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
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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
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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.
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>
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> 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.
>
>
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>
>
> 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
>
> Tucson, AZ 85721-0103
>
> VOICE: (520) 626-9434/FAX: (520) 626-1630
>
> E-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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