{"id":18450,"date":"2025-12-31T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/?p=18450"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:02:23","slug":"call-for-proposals-empirical-librarians-conference-wed-may-13-and-thurs-may-14-in-clemson-sc-and-online-deadline-mon-jan-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/call-for-proposals-empirical-librarians-conference-wed-may-13-and-thurs-may-14-in-clemson-sc-and-online-deadline-mon-jan-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Proposals: Empirical Librarians Conference (Wed., May 13, and Thurs., May 14, in Clemson, SC, and Online)&#8211;Deadline Mon., Jan. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(via Anna Craft, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you a library worker who does original research or one who supports researchers?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for the 9th <a href=\"https:\/\/emplibs.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Empirical Librarians Conference<\/a>\u00a0on <strong>Wednesday, May 13, and Thursday, May 14, 2026<\/strong>, a <strong>hybrid gathering of in-person and online attendees<\/strong> focusing on the unique place of original research and researchers in the larger information ecosystem, <strong>staged at the Clemson University campus in Clemson, SC<\/strong>. We welcome presenters and teams presenting online, onsite in Clemson, or in a mixed format (onsite and online) at this conference!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We seek proposals for concurrent sessions, either as presentations, panels, or lightning talks, from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Track 1: <em>Supporting original research and researchers<\/em>\u00a0through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc. We encourage presentations on the unique needs of researchers\/patrons, and how this differs from other patrons.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Track 2:<em>\u00a0Performing research in libraries.<\/em>\u00a0We seek discussions of practical methodology, including why research could be or was done a certain way and what lessons may help attendees do their own research.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Please <u><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScl83UTn8I4H5X0dnxGwMrPj2Lsl767uFNPloVwM-sXfoQAow\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submit proposal abstracts and information on this form<\/a><\/u>. Proposals will be anonymized and peer reviewed. The review criteria for abstracts are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is it about either supporting researchers or doing research?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abstracts must be about one of these two topics, or they will not be accepted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is the abstract written clearly?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does the proposal include clear elements that support its potential to interest EmpLibs participants, appropriate to the length of the timeslot?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Does the proposal describe useful insights or takeaways?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overall, does this seem like it would contribute to a good program?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline to submit proposals is <strong>Monday, January 12<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenters are expected to register as attendees. Registration will open in February 2026. Registration will cost $50.00 for either virtual or onsite attendees, but presenters without conference funding (including students) can waive the registration fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EmpLibs does not accept presentations that have been presented elsewhere. However, we encourage presenters who have presented or will present at other conferences to propose at EmpLibs a deep-dive into the techniques or methods, lessons learned, and practical insights into how to create researcher-focused programs or conduct research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Anna Craft, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Are you a library worker who does original research or one who supports researchers?&nbsp; Join us for the 9th Empirical Librarians Conference\u00a0on Wednesday, May 13, and Thursday, May 14, 2026, a hybrid gathering of in-person and online attendees focusing on the unique place of original research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-conferences-and-meetings-non-hsli","category-webinars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18451,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions\/18451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}