ACRL MD Business Meeting
February 16, 2018
Agenda
Attending: Robert Miller, Mike Kiel, Regina Rose, Andrea Craley, Natalie Burclaff, Monique Clark
Come bowling!
- Stoneleigh Lanes, Towson, tonight, Feb. 16, 6:30-8:30
- Good way to network!
- ACRL MD pays for the lanes
- Bring your friends and families
Spring program update
- Claire and Robert are working with the National Gallery of Art library to confirm a date in mid-June
- Program will be a tour of the library in the morning, then a break for lunch followed by a tour of the art galleries themselves
MLA/DLA Annual Conference
- Everything is set up
- We’re in PR mode: Mike will start advertising the event on our blog
- Conference and hotel registration are open
- Come to our shared pre-conference on Human Libraries
- Think about volunteering as a human book at MLA/DLA
- We’ll be looking for donations for the silent auction donation basket
- We’ll start collecting money at duckpin bowling tonight, and later we’ll send out a call
- Regina will coordinate the basket
- Theme possibilities are wide ranging: coffee, tea, books promoting diversity, local beers
What went down at Midwinter
- ACRL Chapters Council
- Natalie is secretary
- We can always have up to two representatives attend
- Because of the financial obligation of having to attend midwinter, the Chapters Council will permit virtual attendance next year via a hybrid meeting
- Some chapters budget for someone to attend ALA annual and midwinter
- ACRL 2019 will be in Cleveland
- May 4 deadline for contributed paper, panel session, pre-conference and workshop proposals
- October 12 deadline for poster session, roundtable discussion, TechConnect and virtual conference webcast proposals
- Scholarships and grants available
- How do we get people more involved: virtual options
- Contact your local representative about IMLS funding
- Lisa Nickel of VA chapter wants to collaborate with us on different projects
Ideas and goals for next year
- Mike will have to submit yearly plan to MLA
- Work with ACRL VA chapter
- A group to do advocacy and go to Legislative Day
- Going alone might be intimidating, so a group would be great
- Inclusion: Library students, new librarians, librarians from under-represented groups–how to involve them in our programming, conversations, outreach
- Using potential of MLA–collaborate with other divisions on, for example, inclusion, to make sure the profession grows in a positive and diverse way
- Please let Mike know if you have any ideas for next year
Next meeting
- March 16, including journal club
