AASL Column Debuts in ASCA News
The annual conference of the Association of Architecture School
Librarians (AASL) in Miami last spring included a meeting with
executive director Michael Monti of the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA). One outcome of that meeting was a
proposal for an AASL column in ACSA News.
The first column has now appeared in ACSA News 34:1 (September 2004),
26. It is an introductory column written by the column editor, Martin
Aurand of Carnegie Mellon University. Current AASL Vice-President
and President-Elect Matt Cook of Illinois Institute of Technology
will write the second column as a follow-up to the "GIS and
Architectural Education" session at the Miami conference.
AASL expects to produce four columns per academic year. Columns will
address the activities of the AASL and its members, and the shared
educational mission of schools of architecture and their libraries.
Topics may include AASL conference previews or reviews; AASL projects
(e.g. the Core List of Periodicals); NAAB accreditation standards
(e.g. proposals of the Joint AASL/ARLIS/NA Task Force); information
literacy (successful programs and new initiatives); major tools and
resources (e.g. GIS, ARTstor, Architectural Graphic Standards
Online); digital projects (e.g. online image collections or
journals); newsworthy collection acquisitions (e.g. of the archives
of a prominent architect); and so on.
Columns may address the activities of individual institutions (case
studies), or discuss issues in architectural librarianship. Columns
must be of potential interest to a broad constituency of faculty and
schools. Whenever possible, columns should emphasize collaborative
relationships between librarians, teaching faculty, and students.
This column is a great new opportunity to communicate with teaching
and administrative faculty and raise the profile of architecture
librarianship. Architecture librarians are welcome to consider
writing a column, even if not active in AASL. Please contact Martin
Aurand at <[log in to unmask]> for more information.
For information about AASL see <http://www.library.njit.edu/archlib/aasl/>.
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