Poster sessions at the NJLA Conference are a great place to learn something new in a flash as you walk through the halls of the Revel Resort from one breakout session to another. 

This is the ninth year that NJLA has hosted the poster sessions, and since the beginning in 2005 we have had colorful and creative displays, as when Heidi Cramer brought Corky the Koala, the Newark Public Library mascot, to help her with her demonstration of how to make Children’s Services come alive. And Craig Anderson from Kean University Library also showed off how to “Leap Beyond Google in a Single Bound” with his great display.

This year we have three scheduled one-hour sessions when you can meet the poster authors and ask questions about their projects: Tuesday at 11:15 a.m., featuring library student research; public and special library projects at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday; and the final session on Wednesday before lunch at 11:15 a.m. that features college and university library projects as well as this year’s nominees for the NJLA Technology Innovation Awards. The posters are up with handouts during the day from Tuesday, June 3 through Wednesday, June 4, 2014.

To see a preview of the array of different topics and presenters at this year’s NJLA Conference Poster Sessions, check out the online schedule for Wednesday’s sessions at: http://cus.njla.org/node/559  

But you can’t see the posters if you don’t register for the NJLA 2014 Conference! The early bird deadline closes on May 13, 2014. Register online at http://njlconference.info, and we'll see you in Atlantic City in June!

-- Mary Mallery, Montclair State University and Gus Stamatopoulos, Richard Stockton State College, Co-Chairs, NJLA Conference Poster Session Committee