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From: Janine Henri

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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:14 PM

Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] The Future of ARLIS/NA

Francesca, et al.,

Check out:
http://www.arlisna.org/chapters2001.htm.  You'll
see that there are ARLIS/Canada,
ARLIS/Montréal-Ottawa-Québec and ARLIS/Ontario
chapters in the Canadian Region, as well as an
ARLIS/Northwest (that includes Alaska - Alberta -
British Columbia - Idaho - Oregon - Washington -
and the  Yukon Territory) in the Western Region.
Some provinces have not formed chapters simply
because of the lack of enough members, which is
also why there is a general Canadian chapter.
You might want to sign up for CARLIS-L if you
have not already done so.

I'm just curious---are you (& other student
members) finding the stipends offered by the
various conference travel awards inadequate?  Or
is the information about these awards not getting
disseminated to your library schools?  Or are the
award application deadlines too far away from the
conference for the announcements to be paid
attention to?  (Or are there other obstacles?)
The 2004 ARLIS/NA travel award information is at
http://www.arlisna.org/travel04.html, but of
course many chapters also have travel awards.
I'll be the incoming chair of the Membership
Committee after the NYC conference so am
particularliy interested to hear what students
have to say about issues that affect their
decisions to join and their abilities to attend
conferences while students.  Please keep the
comments coming and rest assured that we are
listening!

Hoping to see many of you soon,

Janine Henri


>Hello all,
>
>I too have a fine arts background and am in library school, although I have
>been a member of ARLIS/NA for over a year now. I have similar concerns to
>those of Sugene, although as I am a Canadian I think my options are even more
>limited. I have noticed that Canadians are underepresented in general,
>although we are not lacking in artistic culture. That might be a question for
>discussion. Also I wonder: are there specific chapters in the various
>provinces?
>
>As far as recruiting new and young members is concerned I will say that I
>personally have done all I can to promote ARLIS and to make my colleagues who
>have different interests aware of what ARLIS is up to by posting ARLIS-L
>messages on our school listserv and generally reminding them that art
>libraries and librarians are important members of the profession.
>
>I will say though that interest has been small, primarily because ALA, CLA,
>SLA and the various local societies are enough for anyone not specifically
>interested in the arts to handle, monetarily and otherwise. However I have
>noticed that even some students that have a background in art, would rather
>spend their money on the above societies, partly because those are the ones
>that have student chapters at the school. In fact I have had to forgo being a
>member of the above, in order to join ARLIS. In any case, my suggestion would
>be: promotion, promotion, promotion.
>
>Cheers,
>FF
>
>>===== Original Message From Sugene Yang <[log in to unmask]> =====
>>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
>>
>>
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>>>
>>>  Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:28:10 -0700
>  >> From:    "Juarez, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>  Subject: The Future of ARLIS/NA, our future
>>>
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>>>  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. Box 210103
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>
>Francesca Frati, BFA
>MLIS Candidate, SLIS Dalhousie
>GRA HBiC/HLIC
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>just because he [or she] is an expert
>aware of the changes in sense perception"
>
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