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/.

This is the new Commons group for the Artist Files SIG. Freyja and I are just getting our bearings, working out some details of the website migration, wondering about new blog posts and starting to think about a SIG event for Fall – maybe an informal meeting to hear what kind of artist files thoughts are on everyone’s minds, and make some plans.…[Read more]

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]

Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! The Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Tuesday, August 8th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the transition from summer to the academic year. Forum topics will include the kinds of work many of us do over the summer, such as collection…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Summer Meeting will be held virtually on Friday, August 11 at 2:00 pm. Please let me know if you have any new business, announcements, or other items for the agenda. I will be sending the Zoom link and agenda in early August.

It’s also time to start thinking about our Fall/Winter Meeting. To…[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]

Hello All –

Response from the Canadian Federation of Library Associations on the decision to hold IFLA 2024 in Dubai.

https://cfla-fcab.ca/en/news/canadian-statement-on-the-decision-for-ifla-wlic-2024-to-be-held-in-dubai-uae-declaration-canadienne-sur-la-decision-de-tenir-le-congres-de-lifla-2024-a-dubai-emirats-arabes-unis/

I’m a long time A…[Read more]

Save the Date!

The 2023 Texas-Mexico Chapter Meeting will be held in Lubbock, Texas from October 5-7, 2023.
Highlights of our fall meeting will include our annual business meeting and research roundtable, our annual chapter dinner, Lubbock’s First Friday Art Trail, local library and museum visits and tours, and more!
Registration details, hotel i…[Read more]

Received from Liv Valmestad. The deadline is August 1 for a proposal.

Dear Colleagues,

KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies has a new call for proposals for a multimodal scholarship issue: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/4. My co-editor Dr. Samantha MacFarlane and I would be very grateful if you…[Read more]

Hi all,

Good afternoon! Attached are notes from the Division’s May 2 Annual Business Meeting. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our brainstorming activity.

One highlight I’ll share from the notes: we are excited to have Lauren Gavin on board as our 2023-2024 Vice Moderator. I also want to thank Shoshana Vegh-Gaynor for her…[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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