From Project to Product: Effective Project Management and Strategic Planning, hosted by Emory University, Atlanta, GA (IN PERSON)
https://www.vraweb.org/events/project-management-workshop


Level up your project management and strategic planning skills at the first VRA in-person workshop since 2020! 

Gain valuable insights and practical strategies from leading expert Cristela Garcia-Spitz. Learn f rom the best and network with peers. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with colleagues and gain practical skills to lead successful initiatives!


Instructor: Cristela Garcia-Spitz


Friday, November 15, 2024, at Emory University - Pitts Theology Library / 9:30am-4:30pm EST


$135 for non-members / $115 for VRA members


While project management offers an array of tools and techniques, how do we lead with a people-centered approach? Digital scholarship increasingly require s work across distributed, cross-functional teams. This workshop will cover how to use hybrid methods to meet the needs of specific projects, grounded in community.



The morning will consist of project management basics and an overview of different methodologies and tools. This section will include practical considerations and scenarios. In the afternoon, we will focus on project management in practice and share lessons learned from existing projects. Participants are encouraged to bring their own projects to the discussion.

Collectively, participants will discuss how to think about the impact of their work and how to build systems of care that can empower their communities.


Instructor:

Cristela Garcia-Spitz is the Digital Initiatives Librarian and Curator for the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at the UC San Diego Library, where she collaborates across areas of the library, campus, and community on projects to ensure the long-term accessibility, use, and preservation of the University’s unique collections available at library.ucsd.edu/dc. Previously, she worked at the Software Engineering Institute Library at Carnegie Mellon University where she gained a foundation in project management principles and methodologies.


More details about the workshop


Last day to register : Monday, November 11, 2024.



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Events Made Easy: A Deep Dive on Developing and Executing Outreach 
https://www.vraweb.org/events/events-made-easy-online



Instructors : Tess Colwell and Alexandra O’Keefe 


Thursday and Friday, November 21 & 22 (TWO-PART WORKSHOP) //  3:00-5:00 PM EST both days, ONLINE

$ 65 for non-members / $50 for members


Hosting events for libraries and special collections is a key part of outreach to patrons but can be overwhelming and challenging depending on resources such as staff time, funding, and partnerships. In this workshop, participants will learn step-by-step how to use a simple framework to maximize limited resources, serve their community through events, and generate positive attention from stakeholders. This process includes developing a holistic strategy tailored to their specific community, creating a standardized outreach plan based on their institution’s procedures, and ultimately streamlining their programming efforts. 

 

The instructors are from different art library backgrounds (one large academic and one art

and design school) with event-planning expertise that is demonstrated in their joint research and work outcomes. They will introduce a customizable toolkit they designed using freely available tools which can be used in any collection’s context. Ideally, participants will bring one event idea to the workshop (but will have time between sessions one and two to create one if needed). 

 

During the workshop, the instructors will walk participants through a series of hands-on, solo and collaborative activities to plan an eve nt step-by-step using the framework while integrating GLAM scholarship about best practices in the field. The workflow participants will walk through includes audience identification, creative practitioner consideration, budget application, promotional material creation, action item generation, day-of-event execution, post-event evaluation, and thorough documentation to share with administration. Participants will leave the workshop with one complete event plan for their library or collection, a community of event-planning peers for future support, and a variety of resources to enact a sustainable events program at their institutions beyond this event. 

 

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate their community’s needs in order to generate outreach plans with individual events. 

Discover tools for composing marketing materials such as emails, flyers, and event copy for a target audience. 

Utilize an existing, sustainable event management framework and apply it to their institution. 

Create a customized template for indivi
 dual events that includes event planning logistics, marketing checklists, resource evaluation, post-event assessment, and overall documentation.


Instructors:


Tess Colwell

(She/Her) is the Arts Librarian for Research Services at Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library where she serves as the library liaison to the schools of art and architecture, and

the history of art department. In this role, she has developed and collaborated on a variety of events and outreach programs including a Photobook Club series, Library Pop-up events, annual Wiki pedia edit-a-thons, and a popular Reading Week program. She has contributed to a range of journals and scholarly publications including Art Documentation, Journal of Outreach and Engagement, and ACRL. Her research interests include digital humanities, library outreach, design research methodologies, and visual literacy instruction. 

 

Alex O’Keefe

(She/Her) is the Research & Instruction Librarian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s John M. Flaxman Library. As part of this role she focuses on outreach and programming, specifically collaborating with other staff members and student groups to plan events for SAIC’s diverse creative community. Her work focuses on foster ing community in the library through collaborations, weaving critical librarianship into initiatives, fighting mis/disinformation, and all things library outreach.


Register now!

Last day to register: Tuesday, November 19, 2024