Minneapolis, 1999 will be the gathering place for information professionals from all over the world to celebrate their new role as leaders of the information future. We have and always will be information professionals committed to providing excellence in information delivery and retrieval. As members of knowledge teams - and now leaders of knowledge capital, we possess the skills, the expertise, the creativity and the savvy to assume true leadership roles in the creation, organization, dissemination and management of knowledge.
We gather in Minneapolis to explore, to dream and to plan a future that is now ours to claim and shape. Minneapolis, the site of SLA's 90th conference is embodied by the image of a river, always fluid, always changing, and driving the need to connect its twin cities. As knowledge leaders we, too must manage the ebb and flow of constant change and bridge the gap between the vast information needs of our clients and a universe of unlimited choices.
You are invited to submit papers addressing the theme, "Knowledge Leaders for the New Millennium: Creators of the Information Future" for the Special Libraries's Association's 90th conference in Minneapolis. The conference will have four general tracks that you may want to consider when developing a proposal: Leadership-Who we are; Evolving Roles-Where we are going; Knowledge Management-What we do; Practitioner's Toolkit-the nuts and bolts. GUIDELINES August 1, 1998-Submit working title of proposed contributed paper to Lynn Tinsley or Donna Scheeder via either e-mail (ltinsley@andrew.cmu.edu or dscheeder@crs.loc.gov) or fax 412-681-1998. September 1, 1998-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 Lynn Tinsley, Carnegie Mellon University, Engg Science Library, Wean Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Diskettes, faxes and electronic submissions will not be accepted. April 1, 1999 - Deadline for submission of the complete text of the accepted contributed paper to the association office in Washington, D. C. Length - Presentation of the paper should take no longer than 15 minutes. Acceptance - Contributed papers will be accepted only if: 1) the abstract has been submitted and evaluated, 2) the author is a member of SLA and 3) the 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, 1998. Error processing SSI file