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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">Sending on behalf of IACRL. Please excuse any cross-posting...</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">Registration is now open for the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) 2012 Conference. The conference, entitled "Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate," will be
held March 16, 2012, at the Doubletree Hotel in Oakbrook, Illinois. The conference is broadly themed as "Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate."</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">For more information on the conference, to submit a proposal and to register for the conference, visit
</span><a href="http://www.ila.org/iacrl2012"><span style="font-family: Times; ">http://www.ila.org/iacrl2012</span></a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">The Programming Committee for the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL) is issuing a call for participation. In keeping with the theme, "Adopt, Adapt,
Accelerate" the programming committee is interested not only in poster presentations and traditional panel presentations (e.g. groups of four 15 minute papers), but also in "focused discussions" - groups of 5 minutes (or less!) - position statements around
a broad theme followed up by give-and-take between/ among audience and panel members) or in other non-traditional presentation formats. In short, we are actively encouraging people to explore new ways of sharing knowledge at the conference. Please submit your
panel topics along with mode of presentation, abstracts of the papers (for traditional panels) or summaries of discussion positions (for focused discussions). </span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">If you are interested in another presentation format, send us a summary of what you would like to do with one hour of the conference's time that would enlighten, educate, amuse,
infuriate, or otherwise intellectually stimulate your colleagues in the Illinois academic library community.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: Times; ">If you have topics you would like to hear about (but not present on yourself), please send them to Susan Swords Steffen (</span><a href="mailto:susanss@elmhurst.edu"><span style="font-family: Times; ">susanss@elmhurst.edu</span></a><span style="font-family: Times; ">
) and we will do our best to find presenters. Think of this as “patron driven convention programming.”</span></div>
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