Deadline Extension for Posters

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Submissions accepted until Wednesday, March 31 at 5pm EDT

This year’s topic leads us to consider the ways academic libraries already do and should intentionally create bridges to inclusivity and our communities. Understanding the many-faceted role libraries play on their campuses, tell us about the ideas instituted or incubating about how your spaces, your collections, your services, and your staff can welcome, represent, advocate, and support the diversity of your communities and our larger world. Also, you may share responding statements and actions to local, national, and global events and consider what is the academic library’s role within these spheres? Additionally, you may consider how the library staff have adapted and remained agile in times of pandemic, turmoil, and natural emergency?

We encourage all types of staff and students in MLIS programs to submit proposals. Collectively, each of us create the culture and context of our profession and we want to see that diversity of experience, scholarship, and creativity.

Share a completed project, a project in-progress, or let this poster be a beginning for ideas and actions you would like to develop.

Some potential areas to address in your proposals:

  • Library responses to movements of protest and advocacy (e.g., BLM, #SayHerName, Fair Fight, LGBTQ+, Women’s March, March for Science)
  • Collection development
  • Access and accessibility
  • Advocacy
  • Collection and Archives Highlights
  • Staff Development and Support Services
  • Library Spaces
  • Library Policies
  • Student and Campus Relations
Submit Your Proposal Here

This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor. Support is also provided by the College and Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association (https://crdpala.org/). Show your appreciation by becoming a member of PaLA! And if you are a member – thank you!