dinner during 2023 Leadership Symposium
hosted by Simon Fraser University Library
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announce that Emory University Libraries and University of Pennsylvania Libraries will host the ARL Leadership Symposium in 2025 & 2026 respectively.
The ARL Annual Leadership Symposium explores topics related to the major strategic areas of ARL, as well as transitioning into, and building career networks in, research libraries and archives. The Leadership Symposium is one of two signature events included in the curriculum of the ARL Kaleidoscope Program, a two-year commitment that aims to prepare BIPOC graduate students for purposeful and consequential careers in research libraries and archives through enriched leadership development and community building opportunities.
“We are thrilled to be a host for the Kaleidoscope Leadership Symposium,” said Lisa A. Macklin, associate vice provost and university librarian at Emory University. “Several members of the Emory Libraries have benefited from the Kaleidoscope Program and we are honored to give back by serving as a host. We are excited to welcome an outstanding group of colleagues to Emory in 2025.”
“The Penn Libraries is honored to partner with the Association of Research Libraries as a host for the 2026 Kaleidoscope Program Leadership Symposium,” said Brigitte Weinsteiger, interim director of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and Gershwind & Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications. “We look forward to welcoming this diverse cohort of emerging library leaders to Philadelphia for a rich and rewarding learning experience.”
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
