News ARCS, the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists, is pleased to announce the August 20th launch of its new web site. Designed to serve the varied needs of its membership, the web site ? ARCSinfo.org<http://www.arcsinfo.org/>? has many exciting features.
- The site includes valuable resources, such as videos, links to helpful sites on the internet, and a growing bibliography. - Users can sign up for or renew memberships, create profiles to introduce themselves to their colleagues, and locate colleagues by a member search. - Visitors to the site can keep up with news and events from across the country and around the world and learn about upcoming educational and professional development opportunities. - Both members and non-members will be able to connect with one another via an on-line forum. - Members will be able to list and to consult job opportunities in the field. - The site will enable easy access to the active ARCS Facebook page and the ARCS LinkedIn group, as well. Although you will not be able to register here for the ARCS Inaugural Conference to be held in Chicago this fall, please proceed from the ARCS main web site to the conference web site ? arcsconference2013.org<http://www.arcsconference2013.org/> ? to sign up. Early bird registration ends August 26th and registration closes September 16th! The web site provides an essential tool by which ARCS fulfills its mission to represent and promote Registrars and Collections Specialists, nationally and internationally, to educate them in the professional best practices of registration and collections care, and to facilitate communication and networking. Future additions to the web site will include web seminars, summaries of conference sessions, publication of articles, and much more. We will continue building upon our ARCS mission with our new site. 8/22/2013
