Call for Student Posters

The Society of Southwest Archivists invites graduate and undergraduate students to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas May 24 – 27, 2017. For more information on the meeting visit: https://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/annualmeeting

Posters may describe applied or theoretical research that is completed or underway; discuss interesting archival collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.). Submissions should focus on research or activity conducted within the previous academic year (Fall 2016 - Spring 2017). Poster dimensions: 32 inches by 40 inches (may read vertically or horizontally).

The 2017 theme, “Archives in their Natural State” encourages submissions that address the natural life cycle of archives and records; literal interpretations of natural for archival research on subjects such as environmental history, environmentalism, and ecology or other natural sciences; and studies of “organic” or symbiotic processes such as community archiving and the responsibility to document evolving regional and national society and culture

Abstracts will be accepted by email until April 21, 2017

Include the following in your 1­page abstract:

Title

Author(s)

Purpose of project/research

Description of project/research

Conclusions/findings of project/research

Submit your abstract to jennifer.day@okc.gov You will be notified by April 24, 2017 if your abstract has been accepted for a poster presentation.

Students will have the opportunity to discuss their poster with attendees for 30 minutes on Friday May 26 at 3:00 pm in the conference hotel. Easels will be provided. Student poster presenters must register and secure institutional or personal funding to attend the Annual Meeting.