Thanks, Heather! That’s exactly my purpose – let folks know what is possible. Much appreciated!

KS- I’ll email you the one my team created years ago, but we actually got rid of it once it accomplished its initial purpose to let people know of our new approach to teaching.

Slides from the lightning round have been added to the Docs section of our SIG group here in Commons!

Ah! See, great minds think alike. I *knew* there would be folks doing similar research and noticing a need for more comprehensive information on material collecting!

Siobhan, it sounds like you are a year or so ahead of me and I’ll reach out to learn what you’ve learned.

Mark, congrats on the sabbatical and I’m very happy to hear you are…[Read more]

Hi Shannon and Siobhan,

Thanks for starting and continuing this discussion.

I have a six-month sabbatical during the first half of 2024 devoted to the generation of a handbook for materials collections. It’s only very loosely conceived at this point and I’ll have some research leave in 2023 to plot it out further. BUT it would be great to add…[Read more]

Hi Shannon,

I’m at the same stage in developing a materials collection at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I’ve interviewed a few librarians who’ve developed collections, have travelled to a some collections in person over the last year, and am currently working on a literature review. I’d love to chat!

Best,

Siobhan McKissic…[Read more]

Hi all,

I have linked notes from the ALD November open forum if you are interested in reviewing what was discussed. Please feel free to keep contributing to the Small Vendor Recommendations for Building Diverse & Inclusive Collections spreadsheet–we’ll also be sending that sheet out on ARLIS-L.

Thanks to everyone who attended. We are looking…[Read more]

I don’t have any suggestions but I’m interested in getting involved! How often does the Thinking Group meet?

It’s nearly time for the Teaching SIG’s Winter Meeting and Lightning Round event, which will be held on Thursday, December 1, 2022, from 4 to 5 pm ET (1 to 2 pm PT) on Zoom. We’re pleased to host the following lightning talks following our midyear business updates:

• Eva Sclippa, “But how do we actually do something about it though?: Creating…

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Hi everyone. Here’s a set of slides from a local (Illinois) discussion about diversity audits. I know in our group yesterday we didn’t know where to start on this – hopefully this will help some folks brainstorm about how to approach an audit in their own libraries.

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Wednesday, November 16th at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST.

See more details below:

The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around building and maintaining inclusive and diverse collections in art, architecture, and design. We will focus…[Read more]