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Graduate Student Poster Session at SAA 2001 Conference



Attn: Graduate students and archival educators

The purpose of the SAA Annual Meeting Student Poster session is to bring
attention to the work of archival students (Masters and PhD) and to give
them an open forum in which to present their work to their colleagues,
peers, and the archival community at large.  Student chapters are also
invited to present posters highlighting their activities during the
previous year.

Students in archival education programs are eligible to participate in the
SAA Student Poster Session at the 2001 SAA Conference in Washington, DC.
If you wish to display a poster, please send your name, affiliation,
contact information, and a brief description of the topic of your poster
(no more than 250 words) to Kalpana Shankar at kshankar@ucla.edu and
Jeannie Sklar at jsklar@umich.edu.  SAA Student Chapters may also create
chapter posters; please have the chapter president submit the relevant
information.

Deadline for submission is April 1, 2001.

Below please find some general guidelines for creating a poster:

(These poster guidelines have been assembled and copied from others
sources, such as ALISE, at http://www.alise.org and ALA, at
http://www.lib.siu.edu/ala/psguid.htm)

1.      Posters should be mounted on a foam core base or stiff poster board
measuring approximately 20 x 30 inches.  Students are responsible for
assembling their posters ahead of the session as there will be no poster
materials available onsite.

2.      SAA will provide easels for the display of posters.

3.      Individual posters may describe completed research or work that is
underway.  Student chapters' posters may also describe activities, events,
and other involvement with the archival profession.  Student posters may be
about any aspect of the student's research or other work relevant to their
archival education.  Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:

·     Research (applied or theoretical) conducted for class assignments,
theses, or dissertations
·     Discussion of unusual or particularly interesting collections
·     Projects related to other aspects of archival theory or practice, such as
novel finding aids, education modules, public         outreach, needs
analyses, specialized databases, etc.

4.      The title, student's name, institutional affiliation and department
should appear at the top of the poster.

5.      Divide the contents of your poster into appropriate sections, such as:
title, author and affiliation, abstract, methodology, data, results, and
conclusions (or other appropriate categories).  Include each on a separate
sheet (or sheets) of paper.

6.      Headings above each poster section should indicate its contents and
identify the appropriate sequence for viewing the poster by clearly visible
numbers, letters, or arrows

7.      Lettering should be simple, bold, and easily legible from a distance of
four feet.  Use a font pitch of no less than 16 for your text.  If hand
lettering is required, use felt-tip black ink.

8.      Written material should be concise.  Save unessential but helpful or
interesting secondary points for discussion with your viewers.  Feel free
to bring relevant supplemental materials, such as articles, brochures, or
other material, to hand out to viewers.

9.      Emphasize graphical elements where appropriate and when possible, as
graphs, charts and tables are particularly eye-catching at poster sessions.

10.     Your printed conclusions should permit observers to focus on a concise
statement of your central findings that lends itself to informal
discussion.

11.     Participants may use laptops to supplement their poster presentations,
but laptops are not required nor should they be considered as a substitute
for a poster.  Participants should be aware that there will be no technical
support or live Internet connections.  Moreover, please bring batteries for
computers, as the site does not have a guaranteed electrical connection.

Other resources for posters:

"Creating Posters for Humanities and Social Sciences,"
http://www.lcsc.edu/ss150/poster.htm

"Effective Presentations Online Tutorial,"
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html

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