Hello from North America!

Hi Arlis/ANZ members

I was pleasantly surprised today to receive email notification that a member of the art library students and Arlis/NA new professionals group had left a comment on the blog!

Sara, of ArlisNAP: http://www.arlisnap.org/ left a quick comment about how useful blogging has been for their group communication and discussion. Check out her comment here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5142010061227814297&postID=5377995915093611739

And if course, it immediately prompted me to check out the ArlisNAP site to see what they were doing - what they were talking about, how they were using technology to communicate, how they structured their website etc. I'm going to return the favour and join their blog, to be a part of their discussions too!

And of course, it all reminded me to get back on to the Arlis/NA site itself for another look at how they do things there.

I think we could learn a lot from the Arlis/NA and ArlisNAP websites and the groups themselves.

The Arlis/NA site is very well developed and a great example. I think we could borrow a lot of great ideas for when we begin the review of our own webiste. And the ArlisNAP group reminds me that we have a lot of librarianship students and new professionals in Australia who may be interested in learning more about arts librarianship and perhaps becoming involved in Arlis/ANZ itself.

Our conference next year would be a great opportunity to raise awareness and involve the next generation of librarians, so I'll take back the idea to the Queensland Chapter conference organising group to see if we can work something into the programme.

I'd welcome you comments and ideas - feel free to post comments to this blog, and I'll feed them into the conference planning activities of the Queensland Chapter. If you want to know more about the conference planning activities as they evolve, take a look at the conference planning pages of our wiki: http://arlisanzqld.wetpaint.com/

cheers
Ellen