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Dear colleagues, I'm sending this message again (first sent last month) to try to encourage more of you to submit statements. By now you've all noticed that Marilyn Russell's contribution is prominently featured on the ARLIS/NA web page. We'd like to feature a different member each month, so please get in touch! Let me know if you have questions about this project. Best wishes, Janine Henri Chair, ARLIS/NA Membership Committee >Dear ARLIS/NA colleagues, > >The ARLIS/NA Membership Committee is interested in obtaining feedback >from members on the topic of how membership in the Society (ARLIS/NA) >has been of value, or beneficial, to you. We would like to receive >short statements, consisting of no more than a few paragraphs, which >will describe specific benefits, or experiences, that have been >important to you, either professionally or personally. > >If you are willing to share your story about what ARLIS/NA membership >means to you, please consider sending us a paragraph or two. Statements >can be e-mailed to [log in to unmask] Below are examples authored >by two of our current Board Members. > >Finally, we would like to post statements that are forwarded to us onto >the ARLIS/NA website--sharing this type of information with others will >serve to both attract new members as well as to highlight current >membership diversity and variety in our work settings. > >Thank you in advance for participating in this outreach effort! > >Best wishes, >Janine Henri and Margaret Boylan >ARLIS/NA Membership Committee > > > From Jeanne Brown, Head, Architecture Studies Library, University of >Nevada, Las Vegas > >"In 1989 I became head of the Creswell Library of Islamic Art and >Architecture at the American University in Cairo. Those were the days >before the Internet, when Bitnet was just starting to become known. One >of the first things I did was to become a member of ARLIS/NA. My >research showed ARLIS/NA to be THE association for arts information, and >my membership put me in contact, albeit very long distance, with issues >and concerns in arts librarianship. Today I am head of the University >of Nevada Architecture Studies Library, the Internet is a ten-ton >gorilla, and my need for and appreciation of ARLIS/NA remains >undiminished. And I have found an unexpected bonus: when I attend >meetings not related to the arts [thanks to the expansion of my >responsibilities for UNLV Libraries assessment] I always know someone >[an ARLIS/NA member] that works with one and often more of the meeting >attendees. I love that "small world" feeling! Thanks ARLIS/NA!" > > From Peggy Keeran, Arts and Humanities Reference Librarian, Penrose >Library, University of Denver > >"I have been a member of ARLIS/NA since 1988, and, even though art >librarianship is just a part of my responsibilities as Arts and >Humanities Reference Librarian, in my experience ARLIS/NA offers >conferences with a wide variety of relevant sessions that are useful not >just for art librarianship, but also for other parts of my job. >Discussions about the hidden Internet, information literacy, copyright, >technological advancements, and digital resources are the same issues >discussed at ACRL, but rather than ten sessions on a variation of a >theme, the one or two sessions at ARLIS/NA on a topic tend to be of very >high quality and very informative. Some of the specialized sessions at >ARLIS/NA actually have content which does translate into other >disciplines: for example, services for and strategies to help studio >artists can be used as templates to address needs of other types of >practicing artists, such as creative writers, dancers, and actors. The >means of helping such populations are not addressed at other types of >conferences. In 2000, I was given the responsibility of purchasing the >foreign language materials for literature - we don't purchase very much >for art - and made contact with the vendors I use for French, Italian >and German literatures at the annual conferences and was able to discuss >with them what I wanted to accomplish with our literary collections. > >The sessions at ARLIS/NA tend to be very balanced, so that I don't feel >I'm hearing yet another session on information literacy but instead am >seeing through this focus on a specific kind of librarianship a larger >picture about the practices and theories and responsibilities of our >profession. I continue to find the conferences I attend invaluable for >my development as a librarian overall as well as my specific >responsibilities for the art and art history department." -- Head Librarian Architecture and Planning Library University of Texas Libraries P.O. 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