For immediate release:
August 23, 2012
For more information, contact:
Judy Ruttenberg
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
judy@arl.org
Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with the Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is hosting a Human Resources Symposium on November 15–16, 2012, in Washington, DC. Registration for this symposium is now open.
Human resources are among the most complex, challenging, and valuable assets of the organization. Management of these resources—to recognize, recruit for, and reward new skills; develop leadership capacity; and redeploy talent within the organization to address new needs—requires strategic thinking and innovative processes. This symposium brings together experts in human resources management and library leaders to share successes and best practices in the field to meet the challenges of staffing the 21st-century library.
For more information, including a preliminary schedule, visit the symposium webpage. On Twitter, please use the hashtag #HRsym12 to tweet about or follow the symposium.
Registration will close on October 11, 2012.
The symposium will be held at the Dupont Circle Hotel, located at 1500 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036. For reservations, call toll free (855) 523-6953 and indicate that you are with the Association of Research Libraries.
The room rate is $229 plus applicable DC taxes (14.5%).
The cutoff date for new room reservations is October 11, 2012.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.