Call for Proposals- ACRL/NY Professional Development Committee 2024

ACRL/NY Professional Development Committee is currently seeking 25/45 minutes sessions and 60/90 –minutes workshop proposals for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 professional development events.

All topics related to libraries and professional development of the library community are welcome!

Some suggestions include, but are not limited to:

  1. Impact of AI and libraries
  2. Metadata and content delivery: challenges and opportunities
  3. Library services in hybrid work environment
  4. The evolution of library and information science
  5. Imagining the next generation of libraries
  6. Marketing and promotion of library services
  7. Fostering staff morale and engagement
  8. Mindfulness and finding a balance
  9. Media platforms and intensifying cost business models—challenges and solutions
  10. Equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice in libraries
  11. Data security, breaches, prevention and resolution: responsibilities of libraries, publishers, vendors and beyond
  12. Building library advocacy skills

Please submit description of your session and workshop proposal with no more than 500 words  by Oct 1, 2024 (11:59 PM EST) to the following link: https://forms.gle/7RVMWvjSNGQSrPR17

Thanks,

Kanu Nagra

Chair, ACRL/NY Professional Development Committee