Dear Miguel and colleagues,
These are excellent questions and this is the time to be asking
them. I recently attended the ALA Arts Section in San Diego (as did
other of my ARLIS colleagues) and they were asking some similar questions
about themselves. Only their membership has Increased by 10%.
Leslie and I will be anxious to get both questions like these and
solutions for the Strategic Plan at the membership meeting.
I also think that such questions can be brought up at the Diversity
Forum, which is scheduled to be at 3pm on Monday the 19th. I
encourage all ARLIS members to come to the Forum which is an encore to
the successful Diversity Forum in Baltimore. There are issues out
there and this is the place to explore them. We will have a guest
speaker, Jerome Offord who is the ARL Program Officer for Training and
Diversity, and he should offer us some suggestions on turning at this
crossroads. I look forward to seeing you all there again.
many thanks,
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Outgoing Diversity Committee Co-chair
Incoming Strategic Planning Committee Co-chair
At 01:28 PM 3/10/2004 -0700, Juarez, Miguel wrote:
In
talking with various colleagues about the future of ARLIS/NA, I have been
thinking about raising the following issues with members.
Where as an organization are we
headed to? How can we address the decline in membership? How
can we attract younger members to the profession and to the
organization? Can we explore alternate models to conduct
business? How can we collaborate with other professional library
organizations to get beyond the silo effect? How are we going to
address issues of diversity-ethnic, gender and class-effectively?
Would members of the board be
willing to respond on these issues online? I think the New York
meeting will be a turning point for our organization. What do
others think? I still have faith and hope in continuing our work and
commitment to ARLIS/NA-let's have some dialogue on these issues, if
possible. Thank you.
Miguel Juarez, Fine Arts Librarian
Prototype Fine Arts Libratory
Center for Creative Photography Library
University of Arizona Library
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