ARLIS/NA Town Hall – The Price of Connection: Journey, Funding and Conferences

We invite you to hitch us for the upcoming ARLIS/NA Town Hall on October 22, the place we are going to focus on the evolving greater training panorama within the United States and Canada. In explicit, we are going to discover the growing prevalence of institutional freezes on non-essential journey {and professional} improvement funding, and the implications these modifications might have on future convention planning. We will even have the Montreal CPAC accessible to offer a short replace on convention planning and to be accessible to deal with any questions or considerations. 
 
This Town Hall will present a collaborative house to share experiences, generate concepts, and discover methods to assist member participation in future convention programming—whether or not in-person or digital. We additionally welcome your enter on methods to make these alternatives extra accessible, inclusive, and financially sustainable. Your insights are important as we navigate these challenges collectively. We look ahead to your participation on this vital dialog.

Breakout Room Topics:

• Rethinking Conference Models
  Exploring hybrid codecs, digital choices, regional/Chapter micro-conferences, and the potential for alternating convention years to raised meet member wants.
• Funding and Resource Strategies
  Discussing sliding scale registration fashions, reallocation or enlargement of journey funds, fundraising initiatives, and sponsorship alternatives.
• Advocacy and Institutional Engagement
  Developing an advocacy framework and toolkit, together with an ARLIS/NA place assertion on the significance {of professional} improvement funding, templates for requesting institutional journey assist, and curated lists of other funding sources.
• Member Wellbeing and Sustainability
  Addressing burnout, fostering connection past conferences, and selling sustainable engagement practices.

Additional Initiatives for Consideration:

• Formation of a cross-committee working group (APPC, Development, CPAC) to discover coordinated efforts round journey assist and advocacy.
• Revision of price range and funding methods to raised assist member participation, together with consideration of expanded journey funding and equitable registration fashions.
• Development of a centralized useful resource hub to assist members in navigating institutional insurance policies and figuring out funding alternatives.
• Recommendations for future convention fashions primarily based on member suggestions: What codecs greatest serve our neighborhood? Should we contemplate extra digital or regional conferences, or alternate codecs yr to yr?

We hope you’ll be part of us and contribute your voice to this important dialogue.