Hello everyone,
I’m Special Collections Librarian at Brunel University and have spoken occasionally at conferences, as well as organising them! I’ve done one response to a cfp, jointly with an academic, which
resulted in us speaking at a conference. I found that a bit strange, as it wasn’t a librarian conference, so I knew nobody else there, but we were well received and people were interested in what we were saying.
One thing I’ve noticed with responding to cfp requests, rather than being invited as a speaker, is that you often seem to be expected to pay for attendance at the conference and travel. Have
others found this? In the conferences I’ve organised we invited speakers and also included free conference attendance for them, plus paid travel expenses. But the one where I responded to a cfp we paid (reduced rate for speakers + travel), so it cost me about
£100 to participate. It seemed like a great opportunity to talk about our outreach and workshops we do in Special Collections, but not everyone is in a position to be able to fund this themselves, and I’m worried it excludes people from participating. Has
anyone else found this with conferences?
Katie
Katie Flanagan BA (Hons), MA, MCLIP
Special Collections Librarian
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome and introductions
Good morning and welcome to the first day of our e-forum on writing conference proposals.
I’m Anne Welsh, one of the three moderators, the other two being Claire Sewell (University of Cambridge) and Deborah Lee (Courtauld
Institute).
Let’s take some time to introduce ourselves and our reasons for taking part.
I’m a Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at University College London, where I teach the core module on Cataloguing and
optional modules on Historical Bibliography and Advanced Cataloguing. My work webpage is here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/annewelsh ; my blog is https://annewelsh.wordpress.com
; and I tweet at @AnneWelsh - https://twitter.com/AnneWelsh
I volunteered to co-moderate this e-forum because part of my job is to encourage the next generation of library and information
professionals to achieve their full potential, and the topic seemed to fit well with that. I also wanted to “give something back” and “pay it forward” because my own conference speaking “career" would never have even started if my boss at the time, Christine
Goodair, hadn’t prompted and encouraged me to “have a punt” at a call for papers I’d seen for a conference that cost over £1000, but which speakers could attend for free. It simply would not have occurred to me that I had anything worthwhile to say were it
not for Christine, so when I come across newer professionals who are unsure about putting themselves forward, I can remember how that felt … and I try to channel Christine in cheerleading their efforts.
I also volunteered because it is always fascinating to hear people’s stories and so I’m looking forward to that and to hearing
your hints and tips for getting started with conferences. Personally, I can’t wait to hear from all of you.
Best wishes
Anne
Anne Welsh
Lecturer in Library and Information Studies
University College London
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