[Lib-helig-l] LIASA 15th Annual Conference - Call for posters: Celebrate your library

LIASA Annual Conference

8 – 11 October 2013, Cape Town

Conference theme:          Libraries in Dialogue for Transformation and Innovation

1.        Call for posters

Are you working on an interesting project? Have you done research that you would like to share? Would you like to showcase programmes done at your library?  Why not present it on a poster at the LIASA Annual Conference Poster Session.

 

Preference will be given to posters illustrating the following themes:

·         Celebrate your library

·         The library as a space

·         Library innovation

·         Best practices

·         Transforming the organisation

 

2.       How do I submit my poster proposal?

Applicants should describe how they intend to illustrate the topic in the poster format, its impact and how they will present it. 

Send this information in no more than 200 words in MS Word format to conferenceposters@liasa.org.za

Also include the following information:

                Author’s last name

                Author’s first name

E-mail address

Telephone number

Title of the poster

Posters could be designed to also include photographs, graphics and text.  Posters will be attached to the panels allocated at the conference venue to poster authors.

 

3.       Poster specifications

Your topic should describe on a printed poster or photographs, graphics and pieces of text that you attach to the presentation panel. 

Presenters of a poster will be expected to be present at the LIASA 15^th Annual Conference in order to explain their poster and to hand out any leaflets, or other information material, they may have available for viewers of their poster. 

The panel allocated is 900mm x 1200mm and posters or presentations must not exceed these dimension. (An A0 poster is 841mm x 1189mm)
The author or at least one of the authors of the poster should register to attend the conference.

Conference fees, travel and accommodation as well as design and printing of the poster is for your own expenses. 

 

4.       Timeline

Deadline for proposals:                 23 August 2013

Acceptance notifications:             30 August 2013

Submission of A4 PDF version of the actual poster for the website and printed programme:

                                                                13 September 2013

Full sized poster:                              8 – 11 October 2013

For more information send an email to conference2013@liasa.org.za or conferenceposters@liasa.org.za.