Dear ARLIS members,
This message from the Board is to update you on Society-wide activities during the last month.
The listserv for Chapter leaders and Board members should be up and running in another few days. McPhersonClarke is working on this as I write. The listserv will enable us to continue discussions about the affiliation agreement and recruitment of members into chapters.
The idea of a joint ARLIS/NA and VRA committee to analyze collaborative possibilities is in discussion among the Boards of both organizations.
There were several important actions taken by the Board when we met in Banff, some of which you are aware. Here are some other things that we are all working on.
Executive Board accepted the offer of the Mountain West Chapter to host the ARLIS/NA 2008 conference in Denver, Colorado. We look forward to working with this dynamic chapter, and to sharing in the delights of Denver in 2008!
The Grove Dictionary of Art extended an invitation to have the President of ARLIS/NA or a designee to serve on the Advisory Board of the Grove Dictionary of Art. The Board accepted this invitation and Margaret Webster is the first to fill this role.
ARLIS/NA has paid memberships to several organizations with which we have felt we should align and perhaps partner. Through discussion with committee chairs and liaisons to some of these groups, we have found that not all ARLIS/NA memberships are valuable to our Society. After discussion with Committee chairs and appropriate liaisons, we have agreed to forgo our memberships in NISO and LOEX.
In our efforts to analyze our services, the Task Force to look at ARLIS's needs for a membership database and web services has been constituted and will report to the Board in September with a progress report. The members of the Task Force are: Margaret Webster, Elizabeth Clarke, Fran Scott, Nedda Ahmed, Sam Duncan, and Shalimar Abigail-Fojas.
The Membership Committee is reviewing the Society's membership categories and is working on a proposal for a tiered membership model. We feel that this will help all of us to better understand the benefits of membership in ARLIS/NA, and will help us to better see the variety of services that ARLIS/NA offers to its members.
The Assessment Task Force has been preparing an online survey for all members to share their input. The survey is being tested now and will be available soon.
The work of the Membership Committee, the membership database Task Force, and the Assessment Task Force will help us develop better services and an understanding of what our members need and want from a professional organization.
Please let me know if you have questions.
Sincerely,
Ann
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Ann Baird Whiteside
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MIT
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