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Professional Development Committee
Who We Are
Chair: Stacy Brinkman
Board Liaison: Sarah Carter
Members: Kim Detterbeck, Elizabeth Morris, Susette Newberry, Maggie Portis, Jenna Rinalducci
PDC SubCommittees:
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Education / Web Site
Chair: Heather Koopmans
Members: Margaret Black, Adrienne Lai, Alice Whiteside, Patrick Tomlin
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Mentoring / Web Site
Chair: Rachel Resnik
Members: Sarah Sherman, Anna Simon, Heather Slania, Jessica Shaykett
- Conference Networking
Co-Chairs: Maggie Portis & Jenna Rinalducci
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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.
[revised and approved: 23 April 2008]
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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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