Dear colleagues,
Please see the below call for proposals for the 2025 virtual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).
Best,
Sarah Wade
ARLIS Liaison to SAA
Call for Proposals
ARLIS/NA 2025 Virtual Conference
May 12-16, 2025
Proposal Deadline September 23, 2024
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) will hold its 53rd annual conference online May 12-16, 2025.
TOGETHER: Activating Community is the first ARLIS/NA conference that has been planned virtually and will be executed entirely online. This year of experimentation with an online format democratizes the conference experience, enabling more people to participate and attend. This virtual format aligns with ARLIS/NA's' strategic goals of inclusivity, accessibility, and financial sustainability, marking a significant milestone in our journey. We hope you share our interest in exploring creative and dynamic approaches to virtual professional development and networking. While we recognize some things will be missed, we are excited to explore new ways of coming together for our conference, and this move is a proactive step towards supporting our community's diverse needs and our organization's long-term resilience. We look forward to a robust program and hope you will join us!
The deadline for proposals is Monday, September 23, 2024 at 5 pm EST.
The Conference Program Committee invites librarians and library professionals, archivists, curators, museum professionals, visual resources specialists, publishers, educators, artists, designers, architects, students, and scholars to propose papers, sessions, workshops, and speakers that reflect the theme TOGETHER: Activating Community as it relates to the practice of visual arts information and scholarship. The committee also encourages submissions that stretch the bounds of traditional conference scholarship in terms of format and delivery.
Prospective presenters interested in funding and support for conference attendance are encouraged to apply to the Society's Conference Attendance and Travel Awards or to contact their local ARLIS/NA Chapter about the availability of additional awards.
The program committee encourages submissions that include, but are not limited to:
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
- Advocacy, Social Justice, Anti-Racism, Public Policy, and Activism
- Archives, Rare Books, and Special Collections
- Collection Development and Management
- Critical Librarianship
- Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship
- Alternative Publications, Artists' Books, Graphic Novels, Zines, etc.
- Teaching and Pedagogical Practice
- Fair Use and Copyright Issues
- Leadership, Mentoring, Management, and Professional Development
- Visual Literacy
- User Experience
Types of Submissions
PAPERS: An individual paper presentation, potentially addressing new research, a case study, or an innovative idea with a total time of 15-20 minutes. Presentations provide attendees with new tools, strategies, or inspiration that they can apply in their own practice. The Conference Program Co-Chairs and the Conference Program Committee will group individual presentations into paper panels with a common topic or theme, which will run from 60 to 90 minutes, including a Q&A.
LIGHTNING TALKS: A short individual presentation (5-10 minutes maximum) addressing a topic that is particularly timely or specific in scope. Lightning talks provide attendees the opportunity to hear about a range of innovative projects or ideas from a broad and varied group of colleagues in a short amount of time. Lightning talks will be grouped into sessions that may or may not be themed. Lightning talk sessions will be 60 minutes, including a Q&A.
PRE-COORDINATED PANELS: A pre-coordinated session of up to 4 presenters with a moderator addressing a common topic or theme with a total time of 60-90 minutes, including a Q&A. Panels provide attendees with multiple views/strategies on a single topical area, a comparison of tools or methods, or a number of case studies on related topics. It is not necessary to identify all potential presenters before submitting. Naming a moderator, who will advocate for and develop the session, is required, and the moderator cannot present on the panel.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS: Small, informal group discussions around a common theme or issue. In the abstract field, facilitators should identify a topic and submit at least three potential questions that will keep the discussion moving. Roundtable discussions are 60 minutes in length.
WORKSHOPS: An opportunity to teach and explore current and emerging topics in an intimate atmosphere. Workshops encourage a focused, engaging experience led by experts who combine presentation, active learning, collaboration, and discussion. They may last one and a half or three hours.
Additional Details
The following fields will be used by the programming committee to review proposals. In addition, some non-personally identifiable demographic information will be used by the reviewers to ensure that the papers, lightning talks, workshops, and invited speakers are inclusive and diverse, both in the voices present and content delivered.
WORD LIMIT: All proposal abstracts are limited to 500 words or fewer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: You'll be asked to list 2-3 learning objectives, takeaways, or goals for your proposal.
TOPICS: You'll be asked to select 2 to 5 topics relevant to your session.
AUDIENCES: You'll be asked to pick up to 5 target audiences for your session.
DEIA-AR: You will be asked if your presentation addresses issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and/or anti-racism. The committee is particularly interested in seeing papers and sessions that include attention to DEIA-AR.
YEARS IN PROFESSION (optional): You'll be asked to select how long you have been working in the field.
FIRST TIME PRESENTER (optional): You'll be asked if this would be your first time presenting at an ARLIS/NA conference.
SELF-IDENTIFICATION (optional): You'll be asked if you are a member of a marginalized group. This information will only be used to help us coordinate diverse sessions and is not required to propose a paper or panel.
How to Submit Proposals
The review of proposals is a blind peer review process. You must anonymize your proposal description. All personal or institutional names must be removed from the description and learning objectives (however, these details must remain in other fields of the form), and may be replaced by terms such as "presenter," "author," or "speaker", or in the case of institutions, terms such as "large academic library," "small museum library," etc. Non-anonymized proposals may be ineligible.
SUBMIT HERE
Submit your presentation, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals by creating an account and navigating to Submissions > Make Submission.
The call for posters and constituent group meetings will be announced later this year.
Please direct any questions to the Program Co-Chairs:
Jessica Evans Brady, Harvard University (jevansbrady@fas.harvard.edu)
Marsha Taichman, Ontario College of Art and Design University (mtaichman@ocadu.ca)
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Sarah Wade (she/her)
Special Collections Archivist
Getty Research Institute
swade@getty.edu------------------------------