The Librarians’ Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) Conference Committee has opened registration for the 2017 LAUNC-CH Conference, scheduled for Monday, March 13, 2017 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Details on the conference and registration information is available at http://launcch.web.unc.edu/events/annual-conference/

This year’s conference theme is Human-Centered Libraries: Crafting Value and Relevance.

This year, we’ll explore how we in the library and archives community are creatively solving problems by focusing first on the people we are serving. How are we creating services and spaces that are in harmony with the needs and desires of a diverse community of users? The titles and descriptions of the presentations and the presenters is available on our website: http://launcch.web.unc.edu/events/annual-conference/

Information about our keynote speaker: Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist, a researcher, a facilitator, and a writer who has been working in higher education and library contexts since 2009. She has done projects in the US and the UK, and her work informs policy in libraries, centers for teaching and learning, and university learning space planning.

Diversity Scholarships for LAUNC-CH Conference

The Librarians’ Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) is pleased to continue its program to provide two scholarships for undergraduate students, graduate students, or library staff to attend the 2017 LAUNC-CH Conference.

LAUNC-CH supports diversity in the profession and hopes that students and staff who would like to work in and foster a diverse professional environment will apply. Interested applicants should complete the application by 5:00 pm on Wednesday March 1, 2017. Scholarship recipients will be notified by Wednesday, March 8.

In addition to the cost of conference attendance, scholarship recipients will receive networking and mentoring opportunities with UNC Library Diversity Committee members.

To apply: https://tinyurl.com/zjgnway

Please contact Joanneke Elliott (joanneke@email.unc.edu) if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2017 LAUNC-CH Conference!