The Association of Architecture School Librarians is seeking proposals for its Lightning Round session to be held during its annual conference in Toronto, March 17-19, 2015.

Lightning Rounds have become a popular feature of our annual conference. A typical lightning round presentation lasts no more than 6 minutes. If a PowerPoint presentation accompanies the talk, presenters are limited to the use of 12 slides.

Featured topics tend to reflect innovative, “local” solutions to current work-related challenges of common interest to our members. The Conference Planning Committee would like Lightening Round presentations to align with the theme of the ACSA conference: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center. For instance:

·           What is still core to library operations in terms of serving a profession with a migrating center?  How has maintaining and developing the core helped the library to remain relevant? Please elaborate.

·           What new services and/or collections have enabled you to attract and maintain your existing audience? 

·           What services and/or collections have you “appropriated “from other fields? For instance, materials collections have long been important to interior design. The librarian working in the actual studio might parallel the work of the medical profession in its clinical approach. What else has been “migrated” or is possible to appropriate and use in a new way to benefit the architecture library? What issues have or are arising as a result this migrating center? What gaps are you seeing in services and/or collections?

·           How are you collaborating in new ways with other librarians at your institution?

·           How do you define the new terrain in terms of the library? Has the perception of the library changed ? How is the library more or less relevant than it was?

·           How has the globalization of architecture impacted the library in terms of the nature and scope of resources as well as the depth of information needed about other parts of the world?

·           How has the composition of the “new” student body and the internationalism of the recruitment of students and faculty impacted resources? What language considerations have changed?  Are the resources needed different- e.g. information about the climate of arid regions? Do the “new” international students and faculty require different levels of instruction and/or exposure to “ western” library resources? Are you able to leverage this in terms of funding?

·           Propose your topic that ties in with the overall conference theme.

Thank you.

AASL Conference Planning Committee

Co-chairs: Martha Walker and Elizabeth Schaub

Jeff Alger

Sonny Banerjee

Cindy Derrenbacker

Barbara Opar

Rose Orcutt

Irene Puchalski

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