Hello Teaching SIG members!

My co-mod Stefanie Hilles and I are seeking SIG members who would be interested in one or both of the following in our efforts to revive the Teaching SIG blog after its protracted transfer to the Commons platform:

• Contributing a guest post: Guest posts are write-ups focusing on topics relevant to teaching and…

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I’m a Research and Instruction librarian at College for Creative Studies, in Detroit, MI. Recently our library has added a PS5 and a small collection of video games to our collection. We’ve developed this collection with our Motion Design and Video Game Design students in mind and I’m beginning to brainstorm ways that I could approach…[Read more]

Dear ALD members,

I hope this finds everyone well!

Your moderators Claire and Lauren are currently working on a proposal for an ALD-led Roundtable at the 2024 ARLIS conference. Per the call for proposals, roundtables are “small, informal group discussions around a common theme or issue.” In our proposal, we will be identifying a topic and…[Read more]

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]

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]

Hi all!

Is there any interest in reviving the Postcards from the Edge series of workshops at ARLIS 2024? For those who don’t remember it, PftE was a hands-on workshop series where we covered “art-adjacent” fields like theatre, film studies, media & TV, etc. (In other words: fields academic art librarians frequently cover, often with little formal…[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]

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]