Staff Notes: Adrienne Lai

Adrienne Lai (Special Collections/Learning Commons) presented “Scaled Models: Scope, Site, Strategy, and Sustainability in Architectural Special Collections of the Future” as part of the  Architecture Library of the Future: Reassessing and Forecasting the Place and Profession panel at the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) annual conference, in Montreal, Canada, March 5, 2011. In her paper Lai investigates the changing nature of architectural special collections in the face of the technological and socioeconomic shifts of the past twenty-five years and their impacts in the realms of practice and education.

Lai received the Frances Chen AASL Conference Travel Award. The conference website is available at https://sites.google.com/site/aaslmontreal2011/ .