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Poster sessions are a useful and popular 
presentation method for sharing ideas, suc­
cessful practices, and other hands­on in­
formation with your colleagues. Part of the 
landscape at most professional conferences, 
they offer librarians the chance to connect 
with each other on practical issues in ways 
that are not always possible through other 
presentation formats. In “Poster session al­
phabet soup” (p. 423), Brenda Hazard pro­
vides an A­to­Z list of tips to help make 
your poster session a success. 

As a reminder, the application deadline 
for poster sessions for ACRL’s 13th National 
Conference (March 29 to April 2, 2007 in 
Baltimore) is October 20, 2006. 

Something else to look forward to at 
the 13th National Conference is ACRL’s 
Marketing Academic and Research Libraries 
Committee’s presentation of the 2007 Best 
Practices in Marketing Academic and Re­
search Libraries @your library Award. Read 

about American University’s experience as the 
2005 award winner and learn more about how 
to apply on page 425. 

“Alumni access to research databases” 
(p. 413) provides some good information on 
the increasingly relevant service of providing 
alumnus with access to licensed database 
content. Cathy Wells shares the process that 
Case Western Reserve went through to design 
an alumni portal that includes database ac­
cess. The article contains a useful rundown 
of some major vendors and their current 
packages for alumni. 

The updated and approved “Guidelines 
for the security of rare books, manuscripts, 
and other special collections” is published 
here on page 426. Originally published in 
1982, the document has been revised on 
the ACRL five­year review schedule since its 
inception. 

—Stephanie Orphan, Editor­in­chief 
sorphan@ala.org

July/August 2006  403 C&RL News 

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