AMALA Meeting Minutes
January 20, 2015 – 12 PM
KOERNER 169
Attendees: Jenna Dufour, Jason Martin, Eirian Vining, Nichole DeMichelis, Marie Shockley, Nicole Askin, Clare Asquith, Alex Kuskowski, Megan Smiley, Lauren Washuk
1. Introductions (there are many new faces!)
3. Affiliations and organisations
6. Tour planning
-Rennie Collection
-Emily Carr Library and Archives
-Western Front
-Vivo Media Arts Centre Archive and Library
-Music libraries? Possibly VSO’s library.
- Location is a consideration – Western Front is rather far away, Emily Carr may be less accessible.
7. Other event ideas
January 20, 2015 – 12 PM
KOERNER 169
Attendees: Jenna Dufour, Jason Martin, Eirian Vining, Nichole DeMichelis, Marie Shockley, Nicole Askin, Clare Asquith, Alex Kuskowski, Megan Smiley, Lauren Washuk
1. Introductions (there are many new faces!)
- What is your background and why are you interested in AMALA?
- What are your goals for AMALA?
- Since we are a new group, there is a lot of room for new ideas.
- A group for those at SLAIS interested in music and art librarianship.
- A place to share techniques to hack our library school.
- A resource for arts and music librarianship/archival events and opportunities around town and further afield.
3. Affiliations and organisations
- CAML – Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centre
- ARLIS/NA – Art Libraries Society of North America
- AMALA is the first student group to become officially affiliated.
- There are many benefits to membership.
- Jenna shared experiences at the ARLIS/NW chapter meeting in Seattle.
- ARLISnap – An online resource for student and new professionals in art libraries and archives.
- Great job/internship list
- Volunteer opportunities
- Virtual conferences
- Suggestion that we could organize something like this in future.
- ARLIS annual conference, Fort Worth TX, March 2015, themed “Natural Connections.”
- Members expressed interest in attending.
- Opening for co-chair
- Jenna expressed interest. Uncontested and approved by vote.
- Music/archives liaison role – Nicole opted to transfer from co-chair duties to take on this role, ensuring that music librarianship and archival interests are well-represented.
- Second co-chair
- Nichole expressed interest. Uncontested and approved by vote.
6. Tour planning
- Locations
-Rennie Collection
-Emily Carr Library and Archives
-Western Front
-Vivo Media Arts Centre Archive and Library
-Music libraries? Possibly VSO’s library.
- Location is a consideration – Western Front is rather far away, Emily Carr may be less accessible.
- Possibly coordinate with Grant Hurley, who organizes the book crawl.
- Clare will begin the planning process, contact librarians.
7. Other event ideas
- Film night – Eirian will look into possible films/themes and locations for this.
- Geocaching – Nichole will create a project plan to present at the next meeting.
- Treasure hunting activity to lead participants on an art history filled adventure around town.
- Penny Dreadfuls – Clare will begin to garner interest in this.
- Zine that will feature questionable art and poetry, priced at a dollar.
- One more meeting for the term – Doodle poll to plan times/dates to be released soon.