EAC & VREPS Community Hour: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
You asked and we listened! We are having a community hour based on our 2021 conference session, Cash Rules Everything Around Me! Join us on Wednesday, July 28, 11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST to discuss the following and more.
"Cash Rules Everything Around Me" gathered a diverse range of GLAM professionals to discuss financial/compensation transparency and how it relates to the field. Join EAC, VREPS co-chairs, and CREAM conference panelists, Jennifer Friedman and Margaret McKee, for a continuation of a fruitful discussion about compensation at various points in one’s career and across the field at large.
Everyone is encouraged to attend. We hope students and emerging professionals will leave feeling empowered with strategies to navigate employment, and managers/administrators will gain insight into potential discrepancies and inequities.
We invite you to review the survey results and presentation from the conference before the Hour, but we hope you will come prepared with your questions! If you prefer to participate anonymously, please send your questions in advance to Lael or Kendra or use private chat during the Hour.
View the Community Hour doc here.
*NEW* If you’d like to receive a Google Calendar invite (generally Outlook friendly) to help as a reminder, please select yes on the registration form. Registrants will still be sent a registration link via email two days before the hour.
Best,Kendra and LaelEAC Co-Chairs
EAC Community Hour: Re-evaluating Work-Life Balance “Post-Pandemic”
Join us on Wednesday, June 30, 11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST to discuss the following and more. Are you concerned about the “return to normal”? Are you surrounded by the rhetoric that “everything is fine now,” and it’s okay to forget the experiences and lessons of the pandemic?
- Has your institution set a “back to normal” date? Has the language surrounding return to work been concerned with community and the necessities of social interaction?
- Do you feel a disconnect between the work you’ve been successfully completing at home for the past year and the potential lack of flexibility for telework “post-pandemic”?
- If you have been in the office, are you concerned about the lessening of restrictions?
- Are the rules for eating, distancing, and interacting for the fall up in the air?
- Is it unclear whether you will be continuing on with your “regular” duties, as well as the tasks you have collected during the pandemic?
- What have you learned about the differences between working from home and in the office? Is there a way to create/advocate for a better balance between work and home separation while maintaining some measure of flexibility?
Just as all of these concerns rise to the forefront, now may be a unique time for advocacy! How can we use what we have learned and done in the past year to bolster our positions and ask for a better work-life balance? View the Community Hour doc here. *NEW* If you’d like to receive a Google Calendar invite (generally Outlook friendly) to help as a reminder, please select yes on the registration form. Registrants will still be sent a registration link via email two days before the hour. Click here to register!Best,Kendra and LaelEAC Co-Chairs
EAC Community Hour: Transparency and Stakeholder Power
Join us Tuesday, April 20, at 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for our April Community Hour.
Our Community Hour will host a power mapping workshop and discussion with Kate Thornhill (Digital Scholarship Librarian) and Ann Shaffer (Music and Dance Librarian), both of whom are union stewards for the University of Oregon Libraries. The overall topic of this workshop will be transparency and stakeholder power.
- Power Mapping 101 - EdJustice via National Endowment for the Arts
- Power Mapping Your Way to Success - Union of Concerned Scientists, Science in Action Toolkit
- Guide to Power Mapping - Restorative Justice Project, Diversion Toolkit for Communities
Please send any specific questions or concerns in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your questions to the Hour (where you can still be anonymous via private chat).
Click here to register and view the April Community Hour doc here.
Best,Lael & KendraEAC Co-chairs
EAC Community Hour: Accessibility & Equity in Online Instruction
EAC and Instruction SIG have teamed up to provide a Community Hour session about online instruction accessibility and equity. Please join us on Wednesday January 20, from 11am-12pm PST/ 12pm-1pm MST/ 1pm-2pm CST/ 2pm-3pm ESTAs online instruction has become more normalized, it is important to assess accessibility and equity issues in our teaching and course planning. We will have a few guest moderators and hope to discuss these topics:
- Basics of accessible pedagogy
- Success and challenges of the past year, what have we learned?
- Shareable tips and tricks and suggestions for new resources
- Accessibility in archives, libraries, museums, and visual resources
Our guest moderators will include:Bridget Madden is the Associate Director of the Visual Resources Center in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Bridget is Chair of VRA’s Midwest Chapter, Implementation Team Co-chair for ARLIS/NA & VRAF’s Summer Educational Institute for Digital Stewardship of Visual Information (SEI), and has been leading VRA’s new Instruction SIG.Berit Ness is the Assistant Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Smart Museum, University of Chicago's campus art museum. Berit is involved in teaching strategies that support first-year core humanities courses as well as object-focused art history graduate seminars and everything in between. Working as both an educator and a curator at the Smart, she recently opened an exhibition Take Care which was used for both in-person and virtual teaching this fall. She is a thoughtful educator and curator whose recent exhibition Take Care was taught in-person and remotely in several courses this fall.
EAC Community Hour: Winter Check-In
Greetings All,Join us for a Winter Check-in on Wednesday December 16, 2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 11:00am-12:00pm PST.As this unprecedented year comes to a close, we thought we would hold space for the membership to get together to chat and support each other. We are envisioning this session as more of a “drop-in coffee” hour where we will not have a set topic and hot beverages of choice are encouraged. Feel free to share your end of semester thoughts, workplace anxieties, or plans for the New Year.Click here to register for EAC's Community Hour!Best,Lael + KendraEAC Co-Chairs
EAC Community Hour: Institutional Responses to Black Lives Matter- Advocating as Staff
Good morning, All,Please join EAC for a continued conversation and brainstorm session at our Community Hour “Institutional Responses to BLM: Part 2 - Advocating as Staff” on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 11:00am-12:00pm PST. The intent of this Community Hour is to discuss actionable steps that GLAM professionals can take within their institutions to create tangible momentum for change. We hear often about steps we can take as individuals or in our communities, but less so as GLAM staffers. We hope to provide support to anyone seeking to advocate for their institution to do more.Discussion Prompts:
- Does your institution have a diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility (DEIA); and/or racial equity; and/or anti-racism action plan in place? If so, when was this plan created - pre- or post-uprisings?
- Does your institution have any DEIA training for staff, leadership, and/or your board? If so, is this training required or encouraged?
- Are any DEIA goals built into your institutional strategic plan?
We hope to collectively gain a better understanding of where we stand in the broader GLAM field as it relates to racial equity through the lens of these solidarity statements and action plans.Please send any specific questions or concerns in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your questions to the Hour (where you can still be anonymous via private chat).Click here to register and here to view the Community Hour doc.Best,Lael + KendraEAC Co-Chairs
EAC Community Hour: Institutional Responses to Black Lives Matter
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 11:00am-12:00pm PST
The intent of this Community Hour is to discuss as a field how leadership in galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM), and other institutions where VRA professionals work have responded to police brutality and the corresponding Black Lives Matter protests and uprisings. We are currently planning for this to be (at least) a two-part series, with the first discussion focusing on institutional statements (both externally and internally published) and the second focusing on concrete action plans. We hope to collectively gain a better understanding of where we stand in the broader GLAM field as it relates to racial equity through the lens of these solidarity statements and action plans. We also hope to provide support to anyone seeking to advocate for their institution to do more, especially in our second discussion on action plans.
We welcome folks to bring any institutional statements and/or action plans that their employing institution has created. Institutional Responses to BLM Community Hour doc
VREPS & EAC: Investing in Yourself and Your Career
VREPS & EAC Community Hour: Investing In Yourself and Your Career
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 11:00am-12:00pm PST
VREPS and EAC are teaming up to co-facilitate a roundtable discussion about advocating for yourself in a new or changing role and identifying skills which visual resources emerging or job-seeking professionals might need in future positions. We’ll discuss various methods on how to learn new skills or freshen up existing skills, either on your own time and dime or using limited funds. We’ll discuss how to advocate for yourself when given more responsibilities or different responsibilities due to layoffs or the switch to a virtual work environment. We’ll also explore ways to find free or low-cost professional development opportunities and how to hone your skills while experiencing virtual fatigue. VREPS x EAC Community Hour doc
EAC Community Hour: Critical Cataloging Pt 2
Greetings All,
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend Part 1 of our Critical Cataloging Community Hours. Part 2 will be held on July 15th at 2 pm EST / 11 am PST. Additionally, we have updated our committee page on VRAweb! You may now view previous Community Hour documents, submit topics for future Community Hours, or apply to join EAC!
Our guest moderator for Part 2 will be Treshani Perera, who will be giving a brief overview of her work in the Critical Cataloging arena. The Community Hour doc includes resources to get folks started with Critical Cataloging. We encourage attendees to look at the readings and resources provided in advance of the Hour if possible. This session is meant to be a space for you to bring general questions and concerns from your own work. Our guest moderators from Part 1, Karen Hwang, Devon Murphy, Brian M. Watson, and Alanna Radlo-Dzur, will be in attendance as well.
Discussion Prompts:
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What is your experience with critical cataloging in your institution or work? What thoughts, observations, or projects come to mind (if you are or are not familiar with CC)?
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What are the diverse communities in your workplace, collections, and service areas? How are they represented and served?
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Is there a way to elevate local terms that we update in our own collections to the national/international level?
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How do we enlist enthusiasm from co-workers to tackle the changes in cataloging?
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Is it possible to represent concepts in controlled vocabularies, subject heading/name authorities, or in thesauri that are from different knowledge systems? Are there affordances/concessions that have to be made to include terms? Should vocabs/subject headings/thesauri be reconsidered as a structure of organizing info?
Please send any specific questions in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your concerns to the Hour.
Click here to register for EAC Community Hour: Critical Cataloging, Part 2
Best wishes,Kendra & Lael
EAC Community Hour: Critical Cataloguing Pt 1
Greetings All,
Thank you again to everyone who has been able to attend the EAC’s Community Hours. We are pleased to announce that by popular demand our next two Hours will be focused on Critical Cataloging.
The first hour will be on June 24th at 2 pm EST / 11 am PST, but, please do mark your calendars in advance for Part 2 on July 15th at 2 pm EST / 11 am PST.
In Part 1, we will be having guest moderators Karen Hwang, Devon Murphy, and Alanna Radlo-Dzur, in attendance. Guest moderators will be giving a brief overview of their work in the Critical Cataloging arena, and the Community Hour doc includes resources to get folks started with Critical Cataloging. We encourage attendees to look at the readings and resources provided in advance of the Hour if possible. This session is meant to be a space for you to bring general questions and concerns from your own work.
Discussion Prompts:
- What is your experience with critical cataloging in your institution or work? What thoughts, observations, or projects come to mind (if you are or are not familiar with CC)?
- What are the diverse communities in your workplace, collections, and service areas? How are they represented and served?
- Does your institution have a history of collaboration with these communities? Ways to improve?
- How can we interrogate systems of classification and knowledge organization in image and visual resource management? (What are their histories in your area? How can they be changed or adapted for others? Is that possible? What are the limitations and how can those be described?
Please send any specific questions in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your concerns to the Hour.
Click here to register for EAC Community Hour: Critical Cataloging, Part 1 --we will send out the registration for Part 2 closer to the date of that Hour.
Best wishes,Kendra & Lael
EAC Community Hour: Sketching the Road Ahead: Examining Gaps in Support
As discussions continue about university and GLAM reopenings, join the EAC in a discussion of the questions below as we consider what support we need during this time and what support has been available to us. Our 3rd EAC Community Hour (Sketching the Road Ahead: Examining Gaps in Support) will be held on Wednesday, May 27, at 2 pm EST/ 11 am PST.Discussion Prompts:
- What support do YOU need during this time? Are there gaps in what your institution is able to provide? How could this committee advocate for you? In what ways could your professional organizations support you?
- IS there a way to suggest actions that we can control within our jobs? How can we as individuals be proactive? How can we as a community offer additional support?
- What new concerns are worrying you? How will hybrid reopening plans affect staff and students across institutions differently?
Send any specific questions in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your concerns to the Hour (where you can still be anonymous via private chat to the moderator)!Click here to register for our next Community Hour!
EAC Community Hour: Strategizing Together: Navigating Remote Work Boundaries
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our first Community Hour--we had a really great discussion! One main takeaway was that folks were interested in strategies for navigating discussions with their supervisors and administration in their unique institutional work situation.For our next hour, to be held on Tuesday, May 5th, 2 pm EST/ 11 am PST, we would like to give everyone an opportunity to work together to address our specific concerns in the following areas:
- Chronic illnesses
- Privacy
- Work/Life Separation
- Consensus bias
- Admin/Supervisor Relations
- Inappropriate Appearance Expectations
'How do we ask for more privacy without having to share why we don’t want to show our space during a video call or disclose the details of our personal/home life?'Send any specific questions in advance to Lael or Kendra (if you wish to remain anonymous please let us know) or bring your concerns to the Hour (where you can still be anonymous via private chat to the moderator)! We will discuss the issues and work out targeted responses or plans of action (including role play situations, as warranted).
EAC Community Hour: Acknowledging Employee and Student Privacy During Quarantine
Greetings All,