[Air-l] AoIR Conference -- call for chairs

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

I still need volunteers to chair sessions. Please email me if
you can chair sessions. It's an easy way to get to know other
AoIR researchers, so step up all doctoral students as well!

Here are notes Chair Duties ... It's also good if chairs can
contact authors ahead of the conference by email to confirm
how the session will progress.

Chairs of sessions should arrive at the room at least 20
minutes before the start of the session. Make yourself visible
to the speakers. The Chair’s job is to introduce the speakers
(briefly), to keep the speakers on time, and to help manage
questions. It is very important to keep speakers on time. With
4 speakers in a session, talks of 15 minutes are recommended;
with 3 speakers, talks of 20 minutes are recommended. The
Chair should decide with the speakers whether questions will
be taken after each talk or held to the end. Whatever
arrangement is chosen, it is the responsibility of the Chair
to manage the questions so these do not cut into the time of
the next speaker and do not extend the session time. Please
start and end the session on time.

/Caroline
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820