{"id":5000,"date":"2013-02-07T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:19:04","slug":"call-for-proposals-pacific-northwest-chapter-meeting-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"Call for proposals: Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting, September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PNC\/MLA will be meeting in Anchorage, Alaska in September.\u00a0 CE  will be over the weekend, Sept. 14 &amp; 15<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The meeting will be  Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 16 &amp; 17<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The Residence Inn will be  our hotel and room costs are $99 plus taxes for a single and $159 plus taxes for  a two-bedroom suite.<\/p>\n<p>Paper and poster proposals should be sent to <a href=\"mailto:\/\/sally@uaa.alaska.edu\">Sally Bremner<\/a>. Our theme is  \u201cVisual Stories Transform.\u201d \u00a0We are encouraging all presenters to use images in their  presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Our keynote speaker is Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MS(LIS), MD.\u00a0 He  is and librarian and physician and the Director, Pediatric Early Literacy  Projects and the Medical Director, Reach out and Read Wisconsin in Madison,  Wisconsin.\u00a0 I mentioned to him that part of my goal in planning our meeting was  to appeal to more than just medical librarians since librarians in Alaska have  so little opportunity to attend conferences.\u00a0 He  replied:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I particularly like the idea of being able to explicitly appeal to public and  school librarians &#8212; that is actually more my &#8220;usual&#8221; audience. \u00a0I might suggest  that if the &#8220;space&#8221; in your schedule exists, I&#8217;d be happy to speak more  explicitly about early brain and child development and the connection to early  literacy, which I think is very much something that public and school librarians  can use when making the case for their services. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While we are only in the preliminary stages of building our  budget, our goal is to keep registration to under  $200.<\/p>\n<p>September is a lovely time in Anchorage.\u00a0 We are hoping attendees  will make time to see a little bit of the state during their visit.\u00a0 To this  end, we have tentatively scheduled a \u00bd day trip south of town to visit a  wildlife conservation center, see some of the most beautiful scenery in the  area, and maybe even visit a glacier.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about the meeting can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:\/\/kmurray10@uaa.alaska.edu\">Kathy Murray<\/a>, Head of  Alaska Medical Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNC\/MLA will be meeting in Anchorage, Alaska in September.\u00a0 CE will be over the weekend, Sept. 14 &amp; 15th.\u00a0 The meeting will be Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 16 &amp; 17th.\u00a0 The Residence Inn will be our hotel and room costs are $99 plus taxes for a single and $159 plus taxes for a two-bedroom suite. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}