Professional Development Committee Bulletin, April 2024

The PDC Bulletin is compiled by the Professional Development Committee (PDC) to spread the word about professional development resources and opportunities, free and fee based, for art information professionals. Your input is welcome. If you have something to share, please email pdc@arlisna.org. Previous issues can be found on the ARLIS/NA website at https://www.arlisna.org/news/pdc-bulletin.

Call for Papers and Presentations

• Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC) Proposals (April 5)

• Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Annual conference Proposals (April 10)

• Marketing Libraries Journal Call for Scholarly Submissions for Summer 2024 Issue (Rolling Deadline)

• Marketing Libraries Journal Call for Column Submissions for Summer 2024 Issue (Rolling Deadline)

American Alliance of Museums (AAM)

• Annual Meeting and Museum Expo, Baltimore, MD (May 16–19)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

• 52nd Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (April 2–5)

• Summer Education Institute (SEI) (June 24–July 2)

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

• Efficient Prompt Engineering for Librarians (May 13–June 7)

• Building an Information Literacy Micro-Course in Six Weeks (June 3–July 12)

• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Conference (June 25–28)

• Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity – A Framework (YouTube)

• Youth Services to Academia – Transitioning Positions within Librarianship (YouTube)

• Instruction Strategies to Support Neurodivergent Students (YouTube)

• Information Privilege – Beyond the Individual and into the Collection (YouTube)

• Designing for the One-Shot – Building Consensus on Design Processes for Academic Librarians (YouTube)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

• The Walking Librarians in Kerala. A Tale of Empowering Women and the Elderly Woven into the Fabric of UN SDG Goals (April 4)

• Mentorship and Collaboration for Professional Development (April 4)

• Artificial Intelligence and Libraries: Transforming Information Access and Discovery (April 11)

• The Iraqi Manuscripts: Their Reality, Institutions, and Challenges (April 22)

• Sustainability – Bringing Nature and Communities into the Libraries (April 25)

• MCULTP Mini-Conference (May 29)

• MLAS Conference (May 29–31)

• Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges and Strategies for Global Openness (June 5–7)

Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

• Teaching Strategies for Librarians (May 1)

• On The Importance Of Personal Narratives: An Approach To Academic Reference Interviews (May 21)

Library Juice Academy

• Librarians as OER & Textbook Affordability Leaders (April 1–28)

• Real World Objects: Linked Data in Library Metadata & Cataloging (April 1–28)

• Python for Librarians (April 1–28)

• Online Instructional Design (April 1–28)

• Introduction to Research Data Management (April 1–May 12)

• User Experience Research and Design (April 1–28)

• Understanding the BIBFRAME Model and Vocabulary (April 1–28)

• Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians (April 1–28)

• Introduction to RDF (April 1–28)

• Recruiting and Retaining Librarians from Underrepresented Minoritized Groups (April 1–28)

• AI and Libraries, for Skeptics (May 6–June 2)

• Introduction to Copyright and Open Licensing for Libraries and Archives (May 6–June 2)

• Creating Digital Learning Objects for Libraries (May 1–June 2)

• Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing (May 6–June 2)

• Enhancing Your LibGuides (June 3–30)

• Strategizing the Promotion (and Tenure) Dossier (June 3–30)

• Assessing Digital Collections Using DEIA (June 3–30)

• Critical Concepts in LIS: Research, Teaching, and Practice (June 3–July 14)

• Introduction to Linked Data (June 3–30)

• Techniques for Student Engagement in Library Instruction (June 3–30)

• Subject Analysis and Subject Representation (June 3–30)

OCLC

• Will Our Future Selves Thank Us? Examining Born-digital Curation Practices at the University of Kentucky Libraries (April 9)

• The Power of Collaboration: Cross-departmental Cooperation and Resilience (April 10)

• Diversifying Library Collections through Student-led Collection Development (April 23)

• Leadership Strategies for Building Connection and Defusing Difficult Situations (April 30)

• Establishing a Library-based Digital Publications Program at Brown University (June 18)

Pratt Institute

• Opening Art and Design Education for a Just and Sustainable World: A Panel Discussion on Open Educational Resources and Practices (April 4)

Society of American Archivists (SAA)

• Technology Management for Archivists (April 3–24)

• Accessioning and Ingest of Digital Records (April 9–10)

• Crosswalking Metadata (April 10)

• Arrangement and Description: Fundamentals (April 18–19)

• Email Archiving (May 8)

• Records Management for Archivists (May 9–10)

• Preserving Digital Archives (May 29)

• Archival Exhibitions (May 30–31)

• Accessioning and Ingest of Digital Records (June 4–5)

• Arrangement and Description of Digital Records: Parts 1 & 2 (June 25–26)

• Digital Forensics: Fundamentals (June 27)

Yale University

Reparative Archival Description: The Past, Present, and Future (April 18)