RISS Meeting 3/30

RISS Call for topics!

The Reference and Information Services Section requests your ideas for topics you would like to discuss at our meeting on Friday, March 30 in Sheraton Hall C Sheraton Centre

Please forward your requests to Moderator Amy Ballmer, aballmer@gc.cuny.edu and Co-Moderator, Emilee Mathews, mathewse@umail.iu.edu.

ARLIS N/A Annual meeting agenda

RISS will be meeting this Sunday, March 27th (12:30-1:30) in Marquette III.

AGENDA:

I.  Welcome and Introduction (15 mins)

a. RISS members introduce themselves/institutions

b. Acknowledge conference sessions involving RISS members

II. Communications update: (15 mins)

a. Announce next year’s moderators: Amy Ballmer, moderator, and Mia D’Avanza, Vice Moderator.

b. Elect new officer: AWS News Editor

III.  Open Discussion (30 mins)

a. RISS publication update: ARLIS/NA Libguide and Pathfinder Directory

b. Comments and suggestions for directory

c. Comments and suggestions for RISS blog content such as links and discussions: http://referenceandinformationservices.blogspot.com/

d. Ideas for ongoing RISS projects including sponsoring a session

e. Reference trends and innovations in reference services

f. The future of Arts reference, identifying core reference sources and materials

g. ACRL Visual literacy standards: any discussions/implementation plans at your institutions regarding visual literacy and reference?

IV. Adjourn meeting

New! Arts related Libguide & Pathfinder Directory

The Reference and Information Services Section (RISS) is pleased to share our new online directory of arts related libguides and pathfinders. You can access this directory by navigating your browser to the right side column titled "Pages," from there click on "ARLIS/NA Libguide & Pathfinder Directory.  

As you continue to create libguides/pathfinders on arts related topics, please forward  the  web address for each guide, along with the name of your institution to Amy Ballmer at: ABallmer@gc.cuny.edu. 

This guide will be monitored by the RISS moderator, vice-moderator, our AWS News Contributor. Open access posting is not available at this time. 
Feel free to contact us with any questions.  We appreciate your contributions and look forward to exploring the excellent work of ARLIS/NA members.

Best,

Virginia Allison, moderator (v.allison@uci.edu), Amy Ballmer, vice-moderator (ABallmer@gc.cuny.edu), Mia D'Avanza, AWS News Contributor (md'avanza@nybg.org)

RISS Call for topics!

The Reference and Information Services Section requests your ideas for topics you would like to discuss at our meeting on Sunday, March 27 (12:30-1:30) in Marquette III.

Please forward your requests to Moderator, Virginia Allison, v.allison@uci.edu and Co-Moderator, Amy Ballmer, ABallmer@gc.cuny.edu, and AWS News Contributor, Mia D'Avanza, md'avanza@nybg.org