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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Proposals: Power Up Conference in Leadership for Youth Services Managers and Staff, March 28-29, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About the Conference</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Do you have ideas to share about management and leadership in Youth Services? The University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School is pleased to offer the
second Power Up Conference to share your exciting ideas! The conference will take place in Madison, Wisconsin on March 28-29, 2019. The program committee will be accepting proposals until
<b>August 3, 2018.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Topics may include, but are not limited to: strategic planning, collaborations, ethics, leadership pathways, advocacy, mentorship, managing change, work/life
balance, staff motivation, and innovation. Youth services librarians and staff from public libraries, schools, after-school programs, museums, etc. are invited to attend – we had 142 attendees from 20 states at the 2017 conference! You may find the program
from the 2017 conference here: </span><a href="https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2017"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/power-up/2017</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">/
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our opening keynote address speaker is Andrew Medlar, former ALSC President and current director of BookOps, serving the New York Public Library and Brooklyn
Public Library. Our closing keynote will be presented by </span><a href="http://sarahpark.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Sarah Park Dahlen</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Assistant Professor
of Library and Information Science at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Statement</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Program Committee encourages a diversity of presenters representing a variety of personal and professional backgrounds, perspectives, and voices. We encourage
submissions from anyone who is interested in presenting, including students, new professionals, first-time presenters, and representatives of allied professions.
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<u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Proposal Evaluation</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The committee will evaluate all of the submissions as individual entries, and how they fit within the balance of conference content as a whole. The Program
Committee will evaluate all proposals submitted by the deadline using the following criteria:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Clarity and completeness of the proposal, particularly having well-developed content and sufficient speakers to address all relevant aspects of the topic;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Originality and relevance of the proposed topic;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Uniqueness of content in relation to other conference presentations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A range of speaker experiences and representations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">How to submit a proposal</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit a 200-250 word description of your proposed session to Meredith Lowe,
</span><a href="mailto:mclowe@wisc.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">mclowe@wisc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, by August 3, 2018. Sessions at the conference will be one hour. Please include
an additional sentence or two about how this proposal aligns with our diversity, inclusion and equity statement outlined above. Note that the proposal will not be the finalized description for the conference program; the committee will contact selected proposal
submitters for a final draft. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Panel presentations are accepted. All selected proposals will receive one complimentary conference registration ($300 value), which may be divided however the
presenters of that session choose.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Want to connect with others about Power Up?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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