[Neasis-l] Call for proposals: ACRL/NY 2016 Symposium: Money and Power

[Linda Yau]

***Please Excuse Cross-Posting***



*ACRL/NY 2016 Symposium: Money and Power*

*Call for proposals*



Economic, social, and political power affect the choices we all make as
individuals and as institutions. The world of academic and research
libraries is not exempt. Power and money determine who and what is included
or excluded, affect our conscious and unconscious agendas, and can be used
to further or hinder changes of many kinds. Yet as ever-present as these
forces are, they are often assumed and unspoken. Let’s make the implicit
explicit by directly addressing the undercurrents of money and power in
academic and research libraries, so we can move forward together with
productive analysis and action.



Some possible areas to consider:

•  Labor and power in the library: adjuncts, faculty status and other
signifiers of professionalism;  collective bargaining;

•  Budget decisions and funding strategies;

•  Critiques of cataloging/metadata and the power to name;

•  Power within discourse and scholarly communication: academic freedom;
open access and questions of prestige; alt-metrics;

•  Leveraging power to foster change within an institution;

•  Power dynamics in the library classroom and at the reference desk;
teaching critical information literacy and the social construction of
authority;

•  Sociopolitical hierarchies, including those based on race, class,
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or disability that academic
libraries replicate and/or challenge; and

•  Sharing power in collaborations both within and outside our institutions.



The above list is *not* meant to represent the limits of the theme, but to
serve as a catalyst for your ideas.



We are accepting submissions for:

•   50-minute solo presentations to be followed by a Q+A period

•   20-minute presentations that will be grouped into small panels by topic
and followed by a moderated discussion



A call for posters will be announced at a later date.



Please submit an abstract of 250-550 words here
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__acrlnyforms.wufoo.com_forms_acrlny-2D2016-2Dsymposium-2Dpresentation-2Dproposal_&d=BQMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=C4mMerWMCspTcnw3wgyV9pyLVk5_b3jnpEuc6qidXPE&m=WPKGQ2nPDB3EZm3NM-B34N0Ys8yDtNaqGQXRwERPUiI&s=UrevoR4pGzCW8LKRvUhfl2-9TtterSPsRpZgnWdCOS0&e=>.
Deadline for submissions is *March 25, 2016*, with notification of
acceptance in early May. Selected presenters must confirm by May 19.



The 2016 ACRL/NY Symposium will be held December 2, 2016 at the Vertical
Campus at Baruch College, City University of New York.



* Hat tip to Robert Darnton via Maura Seale in *Critical Library
Instruction: Theories and Methods* for an anecdote
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__books.google.com_books-3Fid-3Dkw4AmX8uh8EC-26lpg-3DPA221-26ots-3DjvHIG9ICpg-26dq-3DMaura-2520Seale-2520in-2520Critical-2520Library-2520Instruction-253A-2520Theories-2520and-2520Methods-2520darnton-26pg-3DPA221-23v-3Donepage-26q-26f-3Dfalse&d=BQMFAg&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=C4mMerWMCspTcnw3wgyV9pyLVk5_b3jnpEuc6qidXPE&m=WPKGQ2nPDB3EZm3NM-B34N0Ys8yDtNaqGQXRwERPUiI&s=0E5Nd5J3GgIJvRM6__tJWnmATxJf87OfaLbOujqKjmg&e=>
that
inspired this theme.



Questions about the submission process may be addressed to
acrlnysymposiumchair at gmail.com
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