Academic Librarians Unplugged:
The Realities of Academic Librarianship 

The 2005 Joint Conference of the Washington and Oregon
 Association of College and Research Libraries  

Notes for Presenters

A few things to consider when preparing your presentation:

  1. Attendees are librarians from the academic community. Your program should be directed at the moderate to experienced user. Emphasize the practical.
  2. Programs are one hour in length. This should be plenty of time for you to present your topic, but we do ask you to structure your program so that there are at least 10 minutes at the end for questions. Past conference attendees have commented that this is often the richest part of the program for them. Members of the ACRL-WA Boardwill be on hand to provide time cues.
  3. Attendees may arrive late to your program. Don't feel that you have to back up in your program and bring them up to speed — they'll catch up.
  4. Executive summaries of each program will be published on the ACRL-WA Web conference Webpage prior to the conference. Speakers should submit their executive summaries via email to Carole Svensson
  5. Presenters are not reimbursed for photocopies.
  6. You are strongly encouraged to make any handouts, Powerpoint presentations, and supplementary materials (Webliographies, etc.) available via a Web site, and to include the URL in your executive summary. The ACRL-WA Board will also provide a link from the conference Web site to your program Web site following the conference.
  7. Each conference room will be equipped with a laptop PC, LCD video projector, Internet access, Netscape Navigator (latest released version), Internet Explorer (latest released version), and Powerpoint (latest released version).
  8. Don't rely solely on accessing your presentation on the Web. Also bring copies of your presentation on a floppy disc or CD-ROM.
  9. The ACRL-WA Board makes every effort to accommodate conference participants and presenters with special needs. If, as a presenter, you receive a request from someone with special needs, we encourage you to accommodate them as much as possible. If you have questions about
  10. We want you to do your best, and have gathered a few resources from the Web that can help you put together a dynamic, well-organized program:

IMPORTANT DATES FOR PRESENTERS
August 12, 2005 - presenter confirmation due
August 19, 2005 - presenter biographies and executive summaries due
October 27- conference day


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