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Deadline Approaching [Feb.15]: SAA Student Poster Session 2002



Deadline is February 15, 2002.  Please submit abstracts to Danielle
DuMerer at dumerer@wam.umd.edu.

Please excuse cross postings.

SAA 2002 Annual Conference
Archival Roots: Our Foundation and our Future
Birmingham, Alabama
Student Poster Session


Contact: dumerer@wam.umd.edu
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/students/

To: SAA Student Chapters and Archival Studies students
From: SAA Student Poster Session Working Group

Students to show off exciting archival research at the SAA 2002 annual
conference

Both current and recently graduated students in archival education
programs, or other students interested in archival research, are
eligible to participate in the 2nd annual Student Poster Session at the
2002 SAA Conference in Birmingham,
Alabama. Individual students may submit posters describing completed
research or
work that is underway, or an interesting processed collection.  The
posters should
include the student?s theoretical framework, methodology, findings, and
conclusions
when appropriate.  Student chapters? may also create chapter posters
describing activities, events, and chapter members? involvement in the
archival profession.

If you wish to present a poster, please send your name, affiliation,
contact information
and a brief description of your poster topic (in no more than 250 words)
to Danielle
DuMerer at dumerer@wam.umd.edu. A single representative should submit
student
chapter poster proposals to the above.  All proposals must be submitted
by February 15, 2002.  Poster abstracts will be printed in the
Conference program if completed by this date.

Please note that students are responsible for their own poster
construction costs and
should assemble posters ahead of the session.  There will be no poster
materials
available on site.  However, SAA will provide a mechanism for display
and tables and chairs at the poster session site.

Guidelines for participants:

1. Posters should be mounted on a foam core base or a stiff poster board

measuring approximately 20 x 30 inches.  Encapsulation is also
acceptable.

2. Emphasize graphical elements when appropriate and possible.  Graphs,
charts, tables and illustrations are particularly eye-catching.

3. Lettering should be simple, bold, and easily legible from a distance
of four feet.  Use no more than two or three different fonts.  Keep the
point size between 16 and 48.

4. Headings above each poster section should indicate its contents and
identify the
appropriate sequence for viewing the poster (if necessary use clearly
visible numbers, letters or arrows).

5.  Divide contents of your poster into appropriate sections.  For
example: title, author, affiliation; abstract; methodology; results or
data; conclusions.  Include each of these under a separate and clearly
marked heading as noted above.

6. Written material should be concise.  The fewer words there are for
the eye to read, the easier the poster will be to digest.  Save
unessential but helpful
or interesting secondary points for discussion with your viewers, or
create a brochure
that will expand on your topic.

7. Your printed conclusions should permit viewers to focus on a concise
statement of your central findings and should spark informal discussion,
if
applicable.

8. Please feel free to bring along supplementary material within
reason.  Tables will be small, but there should be enough room to
provide a summary of your research or a reduced version of your poster
in flyer form.  Also bring along business cards or any other information

relevant to your presentation.  Laptops are allowed, but keep in mind
that no outlets or Internet connections will be available.

We look forward to hearing about your research and the new directions of

the archival profession; your enthusiastic participation will help root
the presence
of this important event at the SAA annual conference in the years to
come.  Questions
regarding these guidelines or your poster proposal should be sent to
Marisol or
Danielle. Any comments or suggestions about the Poster Session can be
posted to the SAA Student List-Serv at
SAAStudentChapter@yahoogroups.com.  Information
is also available on the SAA website at
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/students/.

Student Poster Session Working Group:
Danielle DuMerer, University of Maryland, co-chair
Marisol Ramos-Lum, University of California at Los Angeles, co-chair
Carol Mead, University of Texas at Austin
Amity Smetzler, Western Washington University

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