*ARLIS/NA 38th Annual Conference - Call for Papers**
Revolution and Innovation: At the Hub of Discovery*
The ARLIS/NA 38th Annual Conference will explore revolution and
innovation within art librarianship and visual resources librarianship
as new technologies, economic changes and other factors transform our
profession. Rapid change creates opportunities to embrace new ways of
exploring the issues librarians face daily. How have you responded to
the changes in the information landscape? What innovative methods have
you developed to resolve the problems that have arisen from all these
new developments? How have collaborations amongst colleagues, peers,
institutions and more changed how you work?
Individuals are invited to submit proposals for papers that provoke
critical exchange and debate as well as practical advice and solutions
in relation to the broad thematic areas referred to below. Submissions
are encouraged that support opportunities for interaction between
participants and enable the conference to engage in a truly
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints.
Individuals wishing to contribute paper abstract proposals for the
ARLIS/NA 38th Annual Conference must submit a 250 word abstract for
review by the Conference Program Committee. All abstracts must be
submitted electronically using the online form available below.
The abstract submission deadline is *June 22, 2009*. Abstracts received
after the submission deadline will automatically be placed on the
waiting list
Abstract guidelines can be found in the online submission form.
Incomplete abstracts will not be reviewed.
***Thematic Areas*
The following themes have been identified as the main interests of
conference attendees from the conference evaluation and planning
surveys. The themes are purposefully broad. The questions have been
written to prompt and suggest possible platforms for discussion and
debate. The Program Committee welcomes responses that extend and develop
these themes in areas that will engage attendees in sharing different
perspectives and provoke speculation about the future direction and
development of art librarianship in the twenty first century.
*/Future of Art and Visual Resources Librarianship/* */ /*
* As academic institutions look to cut their budgets, will
art/architecture/visual resources libraries become merged with
main libraries? Is this an opportunity?
* Digital libraries and repositories will begin taking advantage of
full text searchability. Where do catalogers fit into this new
view of access?
* Considering today's tight budgets, how much metadata is enough
when working with less support?
* How do you increase your visibility on campus? What novel ways do
you advocate for your library's services?
* How have you developed grant proposals for projects in your
library? What were the challenges and what surprised you?
* How do you satisfy customers in an increasingly 24/7 instant
access world? What do you do differently?
* Going beyond statistics, how do you know that you are providing
patrons with the services and resources that they want? What are
some inventive and successful measures that your library has taken
to determine patron satisfaction?
* Do corporate or business customer service practices such as
"secret shoppers" have a place in libraries? Have any libraries
used any of these methods successfully?
*//**/Collection Development/* */ /*
* In light of the current economic climate, what strategies have you
developed to provide quality resources for your community?
* How do we provide access to information and ideas that are being
created in technologies that have not been traditionally supported
by libraries? How do we preserve that knowledge?
* Is this an opportunity for collaborative collection development?
Why or why not will collaborative collection development take root?
* How do libraries balance fulfilling the patron's desire for
digital content with the realities of the heavily print nature of
art, architecture and design publishing?
*//**/Emerging Technologies/* */ /*
* How have you successfully created solutions using emerging
technologies such as open source programs, mobile technologies,
mashups and more?
* Taking advantage of new technologies, what unique projects have
you successfully collaborated on with your colleagues (library,
IT, etc.)?*//*
*/Reference and Instruction/* *//*
* With reduced staffing, who should be answering questions at the
reference desk?
* What are some strategies being employed by libraries to provide
reference and instruction to distance students/faculty?
* How have libraries developed instruction that integrates into the
studio culture?
* How are information and visual literacy programs being
successfully integrated into curricula?*//*
*/Visual Resources/* */ /*
* The value of visual resources libraries is being questioned in
some institutions. What are the strategies that can be employed
to educate institutions and administrators about the value of such
collections? How do you promote these collections to faculty and
students who prefer Flickr databases and web searching?
* Are there new paradigms for the building of and access to visual
collections that we should be moving towards?*//*
Please submit your abstract by following this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yzQS2txK78auP5kfgmiIjQ_3d_3d.
If you have any questions, please contact the Program Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Friedman, MIT ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and
Ann Whiteside, MIT ([log in to unmask]).
With regards,
Jennifer Friedman, on behalf of the Program Committee
_Program Committee_
Jennifer Friedman, MIT, Program Co-Chair
Ann Whiteside, MIT, Program Co-Chair
Susanne Javorski, Wesleyan University
Kathy Ritter
Deb Verhoff, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College
Whitney Vitale, Boston Architectural College
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Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning
Building 7-238, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617) 258-5595 Fax: (617) 253-9331
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