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Subject:         ACRL STS Call for Poster Proposals
Date:   Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:33:00 -0500
From:   Gonzalez, Edward Louis Flores <[log in to unmask]>
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*Call for Poster Proposals:*

*ACRL Science and Technology Section (ACRL-STS)*

*ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2009*



The ACRL STS Research Committee and STS Program Planning Committee invite

proposals for posters to be exhibited during the STS program reception
at the ALA

Annual Conference in Chicago. Posters will be displayed from 11:00
a.m.-12:30 p.m.

on Monday, July 13, 2009, immediately following the STS Program, which
starts at

8:30 a.m*.*



Be part of our program of the Science and Technology Section of ACRL and
submit

your ideas by *January 12, 2009.*



We encourage proposals for posters relating to the following program theme:

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*Big Science, Little Science, E-Science: the science librarian's role in
the*

*conversation*

/This program will explore the science librarian's role in the emerging
conversation/

/concerning data and data curation in scientific research with the goal
of raising/

/awareness and empowering science librarians to approach faculty members
about/

/these issues./



Therefore, posters should address the role of the science librarian in
scientific

research.



The STS Research Committee will select posters for the Chicago session
through a blind

review process on the basis of timeliness, thoughtfulness, and relevance
to sci/tech

librarianship and to the program theme. Additional criteria are
available at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/sts/stsconferences/posters09.cfm



DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: *Monday, January 12, 2009*. Review of submissions

will begin immediately. A brief description of the poster (250 words or
less) should be

submitted via e-mail to Mindy Thuna, Co-Chair of the STS Research Committee,

[log in to unmask] Be sure to include your name, institution,
phone, fax,

e-mail address, and poster title.



STS Research Committee and STS Program Planning Committee