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The 43nd ARLIS/NA Annual Conference three new Sunday afternoon sessions!  Now there are even more opportunities for learning and career advancement. 

 

·         Lee A. Hilyer, author of Presentations for Librarians, will present a session titled Focus on the Learner:  Strategies for Improving PowerPoint Presentations from 1-2 on Sunday, March 22. 

Slide presentations are common at meetings, conferences, and in the classroom. But are they effective at helping the audience understand the content, or do they merely serve as teleprompter for the speaker? Learning and instructional research indicates that the current way many people prepare and deliver slide presentations may actually hinder learning instead of supporting it. This session presents three simple, evidence-based rules you can use to create more effective, learner-focused presentations.

 

 

·         Josh Been, a librarian and GIS specialist, will offer Data & Geospatial Research Support for Architecture from 2:15-3:00. 

This presentation will highlight the ever-increasing data needs of architecture researchers in higher education, and the ways libraries can take initiative to provide them with access to the necessary data, software, and research support. The focus will be on using ArcGIS software and cloud applications, but will also include a discussion of free and affordable software and training opportunities.

 

 

·         Our workshop on urban planning, Postcards from the Edge VIII:  I Didn’t Know Urban Planning Was About…, is being converted to a free session, so that more people can attend. 

A planning educator, two professional planners from the City of Fort Worth, and an anthropologist-turned-geospatial librarian lead us through the wide-ranging academic and professional terrain of urban planning. Although not native to arts librarianship, planning is often co-located with design programs in schools or colleges dedicated to the built environment.  More than a few architecture librarians carry additional responsibility for urban and regional planning and urban design, which necessarily include transportation, sustainability, resource management, housing, social justice, municipal order, policy and public affairs, historic preservation, urban agriculture, and more. Together we’ll explore the challenge of meeting the multi-faceted and interdisciplinary needs of the planning community.

Barbara Becker, former Dean of the UT-Arlington School of Urban and Public Affairs, will address the academic scope of planning education and the needs of scholars and students.  At the city scale, Senior Planner Patrina Newton will introduce us to Fort Worth’s planned Urban Villages and describe the issues, considerations, and data gathering that shape complex urban initiatives. Content Strategist Brian Chatman will explain the information design behind Fort Worth’s recently launched Open Data Portal, and share some of the challenges of representing large data sets for public access. Finally, Texas A&M Geospatial Librarian Cecilia Smith, will demonstrate GIS tools and resources used by scholars and practitioners to collect, collate, analyze, and visualize data about urban environments and populations.

Architecture & Urban Planning Librarian Rebecca Price will facilitate discussion at the end of the presentations.

Catherine Essinger,
Programs Co-Chair

43rd Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America

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A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university
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