ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


566/C&RL News

Call for p articip atio n  in the Show case of 
Id eas— 1 9 9 7  ACRL P resid en t’s Program

The 1997 ACRL President’s Program Plan­
ning Committee invites you to participate in 
a Showcase of Ideas as part of the program, 
“Imagining the Learning Library.” The program 
will be held Monday, June 30, 1997, at 2:00 
p.m. during the ALA Annual Conference in 
San Francisco.

The Showcase of Ideas promises to be an 
integral and exciting part of this program, 
whose speakers will include members of the 
Disney Imagineering Team. The program is 
being jointly sponsored by six ACRL sections: 
the Instruction Section, the College Libraries 
Section, the Community and Junior College 
Libraries Section, the Extended Campus Li­
brary Services Section, the Education and 
Behavioral Sciences Section, and the Asian, 
African, and Middle East Studies Section.

The committee envisions the Showcase of 
Ideas as a forum in which librarians from all 
types o f college, university, and research li­
braries can present some of the forward-think­
ing and innovative ways they are communi­
cating the teaching mission of the library and 
creating learning environments in their insti­
tutions. Areas that may be of high interest to 
the ACRL community include:

• collaborative learning initiatives and 
teaching projects;

• integrated learning environments, either 
virtual or physical;

• innovative tutorials or services, elec­
tronic, Web-based, or other;

• marketing or public relations activities;
• distance learning or reference services.
Proposals that describe other ways of ex­

pressing the teaching and learning mission of 
the library are also welcome. The Showcase 
of Ideas will consist of informal presentations 
that can take the form of poster sessions or 
demonstrated papers. Presenters should be 
prepared to repeat the presentation several 
times. Each presentation should last about ten 
minutes, including time for questions. These 
interactive sessions will be a spectacular con­
clusion to the President’s Program.

To submit a proposal, send a 250-word ab­
stract with your name, address, phone num­
ber, and e-mail address by December 31, 1996. 
If you would like to include photographs or 
other visual materials to support your proposal, 
please do so (indicate if your presentation will 
require access to electricity). Proposals will 
be accepted by mail, e-mail, or fax. The re­
view panel will consist of representatives from 
each of the sponsoring sections. The commit­
tee is looking forward to broad representa­
tion from the sections of ACRL.

Send proposals to: Patricia Lovett, Biology 
Library, Jordan Hall A304, Indiana University, 
Bloomington, IN 47405; (812) 855-9792; fax: 
(812) 855-6612; e-mail: plovett@indiana.edu.

unique and innovative library-based 
projects with important lessons for the 
academic and research library commu­
nity.

Submit a 250-word 
abstract and a completed 
program application 
(available on the World 
Wide Web at http://ala. 
org.acrl.html or in the “Call 
for Participation” insert in the 
January 1996 C&RL News) by 
N ovem ber 1, 1996, to: Janice 
Simmons-Welburn, Coordinator, Per­
sonnel & Diversity Programs, Univer­
sity of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA 8 t h  N a

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52242-1420; e-mail: j-simmons- 
welburn@uiowa.edu.

R e g is te r  fo r  N a s h v ille  
n o w  a n d  s a v e !
The advance registration 
package for ACRL’s 8th 
National Conference in 
Nashville, April 11-14, 

1997, has been mailed to 
all ACRL members as well as 
additional academic librarians. 

You should receive your 
copy this month. A copy of 
the brochure and registration 

form have also been mounted on

mailto:plovett@indiana.edu
http://ala
mailto:welburn@uiowa.edu