arlisna 2012 - 40th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries

As a metaphor for creative thinking, “colouring outside the lines” suggests openness to change, willingness to risk, confidence to lead, and courage to reaffirm values and traditions. As a programmatic framework, it enables a focus on professional excellence from diverse viewpoints, sharing knowledge, celebrating innovation, exploring alternate formats, and promoting collaboration. It provides opportunities to showcase creative thinkers from community-based arts organizations in one of the most multicultural cities in the world.

Call for Papers
Do you want to engage with your colleagues in ARLIS/NA and discuss topics of mutual interest? Are you thinking about something related to accessibility, the future of art librarianship, collection management, or emerging technologies? Are you interested in enabling learning, leading change, or preserving the values and traditions of art librarianship or visual resources curatorship? If you have something to say or something to share with your colleagues, then submit a paper proposal for the 2012 conference! Paper ideas are being accepted now until May 15, 2011. Follow this link for more information and to submit yourproposal:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6DVTLJZ

Call for Workshops
Do you want to conduct a workshop to teach your colleagues new skills? Do you want to attend a workshop to learn new skills? Then submit a workshop proposal for the 2012 conference! Workshop ideas are being accepted now until May 15, 2011. Follow this link for more information and to submit your proposal:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6D75CWS

Information on the Conference Programming Process

We are following the programming process established for the Boston 2010 conference. There will not be a Call for Sessions. We are issuing a Call for Papers and a Call for Workshops for Toronto 2012. In the fall we will issue a Call for Moderators, a Call for Poster Sessions, and a Call for User Group and Special Interest Group Meetings.

What is a Call for Papers?
The Call for Papers is for individual proposals for papers on thematic areas. The call does not ask for a fully finished paper or even a published paper. It asks for a 250 word abstract about the topic you'd like to present.

We are not accepting proposals for whole sessions.

What do I do if I have a Session Idea but do not want to present a paper?

Take one of the ideas you have for a speaker and submit an abstract about the topic.
Take one of your ideas and find someone who'd be interested in speaking on that topic and ask them to submit an abstract.
Take one of your ideas and ask on ARLIS-L if anyone is interested in submitting an abstract on that topic.
If you already had a session with different speakers in mind, contact those people and ask them to submit abstracts along similar topic lines.
Note: There is no rule against coordinating but we cannot guarantee that you will be placed together.

How will sessions get created from papers?
The Program Committee and the CPAC will review the ideas for papers and group the papers into sessions. When this is done, there will be a Call for Moderators. The moderators will work on the individual sessions, working with speakers to ensure that they will present in the time allotted, work with the conference planning committee to obtain appropriate AV equipment, etc. This will give members another opportunity to be involved with the conference. At that time, there will also be a Call for Poster Sessions, which will give us more flexibility to address some of the topics that arise after the sessions have been set, such as projects and other topics of interest. It also gives more time to the membership to think about the things they'd like to share with their colleagues.

Why did ARLIS/NA change the process in 2010? Did it work?
The Boston Program Committee carefully analyzed data from membership surveys about the conference, and incorporated findings into program planning. The process was a great success.

If you have any questions, contact the Program Co-Chairs
Jill Patrick, University Librarian & Director of Library Services, OCAD University jpatrick-AT-ocad.ca
Stephanie Frontz, Art Librarian and Head of the Art/Music Library, University of Rochester sfrontz-AT-library.rochester.edu

http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012/