{"id":1291,"date":"2009-03-16T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2009\/03\/butler-librarians-and-valparaiso-librarians-enjoy-joint-retreat-over-spring-break\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:03:00","slug":"butler-librarians-and-valparaiso-librarians-enjoy-joint-retreat-over-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2009\/03\/butler-librarians-and-valparaiso-librarians-enjoy-joint-retreat-over-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Librarians and Valparaiso Librarians Enjoy Joint Retreat over Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Butler Librarians spent Tuesday (March 10th)&nbsp;of Spring Break<br \/>\non&nbsp;retreat&nbsp;with their librarian colleagues from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/library\/\">Valparaiso<br \/>\nUniversity<\/a>.&nbsp; Both schools are members of&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;Affinity<br \/>\nGroup,&#8221; a group of thirty-three&nbsp;private academic<br \/>\nlibraries&nbsp;chosen because of the similiarities among their schools in terms<br \/>\nof size, student population, and curricula.&nbsp;&nbsp;The two-fold purpose of<br \/>\nthe Affinity Group is to&nbsp;encourage its members to share annual statistical<br \/>\ndata and to provide a forum for the deans\/directors of the libraries to meet<br \/>\neach year to discuss various topics of interest relating to academic<br \/>\nlibraries.&nbsp; The idea for the Butler-Valpo&nbsp;retreat grew out of<br \/>\nconversations held&nbsp;between Butler&#8217;s Dean Lewis Miller&nbsp;and<br \/>\nValparaiso&#8217;s Dean Richard AmRhein at the Affinity Group&nbsp;Conferences.&nbsp;&nbsp;To<br \/>\nminimize travel time, the&nbsp;retreat took place at Ivy Tech Community College<br \/>\nin Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>The Butler and Valparaiso&nbsp;librarians shared their<br \/>\nknowledge,&nbsp;experiences, and ideas&nbsp;relating to a variety of topics,<br \/>\nincluding the changing face of reference interactions and services, information<br \/>\nliteracy instruction, digital imaging programs (including &#8220;Content<br \/>\nDM&#8221; and &#8220;Berkeley Electronic Press&#8221;), and faculty status for<br \/>\nlibrarians.&nbsp; Retreat participants&nbsp;found the sessions both enjoyable<br \/>\nand informative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Butler Librarians spent Tuesday (March 10th)&nbsp;of Spring Break on&nbsp;retreat&nbsp;with their librarian colleagues from Valparaiso University.&nbsp; Both schools are members of&nbsp;the&nbsp;&#8220;Affinity Group,&#8221; a group of thirty-three&nbsp;private academic libraries&nbsp;chosen because of the similiarities among their schools in terms of size, student population, and curricula.&nbsp;&nbsp;The two-fold purpose of the Affinity Group is to&nbsp;encourage its members to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[274804],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}