[Libs-Or] Proposals Pacific NW Booksellers Show Sessions

[Robin B]

We need your input!  If you would like to submit a proposal for a 
session aimed at library staff at the Pacific NW Booksellers trade show, 
please read Thom's email.  Feel free to email me with any questions but 
please submit your proposal directly to Thom Chambliss. So far we have a 
few ideas for sessions (read-a-like presentation, NW authors for kids 
and teens, and perhaps something on technology such as a technology 
petting zoo) but would like more ideas.  Thanks!

Robin Beerbower
rbnbrbwr at comcast.net

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
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Call for Education Proposals
PNBA's 2011 Trade Show

PNBA produces a trade show each year in the fall. We always have a full 
day of educational
programming on the day before the exhibits open. Our Education Committee 
reviews
proposals for educational presentations aimed at retail booksellers, 
authors, small
publishers and/or librarians and instructs PNBA staff as to which 
sessions they
would like to see offered at our upcoming show.

If you would like to facilitate a panel or workshop for our next show, 
please send
a one-page proposal, with a suggested title, brief outline, suggested 
list of presenters,
a list of potential hand-outs, a list of A/V needs, and a preferred 
length for the
presentation. (Most of our sessions are between sixty and ninety minutes 
long.)
All proposals for the 2011 show, which will be held in Portland, OR, 
Thursday through
Saturday, October 13-15, must be received in the PNBA office by FRIDAY, 
JUNE 24th.
All educational sessions will be presented on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13.

In general, the Committee prefers presentations which offer booksellers 
direct instruction
about issues that can immediately and directly help them in the 
operations of their
businesses. They are usually looking for at least one Marketing session 
at each
show. Sessions that highlight the changing face of the book industry 
will be given
priority. Panels that include a wide-range of participants are 
especially attractive.
Usually, presentations that might be perceived as promoting one 
business, or one
company's business with booksellers, are not as well received as those 
that speak
to the industry as a whole.

PNBA is also soliciting proposals for sessions aimed at LIBRARIANS, 
small press
PUBLISHERS and AUTHORS. We are most interested in sessions that 
encourage booksellers,
publishers, librarians and authors to work together. PNBA can help 
provide booksellers
and authors who may be willing to participate as panelists in these 
sessions.

Applicants will be notified by mid-August as to whether or not we will 
be able to
accommodate their proposed sessions.

Proposals to offer educational sessions for Librarians and Booksellers 
during PNBA's
fall show should be sent via email to Thom Chambliss 
[mailto:thom at pnba.org], PNBA's
Executive Director. Proposals to offer education for small press 
Publishers and
for Authors should be sent via email to Ali McCart 
[mailto:amccart at indigoediting.com],
who will be coordinating the schedules for both authors and publishers, 
which will
be given in two different rooms. Ms. McCart has worked at the PNBA shows 
for seven
years, most recently as coordinator of the author meal events. She is 
co-owner of
Indigo Editing & Publications in Portland, and is Indigo's Executive 
Editor and
Director of Business Development.

Sincerely,

Thom

Thom Chambliss, Executive Director

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

338 West 11th Avenue, Suite 108

Eugene, OR 97401-3062

T: 541-683-4363

F: 541-683-3910

E: thom at pnba.org

W: www.pnba.org <http://www.pnba.org>

B: www.northwestbooklovers.org <http://www.northwestbooklovers.org>

Fall 2011 Show: Thursday - Saturday, OCTOBER 13 - 15,

at the Holiday Inn at the Portland Airport


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