Information professionals from around the world will be gathering in San Antonio to explore the changing environment of special libraries and information centers. The speed of change in technology is a catalyst for conflict and competition as well as opportunity. Our clients are able to grasp great quantities of data, but it is a blind journey down a river of information. It is our expertise and burgeoning knowledge that will make the information odyssey constructive and profitable. By letting go of traditional limitations and seizing opportunities to expand our horizons, we will become critical assets to our companies.

San Antonio is the perfect setting for the Special Libraries Association Conference in 2001. The City with its Riverwalk and Mission Trails reflects the old and the new.

You are invited to submit papers addressing the theme: “2001—An Information Odyssey: Seizing the Competitive Advantage” for the Special Libraries’ Association’s 92nd Conference in San Antonio. The conference will have five tracks that you will want to consider when developing a proposal: Future Directions; Management; Information Technology; Positioning and Practitioner’s Toolkit.

GUIDELINES

August 1, 2000 - Submit a working title of proposed contributed paper to Carol Jacobson via either e-mail (cjacobso@dtic.mil) or fax to 703/767-9119.

September 1, 2000 - Deadline for receipt of an abstract of the proposed contributed paper. Abstracts should be approximately 250-300 words in length. Please provide 5 paper copies of your abstract and submit them to Carol Jacobson, Defense Technical Information Center, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Suite 0944, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6218. Diskettes, faxes and electronic submissions will not be accepted.

April 2, 2001 - Deadline for the submission of the complete text of the accepted contributed paper to the Association Office in Washington, D.C.

Length - Presentation of the paper should be no longer than 15 minutes.

Acceptance - Contributed papers will be accepted only if: 1.) the abstract has been submitted and evaluated, 2.) the author (or co-author) is a member of SLA and 3.) the author (or co-author) intends to present the paper at the Annual Conference. Abstracts will be judged on relevance to the theme, substance, and potential member interest. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by December 15, 2000, along with full instructions on format as well as future deadlines.