(via Megan Heuer, Southern Methodist University)
Proposals are now being accepted for Concordia University Library’s 16th Annual Research Forum. This year’s Research Forum will be held on Friday, April 27th, 2018, at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre in the beautiful city of Montreal.
The Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.
This year’s keynote speaker is Roberto Rocha. Roberto is a data journalist at the CBC, part of a four-person national investigative team that specializes in data-driven stories. Before that, he worked 10 years at the Montreal Gazette, where he developed an interest in the craft and became one of the first in Canada to do it full time. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has lectured in journalism at the University of Ottawa.
Call for Proposals
Proposals are invited for presentations and / or posters on research or a case study in any area of Library and Information Science including but no limited to accessibility integration; assessment and impact; digital library technologies; literacy instruction; library space and design; publishing and scholarly communication; research data management; social media; new library technologies; and library history.
Presentations and posters may be in English or French.
At least one of the presenters of the poster and/or presentation should be the primary researcher involved with the original project.
Presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes, followed by a question period.
Posters may also be submitted. These will be on view for the entire day. Poster presenters will have an opportunity to describe their posters during the day.
Submission deadline: Monday, February 5, 2018, 10:00 AM CST
For more information, please visit: http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum
To submit a proposal, please click here.
For more information about the Concordia University Library’s 16th Annual Research Forum, please contact Christopher Carr, Chair of the Librarians’ Research Forum Committee at christopher.carr@concordia.ca