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Emory Libraries to host ARL Leadership Symposium Feb. 28-March 1
Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University

Emory Libraries has been selected to host the 2025 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Symposium, which will be held Feb. 26–March 1 in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room.

The ARL Annual Leadership Symposium is a professional development program for those pursuing librarian degrees. The symposium focuses on ARL’s strategic priorities, career transitions and networking in research libraries and archives. It is a significant event in the two-year ARL Kaleidoscope Program, an initiative that supports the recruitment pipeline among its member institutions by ensuring a new generation of professionals are represented and prepared for careers in academic and research libraries and archives.

The program provides financial support for Master’s of Library and Master’s of Library and Information Science  education to ensure student success. In addition, the program provides a diverse range of professional development and community building opportunities to help students thrive on their individual journeys to becoming scholars. These include the chance to participate in relevant leadership and career development training and receive important career guidance and mentorship.

“We are delighted to serve as host for the Kaleidoscope Leadership Symposium,” says Lisa A. Macklin, associate vice provost and university librarian at Emory University. “We are looking forward to welcoming the outstanding cohort of scholars in this program and playing a small role in their professional development. Several of our library colleagues have benefited from the Kaleidoscope program, and we are honored to give back by serving as a host.”

Emory librarians and staff members who plan to present at the symposium on various topics include:

  • Anicka Austin, collections processing archivist, Rose Library
  • Whitney Bates-Gomez, head of electronic and continuing resources
  • Nydia Charles-Huggins, human resources divisional director
  • Shannon Clute, senior director of communications, marketing and public relations
  • Gabrielle M. Dudley, assistant director of public services, Rose Library
  • Shanna Early, instruction archivist, Rose Library
  • Keeza Hameed, science librarian for biology and neuroscience, Woodruff Library
  • Jacob Lackner, teaching and learning librarian, Oxford College
  • N’Kosi Oates, curator of African American collections, Rose Library
  • Krystal Rambus, senior human resources manager
  • Saira Raza, business librarian, Goizueta Business Library
  • Peter Shirts, music and dance librarian, Woodruff Library

ARL is a nonprofit consortium of 125 research libraries in Canada and the U.S. It fosters a trusted, equitable research and learning network and prepares library leaders for strategic collaboration. ARL empowers and advocates for research libraries and archives to shape policy at institutional, national and global levels while developing future leaders and enabling strategic cooperation to benefit scholarship and society.

Learn more about the ARL Kaleidoscope Program.


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