(via the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies)
Do you have innovative ideas, services and programs to share with your library colleagues? Why not present one at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conferences? Submit a proposal to the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) today! The 2017 Midwinter Meeting, January 20-24, 2017, will be in Atlanta, GA, and the Annual Conference, June 22-27, 2017, will be in Chicago, IL.
The deadline to receive online proposals for 2017 is June 13, 2016. The link to submit a conference program/preconference/institute proposal is here. Once collected, the ASCLA office will send the proposals to the ASCLA Conference Programming Committee to oversee, organize and recommend for approval to the ASCLA board at Board Meeting II at the Annual Conference in Orlando FL, 2016.
Please spread the word to anyone who you think would like to present a valuable program for ASCLA. Our conference program committee is specifically looking for proposals that would appeal to the following groups.
- ASCLA interest group members.
- Librarians who serve people or youth who are incarcerated or in detention
- Library consultants and independent librarians
- Library staff who serve people with disabilities
- Staff of library cooperatives and consortium
- State library staff
Please feel free to contact Susan Hornung, at shornung@ala.org, if you have any questions.