Hello Mountain West ARLISians!

IAIA in Santa Fe is hiring! Applications are accepted through Aug. 14 for their Public and Technical Services Librarian position: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/1800414. You can find answers to general questions on their HR site: https://iaia.edu/about/employment/.

Hello Mountain West Chapter!

One of the projects of the executive committee has been to overhaul our chapter bylaws and we’re ready to distribute them for comment! Here is a link to the draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ynbCaLGwCmK4WGj-f3nLMJKwdUxTz0U785fNnePnAQ/edit?usp=sharing. All changes are marked in track changes for ease. If y…[Read more]

Hello Mountain West ARLISians!

Chapter leadership is excited to announce a new slate of programming. Based on feedback at the annual meeting and our survey from about a month ago, starting in August we’ll be hosting a get together at 4:00 MT/3:00 PT on the third Tuesday of the month. We’re planning for each meeting to be “hosted” by someone…[Read more]

The International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL) invites abstract submissions for a special issue titled “Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums,” to be published in June 2024. IJoL is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on developments in the field of library and information science globally. IJoL is published quarterly, open acc…[Read more]

Hey Mountain West!

Thank you so much for the robust discussion last week about what you wanted out of your chapter membership! After discussing your comments, we’re doing two things:

1. Happy Hours are back! We’re thinking about doing this monthly and we’ll kick off every get together with a featured something from the “host” of the happy hour.…

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Hello! I wanted to make sure you all know about the annual business meeting next week. Here’s the event information:

May 1, 2023: 10:00 AM PT/11:00 AM MT https://uccs-edu.zoom.us/j/94983119731 Meeting ID: 949 8311 9731 https://sched.co/1JNW3

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Larry Eames

Hi everyone!

For everyone who’s in CDMX, leadership is going to be hosting an informal happy hour here: https://www.instagram.com/terrazachachacha/. We’ll be heading out after the vendor reception and we hope you can join us!

-Larry

Hi all,

Perhaps I missed the announcement because of all of the other emails and announcements and things flying past me :)) — but just wondering if the Mountain West Chapter Annual Business Meeting date and time have been set  so I can hold the date? Thanks so much!!

Stephanie

Hello museum library colleagues! I am working with our curatorial department to assess and learn more about artists’ book collection in both our museum and library collections. I would love to find out a bit more about the logistics of your collections. I’ve created a short survey (less than 5 minutes) I kindly ask for those in museum libraries to…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’d like to announce our Annual Meeting, to be held Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 10am PST/11am MST/12pm CST/1pm EST. Zoom information to follow. (Conference schedule link here.)

Join us for discussion of upcoming chapter plans, group updates, and calls for a new Vice Moderator and participants in a working group to kick off our updated…[Read more]