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Don’t forget to sign up for the available workshops being offered at the ARLIS/NA Conference this April in Mexico City! All workshops below are $15 and can be added to your itinerary even after you have registered.

 

Bonus reminder: Early bird registration deadline is Monday, March 6^th!

 

 

 

The Novice Workshop: It Takes a Village to Raise a Librarian (https://sched.co/1Gfab)    

Sam Mandani, Online Instruction Librarian, NYU

Fannie Ouyang, Visual & Interdisciplinary Arts Librarian, Colby College

 

Developing expertise is a good goal, but can sometimes be punitive, intimidating, and limiting especially to early-career librarians. To grow in the profession, it’s important and necessary to address those concerns early with experimentation and collaboration. In this unconference-style workshop, we will collectively build a temporal environment sharing strategies, activities, and approaches to meaningful one-shot library instruction. Using the workshop as a template, we will collaboratively build a toolkit crowdsourced from all levels of expertise. We will learn various practices used by librarians from different fields and institutions. Participants will be empowered in their current level of library instruction expertise.

 

 

 

Digital Archives and Art Documentation in Latin American Art and Latinx Art (https://sched.co/1Gfb2)  

Arden Decker, Associate Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Liz Donato, Research and Publications Senior Specialist, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ICAA

 

This two-hour workshop invites participants with an interest in Latin American and Latinx art documentation and archives to an interdisciplinary dialogue centered on critical issues specific to our field(s): bilingual cataloging and metadata, post-custodial digital archiving, building and maintaining international partnerships, collaborations with librarians and archivists, lack of access to materials, and teaching with primary sources. Led by staff of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the workshop will depart from a short presentation on its flagship initiative, a digital archive and publications project that provides access to primary source and critical documents in these fields. Since its inception, the project has addressed the endemic lag in access to documentation in Latin American and Latinx art, and in doing so has opened new paths for research and scholarship and served as an entry point for a general appreciation for the cultural production of the Americas.

 

 

 

Incorporating I.D.E.A. (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) in Arts (https://sched.co/1GfbZ) 

Courtney Jones, Manager of Diversity and Inclusion, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

 

The workshop will provide attendees a basic understanding of what it means to be intentional with incorporating diversity and inclusion initiatives within one's institution. This workshop will provide institutional I.D.E.A. training, sharing a broad understanding of what it means for an art and/or historical institution to incorporate I.D.E.A methodologies, ways to get institutional leadership buy-in on diversity and inclusion initiatives, and perspectives on how diversity and inclusion spans across every aspect and every stakeholder at your institution. This workshop also provides cultural I.D.E.A discussions, covering the variations of diversity, cultural humility, and types of changes needed to implement I.D.E.A. initiatives. This workshop will include individual, small and large group activities that cover discussions on barriers to implementing these initiatives, brainstorming to increase diversity and inclusion awareness, and opportunities to journal and define one's own personal values, institutional values, and the alignment between them.

 

 

 

Becoming Leaders in Campus Cultural Enhancement Initiatives: Celebrating Student Identities and Building Relationships in Academic Libraries (https://sched.co/1GfZd)

Estevan Montaño, University Librarian, Dominican University, Rebecca Crown Library

Beronica Avila, Assistant Librarian, Learning Commons; Director of the Learning Commons, Dominican University, Rebecca Crown Library

 

Cross-cultural and restorative justice initiatives through campus and community-wide partnerships have been fundamental in establishing an academic library on Dominican University’s campus, especially as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) that is approximately 65% Hispanic identified. Many of the multicultural efforts in the library have strengthened the partnerships with faculty and administration across campus and with nearby campus communities, which have been critical for the development and marketing of the library's multicultural and restorative justice efforts that center and reframe voices of those not reflected in the dominant culture. The library's development efforts include changes in library promotional and student materials, shifts in programming to center on justice, equity, diversity & inclusion (JEDI) initiatives, and developing the library as a safe space for a diverse community. This workshop will provide examples from the library's JEDI work, use concept map methodologies with participants to develop a restorative justice or culturally inclusive initiative at their institutions, provide strategies on how to cultivate multicultural programming, exhibits, and other culturally enhancing work in an academic library, and review the tactics used by the library to build the notoriety and confidence in these efforts with senior university administrators.

 

 

 

Posted on behalf of Rebekah Boulton, Workshop Coordinator