Announcing ACRL Image Resources Interest Group virtual meetings - Please join us!

ACRL/IRIG Midwinter Business Meeting

Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Time: 11:00-12:30 PST/2:00-3:30 EST

Register here: https://ala.ilinc.com/perl/ilinc/lms/event.pl?div_view=reg&event_user_id. (Note: there are multiple IRIG meetings listed; please select the 02/10/2011 meeting.)

This meeting will include an informal program, followed by IRIG updates and announcements. The meeting is open to all, and it is not necessary to be a member of ALA, ACRL, or IRIG.

Agenda:

1. Introductions
2. Presentations and discussion
1. Bill Kelm, Systems Librarian, Willamette University Library*
2. ARTstor Shared Shelf update and open discussion**
3. IRIG business meeting
1. Visual Literacy Competency Standards update
2. Programming update: ACRL 2011 & ALA 2011
3. Announcements

*In Fall 2008 Willamette University Library, the campus Art History Department, and IT department teamed up to develop an effective digital images strategy for the art history curriculum. Bill Kelm will describe the Art Images Workflow at Willamette - involving staff, faculty, and students - and also touch on some of the challenges and discoveries over the last two and a half years that it has been in place.

**ARTstor staff and partners will provide an update on the Shared Shelf initiative, in a discussion format with opportunity for questions and answers.

ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards Task Force Midwinter Open Meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Time: 11:30-1:00 PST/2:30-4:00 EST

Register here: https://ala.ilinc.com/perl/ilinc/lms/event.pl?div_view=reg&event_user_id. (Note: there are multiple IRIG meetings listed; please select the 2/16/2011 VLTF meeting.)

Please join the ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards Task Force for an open meeting to discuss the Standards development process and the soon-to-be-available draft Standards document. The meeting is open to all, and it is not necessary to be a member of ALA, ACRL, or IRIG. Please plan to wear a computer headset, since the format of the meeting will be interactive discussion.

The draft Standards document will be available on the ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards blog (http://acrlvislitstandards.wordpress.com/) by Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Additional information about the Standards project is also available on the blog. If you would like to submit a question or discussion topic in advance of the meeting, please email Denise Hattwig at [log in to unmask].

We hope you can join us, and we look forward to your participation!

Joanna Burgess, Convener, ACRL/IRIG
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Shilpa Rele, Incoming Convener, ACRL/IRIG
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Denise Hattwig, Chair, ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards Task Force
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