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Dear colleagues,

You only have a few days remaining to submit a proposal for a poster session at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans! The deadline for submissions is Friday (Jan. 7).

An application form is available on the poster session website, at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/howto.aspx.

The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative library program; an analysis of a solution to a problem; a report of a research study; or any other presentation that would benefit the larger library community.

Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually 4 x 8 feet. During their assigned 1½ hour time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees.

The deadline for submitting an application is January 7, 2011. Applicants will be notified by Feb. 28, 2011, whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference, prior to the ALA Early Bird Registration deadline. The 2011 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held June 25 and 26, 2011 (the Saturday and Sunday of the conference) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Questions about poster session presentations and submissions may be directed to:

Luke Vilelle, chair of the ALA poster session committee, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Or
Candace Benefiel, chair of the ALA poster session review panel, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/