The Planning Committee for the 2012 VALE Users’/NJLA CUS/NJ ACRL Conference seeks proposals for Poster and Breakout Sessions to be presented at the next conference, Thursday, January 5, 2012, at the Busch Campus Center of Rutgers University.

This year’s theme is "Brave New Librarian: Meeting Challenges and Embracing Change."

The Planning Committee welcomes both breakout and poster session proposals showcasing initiatives within academic librarianship informed by past experience, research, or input from user communities. Proposals highlighting innovations motivated by library user behaviors or expectations, creative uses of technology and staffing to improve service or student learning, lessons learned from successes and failures, and visions of applied twenty-first century librarianship are particularly encouraged.

Proposal requirements:
This year we are providing proposal submission forms you can download, fill-in, and return to the planning committee.

Poster Session Proposal Form

• in MS Office Word 2007 format:  http://bit.ly/qfPPGu
• in Rich Text format:  http://bit.ly/nWQjxc

Breakout Session Proposal Form

• in MS Office Word 2007 format:  http://bit.ly/n7SF23
• in Rich Text format:  http://bit.ly/oAFlk4

Please complete the proposal form in its entirety.

To submit a proposal:

Completed proposals are due no later than October 3, 2011. Decisions regarding the proposals will be announced by November 1, 2011.

Please email completed Poster Session proposals to: Ariana Baker, Warren County Community College email: abaker@warren.edu ; tel: 908.835.2440.

Please email complete Breakout Session proposals to: Elizabeth Sosnowska, UMDNJ - University Libraries email: sosnowsk@umdnj.edu ; tel: 973.972.4360.

Please contact the session coordinators above if you have any questions about proposals. Also, please feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues or post it to other appropriate mailing lists for New Jersey academic librarians.

We look forward to your ideas and contributions for what promises to be a most rewarding day.

Regards,

Richard Kearney and Mark Thompson, Co-Chairs
Users' Conference Committee