Business Meeting Minutes: Oct. 20, 2017

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.

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