Poster sessions are a dynamic and exciting professional opportunity for sharing your library's experiences with others for public, academic, special and school librarians. To assist NJLA members with creating successful posters sessions,the NJLA College and University Section hosted the Poster Power workshop, which is summarized in the following links:

• Fran Kaufmann's Powerpoint: "Writing a Winning Poster Session Proposal";
  
• Mary Mallery's Powerpoint: "Poster Power: Planning and Production for Effective Poster Sessions";
• Selected Print and Online Poster Session Resources; and
• Photos of the Poster Session Workshop from November 1st.

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Resources List

 

Print Resources

Gravois, James. "Poster sessions, promotion, and publishing: is there a connection?"

The Journal of Academic Librarianship 25.1 (1999): 38-43.

 

Hardesty, Larry. "Demystifying the program selection process; How to submit a successful proposal for the 11th ACRL National Conference." College & Research Library News 63.4 (2002): 269-270. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/april/demystifying.htm

 

Kupsh, Joyce. How to create high impact business presentations. Lincolnwood, Ill., USA : NTC Business Books, 1993.

 

Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning information. 8th printing, June 2001. Cheshire, Conn.:    Graphics Press, 2001.

 

     Weisman, Jerry. Absolute beginner’s guide to winning presentations. Indianapolis, Ind.: Que, 2004.

 

Web Resources:

http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Poster_Presentations/PstrStart.html

 

“Tips for Poster Presentations” by Psi Chi, the National Honors Society in Psychology:  http://www.psichi.org/conventions/tips.asp

 

“How to Present a Poster Session” Web site by the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, Canada: http://educ.queensu.ca/%7Ear/poster.htm 

 

American Libraries Association (ALA) 2008 Annual Conference Poster Session Web site: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/default.aspx

 

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2009 Annual Conf. Web site:

http://acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/seattle/program/program09.cfm

 

EDUCAUSE 2005 Conference Poster Session Web Site:

http://net.educause.edu/e05/SpeakerResources/5183

 

The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) 2008 Conference Web Site:

http://www.palibraries.org/events-conf/ann-conf.asp

 

The New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Conference Poster Sessions:

2008   2007   2006   2005   

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Photos from the NJLA Poster Session Workshop on November 1, 2004

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