What do we want to accomplish as a group this academic year?
Fall:
Cross-institutional mentoring of librarians
Winter: Let's try to cover any one of these topics. If you have an idea for a topic, please submit to the list. If you have a preference from this list, please let me know. Thanks!
Program Sustainability (I would like to pursue this since I enjoyed the them as the last MiALA conference), New Public Service Inititatives at your library, Declining resource budget.
Tim at CMU gave me this idea a year or so ago and explained it this way...."Cross-institutional mentoring of librarians. For example, a new Music librarian starts working at CMU and she forms a mentoring relationship with a veteran Music librarian at Wayne or Western. A lot of places do mentoring of new librarians in house, so to speak, and that’s fine for the general stuff, but if you’re the only librarian in a certain subject area at your institution where do you get that subject-specific knowledge?"