Professional Development Committee

Members 2011-2012

[bracket indicates 1st yr. on PDC]

Stacy Brinkman
Chair, 2011-2012
Art, Architecture, and Asian Studies Librarian
Wertz Art & Architecture Library
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-650
Email: brinkmsn@muohio.edu

Kim Detterbeck
Art Librarian
Purchase College Library
914-251-6406
Email: kimberly.detterbeck@purchase.edu

Jennifer Krivickas
Head of the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)
University of Cincinnati – College of DAAP
5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art
PO Box 210016
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016
513-556-1319
Email: jennifer.krivickas@uc.edu

Susette Newberry, Ph. D. Assistant Director, Art Selector,
VIVO Humanities Curator
Research & Learning Services
106 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
607-255-3927
Email: sn18@cornell.edu

Maggie Portis
Assistant Librarian
New York School of Interior Design
170 E. 70th St.
New York, NY 10021
212-472-1500 x217
Email: mportis@nysid.edu

Jenna Rinalducci
Art & Visual Technology Liaison Librarian Reference Department
Fenwick Library
George Mason University
703-993-3720
Email: jrinaldu@gmu.edu

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Our Mission

To investigate and develop methods for delivering continuing education programs at the chapter and regional level;
Assemble information on career opportunities in the field of art and visual resource librarianship for distribution by the Society to prospective art librarians;
Develop and recommend standards for art librarianship to library schools (to be revised periodically);
Create standards and develop guidelines and evaluation methods for workshops, seminars, symposia and panels;
Oversee and report on activities and initiatives of constituent subcommittees as established by the Executive Board.

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History & Guidelines

History

ca. 1975-1980: Committee established as Education Committee;
1982: Re-established;
1987: Name changed to Professional Development Committee.
2008: Education Subcommittee established
2008: Mentoring Subcommittee established

Committee Chairs and years of tenure:

Antje Lemke, 1975-1980, 1982-1983;
Lois Swan Jones, 1984-1985;
Ray Anne Lockard, 1986-1987;
Micheline Nilsen, 1988;
Sarah Gibson, 1989;
Jack Robertson, 1990-1991;
Lynette Korenic, 1992-1993;
Alexandra de Luise, 1994;
Marilyn Russell-Bogle, 1995-1996;
Norma Johnson, 1997 (Apr.-Nov.);
Ann Lally, 1997 (Nov.)-1998;
Tom Greives, 1999-2002;
Heather Ball, 2003-2005;
V. Heidi Hass, 2005-2007;
Tom Caswell, 2007-2009
Sarah Falls, 2009-2011

Education Subcommittee Chairs and years of tenure:

Heather Gendron, 2008-2009, 2009-2010

Mentoring Subcommittee Chairs and years of tenure:

V. Heidi Hass, 2008-2009
Sarah Carter, 2009-2010

Committee structure

Not to exceed eight, including subcommittee chairs, but not including Executive Board Liaison.

Term of office

Chair: One year, renewable.
Members: Ideally, two members are carried over from the previous year.

[revised and approved: 23 April 2008]

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ARLIS/NA Career Mentoring Program

The Mentoring Subcommittee, under the auspices of the Professional Development Committee, maintains the year-long ARLIS/NA Career Mentoring Program for ARLIS/NA members. For more information on this Program, please visit the Mentoring Subcommittee Web page.

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ARLIS/NA Conference Networking Program

The Mentoring Subcommittee, under the auspices of the Professional Development Committee, maintains the ARLIS/NA Conference Networking Program for ARLIS/NA members. For more information on this Program, please visit the Mentoring Subcommittee Web page.

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Webinar Software

In the spring of 2010, the Professional Development Committee and its subcommittees for Education and Mentoring were delighted to find out that their request for special funding had been approved by the Executive Board. During the PDC meeting in Indianapolis, committee members advocated for this software for several reasons including:

the ability to provide year-long professional development activities beyond the annual and chapter conferences
to make available annual and chapter conference content to those who cannot attend by offering virtual sessions and/or archiving sessions
to put in place a platform for virtual meetings for committees, divisions, chapters and other ARLIS-NA groups

The Chairs of the PDC, Education and Mentoring Subcommittees reviewed two recommended software types and how they were used by other library organizations. Trials were set up of Elluminate and GoToMeeting with the help of TEI so that we could test these programs. The three primary areas we reviewed were the visual appearance, ease-of-use, and ability to work on local computers where users do not have rights to download software. Elluminate is used by Loex and other library organizations, but it instantly required software downloads. The visual appearance was quite nice, and held webinar elements in place. GoToMeeting had free floating webinar elements, such as a control panel. This is not the most user intuitive, but quickly resolved by describing the set up at the beginning of a webinar. GoTo downloaded very easily however, and users are able to enter a webinar very quickly. Given the diverse technology literacies in the ARLIS membership, downloading and ease of use were important.

In the end, we settled on GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar as having all of the required components. Used for webinars by ALA and also ARTstor, many of our members will be familiar with the appearance of the product. Uptake has been swift, and at this time, meetings, webinars and a day-long virtual conference have taken place on the software.

Click here for a complete list of PDC-sponsored Webinars

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Minutes

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