Dear Sugene, I apologize for forwarding you to the wrong group. I guess NC just always means North Carolina to me and they have a student organization. Allen is certainly correct in his referral. I do hope we can talk more though, despite my faux pas. thanks, lucie .At 09:37 AM 3/22/2004 -0600, AllenT wrote: >Dear Sugene, > >One of the best ways to participate in ARLIS/NA would be to seek out your >local chapter in Northern California and start there. There will also be >much discussion on ARLIS-L after the New York Conference in April, since >the New York meetings will only BEGIN the Society's strategic planning >process. > >Sorry we won't see you in New York, but I hope that the Northern >California Chapter website link below will provide you more information >about becoming active in ARLIS/NA, and stay tuned to the LIST for more. > >http://library.berkeley.edu/~skoskine/ARLISNC.HTML > > >Yours truly, > >Allen K. Townsend, President, ARLIS/NA >Librarian >Amon Carter Museum >3501 Camp Bowie Blvd >Fort Worth, Texas 76107 >Phone: 817 989 5073 >Fax: 817 989 5079 > >All opinions are my own and not those of my employer > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sugene Yang [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:28 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] The Future of ARLIS/NA > >Hello, > >I am a fairly recent member of ARLIS/NA and ARLIS/NC. I have a fine arts >background and am currently in library school at SJSU. >Attracting/recruiting younger members and people of diverse background are >issues that I am particularly interested in, but it looks like most of the >discussion about this will happen at the conference in NYC. I cannot >afford to go to the conference (though I really wanted to), and I wonder >if my absence severely limits my participation in the organization. As a >young and relatively new member, my question is how can I participate more >in the organization (esp. in regards to these issues) if I am not going to >the national conference? Is there even such an opportunity? This may >invite others to answer: start your own initiatives, launch your own >campaigns. But I'm new to all of this, and that isn't how I want to ease >into things. Maybe some of you wiser folks have some words for me? > > >Thanks, >Sugene Yang > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:28:10 -0700 > > From: "Juarez, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]> > > Subject: The Future of ARLIS/NA, our future > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C406DE.34697790 > > Content-Type: text/plain > > > > 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 > > > > Office: Music, 231A / P.O. 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