Planning a symposium to promote your collection | Joanne Carroll & Marta Bustillo
Channel: AcademicSpecial Libraries
Date: 2016-03-03

This workshop aims to offer practical advice for planning a symposium to promote library resources or specific collections. During the first 15 minutes, the presenters will discuss their experience of organizing the Clarke Studios Symposium to promote the collection of material from the Harry Clarke Studios Archive, held in the Manuscripts & Research Library at Trinity College Dublin. The symposium was used as a means to draw attention to the research potential of the collection. After the presentation, attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be asked to work on a case study provided by workshop participants and selected in advance by the presenters. The groups will develop a proposal for a symposium covering the following aspects: collaborators and prospective audience; funding and finances; selection of speakers; event administration; event promotion. The groups will have time at the end of the workshop to present their proposals and discuss any issues they encountered. #asl2016