[Air-l] Overwhelming Response!

haythorn haythorn at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Sat Feb 12 15:07:48 PST 2005


In creating the panel you will be composing a narrative to submit for the 
conference. These will be reviewed by AoIR reviewers. So, the issue is to make 
your submission make sense.

If you have lots of people, you will need to show that the many submissions 
make a whole, and one that conference attendees will want to listen to. You 
will have to make the case for the non-traditional format. You will need to 
let reviewers know how each person will contribute to the session (e.g. very 
short talks, or quick idea presentations), and how you will manage the time 
and contributions. You have to show how each speaker fits with the overall 
theme of your panel.

Basically, you have to sell this to the reviewers as legitimate, worthwhile, 
and manageable. Make the case.

/Caroline
Program Chair IR 6.0


>===== Original Message From Ted M Coopman <coopman at u.washington.edu> =====
>Wow, I have posted more on this in the last two days than in the last two 
years!
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>My request for panel participants has resulted in an overwhelming response. 
The topics and backgrounds of those who have emailed me are as varied as they 
are interesting.
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>However, this creates a problem since 14 people seems a tad on the high side 
for a panel!
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>Therefore, I have a question. Is it possible/practical to have a mega-panel 
or should we break in up into two panels (part 1 and part 2)? I have seen this 
done at other conferences but didn't know how it was engineered (either by the 
PP or the submitters). I didn't want one panel to get rejected just because 
another one on the same topic is seen as redundant.
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>Obviously, there would be no overlap on participants. I really want to 
facilitate folks being able to attend. So, I'm at a loss for what to do.
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>Any suggestions on handling this excess of enthusiasm would be appreciated.
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>-TED
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>Ted M. Coopman
>Department of Communication
>University of Washington
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor 
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign




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