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Dear Retired or About-to-be-Retired or Just-Thinking-about-It Members: The newly-formed Retired Members Special Interest Group will meet this year on Friday, March 11, 2016, from 7 am - 8 am in the Pine Room of the Westin Hotel. We are in need of volunteers: 1) to be the new SIG Co-Coordinator to serve with Margaret Webster, and 2) a Recorder for the meeting. Please email Margaret or me asap if you are willing to serve in either capacity. Please note that the room assigned has been changed from the St. Helen's Room to the Pine Room. Unfortunately, the time of the meeting has not changed; it is still scheduled for 7 am! And because of the room change, we no longer have the option of continuing our discussion until 8:30 am; another meeting is scheduled for 8 am in the Pine Room. So we will start on time and-please, before you come to our meeting, grab your coffee or whatever-you-need to be bright-eyed by 7 am. The hotel restaurant, Relish Burger Bistro, is open at 6:30 am. There are a number of other restaurants on the list of "Restaurants within 6 Blocks of the Westin: http://www.arlisna-vra.org/seattle2016/docs/Seattle_Guide_Restaurants_within _6_Blocks.pdf but the list doesn't include hours, so I don't know which ones would be open early enough to walk there, get your coffee-and-whatever and get back to the Pine Room by 7 am. For those of you that just love to get up early and walk or jog-we'll see you at 7!! Here's the meeting Agenda: . Welcome (Joan Benedetti and Margaret Webster) . Announcements . Introductions-each attendee (1.5 minutes ea.): name; last professional position-or current if not yet retired; year of retirement-or expected retirement; retirement issue of most concern. . Speaker: Eric Wolf, Chair, Documentation Comm, "What It Is and How We Can Help." (5 min.) . Speaker: Jennifer Freidman, Chair, Mentoring Subcommittee, Professional Development Committee, "New Kinds of Mentoring Opportunities." (5 min.) . Discussion (Possible Topics)-20 minutes or remainder of meeting: o What Can ARLIS/NA Do For Us? v Annual Travel Award for a Retired Member? v Additional Fields in ARLIS/NA Website Membership Directory? v Other forms of encouragement? o What Can We Offer ARLIS/NA (Eric & Jennifer will give us some ideas)? o Ideas for the New Orleans conference? o Ideas for online discussions/programs in between conferences/What can we offer retired members who can't attend the annual conference? The meeting is open to all (those actually retired and those thinking about it) and is intended to be an informal place to exchange ideas about being retired art information professionals and perhaps make plans for activities at the 2017 New Orleans conference and/or for online discussions between now and then. Bless You All-Looking forward to seeing you in 11 days, if not before! Joan Benedetti ([log in to unmask]) and Margaret Webster ([log in to unmask]) Co-Coordinators, Retired Members SIG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~