<div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-size:12.8px">Application deadline extended to <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Friday, September 29</span></span>. Apply now for your chance to win one of two $2,500 awards!<br></b><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">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.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br>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 <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">September 29</span></span>. Selected proposers will have five minutes to pitch their idea before a Charleston Conference audience on <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Wednesday, November 8</span></span>, and a panel of judges who will determine the finalists. The Goodall Family Charitable Foundation will sponsor two $2,500 awards for the finalists. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Apply online at <a href="https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/fastpitch/" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>charlestonlibraryconference.<wbr>com/fastpitch/</a>. <br><br>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 (<a href="http://www.against-the-grain.com/2016/11/charleston-fast-pitch-competition/" target="_blank">http://www.against-the-grain.<wbr>com/2016/11/charleston-fast-<wbr>pitch-competition/</a>), and an ATG Special Report on all the winners, runners-up, and honorable mentions is available on the Against the Grain website (<a href="http://www.against-the-grain.com/2017/01/atg-special-report-the-charleston-library-conference-fast-pitch-2016/" target="_blank">http://www.against-the-grain.<wbr>com/2017/01/atg-special-<wbr>report-the-charleston-library-<wbr>conference-fast-pitch-2016/</a>).<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you have questions, please contact </span><a href="mailto:fastpitch@charlestonlibraryconference.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">fastpitch@<wbr>charlestonlibraryconference.<wbr>com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you!</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Beth R. Bernhardt</div>
<div>Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications</div>
<div>University Libraries</div>
<div>University of North Carolina Greensboro</div>
<div>PO Box 26170</div>
<div>Greensboro, NC 27402</div>
<div>336-256-1210</div><div><img alt="FullName UNCG Logo combined with 125th mark" src="https://uncgcdn.blob.core.windows.net/email/UNCG_full_125th.png"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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