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Hello Art Library colleagues -

At the Music Library Association conference this month, we are gathering together folks who work in music and other arts-related branch libraries to join us for some thought-provoking discussions around advocacy and problem solving for our niche branch spaces. If you're interested, please join us virtually on Thursday, Feb 20th, from 4-5:30pm CST. More info below:

Do we really want to destroy libraries? No, not really.

We are inviting you to experiment with us using a structure called TRIZ. This allows us to productively use the
mental model of destroying something very important to us, find how our individual actions may be contributing to its failure, and then find ways to rebuild it as individuals and as a community.

For this session, we ask that you come prepared to be self-reflective and be willing to look at individual contributions to structural problems. This is a session to be productive – to free us from destruction and start the rebuilding process together.

We also encourage participants to take a look at the TRIZ model in advance. 
Here are some good places to start – we promise that neither is a long read! 

• Making Space with TRIZ: Stop Counterproductive Activities and Behaviors to Make Space for Innovation. http://www.liberatingstructures.com
• Green, A.G., Hendricks, C., DeRosa, R., Miller, J., and Robison, S. (2018, January 15). Open Education 2017: How can we destroy the open education movement? [online] Open Education Ethics. Retrieved from https://blogs.ubc.ca/openeducationethics/2018/01/07/open-education-conference-2017/

We want to everyone to be able to join us, so even if you aren’t attending MLA, we invite you to join the virtual discussion during the session. We invite anyone who works in a music library or with music materials to join us! 

Join the Google doc here: https://goo.gl/t6gdy2 

Join the Zoom here: https://jhupeabody.zoom.us/j/682245013 
or +1 646 558 8656 US Meeting ID: 682 245 013

Take a look and come have some fun and dismantle some things with us!

Program session: https://sched.co/GTbb

Session presenters: 
Kathleen Delaurenti
Anne Rhodes
Sandy Rodriguez
Matthew Vest
Ricky Williams

Blog post: http://conferences.blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/2019/02/01/whats-this-about-destroying-music-libraries/