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<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The ALA International Relations Round Table (IRRT) International Poster Sessions Committee invites you to submit poster session proposals on international themes -- share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas!</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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; <strong>a report of a research study</strong>; 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 11/2 hour time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Titles/abstracts from previous years are available on ALA Connect: <a href="http://connect.ala.org/node/210160" style="color: rgb(0, 85, 165);">http://connect.ala.org/node/210160</a> (note that this site is only serving as an archive for previous Annual Conference poster sessions - for information on this year's posters, go to:<a href="http://ala14.ala.org/poster-sessions" style="color: rgb(0, 85, 165);">http://ala14.ala.org/poster-sessions</a>). </p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The deadline for submitting an application is January 17, 2014. Applicants will be notified in March, prior to the early bird registration deadline and after a double blind peer review process, whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Start your application process now at <a href="http://ala14.ala.org/how-to-submit-a-poster-session" style="color: rgb(0, 85, 165);">http://ala14.ala.org/how-to-submit-a-poster-session</a>. You must create a username and password for the site before you submit your application, you must choose to submit a poster session proposal after you log-in, and you will receive a confirmation e-mail after you have completed your submission.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The deadline for submission of 2014 ALA Annual Conference poster session proposals is <b>January 17, 2014.</b></p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The 2014 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held June 28 and 29, 2014 (the Saturday and Sunday of the conference), at the Las Vegas Convention Center.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><griffinm><cbenefie>Questions regarding international poster sessions can also be directed to: Deana Groves, co-chair of the IRRT International Poster Session Committee, <a href="mailto:deana.groves@wku.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 85, 165);">deana.groves@wku.edu</a> Or Jennifer Snoek-Brown, co-chair of the IRRT International Poster Session Committee, <a href="mailto:jennifer.snoek-brown@mhcc.edu" style="color: rgb(0, 85, 165);">jennifer.snoek-brown@mhcc.edu</a></cbenefie>@lib-gw.tamu.edu></griffinm>@usf.edu></p>
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Jamie Johnston<br />
PhD Candidate in Libraries and Society<br />
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences<br />
Faculty of Social Sciences<br />
Email: Jamie.Johnston@hioa.no</p>
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Jamie Johnston<br />
PhD Candidate in Libraries and Society<br />
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences<br />
Faculty of Social Sciences<br />
Email: Jamie.Johnston@hioa.no</p>
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