Call for Proposals: LAMNS Conference 2021

April 20, 2021

Libraries, Archives, Museums Nova Scotia (LAMNS) is issuing a Call for Proposals for this year’s Virtual Joint-Conference that will be held October 21-23, 2021.

This year’s theme is: Moving Forward Together: Collaboration and Innovation to Meet Changing Needs

LAMNS last joint conference, held in Halifax in 2015, was an historic event that brought the 3 partners together for the first time.

“Moving Forward Together” highlights the resilience of our sectors in dealing with the realities caused by COVID-19 and the use of collaboration and innovation to meet the challenges we face. This has been a year of expedited growth and change, a year of strength and resiliency, and community collaboration from a distance.

The LAMNS Conference Planning Committee are looking for a variety of proposals and are open to any and all ideas for sessions, including:

• Presentations – 25-minutes (includes 5-10 minutes for questions)
• Panel Discussions – 55-minutes featuring 2-4 panelists (includes 5-10 minutes for questions)
• Lighting Talks – short 5-minute presentations

All sessions will be delivered virtually, and can be delivered live or pre-recorded.

To Submit a Conference Proposal:

We are open to all ideas for presentations. Please submit your name(s), organization(s), and contact information along with:

• A brief description of your session
• Length of session
• Preferred format of your session (ie. Live or pre-recorded)
• Other details

Topics: Ideas for topics include, but are in no way limited to:

• Shifting to the virtual (digitization, programming, community outreach etc.)
  Issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, especially addressing the lives and experiences of People of Colour and immigrant communities.
• Truth and reconciliation, issues of Indigenization
• Community focused practices, community partnerships
• Serving underserved communities
• Accessibility
• Changing demographics in Nova Scotia
• Policy shifts
• How has the COVID-19 changed the work we do? (memory keeping, changing practices, legal issues, cleaning issues, etc.)

Please send your submission to: LAMNSConference@gmail.com

Deadline: Deadline for submissions is: May 28, 2021