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December Virtual Meeting – Thurs. December 16 @ 11:00 AM
Hello, everyone!
This month’s ACRL-MD has crept up on us! We will be gathering tomorrow morning (Thurs. 12/16) at 11:00am. The Zoom link is our usual one. Agenda can be found below.
This month’s Podcast Club focuses on the topic of professional burnout, something most of us are familiar with, especially this time of the semester. If you would like to, please feel free to read/listen to one of the resources below, but it is very much not a requirement. Or just come to share your own experiences with professional burnout and how you combat it!
- Ep. 90 of the Library Leadership Podcast: Beating Burnout with Amanda Moore (21 minutes)
- Library Burnout: It’s Common and Okay to Admit! From the Illinois Library Assoc.’s Reporter, Vol. 38, Issue 2 (June 2020)
The full agenda:
- Introductions
- Conference Updates
- ACRL MD Work Plan Progress
- Podcast Club discussion: Professional Burnout
Virtual Meeting – November 18, 11:00 AM
The Maryland chapter of ACRL will be holding their November meeting next Thursday, November 18 at 11AM on Zoom. In addition to our usual business, this will also be the first gathering of our Podcast Club. For more information and the link to this month’s podcast, check out this post.
Here is the full agenda for the meeting:
- Introductions
- Approve October minutes
- MLA Conference Updates (it might be cool to share the programs to drum up interest)
- Social Committee update
- Work Plan
- Professional Development – Podcast Club! Listen to this before the meeting
Hope to see you there!
Join our podcast club!
Looking for an easy way to do some professional development and join a timely discussion? If you have 20 minutes, you can participate in our new podcast club.
This month we are listening to an episode from Hear to Slay, a podcast by Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom. “We Don’t Have The Same Job” discusses Blacks in Academia with guest Patricia Matthew, Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University. Click here to listen to the full episode. Don’t have an hour? Check out this 20-minute abridged version.
We will discuss this common-listen at our November meeting on Thursday, November 18 at 11:00.
October Virtual Meeting – October 21 @ 11:00 AM
Our October meeting will take place on Thursday, October 21 at 11:00. We’ll be gathering in our regular virtual meeting space, which you can access via this link. Please consider joining us!
The agenda:
- Welcome & introductions
- MLA 2022 Conference Updates
- Spring Program Update
- Work plan
- Call for officers for next year’s executive board
- Podcast Club – launching next month!
Virtual meeting on September 14 @ 11:00 AM
This month’s meeting of ACRL-MD is Tuesday, September 14 at 11:00. We hope that you will consider joining us to visit with your colleagues from across Maryland. Here is the link to the virtual meeting space. See you there!
Agenda for the September meeting
- Welcome & introductions
- MLA Executive Update & MLA 2022 Conference Updates
- Spring Program Update
- Work plan
- From the floor
Virtual meeting on August 19 @ 11:00 AM
We hope that you will consider joining us Thursday, August 19 for our first meeting of the 2021-2022 academic year. At the moment, this year’s meetings will take place on ZOOM. Here is a link to tomorrow’s virtual meeting room.
Agenda
- Welcome and Introductions
- Housekeeping
- ACRL MD FY 2022 Work Plan
- Make ACRL MD as truly state division of MLA with participation from libraries on Eastern Shore and Western MD
- Sponsor a money-making program
- Professional Development at virtual business meetings
- Sponsor at least one social event
- Increase social media presence
- MLA Updates – Executive Board and 2022 Conference
- Spring Program brainstorming
- From the floor
Next meeting is (tentatively) scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 11:00am.
Upcoming meeting: Thursday, 08/19/21 at 11AM
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