ArLiSNAP is a newsletter for Art Library Students & New ARLIS Professionals
Each weekly newsletter is divided into 5 main parts: Announcements, Discussions, Articles this Week, New Job Postings, and a calendar of upcoming events
The most useful portion of this newsletter is undoubtedly the New Job Postings section. Every week, between two and ten jobs are listed from across the United States and Canada. While I won't be qualified for any of these jobs for a few years, it is helpful to see where jobs are available and what the requirements are.
I expected the Discussions section, which links to a brief article on a webpage that has a comments section, to be a great place to learn about new problems in the field and discuss potential solutions. As it turns out, there are very few topics, the same one may be repeated for several weeks, and most of them don't have any comments. That being said, the Art, Cultural Heritage, and Law post is very interesting and makes me want to learn more about it. I know that Wayne has a one-credit course about Copy write law, but I'm not sure if we have anything else. I agree with the writer that there might not be space in LIS programs to adequately cover this topic. A student group seems like it would be the natural next step, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to coordinate because of all the intricacies of law. I usually hate being the first person to respond to something, but I might have to try to get a conversation going.
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