What is a Library of Social Science Book Exhibit?
Our exhibits are not simply "displays." For each conference, we bring together a comprehensive collection of recent and significant titles on the meeting's topics and themes—from the world's top publishers. Our exhibits contribute substantially to the success and intellectual value of the meeting—becoming a gathering place where attendees meet and mingle.
Our conferences book exhibits are a sight to behold. Conference attendees are not only impressed, but often stunned by the quality and scope of our displays. Our exhibits create excitement among conference-goers, showcasing the breadth and depth of research in their given field. |
What does a Library of Social Science Book Exhibit Look Like?
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Perhaps the experience of a Library of Social Science Book Exhibit is best captured in photographs. When one of our onsite book exhibit managers returns from an exhibit with photos, the LSS staff is astonished. Did we create this? Working closely with publishers, we create—at each conferences—an astonishing collection of titles from the most significant scholarly and professional publishers.
Viewing the photos below, one cannot help be impressed—not only with the size of our exhibits and scope of titles presented—but with the beauty of our displays, which enhance and enrich the conference experience. |
Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference |
Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society |
Annual Conference of the Community Development Society |
Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society |
Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association |
Gather Round the Books: experiencing a Library of Social Science Book Exhibit
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conferees enjoying an LSS Book Exhibit.
Library of Social Science has perfected a paradigm creating, organizing, and managing book exhibits at scholarly and professional conferences—broadening the market for books and journals through comprehensive displays of outstanding titles focused on a conference theme.
At some conferences, exhibits are an afterthought. Library of Social Science book exhibits are located at the heart of the action, becoming a central dimension of the meeting experience—a gathering place for attendees.
Invariably impressed by the breadth and depth of our collection on their topic, conferees come back to browse again and again, frequently discovering titles of which they had been unaware. "This book is perfect for a course I'm teaching." Our onsite exhibit managers overhear conversations among colleagues: "You'd better read this book. It's really important for your research." Publishers depend upon our warm, welcoming book exhibits to present their new and significant titles to their target market.
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Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth |
Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference |
Annual Conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History |
Annual ASIANetwork Spring Conference |
Annual Conference of the Community Development Society |
Southwestern Psychological Association Convention |
Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education |
 Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society |
LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LOVES AUTHORS
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Library of Social Science has three constituencies: publishers, conference attendees—and authors. We take great pleasure acknowledging and publicizing the creators of the products that we display and promote. |
Sarah Hardy and Justin Garcia, Evolution's Empress (Oxford) and Mother Nature (Random House), exhibited at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference. |
James McRae, Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought (SUNY Press), exhibited at the ASIANetwork conference. |
Kenneth Gergen at his book signing of Relational Being (Oxford University Press), exhibited at the Psychology and the Other Conference. |
Natasha Bowens, The Color of Food (New Society), exhibited
at the
Community Development Society Conference |
 Mark Shucksmith and David Brown, Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US (UK Taylor & Francis/Earthscan), exhibited at the Rural Sociological Society meeting. |
Michi Fu, Handbook of Asian American Psychology (SAGE Publications), exhibited at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. |
William Wilson signing books from University of Chicago Press at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference. |
John Wilsey, One Nation Under God? (Wipf & Stock Publishers), exhibited at the Society for US Intellectual History conference. |
Joseph Stevenson, Action Research for Higher Educators, Hear and Now and Modernizing the College Curriculum in American Higher Education (Academica Press), exhibited at the Society for Humanistic Psychology conference. |
Diane Goodman, Promoting Diversity and Social Justice (Taylor & Francis), exhibited at the Teachers College Winter Roundtable |
Corinne Field and Nicholas Syrett, Age in America (NYU Press), exhibited at the Society for the History of Children and Youth conference. |