Dear RISS (Reference and Information Services Section) members and other
interested parties:
The conference in Indianapolis is fast approaching, and I am writing to
get your thoughts on what you think should take place at the RISS
meeting on Sunday, April 19 from 12:30-2. If you wouldn't mind glancing
at the minutes from Denver:
http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/2008/proceedings/sec_ris.pdf ,
and offering any thoughts to me directly. There were 32 of you who
attended this meeting. I can collect all comments and send back to
ARLIS-L. We also did not elect officers, but I think we still need to
discuss this process: shall we have a moderator for a one-year term,
with a vice-moderator to take over the following year, and what did we
decide about the News Editor? I see that at least one other group, the
Museum Library Division, still has a designated "News Editor" who
doubles as the session recorder, and most if not all of the other
Sections and so forth, are continuing to elect new moderators each
year. I can envision a role for the News Editor, in terms of gathering
and/or reporting news relevant to the group, and recording minutes. I
see from the minutes in Banff that the News Editor was replaced by a Web
Content Editor. The content on our section of the ARLIS website may be
(is) out-of-date at this point.
Would you like our "business meeting" to involve a series of short,
informal presentations on various topics? Would anyone like to step
forward and offer to enlighten the group on a current issue or trend, or
speak about something relevant to us all in the art library of 2009??
Is there one project that this group ought to tackle for the coming year
(some possibilities have been discussed in the past)? Is there still a
need for our Section, or is what we do in the library really becoming
more fluid - such that other groups are also just as relevant to us,
e.g. the Collection Development SIG, or the Academic Library
Division--see minutes from Denver - many of the discussed topics are
surely of interest to us as well. For example, if I recall correctly,
there was some discussion awhile back about adding "instructional
services" to our mission, but there is now a very lively Teaching
Librarians SIG, so there is obviously some overlap between the two
groups. Is anyone interested in leading the RISS meeting or have ideas
to share?? I was very happy to see the following session will be taking
place: "If You Sit There, Will They Come? The Changing Reference
Landscape," which was spoken about at the Denver RISS meeting - kudos to
the RISS members, I think, who are organizing this session. Please send
any thoughts or comments to me directly and I can summarize.
Thanks very much - Rebecca Friedman; [log in to unmask]
(former "News Editor" who became Moderator in Denver b/c Moderator and
Vice-Moderator were unable to attend)
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