ACRL MD
Meeting Agenda
October 20, 2017
Present: Mike Kiel, Robert Miller, David Dahl, Natalie Burclaff, Sean Hogan, Terry Darr, Kim Miller, Danielle Whren Johnson, Pamela Flinton
MLA Conference updates
- We had a lot of proposals to review
- We’ve had 6 approved
- They will be part of a special academic track, all held in one room
- Nice mix of presentations: instruction, tech, and other areas
- ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter is also sponsoring a program–Mike will work with them so that our programs won’t compete
- We are official sponsors for a human library program
- Crossover for academic and public libraries
- It will be a preconference, plus a working human library running during the conference
- Exact structure is still up in the air
- Please consider registering for the preconference and consider participating as a human book!
- You can be a book or check out a book without participating in the preconference
- Other preconferences that might be of interest:
- Advocacy boot camp
- Serving the homeless
- Passport services
- The conference still needs another keynote, so if you have any ideas, please let Mike know
- Possibilities for keynote:
- Maybe a critlib person who could also speak to public library issues
- Maybe an expert on evolution or on change management, who could speak about how we adapt to changes in the environment or at work; that would fit the conference theme–“Evolve”: growing, changing, meeting challenges
- We need volunteers to introduce our presenters–please contact Mike if you’re interested
- We do have a nice range of presentations within the academic track, so please consider attending! This year’s conference will have a lot of content that is of interest to academic librarians. It will help to have academic libraries represented with attendees!
- The call for poster proposals will go out in January.
- Possibilities for keynote:
Fall program updates
- It’s being held in Harford county to draw people from ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter
- We’ll have:
- 2 deep-dive talks
- 8 lightning talks
- Lauren Pressley, ACRL Vice President/President Elect, is our keynote
- We want strong attendance–it’s a good price-point!
- Register here
CRAB Publication
- We had a column in the summer issue (Mike and Claire) and in fall (Monique Clark)
- Please see our call for article ideas by ACRL MD members
- Claire and Monique are coordinating the column
- Possible ideas for a article:
- Profile or interview a librarian who’s doing interesting work,
- Interview faculty member at UMD iSchool
- Interview a library champion among your faculty
- Innovation Lab at UB
- The role of the academic library in Maryland Information Literacy Summit
- Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative
Announcements
- ACRL Assessment in Action Workshop rescheduled for the spring
- ACRL DVC Fall Program, 11/17/17
- MD Tech Connect, 12/8/17
Next meeting
Please note the special time: Thursday, not Friday
- November 16
- 11:00 am, business meeting
- 11:30 am, journal club
- Terry Darr, Loyola Blakefield, facilitating