Poster sessions are a great opportunity to get your feet into the water and show off research you’ve done, a project you have implemented, or a new service you are providing.
More low-key than a full blown conference presentation, poster sessions are akin to an elevator speech – “Hey, look at these cool things I’m doing!” – as a librarian, that’s what I love about them: I get practical ideas and advice in a short amount of time that I can adapt or re-tool for my library.
At the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference, I presented my first poster session: Assessment into Action: Meeting the Needs of Adult Learners. It was a great experience. I enjoyed taking a topic that I was interested in and using my design/creative skills to come up with a poster to share the information.
This semester, I’m teaching an undergrad information science class at my university. One of the projects that students are currently working on is a poster presentation.
Whether the students go on to grad school or out into the work field right away, a poster session is something that they are likely to encounter. To get them thinking about poster presentations, I shared some helpful links with them covering content, design, and software to use. These links can be tremendously useful if you’re new to poster presentations, so I thought I’d share…
- Sample Poster Sessions – American Library Association
- Tips for Poster Sessions – American Library Association
- Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation – PLOS Computational Biology
- Creating Effective Poster Presentations – North Carolina State University
- Poster Session Tips – Penn State University
- Poster Session Preparation – LibGuide from Arizona State University Libraries
- Presentations & Poster Sessions – LibGuide from Brandeis University Library & Technology Services
- Scientifically Speaking – The Oceanography Society
- How to Make a Great Poster – American Society of Plant Biologists
- Designing Effective Poster Presentations – Johns Hopkins University
- Poster Sessions – Colorado State University
- Design of Scientific Posters – Penn State University
- Pimp My Poster – Flickr group
- Presentations 101 (or, How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint) – LibGuide from Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (not specifically poster presentations, but great design advice)
If you have any links to share, let me know!
My poster presentation for the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference
Reblogged this on Stephanie L. Gross, MSLIS and commented:
These are excellent suggestions. I mentor library students and recent grads. Scholarly communication can begin with blogging, microblogging and poster sessions. I have an account with Slideshare and Authorstream and find the shows excellent. Best of course, if they have audio or proper annotation.
Thanks, Stephanie…I have a Slideshare account, but I’ll have to check out Authorstream. Thanks for sharing!
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Reblogged this on The BiblioFiles and commented:
An excellent collection of resources! This will come in handy someday.