[Access-ip] ACRL 09 Registration now open!

[Trevor A. Dawes]

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From: Adam Burling [mailto:aburling at ala.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: ACRL 09 Registration now open! 

 




Registration is now open for ACRL 2009!  
ACRL 14th National Conference
Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend
Seattle, March 12 - 15, 2009

Registration and housing materials for ACRL 2009 are now available at 
www.acrl.org/seattle.  With more than 250 peer-reviewed sessions on all
aspects of academic and research librarianship, ACRL is your home for
professional development. 

Register by January 16, 2009, and save more than 20% on your
registration.  Save even more with our reduced airfares, hotel
discounts, and special group registration prices. ACRL is also offering
over 80 scholarships worth over $40,000; apply online by December 5.
Check out our exciting Seattle tour options as well! 

 

ACRL's celebrated line-up of keynote speakers include: 

*         Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, activist, and author of
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
<http://www.naomiklein.org/main>  

*         Sherman Alexie <http://www.fallsapart.com/> , prolific
novelist, poet and screenplay writer; and 

*         Ira Glass, host and producer of the public radio program "This
American Life <http://www.thisamericanlife.org/> ." 

 

Make sure to also attend ACRL's invited green speaker:

       Robin Chase, Founder of Zipcar <http://www.zipcar.com/>  and 
GoLoco <http://www.goloco.org/greetings/guest> , two innovative
companies that combine social networking and transportation needs. 


ACRL 2009 will implement more eco-friendly practices than ever before.
Help us reduce the meeting's ecological footprint by committing to the 
Green Pledge
<http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/seattle/greenpledge.cfm>  when
you register for the conference. 


FREE Virtual Conference Access of Every Presentation!
ACRL is giving registrants more for their money by providing one year of
access to every presentation in the ACRL 2009 Virtual Conference
Community. Presentation PowerPoints will be synched with program audio
so you can download sessions you missed - on your own time, all for
free!  


The ACRL 14th National Conference will challenge you to explore new
ideas, engage in new learning, and extend the collective vision of the
future of academic and research libraries.  See you at ACRL 2009 in
Seattle! 


www.acrl.org/seattle

***
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is a division
of the American Library Association (ALA), representing nearly 13,000
academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the
only individual membership organization in North America that develops
programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and
research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education
community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the
teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at 
http://www.acrl.org/.

 

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