Dear Compatriots,
Well a public failure can sometimes reap vast rewards. My earlier "NC"
mistake has yielded a number of responses from students, both in the AMLISS
chapter at UNC-SLIS in North Carolina and from students in Canada and the
other areas of the US. Their messages say to me that we need to have more
visibility in the library schools in the US and Canada and recruit more
directly from library schools. I have also heard that many library school
students are interested in art librarianship but find more opportunities in
ALA, ACRL, SLA, etc. than with ARLIS. Finally, the need for student travel
awards, both diversity-oriented and open, has come up.
Leslie Abrams and I, as co-chairs of the Strategic Plan Task Force, and our
colleagues on the Task force are certainly monitoring these discussions
closely and hope to produce some results next year. I think we will be
working closely with several ARLIS committees, Membership and Diversity
immediately spring to mind, to see some solutions emerge.
ARLIS/NA and the local chapters have student memberships. The library
school students, however, are saying that we need ARLIS student
organizations in the schools that are affiliated with ARLIS/NA directly,
much like SLA. I am inclined to agree. I plan to be coming to the
ARLIS/NA new members reception so I can meet and welcome new members and
new student members personally and talk about this issue.
Could we have some online discussion on this issue, however, since many of
the interested parties cannot afford to attend the NYC conference.
yours,
lucie
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Collections/User Education Coordinator
Librarian for Art, Classical Archaeology, and
Architectural History
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131
tele. 434-924-6604 [log in to unmask] fax:
434-982-2678
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