<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Core e-Forum: Countering Weaponized Tradition
in Libraries</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">August 8-9, 2023</span></p>
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us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!</span></p>
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information is at the end of the message.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Each day,
discussion begins and ends at:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pacific: 7
a.m. – 3 p.m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mountain: 8
a.m. – 4 p.m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Central: 9
a.m. – 5 p.m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Eastern: 10
a.m. – 6 p.m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A lot has
been written on the benefits of understanding the history and traditions of
organizations when you join the team, but not a lot has been written on the
ways history and tradition can be used to affect an organization negatively, or
what actual tangible progress comes from understanding this history and using
it to instigate positive change. This CORE e-Forum seeks to open a dialogue
that might offer a broader, honest perspective of progress informed by
organizational history and traditions in libraries and archives. This e-Forum
will explore how librarians or archivists have taken institutional history and
tradition and pivoted the narrative towards progressive changes. A relevant
topic even prior to 2020, the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic showed
libraries and archives where their organizations were weakest and has left even
the strongest organizations wondering how to leverage tradition for future
diversification. In addition, library and archives employees who were already
taxed by the tough realities of work are now asking more serious questions
about their work environments and wondering how to leverage traditions to
create a more progressive work environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Questions to
be considered include:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How
did you create buy-in in your library/archives/department to change legacy
practices?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What
pre-COVID traditions has your library/archives shifted as you return to normal?
What led you to make this change?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What
assessment methods do you use to inform shifting traditional practices? Where
is your change originating from?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How
do you encourage new librarians and staff members to utilize their expertise to
implement change?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Legacy
and tradition is not necessarily bad. What legacy practices have you
deliberately maintained and why? What led you to this decision?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How
do you create balance between legacy practices and progressive momentum?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It’s
not just about planning for shifts: almost every practice shift requires
significant labor to achieve. Whether that’s temporary work or changing
existing workloads: how have you managed the labor costs of practice changes?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="border:none;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How
do you work flexibility for change into strategic planning and core library
documents?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please note:
The moderators acknowledge the potentially sensitive nature of this discussion
and ask participants to consider this as well and keep our discussion
collegial, productive, and focused on the positive.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:137%;border:none;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:137%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hosts</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Erin Renee
Wahl, Assistant Professor and University Archivist, New Mexico State University
Library. Wahl’s research interests include sustainability in libraries and
educational change, rhetoric of and about libraries, interdisciplinary use of
archival sources, and library work environments. In addition to her role in the
library, Wahl is a PhD student in NMSU’s Educational Leadership &
Administration program, and plans to begin collecting data for her dissertation
in fall 2023. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Arlene
Schmuland, Head of Archives and Special Collections, University of Alaska
Anchorage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Schmuland is
the second head of the Archives at UAA since it was founded in 1979. She's been
an archivist in a variety of institutions including local and state government
archives as well as academic archives and special collections over the course
of her nearly 30-year career. As she's taken on progressively more responsible
positions, she has experienced the interplay of institutional memory,
tradition, and change management and the role all of those may play in the
progress of library and archival work and goals.</span></p>
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e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss matters of interest,
led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion list. The e-forum discussion
list works like an email listserv: register your email address with the list,
and then you will receive messages and communicate with other participants
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