We need you…to share your innovations and inspire your fellow librarians! Submit your program proposal today and help make 2016’s an amazing conference!

 

To help you understand the process your program submission will go through, here are our plans for submission selection:

 

Each year we are faced with the question: how can CALCON better target the needs of different types of libraries? In addition to partnering with MPLA for 2016, we have enlisted the help of the CAL Associations to bring more people to the selection table. CAL Associations will have more autonomy in selecting programs that will strongly represent the interests of their membership. In March, each association president will oversee the review of all the submissions and select programs that will target their members. This year, we are also extending this to MPLA. Endorsed sessions will be posted in late March/early April.

 

Once the CAL Associations have made their selections, the remaining programs will be returned to the pool in April for the program selection subcommittee to select the remaining programs. This selection subcommittee will consist of members of CAL and MPLA and will represent a wide spectrum of people who provide library services. This subcommittee is formed by the Programming Co-Chairs, who also supervise the process and coordinate the meetings.

 

Steph Myers, Conference Chair, Dan Cordova, Mickey Coalwell and Tammy Sayles, Programming Co-Chairs have created the following guidelines for the 2016 selection process:

 

• The Program Selection Subcommittee will review all submissions not previously selected by the CAL Associations.

• There will be a selection rubric for each selection committee member to use to evaluate each program submission with the same criteria. Again, this will help to make the selection process consistent and provide fair, balanced and objective scoring of the submissions.

• Finally, once all submissions have been evaluated and selected, the Program Committee will notify everyone, regardless of outcome, by June 1st. Feedback will be provided based on the notes from the selection committee.

 

 

 

 

 

Colorado is full of library folks that are on the cutting edge of service and push the library world to new heights. We are a diverse and amazing group, and having that diversity represented in the selection process can only strengthen the conference experience as a whole.

 

We invite you to peruse the 2016 Program Submission Packet. It is full of up-to-date information about the conference itself, explanations of the different program tracks, as well as contact information, should you have any questions. "The Best Practices for Presenters" section spells out what the selection committee wants to see in your presentation submission. Tips on working through the process and really pitching your program are provided.

 

Don’t forget!

Even if you haven’t been selected to present in past years, please, please, please consider contributing a program submission.

We want to hear from YOU!