Apologies for the delay on this, but I’ve submitted a tentative date for our annual conference meeting, to be held via Zoom.

Please hold your calendar:

Wednesday, May 3 at 10am Pacific / 11am Mountain / 12pm Central / 1pm Eastern.

(I hope I got that correct. I’ve been on the west coast four months now and still don’t know what time it is!)

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I echo everyone’s thanks for stepping up to chairs the Materials SIG, Shannon. I’m scooting off to Italy for a couple of weeks shortly after the CDMX conference, so don’t plan around me. But do know that I will be lurking on this group. At my institution (MassArt), we’ve been pushing for a Materials Library for over ten years. New administration,…[Read more]

I’m available except for the 2pm slot on May 2. Thanks for volunteering to moderate this group and for organizing a meeting.

Mark Pompelia

Thanks for speaking up, Tara! 🙂

My vote is May 2 or May 3 at 12pm, 1pm, or 2pm CDT.

As 11am CDT is 9am Pacific, I know it’s a rush to be right on time that early. Thoughts?

Hi Shannon!

Thank you for stepping up to be the SIG coordinator!

I would prefer May 3rd at 11, 12, 1, 2, or 3 for the meeting. I could also do May 2nd or 1st in the afternoon. This first week of May works better for me as it is closer to the end of the semester and to finals.

Thank you,

Tara

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Tara Spies Smith (she/her/hers)

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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,

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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 like the “Where are My People?” series from ACSA. They have one on Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous. I’ve used these with students in conversation about professional practice. This study found the overwhelming reason indigenous find careers in architecture fields “was the responsibility to be a cultural protector or guardian.…[Read more]

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.