Dear ARLIS,
The present precarious nature employment for arts librarians and VR professionals right now is of utmost importance and we should address it. Here at UVA and on the SAHARA project, we have been discussing the value of collaborative ventures both inside and outside of the University as a venue for "adding value" and thus justifying and ultimately sustaining a librarian's position in these difficult times.
I have submitted a proposal for Boston 2010 on just such a topic, looking at my participation in the SAHARA digital project as an added value project for UVA and how we might sustain our digital image initiatives and our libraries and jobs with such long-range collaboration. In other words, this is for me at the heart of a very scary retention problem right now.
I would love to join with other colleagues to offer similar ideas for bolstering the retention of VR specialized librarians and professionals in these dangerous times. It would make a good session for an ARLIS conference.
Thanks,
lucie
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Head, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
Chair, ACRL Arts Section
University of Virginia
Bayly Drive Box 400131
Charlottesville, VA. 22904-4131
434-924-6604
[log in to unmask]
On 7/2/09 11:46 AM, "Sheila A. Cork" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have a request. My email yesterday seems to have hit a nerve. There are quite a few of us who are interested in the topic of unemployment and reduced hours in these difficult tomes.
I thought it might be useful to have a statement from ARLIS/NA discussing the value of art libraries and librarianns to adapt and use for our own personal situations. I emailed Marc Gartler who is on the Public Policy Committee of our group and asked him if ARLIS has a statement of this kind. He told me that he doesn't believe that there is one, and suggested I develop one for consideration.
So, do you have a sentence or two that to you sums up the value that art librarians and libraries bring to their larger institutions? What do you feel makes you an essential (rather than a non-essential) part of your parent organization?
I will put together a statement incorporating ideas, and perhaps the Public Policy
Committee will approve it.
You can reply either to the list, or to me personally - I think this is a topic that we need to keep talking about!
Sheila A. Cork
Librarian
New Orleans Museum of Art
City Park
1 Collins Diboll Circle
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
504-658-4117
[log in to unmask]
__________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]
__________________________________________________________________
Mail submissions to [log in to unmask]
For information about joining ARLIS/NA see:
http://www.arlisna.org/join.html
Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc)
to [log in to unmask]
ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance:
http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html
Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]
