The Association of College & Research Libraries is holding its annual conference in Seattle, March 12-15th. The speaker lineup alone is reason enough to attend: rabble-rousing Canadian journalist Naomi Klein; poet, novelist, filmmaker, and humourist Sherman Alexie, and the soft-spoken but dependably funny Ira Glass from NPR’s This American Life.

Preconference sessions plus more than 250 peer-reviewed conference sessions promise an active and interesting conference, especially for technologically-inclined library folk. If you have an idea for something to present, why not propose it? The deadline is October 20th for poster sessions and November 23rd for roundtable discussion proposals — which should dovetail nicely with the end of term. ;\