[LM_NET] Deadline: YALSA Annual 2010 program proposals due Jan. 26

[Stephanie Kuenn <skuenn@ALA.ORG>]

Greetings! 

YALSA is currently accepting program proposals
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/aboutyalsa/yalsaform.cfm>
(http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/aboutyalsa/yalsaform.cfm ) for
the 2010 ALA Annual Conference, June 24-30 in Washington, D.C. All
proposals must be submitted by Monday Jan. 26, 2009 for consideration by
YALSA's Program Clearinghouse Committee and Board of Directors. All of
the following criteria must be met in order for an individual to be
eligible to submit a proposal:

*       You must be a current YALSA member to submit a proposal
*       Proposals may not feature a single author, title or product
*       The program topic must be timely and should not be something
that has been offered at previous recent ALA Annual conferences. View
YALSA programs at ALA Annual for 2007 through 2009
<http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa>  on the YALSA Wiki at
http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa.
*       Programs relating to the topics of advocacy and diversity will
be given special consideration
*       Only one proposal per YALSA member or YALSA member group will be
accepted

Please know that YALSA has just 11 time slots open for programs, so
there is no guarantee that all submissions will be accepted. YALSA
sessions may be either 90 minutes or 2 hours long. You will be notified
regarding the status of your proposal on March 23, 2009. 

Forms must be submitted online
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/aboutyalsa/yalsaform.cfm>  at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/aboutyalsa/yalsaform.cfm. As per
ALA practice, all panelists, speakers, presenters, etc. are expected to
fund their own travel costs to the conference and must register for the
conference by no later than May 1, 2010. For questions, please contact
Nichole Gilbert at ngilbert@ala.org or 1.800.545.2433 x4387. Thank you
for considering lending your time and talents to YALSA! 

-Stevie

 

Stephanie (Stevie) Kuenn

Communications Specialist

Young Adult Library Services Association <http://www.ala.org/yalsa> ,
the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association

skuenn@ala.org <mailto:skuenn@ala.org> 

v: 312.280.2128

f: 312.280-5276

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