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A Message from the ARLIS/NA President: The weather was beautiful in Minneapolis the day I arrived on July 28. I returned the end of July from participating in the Joint VRA & ARLIS/NA Conference Planning Advisory Committee meetings. These meetings were to plan the 2nd Joint VRA & ARLIS/NA Conference to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 24-28, 2011. Representatives from the VRA & the ARLIS/NA Executive Boards and Chris Roper, ARLIS/NA Association and Conference Manager, met with the Local Twin Cities Conference Planning Group. There was a positive spirit of collaboration evident throughout our gatherings. This is reflective of the joint conference theme "Collaboration: Building Bridges in the 21st Century." The 2011 joint conference will be held at the downtown Minneapolis Hilton, a centrally located and elegant venue. The hotel contract has been successfully renegotiated and a joint conference agreement between VRA & ARLIS/NA was signed by both myself and Maureen Burns, VRA President. I'm pleased to report that the contract for the Welcome Reception has also been signed. The reception will take place at the Walker Art Center following the joint convocation to be held at the Minneapolis Hilton. A thank you goes to all of the Twin Cities planners who are doing such a phenomenal job in bringing us a joint conference. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the four conference planning co-chairs. A big thank you to Rebecca Moss and Brian Shelburne for their leadership as Local Arrangements Co-Chairs and to Heidi Raatz and Jessica McIntyre as Conference Program Co-Chairs. There were over 80 conference proposals sent to the Program Co-Chairs. Thank you to everyone who sent proposals in--the Program Co-Chairs are going to pack as much content into the conference as possible. So plan on spending quality time at the conference with an expanded network of like-minded colleagues in this fantastic city. As your President, I would ask that each of you mark March 24-28, 2011 on your calendars. This conference will be a unique, exciting, and collaborative joint conference. Best, Mari Russell Marilyn Russell, Ph.D. Library Director President ARLIS/NA Haskell Indian Nations University 155 Indian Avenue Lawrence, KS 66046 Phone: 785-832-6661 Link to website: http://russell.marilyn.googlepages.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~