[Web4lib] Bloggers needed for the ACRL Conference in Seattle!

[Meredith Farkas]

Bloggers needed for the ACRL Conference in Seattle!

Share your conference experience with a national audience.  ACRL is
looking for a few individuals to blog the ACRL 14th National
Conference, "Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend," which will be
held in Seattle, March 12 - 15, 2009.

As a conference blogger, you will be a global correspondent providing
online dispatches to a worldwide community of academic library
professionals.  Your posts may cover any aspect of the ACRL
conference, from inside the session rooms, to the exhibits and
receptions - even outside the convention center while you explore
Seattle.

We are looking for a a few bloggers to cover general aspects of the
conference, and we particularly hope to find volunteers who will
report from special perspectives, including:

* Technical services
* New librarians/1st time attendees
* New technologies in libraries
* Community college libraries
* LIS students

Blog posts may take the form of brief descriptions or commentary on
sessions that you attend; short interviews with conference
participants, presenters or exhibitors; links to handy resources that
you have unearthed; or other posts which might generate discussion
among online participants.

Your blog will live online in the ACRL 14th National Conference
Virtual Community.  All registered face-to-face conference attendees
as well as online-only attendees will have access to the complete ACRL
14th National Conference Virtual Community.  In addition, there will
be a special portal to the ACRL 14th National Conference blogs which
can be accessed by non-conference attendees.

If you'd like to be an ACRL conference blogger, contact Margot Conahan
(mconahan at ala.org) by February 13, 2009.  Please indicate if you'd
like to address one of the perspectives listed above. Bloggers will be
assigned on a first-come/first-served basis.

Complete details about the ACRL 14th National Conference are online
http://www.acrl.org/seattle.

Note: Bloggers must register and pay regular conference fees.