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Dear Colleagues,

This is a reminder that all content for this year’s conference proceedings should be sent to me by June 12, 2008. We will be posting papers, presentations, virtual posters, and/or minutes from all sessions, workshops, and meetings for the conference. As last year, this year’s proceedings will be entirely web-based and accessible on the ARLIS/NA website, therefore full-text and PowerPoint presentations of sessions and workshops are acceptable formats. If you would prefer to send your file as a PDF, that would be ideal, as I will be submitting all content to our webmaster in PDF format. If you have large files to attach, there are several free services available through the Web to assist you, such as http://mailbigfile.com.

Since some of you might be including copyrighted images in your presentations, please note that you will need to secure permission from the vendor/creator prior to publishing them in the proceedings. All authors publishing full presentations in any format will be asked to sign the Publication Agreement on the ARLIS/NA website (http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/cta.pdf).

All materials should be sent to me electronically at elearned@rwu.edu.

Thank you!

Betsy Peck Learned
Interim Dean of University Libraries
Roger Williams University
1 Old Ferry Rd.
Bristol, RI 02809-2921
Phone: 401-254-3625
Fax: 401-254-3565
Email: elearned@rwu.edu

Are you interested in joining the Travel Awards Committee? We’re looking for 2-3 new members to assist us with giving awards that encourage participation in ARLIS/NA and assist students and new professionals with attending the conferences!

Please contact me off-list if you are interested in learning more or joining the committee. The Committee meeting will be held on Saturday from 12:30-2 at the Mad Greens restaurant (http://www.madgreens.com/). Please contact me if you plan on attending the meeting so that we can coordinate meeting and walking to the restaurant.

Jennifer Friedman
Incoming Chair, Travel Awards Committee

Dear membership,

The Artist Files Working Group is scheduled to meet on Saturday, May 3, 5-6pm in the Mt. Elbert Conference Room. Below is the agenda for the meeting.

For those interested in this specific project or artist files in general, we welcome your participation. For more background on our activities, please see the minutes of our last meeting in Atlanta: http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/2007/proceedings/wg_artistfiles.pdf

Regards,

Jon Evans
Artist Files Working Group Meeting Agenda

Denver 2008

Saturday, May 3, 5:00-6:00 PM

Mt. Elbert Conference Room
I. Welcome & Introductions - Jon Evans

II. Overview of progress since last meeting - Jon Evans, Sally McKay and Barbara Rominski

III. Best practices documents update - Jon Evans

IV. Directory update and presentation - Sally McKay and Barbara Rominski

V. Marketing plan - Kraig Binkowski

VI. Goals for the coming year - Jon Evans

VII. Other business

VIII. Adjourn

Hi Museum Librarians,

Rather than print the 2007 minutes for you to review at the MLD meeting Saturday I’d like to point you to the copy available on line. We’ll still have the formal approval of the minutes but you’ll have to read them in advance of the meeting.

http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/2007/proceedings/proceed_index.html
The minutes are a pdf located under the ‘Division’ heading.

thanks!

Amy Ballmer
aballmer@artic.edu

Book Arts Roundtable meeting May 4, 2008, Denver, Colorado

*Meeting to start at 5:30 p.m., Mt. Wilson room, Grand Hyatt

I. General Introductions

Outgoing moderator: Tony White (Indiana University)

Incoming moderator: Yuki Hibben (Virginia Commonwealth University)

II. Announcements College Book Art Association (CBAA)

CBAA Conference – January 2009 (call for papers: deadline June 1)

NY Art Book Fair

Contemporary Artist’s Books Conference (NYC)

Other

III. Transition from Roundtable to Discussion Group

What next?

Should the group continue?

What is the role of the Moderator?

IV. Nominations Nominate moderator-elect/discussion group leader

V. New Business/Discussions

Blog?

Open to the floor

Tony White Moderator, Book Arts Roundtable

The Cataloging Problems Discussion Group is scheduled to meet at lunchtime on Sunday, 1-2 pm. Box lunches are available from the hotel restaurant, 1876, so bring your sandwich and let’s talk about cataloging.

I’ve prepared an overview of the year in art cataloging and posted it at http://artcataloging.net/arlisna/cpdg2008overview.doc — sections on the CAC exhibitions publications guidelines underway, OPACs and 2.0 endeavors, LCSH, MARC, NACO/SACO, etc. We can talk about those topics or whatever fills your cataloger brain. One thing I’d like to talk about is the MARC proposal for a new heading use code, especially as CPSO has promised an easing of the NAF/SAF divide. This is spelled out in a bit more detail in the overview.

Looking forward to seeing folks in Denver.

Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
sherman.clarke@nyu.edu

Dear all,

I am just confirming the details re: DART’s breakfast meeting on Sunday in Denver. We will meet at 8:45 AM, so as to have a few minutes to order breakfast, etc., before the 9 AM meeting. We will meet in the hotel restaurant: “1876,” on the Lobby level. Come one, come all, just please let me know, if you can, asap, so I may have a final count.
Also, any agenda items to add are most welcome.

Thanks very much, and safe travels - Rebecca

-Rebecca Friedman
Co-Chair, DART
rfriedma@princeton.edu
609-258-3163

ARLIS/NA Communications & Publications Committee
Business Meeting
Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Denver Grand Hyatt – Mt. Wilson

AGENDA

12:30-1:00
1. Welcome and introductions

2. Old Business:

A. Approval of 2007 Annual Business Meeting minutes

B. 2007 Annual Report review:

1. Chair’s report (R. Lawson)
Co-Publishing agreements
Policy Manual Section R, including revised Author’s agreement (PM R12)
Art Documentation peer review survey

2. Editors’ reports (J. Dyki, E. Markson, J. Stahl, K. Binkowski)

3. At-large members’ reports (J. Franklin, M. Ruddy, L. Viverette)

4. EB Liaison’s Report (S. Koskinen)

1:00-1:10 Break

1:10-2:00
3. New Business:

A. Thanks to outgoing EB liaison S. Koskinen; welcome new liaison B. Rominski

B. Report on VRA’s MemberClicks implementation (R. Lawson)

C. Annual report proposal (R. Lawson)

D. Discussion of issues for Executive Board and recommendations/action items:

1. Online resources:
o AWS: Art Documentation backfile in PDF

Server hosting
News & Events information
Conference sites
E-commerce
Archiving procedures

o MemberClicks implementation

o Listserv administration

o RSS Feed

o Professional Resources

o ARLIS Reviews Online

2. Print Publications:

o Art Documentation: Production and mailing
Option to receive PDF online
PDFs for EBSCO

o Handbook/Directory: PDF version for downloading

o Occasional Papers

3. Communications and publications program finances:

o Marketing: Implementing approved plan

o Advertising: Identify new sources, incentives

o Sponsorship: Liaison with Development Committee

o RSS Feed

o Professional Resources

o ARLIS Reviews Online

ARLIS/NA Membership Meeting Agenda
Grand Hyatt Denver - Grand Ballroom
May 5, 2008 8:00-10:00 a.m.

Call to Order

President’s Report

Headquarters Report

Treasurer’s Report

Secretary’s Report

Summer Educational Institute Report

Denver Conference Report

Indianapolis Conference Preview

Guest Speaker, Loriene Roy, President, ALA

Remembrances

Scheduled announcements

Membership Dues Increases

Open Forum

Introductions and Acknowledgements

Outgoing Executive Board Members

Incoming Executive Board Members

Ken Soehner, President, 2008-2009

Adjourn

The ARLIS/NA Collection Development Discussion Group will meet on Saturday, 3 May from 1 to 2 P.M. at the Grays Peak room in the Hyatt Conference Center.

This is billed as a “brown bag” meeting, so feel free to bring lunch if you haven’t already eaten. (I’m sure the hotel would like us to point out that box lunches are available for purchase at “1876,” the hotel restaurant.)

A major agenda item will be our transition from “Discussion Group” to “Special Interest Group.” Last year in Atlanta we agreed that we wanted to make this change as soon as the SIG option is available. With luck, we will have some information on the procedure for establishing a SIG by the time we meet. I hope that this will take no more than 15 minutes of our brief meeting time. The rest of the meeting will be devoted to our usual “round robin” of collection development topics. Please bring your issues to discuss.

See you in Denver.

Tim Shipe

Hello Architecture Section members, We will meet on Saturday May 3, 2008 in the Conference Center. An agenda is attached and appended below. Please send me last minute agenda items if you have them. If anyone would like to nominate themselves or someone else to become Vice-Moderator, please let me know. We also will need a Recorder to transcribe our pearls for future generations. Please someone volunteer. I am begging you.

ARLIS/NA Annual Architecture Section Meeting May 3, 2008, 5:00-6:00 PM

Section I. Section Business (15 minutes)

A. New Business/Announcements; (10 minutes)

a. AASL Conference Summary (Janine Henri, UCLA)

b. Miscellaneous Announcements B. Election of the new Vice-Moderator; any volunteers? (5 minutes)

Section II. “Slam” (15 minutes) The Slam is meant to be a structured forum in which section members can briefly outline research or publication efforts for section members. Please send Slam info to Patti Cossard pcossard@umd.edu

A. Slam participants are self-identified pre-conference (in our case research project announcements)

B. Prior to conference, slam participants asked to:

a. Provide one paragraph describing project and what type of collaboration is sought

b. Provide one powerpoint slide representative of project

c. Prepare one minute maximum oral presentation of project and call for collaboration; one-minute limit will be rigidly enforced with a gong

Section III. New National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) Standards for Architecture Libraries (15-20 minutes)

A. Janine Henri will discuss the previous NAAB Accreditation process

B. Susan Lewis or another member of the AASL-ARLIS/NA NAAB Accreditation Task Force in attendance will discuss its activities

C. Discussion

Alan Michelson

The ARLIS/NA Teaching Librarians Discussion Group is scheduled for a brown bag meeting on Sunday, May 4 from 1-2pm in Longs Peak. Please forward any topics you would like discussed to kristai@ucr.edu by Wednesday, April 30.

In addition, we are looking for a recorder for the meeting. If interested please contact Andrea at andrea@temple.edu.

For those concerned about lunch, a brown bag (make it yourself buffet) option is available in the hotel restaurant.

Thanks and see you soon.

Andrea Goldstein
Temple University

Krista Ivy
University of California, Riverside

Are you interested in diversity issues?

The ARLIS/NA Diversity Committee is seeking new members for 2008-2009.
Please join us for our annual business meeting on Saturday, May 3 from 10-11am. For information about the committee and its past accomplishments, take a look at the committee’s website at:
http://www.arlisna.org/organization/com/diversity/index.html

If you are interested in joining this committee or have questions, please email me at: krista.ivy@ucr.edu
Sincerely,
Krista Ivy
ARLIS/NA Diversity Committee Chair

Curious about ARLIS/NA and how it works?

Confused about the brand new MemberClicks directory?

Please stop by the ARLIS/NA Informational table / MemberClicks Helpdesk in the exhibitions hall in Denver! Despite the fact the name of this new feature in the exhibition hall does not roll off the tongue, we’re hoping it will serve as a valuable resource to both new and seasoned ARLIS/NE members.

As you may have guessed the table is serving two functions.

First of all we are hoping to be a repository of printed information on ARLIS/NA and its various groups-Committees, Divisions, Sections, Round Tables/Interest Groups, Chapters, etc. [If you have responsibility for one of these groups and would like to share information with fellow ARLIS members, please bring handouts to be distributed.] We will also be staffed on Saturday, so please stop by to chat. We will answer questions and/or try to put you in touch with someone who can speak to you more about your ARLIS-related interests. Mentors, please encourage your mentees to come by.

In addition, we are very pleased to serve as a MemberClicks HelpDesk. Although I don’t think any of us can claim to be experts on the new MemberClicks directory, we look forward to introducing you to some of the basic functionality of the new system. If you have not had an opportunity to use it yet, it’s really wonderful!

Printed information will be available both Saturday and Sunday, while it lasts.

The table will be staffed on Saturday May 3rd, 9:30 am-12:30 pm and 5-7 pm.

Look forward to seeing many of you in Denver!

Best,

Rachel Resnik, outgoing Membership Committee chair
technical services librarian
massachusetts college of art + design
rresnik@massart.edu