A follow-up clarification on the ARLIS call for Boston below. This should allow for even more flexibility if MCN members would like to participate. Best wishes, Maureen
>We are not doing a Call for Sessions for ARLIS/NA in Boston. We >have instead sent out a separate Call for Papers and Call for Workshops. > >WHAT IS A CALL FOR PAPERS? > >The Call for Papers will be looking for individual proposals for >papers on thematic areas. The call does not ask for a fully >finished paper or even a published paper. It asks for a 250 word >abstract about the topic you'd like to present. > >We are not accepting proposals for whole sessions. > >HOW CAN I MAKE MY SESSION IDEA INTO A PAPER? > > * Take one of the ideas you have for a speaker and submit an > abstract about the topic. > * Take one of your ideas and find someone who'd be interested in > speaking on that topic and ask them to submit an abstract. > * Take one of your ideas and ask on ARLIS-L if anyone is > interested in submitting an abstract on that topic. > * If you already had a session with different speakers in mind, > contact those people and ask them to submit abstracts along similar > topic lines. >There's no rules against coordinating! But we also don't guarantee >that you will be placed together! > >HOW WILL YOU ORGANIZE THE PAPERS? HOW WILL SESSIONS BE CREATED? > >The Program Committee and the CPAC will review the ideas for papers >and group the papers into sessions. In the early fall, there will >be a Call for Moderators. The moderators will work on the >individual sessions, working with speakers to ensure that they will >present in the time allotted, work with the conference planning >committee to obtain appropriate AV equipment, etc. This will give >members another opportunity to be involved with the conference. At >that time, there will also be a Call for Poster Sessions, which will >give us more flexibility to address some of the topics that arise >after the sessions have been set, such as projects and other topics >of interest. It also gives more time to the membership to think >about the things they'd like to share with their colleagues. > >WHY ARE YOU MAKING THIS CHANGE? > >We've analyzed the data from the two surveys we sent to ARLIS-L >about the conference, and we've noticed some trends that we've >incorporated into our program planning. You indicated that you >wanted high-quality sessions, and you've also indicated that you'd >like to see changes in how sessions are structured and more variety >in session lengths. More people would have liked opportunities to >be involved in the sessions, but the process is not always clear at times. > >As a result, we're doing something different for this conference! > >I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! > >If you have any questions, please contact the Program Co-Chairs, >Jennifer Friedman (<mailto:jrfried at mit.edu>jrfried at mit.edu) or Ann >Whiteside (<mailto:awhites at mit.edu>awhites at mit.edu). > >__________________________________________________ >Jennifer Friedman, Collections Manager and Public Services Librarian >Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning >Building 7-238, Massachusetts Institute of Technology >77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 >Tel: (617) 258-5595 Fax: (617) 253-9331 >__________________________________________________________________ >Mail submissions to arlis-l at lsv.uky.edu For information about >joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send >administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) >to listserv at lsv.uky.edu ARLIS-L Archives and subscription >maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may >be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: jdyki at cranbrook.edu Maureen A. Burns, Ed.D. Humanities Curator Visual Resources Collection 61 Humanities Instructional Building University of California Irvine, CA 92697-3375 949-824-8027 phone 949-824-4298 fax MABURNS at UCI.EDU
