Presenting Your Research
Resources to Help you Get Started
This booklet offers advice from experts in the field about getting started on a writing project, turning a presentation into an article, polishing your text, and choosing a journal to submit your work to –- plus a behind-the-scenes explanation of the peer review process.
Publishing in LIS: Useful Sources
Compiled by Sue Searing, LIS Librarian, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library and Information Science Library's guide to sources on publishing in the field of library science.
Library Conferences Where Research Can be Presented
PAPERS
- Call for Abstracts. This is for the Alabama Library Association's College, University, and Special Libraries (CUS) Research Forum.
- ACRL biennial conference in April. Final papers published in annual proceedings.
- Alabama Library Association College, University and Special Libraries Section Research Forum at annual meeting in April. $300 Ebsco award for research excellence and $200 award for research promise.
- Information Strategies annual conference in November. Final papers published in electronic proceedings.
- ACRL Science and Technology Section Forum for Science and Technology Library Research at ALA annual conference in June.
Library Conferences where poster sessions are solicited
- ALA Annual in June
- ACRL Biannual in April of every odd year.
- SELA