Minutes
of the Professional Development Committee (PDC) Meeting at ARLIS 2004 (New York City)
Friday,
April 16, 2004, 5-6 p.m.
1. Introductions
New
committee member Angel Moyes, Serials Reference Librarian, Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation, was introduced and welcomed to the
committee. A round robin introduction
of meeting attendees then took place.
Deborah Ultan of the Academic Library Division also attended the meeting
as a visitor. Carol Graney, Board
Liaison, attended the meeting and invited feedback to the board on the ARLIS
committee structure (including the numbers who serve on committees, the length
of terms, committee turnover, and other issues)
2. Funding
needs
Additional
funding for brochures may be sought.
These brochures would be designed to inform students and other
individuals about ARLIS and the fields of arts librarianship and visual
resources curatorship. T. Caswell and
J. Allen will continue working on this issue.
It would perhaps be useful to get estimates from a design firm for the
costs of a brochure. C. Graney will
check if another brochure has recently been printed for a sense of the cost
estimate.
3. Mentoring
program
The
Committee established a mentoring program subcommittee consisting of: Angel
Moyes, Deborah Ultan, Tony White, and Heidi Hass. It was also agreed to copy Carol Graney (Board Liaison) on all
business and correspondence. The
committee will investigate what we mean by mentoring, who the audience for the
program would be, and what activities other organizations with mentoring
programs engage in. It might be useful
to consider different kinds of mentoring, for example, in the areas of
management, publishing, research, etc.
It was questioned whether we need to gather information on the strengths
of our members, so that the mentoring program can function as a clearinghouse
for who we are and what we do best.
Committee members noted that the program, if established, should be
proactive rather than simply reactive.
Members speculated that other ARLIS groups, such as the Management
Issues Round Table or the Academic Library Division, might be interested in
actively participating or contributing, and that it might be wise to submit a
message to ARLIS_L to gauge potential interest. C. Graney noted that she would raise the issue at the
post-conference Board meeting. At the
end of the discussion, the subcommittee agreed to email each other to begin
work, the larger PDC will foster the work of the subcommittee.
4. Internship
award
Cathy Billings is the recipient of this year’s Internship Award. She will work with Gregory Most at the National Gallery of Art. The Committee would like to engage in a longer-term follow-up with internship recipients after the internship ends, and perhaps then facilitate involvement with ARLIS and the larger profession. The schedule for the next internship award cycle is forthcoming. PDC will once again work with the Membership Committee.
5. Core
competencies project
H.
Ball invited comments on the core competencies draft from everyone, and noted
that the session on Core Competencies would be a vehicle for the membership to
begin to talk about the topic, thereby opening discussion on the working core
competencies draft. A survey on the
draft will take place. The possibility
of conducting a survey on the roles and responsibilities of ARLIS members in
their positions was raised, and the ARL Spec Kit was mentioned as a model. A discussion took place on the distinctions
between job descriptions versus job advertisements in the
development of the competency standards.
The Board views the competency standards as a way to help provide
content and structure to conferences and sessions. A brief discussion took place on the importance of underscoring
the commitment of arts librarians and visual resource professional to visual
information research as a unique element of what we do. Others commented that retrospective
collection development in a monograph-driven field was an important factor.
6. Recruitment
activities
T.
Caswell and J. Allen will continue working on the design of a brochure intended
to inform students and other individuals about ARLIS and the fields of arts
librarianship and visual resources curatorship.
The
meeting was adjourned shortly after 6 p.m.
Compiled
by Sara Harrington, Art Librarian, Rutgers University, saraharr@rci.rutgers.edu
Jacqui
Allen, Dallas Museum of Art
Heather
Ball, Virginia Tech
Tom
Caswell, University of Florida, Gainesville
Elizabeth
Clarke, ARLIS/NA Calgary
Carol
Graney, University of the Arts
Sara
Harrington, Rutgers University
V.
Heidi Hass, Pierpont Morgan Library
Angelica
Moyes, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation
Henry
Pisciotta, Penn State University
Barbara
Prior, Oberlin College
Jack
Robertson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Christiane
Schaper, Frankfurt University
Deborah
Ultan, University of Minnesota
Tony
White, Pratt Institute