Great tips here – I agree, particularly about attending social...ACRL Baltimore National Conference Update
On Sunday morning I attended a meeting of the Baltimore National Conference Executive Committee. Planning for the 2007 conference is really moving along and shaping up nicely. ACRL members will be hearing much more about the great programming that the Conference will offer.
I thought you might be interested to know more about the numbers of proposals submitted for the conference:
If your proposal is not accepted keep the poster sessions and roundtables in mind. Deadlines for those programs come later in 2006, and will provide more opportunities for participation. Speaking of the poster sessions, anyone who attended the Minneapolis conference will recall the massive overcrowding at the poster sessions owing to a serious lack of space in the exhibits hall for the posters. The early word is that there will be much more room allocated for the poster sessions area which should provide more than sufficient space for the ever popular poster sessions.
Posted by StevenB on June 26th, 2006 under ACRL News, Conference Blogging, Professional Development, Uncategorized.
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Comment from Scott Walter
Time: June 28, 2006, 1:00 pm
Those are some impressive numbers, esp. for panel sessions (which will have an acceptance rate just under 25%) and contributed papers (which will have an acceptance rate just under 20%)!
Good news about the poster sessions, though – the posters at Minneapolis were excellent, but it was difficult to move around! Wonder what the acceptance rate for these will be?
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Time: August 23, 2006, 8:20 am
[...] Well, those of us who submitted proposals for papers and panel sessions for the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore (Mar. 31, 2007 – April 1, 2007) learned the fate of our proposals last Friday. I had previously reported on the number of proposals submitted for the number of slots available – and the odds of getting accepted were as slim as ever. So while there were a number of elated academic librarians who received the good news on Friday, there were far more feeling rejected and puzzled as to why their proposals didn’t make the cut. I would encourage those whose proposals were rejected to avoid dwelling on it too much. Instead, take some solace in knowing that you gave it your best effort. As the rejection e-mail said, it isn’t a reflection of the quality of your proposal but one of the sheer number of proposals received. [...]
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