Thursday, October 13, 2011

CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture

CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Meeting (Boston 2012)

The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 11 - April 14, 2012 in the Copley Marriott Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Scholars from numerous 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, analyses of social networking or web resources such as Wikipedia and YouTube, Popular Culture in library education, the future of libraries and librarians, or reports on developments in technical services for collecting Popular Culture materials.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should email a one-page abstract with full contact information by December 20, 2011, to:

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

For more information see the associations' website at:
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php