[Asis-l] Call for abstracts: SciTech Contributed papers session at SLA 2010

[Lisa Johnston]

The November 31st deadline is fast approaching to submit an abstract for 
the Sci-Tech Division Contributed Papers Session: "The Future of 
Librarianship" at the 2010 SLA meeting in New Orleans. This event is 
co-sponsored by the ENG and Aerospace, PAM, FAM, ERM divisions of SLA.

New this year, the session format has been expanded to include virtual 
presentations aired on the web. In the "Best of Both Worlds" session, 
presenters have the option of delivering their papers in-person at the 
conference in New Orleans or via asynchronous video presentation - so 
even if you are unable to attend in person, your voice can be heard!

Reply to me with questions and submissions.
Lisa Johnston, ljohnsto at umn.edu
Chair, 2010 Sci-Tech Contributed Papers Committee

(Apologies for the cross posting.)

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*CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 2010 SCI-TECH CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSION AT SLA
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SLA Division Sponsors:/ /Sci-Tech, Engineering and Aerospace Section, 
Food Agriculture and Nutrition, Physics, Astronomy, and Math, 
Environment and Resource Management

//Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, June 13-16, 2010., 
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

*SESSION: *"Future of Science Librarianship" Monday, June 14, 2010 
(4:00-5:30pm)

*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS*: November 31, 2009.

*DESCRIPTION*: As SLA rolls into a new century of good times, good 
friends and great libraries, we ask ourselves what the future holds for 
science-technology libraries and individuals in the information science 
profession. We are looking for papers that demonstrate unique tools, 
reveal new and exciting possibilities, and invent the future of science 
librarianship. How are you creating, instructing, informing, managing, 
planning, providing, evaluating, or archiving information in your 
science-technology information environment?

    * We invite papers to explore the many facets of this topic from a
      proactive rather than a reactive outlook.
    * More weight will be given to papers that include data evaluation
      and analysis.
    * The topic is broad in order to allow for a variety of submissions
      from theoretical as well as practical aspects.
    * Papers will be delivered at the SLA Contributed papers session in
      New Orleans, or captured digitally as video presentations. For
      presenters unable to attend in-person, video papers can be
      presented from the Sci-Tech division website for people to view
      asynchronously.
    * The printed conference proceedings will appear in the /SciTech
      News/ shortly after the conference date. See
      http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Annual%20Conference%20Contributed%20Papers/contributedpapers.html
      for examples of papers given in past years.

*ELIGIBILITY*: Any SLA member is welcome to submit an abstract for 
consideration. Preference will be given to members of the sponsoring 
Science Divisions listed above.

*CRITERIA*: Criteria for review will include relevance to the session 
theme and evidence of scholarship and methodology.

*ABSTRACT*: A 300-500 word abstract should accurately convey the subject 
of the paper, its scope, conclusions, and relevance to the program theme.

*PAPERS*: If chosen, acceptance of your paper reflects a commitment on 
your part to:

   1. Deliver a 15 minute presentation, either in-person or via
      pre-recorded video (asynchronously), at the SLA Annual Conference
      (June 13-16, 2010) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
   2. Allow your paper to be formally published in the multi-Division
      bulletin, /SciTech News/ and posted to the Sci-Tech division
      website (http://www.sla.org/division/dst/).

  
*SUBMIT ABSTRACTS* (and questions) TO:

Lisa Johnston (ljohnsto at umn.edu) on behalf of the 2010 Sci-Tech 
Contributed Papers Committee
Physics, Astronomy and Geology Librarian
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
108 Walter Library, Science & Engineering Library
117 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
p: 612.624.4216                 F: 612.625.5583

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Lisa Johnston
Physics, Astronomy and Geology Librarian
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
108 Walter Library, Science & Engineering Library
117 Pleasant Street S.E. 
Minneapolis, MN 55455 
p: 612.624.4216                 F: 612.625.5583
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