Our Town, Common Ground: Academic Libraries' Collaboration with

The College Libraries Section of ACRL invites you to submit a presentation
proposal for a program tentatively scheduled for Sunday, July 12, 2009 from
10:30 until noon at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The title of the
program is Our Town, Common Ground: Academic Libraries' Collaboration with
Public Libraries.

This session is co-sponsored in name only by the Public Library Association
(PLA) and the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS).

We would like the program to provide real-world examples of academic and
public libraries cooperating with one another. Experiences and reflections
may be presented by individual librarians or co-presenters who represent
academic and/or public libraries. Examples of cooperative endeavors include
but are not limited to shared systems, buildings, or programming;
cooperative digitization projects; services for distance learners; and
consortial relationships. The collaborations may be short-term endeavors or
permanent partnerships.

Four presentations of 15 minutes each will be selected through a blind
review process. This will permit time for dialog between the presenters and
questions from the audience within the 90 minutes allocated for our meeting.
This presentation may be recorded as a web cast, and made available on the
ALA website.

If you are interested in presenting, please send a proposal of 500 words or
less to Ruth Connell at ruth.connell@valpo.edu by October 1, 2008. Please
send questions to the same e-mail address. Notification of acceptance will
be made by November 1, 2008.