The MCMLA Research Committee invites paper and lightning talk abstract submissions on any health sciences librarianship topic for the 2023 MCMLA Annual Meeting.
The theme for this year’s meeting is “Smart Solutions”. The meeting will take place virtually from October 19-20, 2023.
Deadline for submissions is June 17th. Early submissions are welcomed and appreciated. Acceptance decisions will be sent out by August 15th.
Submission to present at the MCMLA Annual Meeting is open to members and non-members of MCMLA. Papers will have approximately 20 minutes for their presentation, while lightning talks will have approximately 9 minutes. For accepted submissions, at least one author should be in attendance in order to present at the virtual conference.
Submission of work that has previously been presented at MLA but not at an MCMLA Chapter meeting is welcomed and encouraged for this year’s meeting. Both program descriptions and research projects are encouraged. Feel free to forward this announcement to potentially interested parties that may not have received this email.
This year the MCMLA Research Committee requests submitters to identify the type of abstract and presentation they intend to share if accepted. There are two (2) possible categories for submissions:
Research Abstract: Traditional library research; abstracts should be structured and include the following sections:
Objective
Methods
Results
Conclusions
Program Description Abstract: Non-research presentation, typically about programs or creative ideas being done in libraries; abstracts should include the following:
Background
Description
Conclusion
Please ensure you select the appropriate category for your proposed presentation. The Research Committee will be using separate rubrics for each category so if you are unsure about which category your abstract would fall under, please reach out to the Research Committee Chair, Abbey Griffith.
Deadline for submissions is June 17th. Early submissions are welcomed and appreciated. Acceptance decisions will be sent out by August 15th.
Never submitted a structured abstract for a conference before?
Check out the slides (links to a Google Doc) from last year’s informal Structured Abstract Brown Bag created by Erin Reardon.
MCMLA offers a Research Paper Award! Find out more information here about eligibility criteria and how papers are evaluated.
Please contact Research Committee Chair Abbey Griffith with questions.
Instructions:
- Research abstracts should be kept under 250 words. Structured abstracts are preferred. Find more information about structured abstracts here
- Program description abstracts should be kept under 250 words.
- If you have additional questions about structured abstracts, you are invited to email John Bramble
- Abstracts should be submitted through this form
