LIBRAS - Call for Posters

Call for Posters

Do you have a Reference/Collection Management idea or research that you would like to share with the Reference and Collection Management SIG?

If so, you are invited to submit “conference” poster content for display at the Annual SIG Event on June 16th at Elmhurst College. Content may be sent to Katie Maier-O’Shea at North Park University who will convert it into a single poster-size sheet on North Park’s large scale printer. All posters submitted by the due date will be on display during the SIG event at Elmhurst. You will be able to keep the poster after the SIG event.

Submission guidelines:

· All posters should be sent to Katie Maier (kmaier@northpark.edu) in the form of a single Powerpoint slide by June 11th.

· Posters may address any of the broad categories related to reference and collection management. These include but are not limited to:

Reference/instruction such as:

• Technology such as online reference & websites
• Databases that might be new to other Libras institutions
• Pedagogical innovation
• Reference and instruction staffing

Collection Management topics such as:

• Marketing of collections
• Collection management tools
• Unexpected things that you have in your collection
• Budgeting in rough financial times

Who may submit posters?

• Everyone is welcome to submit posters including full and part-time librarians and para-professionals.
• Note: Libras SIG events are appropriate and supportive venues for all stages of work. This includes ideas in their infancy, advanced scholarship, and everything in between.

Formatting Help:

North Park often uses the large printer for in-house student poster sessions. Below is a link to the instructions used by our professors for their students. Obviously, you will not need to follow the content guidelines related to the class’s biology assignment, but I think a great deal of the formatting tips will be helpful to you.
http://www.npuphysics.org/resources/comp/building_your_poster.pdf