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[Janice Greenberg]

Posted on half of Trevor Dawes
 
Call for Proposals - National Diversity in Libraries Conference
 
The 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference, “NDLC2010: From Groundwork to Action,” will take place from July 14-16, 2010 in Princeton , NJ .  
 
The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC) is a biennial event that serves as a regional meeting for library staff members to discuss diversity issues, especially issues common to the host region’s culture.
 
The 2010 NDLC Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for presentation at the conference.  Proposal submission details are listed below. 
 
SUGGESTED Topics/TRACKS: 
Conference presentations are sought in all areas of diversity, including but not limited to, the following: 
 
Workplace: administration and management; recruitment and retention; leadership; continuing education; mentoring; organizational culture; office environment; budgeting; motivation; staff skill development; cross-training; usability

User services
reference; collections; programming; assessment; instructional design; marketing; collaborations; community spaces/learning spaces; outreach; the Library as a Place; customer service; consumerization; usability

Technology
emerging technologies; technology services; social networking; teaching and learning; innovations; online learning; core competencies; Library 2.0; YouTube; digitization; open source; visual media; web-based collaborative software; learning 2.0, second life; widgets/applications/mashups; virtual libraries/scan on demand


 
Presentation formats:
 
	* Individual presentation 
	* Poster session 
	* Panel session
 
 
Submission Guidelines:  
Proposals which include all of the following will be considered:
 
	* Name and contact information for principal contact (if more than one person will be presenting); 
	* Complete contact information for all speakers: include name, title, employer or affiliation, email address, telephone/fax numbers; 
	* Title of proposed program; 
	* Program theme; 
	* Program format; 
	* A brief (100 words or less) description of the program for conference program purposes; 
	* A detailed description (up to 500 words) for proposal submission review; 
	* At least three learning outcomes; 
	* Audiovisual/equipment requirements (if any); and 
	* Biographical statement of the presenter(s) (up to 50 words per presenter).
 
Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009. 
 
Notifications will be made by early December, 2009.
 
 
SELECTION CRITERIA:
 
The successful proposals will:
	* Identify critical diversity issues that will be treated in the program; 
	* Demonstrate how the audience will be engaged in program; 
	* Have a high degree of relevance to the projected conference attendees; 
	* Contain program content that can be re-purposed for continued discussion after the conference; 
	* Be unique and innovative or raise issues that have not yet been widely examined; and 
	* Have its foundation in recognized diversity research and/or statistics or presents new research and/or statistics 
Submit proposals by email (Word document or PDF attachment) to ndlc2010 at Princeton.EDU; please also direct questions about the conference to this address (you will be required to confirm that you are sending a message to this email address).  Proposal submission deadline: October 2, 2009. 
 
 
The NDLC 2010 Planning Committee members are: 
Valerie Bell (
 Ocean County (NJ) Library)

Trevor A. Dawes ( Princeton
 University )

Lila Fredenburg ( Rutgers
 University )

Steve Garwood ( Princeton
 University )

Susan A Hajdas-Sikorski ( Princeton
 University )

Allan Kleiman ( Old
 Bridge Public Library)

Colleen Major ( Columbia
 University )

Jerome Offord, Jr (OCLC)

Linda Oppenheim ( Princeton
 University )

Mark Puente (ARL)

 Liza Scherff-Nesarikar (
 Princeton
 University )
 
 
Janice Greenberg
morjan102785 at yahoo.com
http://morjan.wordpress.com

"The meaning of life 
is to build a life 
as if it were a piece of art." 
--Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Please pardon the duplication
 


 Janice Greenberg
morjan102785 at yahoo.com
http://morjan.wordpress.com

"The meaning of life 
is to build a life 
as if it were a piece of art." 
--Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 
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