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Agenda & registration - IRIG virtual Midwinter meeting/discussion

  • 1.  Agenda & registration - IRIG virtual Midwinter meeting/discussion

    Posted Jan 27, 2011 03:23 PM

    Please join us for the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group virtual Midwinter meeting and discussion, on Thursday February 10, 2011, from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific time. There will be an informal program, followed by IRIG updates and announcements.

    1. Introductions
    2. Presentations and discussion
      1. Bill Kelm, Systems Librarian, Willamette University Library*
      2. ARTstor Shared Shelf update and open discussion**
    3. IRIG business meeting
      1. Visual Literacy Competency Standards update
      2. Programming update: ACRL 2011 & ALA 2011
      3. Announcements

    Click here to register. Please note: there are three IRIG meetings listed; please select the 02/10/2011 meeting.

    *In Fall 2008 Willamette University Library, the campus Art History Department, and IT department teamed up to develop an effective digital images strategy for the art history curriculum. Bill Kelm will describe the Art Images Workflow at Willamette - involving staff, faculty, and students - and also touch on some of the challenges and discoveries over the last two and a half years that it has been in place.

    **ARTstor staff and partners will provide an update on the Shared Shelf initiative, in a discussion format with opportunity for questions and answers.

    Joanna Burgess, Convener
    Shilpa Rele, Incoming Convener