? How do we reconcile the interests of profit-driven commercial
entities with the academic mission of college and research libraries?
Proposals that address the status quo or delineate aspirational ideals will
be welcomed. We are especially interested in frameworks that define how
academic libraries' functions are or should be distinct from those of our
commercial partners.
3) *Ways in which academic libraries have worked to ensure the
preservation, accessibility and discoverability of endangered
research-valuable content.*
How have libraries and librarians from all kinds of academic institutions
taken responsibility for the preservation and accessibility of endangered
research-valuable content? Proposals may also address specific gaps where
our profession is failing to fulfill our mission regarding such content.
Categories of endangered research-valuable material include (but are not
limited to):
- materials in danger of disappearing because they are inconvenient for
or hostile to a political regime or agenda;
- genres of materials historically seen as not of research value and so
outside the traditional purview of academic and research libraries;
- materials in non-traditional formats that are seldom collected by
academic and research libraries
Proposal submissions should be 250-500 words in length and should be
received by May 9, 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in
late May/ early June.
Abstracts for presentations should be submitted using this form:
https://acrlnyforms.wufoo.com/forms/zncyan71eiqt12/
The 2017 ACRL/NY Symposium will be held December 1st, 2017 at the Vertical
Campus at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Questions about the submission process or about the Symposium in general
should be sent to acrlnysymposiumchair_at_gmail.com.
Received on Mon May 08 2017 - 15:44:27 EDT