Thirteenth
Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Salt Lake City | April 23-26, 2008

General Information

Program

Registration

Presenters

Past Conferences

Call for Participation (Closed)

The Call for Participation for the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference is an open invitation to present your research, your knowledge and your experience to your peers. All professional, faculty, administrative and staff members who are involved in providing library services for students in non-traditional settings are invited to submit a paper. The proceedings will be printed in the Journal of Library Administration and as a separate volume by Haworth Press.

SUBJECT TRACK

Research
Surveys, assessment, statistics, theories, overviews

Teaching and learning
Methods, strategies, models, one-on-one, classroom

Electronic information and delivery
E-books, databases, web technology, virtual reference

Collaboration
Librarian, faculty, consortia, or other

Administration and support services
Program development, ILL, document delivery, reference management systems, collection development, budgets, staffing


FORMATS

Presentations should be planned for a fifty-five minute session including 10 minutes for questions. Written papers must have text (exclusive of graphs, charts, or references) over five pages in length and be formatted according to the APA Style Manuel. They should contain a reference list that shows you have researched your topic. Please specify on the Presentation Proposal form if you would be willing to present your session twice, which topic track you have chosen, the objective of your paper and the format that you will be using. 

Workshops will last two hours. They will include hands-on learning for the participant. An abstract will be required for the program but no paper is required.

Panel discussions will include several speakers for a total of fifty-five minutes including 10 minutes for questions.  A paper is required for the proceedings. See Presentations above.

Poster sessions are a visual display intermixed with narratives, tables, handouts and graphs. They may be print or in an electronic format or a mix of both. An electronic format will enable you to display web designs, instructional modules and other virtual resources. You will be required to set-up and host your display for an hour and 10 minutes and provide an abstract for the program. No written paper is required.


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

  1. Complete the proposal form with a 500 word maximum abstract that describes your proposed presentation, workshop or poster session. DO NOT INCLUDE institutional or personal identification in the abstract. Each submission will be acknowledged.
  2. The deadline for submission is September 30, 2007. All presenters will be notified regarding their proposal status by October 31, 2007. The written paper will be due January 5,  2008.
  3. Successful presenters need to complete all forms and read the standards and manuscript guidelines for the printed proceedings on the conference web site under Presenters.


EVALUATION AND ACCEPTANCE

The OCLS Conference Program Advisory Board members will be provided with blind copies of the proposal abstracts. Presenter and institutional identification will not be supplied or will be deleted if it is included in the text. Proposals will be evaluated based on their relevance to the interests of the attendees, contribution to the body of knowledge associated with the field of off-campus library services in distance education and their clarity of expression. Program balance and room space will also be considered in paper selection.