LERA 71st AM-Participant Information 2019 |
ALL MEETING PARTICIPANTS | Dear LERA 71st Annual Meeting Participant, Thanks for attending and participating in our next LERA Annual Meeting. We are excited you will be there! Bookmark this page and check back often. Here, we will post links, checklists, and information that you will need to have in hand as the meeting approaches. Participants presenting a paper are invited to publish this in the Proceedings of the LERA Annual Meeting (Chairs/Discussants are invited to publish remarks and poster session participants are invited to publish an abstract.) as well as submit your paper to the LERA/ILR Review Best Paper Competition for publishing in the ILR Review. Cordially, Information for All Meeting Participants
Additional Checklists: Session ChairsThank you for participating in our upcoming LERA Annual Meeting! We are excited about this program and your involvement, and we hope you enjoy the conference. To help you prepare, please find information below that you will need in the coming months. Session chairs play a very special role at our meeting; without you, a successful event would not be possible. Please download and read this letter with more complete information about chairing a session at the LERA meeting. Here is a brief summary: 1. Verify program information – Could you take a moment to look up your session information in our online program? Is the listing accurate? If you have changes in the coming months, please let us know and we will update the information in the online program, and if soon enough, in the final printed program that we will distribute on site. We only print one primary affiliation for any given participant, to save space in the printed program, and at this time, we do not print job titles. 2. Contact Session Participants – Early on in this process (in January or February) we ask that you contact your session participants, let them know who you are and how they can contact you, communicate with them how you intend to run the session (how long do you want them to speak?), request information that you need from them, and remind them of the pertinent deadlines involved. We have established a Box folder for your session to help you coordinate the exchange of files between your session participants, but if you prefer another method, then please give them your instructions. You will need to request bios from all session participants, as well as any paper and/or presentation files. Updated versions of files can be uploaded over time, if need be, and Box will over-write files of the same name. Any contact information we might have can be found in the LERA Member Directory. 3. Request biographies, due May 3 – You will need to introduce each participant (panelists, presenters, discussants, etc.) in your session. Unless you prefer to conduct this research and write your own biographical descriptions of each of your session participants, you should request a biography from everyone in your session by May 3rd, 2019. Any contact information we might have can be found in the LERA Member Directory.
3. Request papers and/or presentation files, also due May 3 – Knowing what your session attendees will be presenting is also going to be an important function of chairing your session, and you should request to receive copies of any papers that will be presented in your session, and/or any other presentation files (PowerPoint slides, handouts, etc.) that will be shared. This will help you organize your session, assign discussants as needed, inform LERA of any changes that need to be made (has a paper or topic title changed?) to the online program and/or printed programs in a timely manner, and discussants can then review the information that they are scheduled to critique. Lastly, these presentation files need to be kept on file by LERA to satisfy the requirements for offering CLE credits, as well. Any contact information we might have can be found in the LERA Member Directory. 4. More details about the shared Box file:
3. Forward Contact Information for Session Participants to LERA – Can you please forward contact information for your session participants that may get added to your session lineup to [email protected]? We ask because we plan to send informative emails and mail out participant information at various times throughout the coming months, and if we don't have their contact information on file, you will need to relay this information directly to participants. We also need to add them to various permissions groups so they can access needed resources for the meeting. Any contact information we might have can be found in the LERA Member Directory. 4. Determine and Enforce Time Limits for Session Participants – At the meeting, ninety minutes should be allotted for your session (please check the online program for your session specifics), with time reserved for questions and comments from the audience at the end of the session (usually 10-20 minutes). Therefore, presenters should have about 10-12 minutes each, depending on the number of participants in your session, to present their material. You should determine and communicate these time limits to participants and you enforce the time limits at the meeting. 5. Publish in the LERA Proceedings – If your session will have papers presented in it, then we would invite you to submit remarks as Chair (considered discussant remarks) for publication in the LERA Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. Please let us know by June 27, 2019 if you plan to publish; you will have until July 27, 2019 to actually submit remarks. Author guidelines can be found online, as well as the upload form. Participants in your session authoring and presenting papers and discussants (if any) would also invited and encouraged to submit their papers/remarks. Papers can be submitted anytime between now and July 27th online, and it’s no problem to submit a revised version later if need be. Session Presenters (Authors)Thank you for participating in our upcoming LERA Annual Meeting as a Presenter. We are excited about this program and your involvement, and we hope you enjoy the conference. To help you prepare, please find information below that you will need in the coming months. 1. Verify program information – Could you take a moment to look up your session information in our online program? Is the listing accurate? If you have changes in the coming months, please let us know and we will update the information in the online program, and in the final printed program that we will distribute on site. 2. Time limits for session participants – Ninety minutes is allotted for the session (please refer to online program for specifics), with time reserved for questions and comments from the audience. Therefore, participants are given about 10-12 minutes each, depending on the number in the session, to present their material. Your session chair has been asked to determine and communicate these time limits to you and to enforce them at the meeting. 3. Forward Files and Bio by May 3rd – Please upload a copy of your paper to our Box file by May 3, 2019 to allow Chairs and Discussants time to review and prepare remarks, unless your chair has given you other instructions. In addition to your paper/presentation, you will also need to supply the Chair of your session with brief biographical remarks for yourself so that you can be introduced in the session. Files can be uploaded directly to Box or emailed to the Box at this email address: [email protected].
4. Publish in the LERA Proceedings– If you are presenting a paper, then we invite you to publish it in the Proceedings of the LERA Annual Meetings. Please let us know by June 17, 2019 if you plan to publish; you will have until July 27, 2019 to actually submit remarks. Author guidelines can be found online, as well as the upload form. 5. Submit your paper to the LERA/ILR Review Best Paper Competition – LERA and ILR Review invite participants in LERA’s 70th Annual meeting to submit their papers to a joint Best Paper Competition. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the ILR Review. Complete papers must be submitted by July 1, 2019. Papers will be eligible for consideration if they are based on an accepted LERA submission that will be included in the annual meeting program and if they have not been selected for the LERA/AILR (Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations) Best Paper session. Submitted papers will undergo an initial review by LERA’s editorial committee, and a subset of papers will be selected to go through ILR Review’s peer review editorial process. Papers that are accepted by the ILR Review will appear in a 2020 volume with a designated section for LERA Best Papers. To submit your paper, go to http://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines. Session PanelistsThank you for participating in our upcoming LERA Annual Meeting as a Panelist. We are excited about this program and your involvement, and we hope you enjoy the conference. To help you prepare, please find information below that you will need in the coming months. 1. Verify program information – Could you take a moment to look up your session information in our online program? Is the listing accurate? If you have changes in the coming months, please let us know and we will update the information in the online program, and in the final printed program that we will distribute on site. 2. Time limits for session participants – Ninety minutes is allotted for the session (please refer to online program for specifics), with time reserved for questions and comments from the audience. Therefore, participants are given about 10-12 minutes each, depending on the number in the session, to present their material. Your session chair has been asked to determine and communicate these time limits to you and to enforce them at the meeting. 3. Forward Presentation and Bio by May 3rd – Please upload a copy of your presentation to your session Chair and Discussant(s) (if any) by May 3 to allow them time to review and prepare remarks. In addition to your presentation, you will also need to supply the Chair of your session with brief biographical remarks for yourself so that they can introduce you. Unless otherwise instructed by your session chair, files should be uploaded to our box file here: https://uofi.box.com/s/m4i05m66neu2aojqwddnontwmmmt4992. Files can be uploaded directly to Box or emailed to the Box at this email address: [email protected]. If you have any access issues, please contact [email protected]. You can locate your session chair and discussants using the online program, and any contact information we might have for them can be found in the LERA Member Directory.
Session DiscussantsThank you for participating in our upcoming LERA Annual Meeting as a Discussant. We are excited about this program and your involvement, and we hope you enjoy the conference. To help you prepare, please find information below that you will need in the coming months. 1. Verify program information – Could you take a moment to look up your session information in our online program? Is the listing accurate? If you have changes in the coming months, please let us know and we will update the information in the online program, and in the final printed program that we will distribute on site. 2. Time limits for session participants – Ninety minutes is allotted for the session (please refer to online program for specifics), with time reserved for questions and comments from the audience. Therefore, participants are given about 10-12 minutes each, depending on the number in the session, to present their material. Your session chair has been asked to determine and communicate these time limits to you and to enforce them at the meeting. 3. Receive Papers by May 3rd – You will need to upload a brief biographical sketch for yourself in the Box file by May 3rd here: https://uofi.box.com/s/m4i05m66neu2aojqwddnontwmmmt4992. Files can be uploaded directly to Box or emailed to the Box at this email address: [email protected]. We have requested that session participants upload a copy of their paper/presentation to our shared Box file by May 3 so you can access them and have time to review and prepare your remarks/critique. If you have a question about accessing the Box file, send an inquiry to [email protected]. If these materials aren't uploaded by May 3rd, please check with your session chair. You can locate your session chair using the online program, and any contact information we might have can be found in the LERA Member Directory. 4. Publish in the LERA Proceedings – If papers are presented in your session, then we would invite you to submit discussant remarks for publication in the LERA Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. Please let us know by June 17, 2019 if you plan to publish; you will have until July 27, 2019 to actually submit remarks. Author guidelines can be found online, as well as the upload form. Poster Session PresentersSummary of poster session guidelines are as follows: Check the online program for the time and date of your poster session. Additionally:
Click here for complete poster session guidelines. Publication in LERA's Online Proceedings of the LERA Annual Meetings
Papers presented at the meeting are invited to be published in the Proceedings of the 2019 LERA Meetings. A copy of the author instructions is linked below, to help prepare for publication. Authors will need to let us know whether or not they intend to publish in the Proceedings by six weeks after the last day of the meeting. (See author guidelines for forms, deadlines, instructions.) LERA wants to publish your paper in the proceedings even if it appears in another journal, as long as the other publisher is informed and gives permission. You can upload your paper files anytime between now and the conference using the upload form linked below. SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE: If you are not presenting a paper but are acting as a panelist on a topic, LERA still wishes to share your expertise by posting an electronic resource on our Members’ Only Online Library. Please upload your PowerPoint presentations, handouts, etc. to the upload form below by June 27, 2019 to be posted online, and note that this is "Conference Content" to be uploaded. PROCEEDINGS AUTHOR GUIDELINES | PAPER/ABSTRACT/FILE UPLOAD Industry Council Co-chairs
Interest Section Co-conveners
Committee Chairs
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