Monday, August 5, 2013

CFP - Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture

Call for Papers

Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture


The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 16-19, 2014, at the Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago Illinois. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. Possible topics include descriptions of research collections or exhibits, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, relevant analyses of social networking or web resources, Popular Culture in library education, the future of libraries and librarians, or reports on developments in technical services for collecting/preserving Popular Culture materials. Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should enter their proposals in the PCA/ACA 2014 Event Management database at http://ncp.pcaaca.org/.

The deadline is November 1, 2013.

Please direct any queries to the Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area chair:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY  41099-6101
USA
859-572-5527
ellisa@nku.edu