Call for Case Studies

The Academic & Special Libraries Section Annual Seminar, Friday 24^th February 2012.

Proposals should be a maximum of 300 words. Deadline: Monday 24^th October 2011.

Email submissions to: aslsectionevents@gmail.com

(Please include A&SL Annual Seminar Proposals in the subject line)

Successful submissions will be notified by Monday 7^th November 2011.

We are looking for four case studies on the theme of:

“Unlocking the potential: Innovative approaches in library service delivery”

Submissions welcome from within the island of Ireland.

Case studies should be practically based and no longer than 20 mins with 10 mins for questions. Presenters will also be required to participate in a panel Q&A.

Themes (please note these are suggested themes and the list below is not intended to be comprehensive).

Web 2.0

Mobile technology

Resource Discovery

Federated Search

Wikis

Blogs

Search and Discovery

Social media

Usage stats

Librarians/information professionals coping with change driven by technology, economics, user expectations

Marie G. Cullen

Secretary,

Academic & Special Libraries Section of the LAI