From: Leah Hinds <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:50:53 +0000


*Application deadline extended to Friday, September 29. Apply now for your
chance to win one of two $2,500 awards!*
The Fast Pitch Competition at the 2017 Charleston Conference is looking for
proposals that pitch a winning idea to improve service at an academic or
research library. The proposal should describe a project or venture that is
innovative, useful, and better or different than what has been done in the
past or done currently.

Conference registrants' with unique and implementable ideas for change and
improvement at their library are encouraged to submit a proposal to present
at the Fast Pitch Session. The proposals should describe the project in
fewer than 1,000 words. Proposal deadline has been extended to September
29. Selected proposers will have five minutes to pitch their idea before a
Charleston Conference audience on Wednesday, November 8, and a panel of
judges who will determine the finalists. The Goodall Family Charitable
Foundation will sponsor two $2,500 awards for the finalists.

Apply online at https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/fastpitch/

Last year's winners were Syracuse University for their Blackstone LaunchPad
for student entrepreneurship, and St. John Fisher College, for their
Coordinated Collection Development API Project. A write up of the session
is available on the conference blog (http://www.against-the-grain.
com/2016/11/charleston-fast-pitch-competition/), and an ATG Special Report
on all the winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions is available on the
Against the Grain website (http://www.against-the-grain.
com/2017/01/atg-special-report-the-charleston-library-
conference-fast-pitch-2016/).

If you have questions, please contact [log in to unmask]
com.

Thank you!
-- 
Leah Hinds
Assistant Director
Charleston Library Conference
864-353-1181 <(864)%20353-1181>