Call for Lightning Talk Proposals for the 2013 LITA National Forum

[Ken Varnum]

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From: Ken Varnum <varnum at umich.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Subject: REMINDER: Call for Lightning Talk Proposals for the 2013 LITA
National Forum
To: lita-l at ala.org


Do you have a new idea or project that you're dying to share with your
fellow LITA Forum attendees? The 2013 LITA National Forum (November 7-10 in
Louisville, Kentucky) will once again host Lightning Talks, and we're
looking for speakers.

Lightning Talks are short 5-minute presentations on a topic of your
choosing. The Lightning Talk session is on Saturday, November 9, from 2:00
until 2:50 pm (during concurrent session 5). We will have no more than
9 Lightning
Talks in the session. Each talk must be concise -- the time limit will be
strictly enforced -- and contain no more than 10 slides (if used at all).

Six of the 9 sessions will be allotted through a first-come, first-serve
basis. We will accept proposals from the first 6 people who reply, and once
these slots are full, the other names will go on a waiting list. We assume
you’re registered for LITA Forum!

The remaining 3 slots will be selected at 5 PM on Friday, November 8,
through a lottery of people expressing interest *at the conference*.
Details will be announced at the opening session.

TO SIGN UP:

   1.

   Submit your proposal via the Lightning Talk Signup
form<http://bit.ly/lita-lightning>
    (http://bit.ly/lita-lightning).
   2.

   We will begin notifying the lightning-talkers and the first few
   runners-up as soon as we have six participants, so get your submission in
   quickly.
   3.

   If your plans change, please let us know so we can reassign your slot!
   4.

   JUST A FEW RULES:
   1.

      Current presenters or poster-session givers are requested to give
      others a chance (unless they are burning with a completely different idea
      they are absolutely dying to share).
      2.

      These are quick, fun, low-barrier talks. Extensive slides and
      handouts are not required or expected. Remember, when the bell rings and
      your five minutes are up you are outta there!
      3.

      If your talk is selected, plan to be in the Seneca/Iroquois room by
      1:45 pm to load your slides (if you use them) onto the presentation
      computer. Bring a thumb drive or be ready to download them from
the cloud.
      Microsoft PowerPoint will be available on the presentation
computer, along
      with an Internet connection. We will ensure that they are
forwarded to the
      LITA office for inclusion on the Forum website.
      4.

      Please -- no product pitches!

More information on the LITA Forum is available on the LITA website (
http://www.ala.org/lita/conferences/forum/2013), Facebook (
https://www.facebook.com/LITA.ALA) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/LITAForum
).

--
Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann
Arbor
varnum at umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum |
734-615-3287

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