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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

The agenda for the meeting of the ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee is below. The outgoing chair is Tim Shipe; the incoming chair is Marilyn Russell.

The committee is looking for some new members. If you think you might be interested in a possible appointment to the Public Policy Committee, feel free to join us to get a sense of our work. If you would like to let Marilyn know in advance of your possible interest, you are welcome to contact her (mrussell@HASKELL.edu). But this is not required.

For further information on the committee, see our web site at http://www.arlisna.org/organization/com/pubpol/index.html.

Thanks
Tim

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Agenda for ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee Meeting

Denver, Saturday, 3 May 2008, 9:30-11:00 A.M.

Introductions and General Updates.

Section 108 developments. (Discussion of the Study Group’s final report and recommended legislation. Next steps for the Public Policy Committee)

Orphan Works Developments. (Discussion of the Register of Copyright’s report to Congress, draft legislation, reactions from portions of the visual arts community, and next steps for the Public Policy Committee)

Committee Goals for 2008/2009.

Committee Website. (Need a volunteer to be the web editor)

New assignments (which members will monitor and report on which issues, lists, etc.?). See the annual report for current assignments, and be prepared to volunteer for new or continued assignment.

Program ideas for Indianapolis conference.

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

The Mount Wilson Room at the Hyatt has has been reserved for a self-scheduled meeting of the Photography Librarians Group on Sunday May 4 at 6:00 P.M.

This is just before the Big DAM Party at the Denver Museum, so I would suggest that people come prepared to go directly from the meeting to the buses, the first of which departs at 6:30.

It’s a short meeting, but there should be time enough time for us to connect with each other and throw out ideas about the next conference before moving on to the party.

See you next week,

Laura T. Harris
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Department of Photography
Joyce F. Menschel Library
212-650-2433
laura.harris@metmuseum.org

Committee and other meetings interwoven through the conference instead of all on the day before the conference starts:

Rather than require that all members contributing their time on committees show up to the conference early, this experimental approach allowed chairs to poll their members for optimal meeting times throughout the conference. This Denver First has the potential to change the way we in ARLIS/NA approach meetings — or not!

Dear all,

Please make note that the ILL Discussion Group will be meeting in Denver on Saturday, May 3 from 1-2pm in the Longs Peak Conference Room. We hope that anyone interested in wild and wacky world of resource sharing will join us. Please see the agenda below for details on topics that we will address.

Regards,

Jon Evans
Reference Librarian
Hirsch Library
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
jevans@mfah.org

ILL Discussion Group Meeting Agenda

Denver 2008

Saturday, May 3, 1:00-2:00 PM

Longs Peak Conference Room

I. Welcome & Introductions - Jon Evans (MFA, Houston)

II. OCLC and SHARES updates -Dennis Massie (OCLC) and Karen Bucky (Clark Art Institute)

A. SHARES Executive Group update

B. Ongoing OCLC transition issues

C. OCLC Programs and Research update

D. Zero dollars transactions

E. SHARES wrapping & packaging issues

1. Standards for returnables

2. Green packaging initiative

III. Streamlining successes or other tips for WCRS and ILLiad

IV. Recommendations for software improvements

V. New or recently discovered sources

VI. Other business

VII. Adjourn

Hello ARLIS Architecture Section Members,

Recently, Martin Aurand, President of AASL, contacted me about a significant issue for discussion at the Denver meeting or the ARLIS/NA Architecture Section.  New NAAB accreditation standards that will apply to architecture libraries are being considered.  Martin has put together a task force to study the issue, chaired by Susan Lewis of the Boston Architectural College, but it will not have a report generated by the time we meet.  In order to have a fruitful conversation, I was hoping that you might take a bit of time to familiarize yourselves with passages from key NAAB documents.  These passages can be found at the NAAB site: http://www.naab.org/accreditation/

1.) 2004 NAAB Conditions for Accreditation Report, Section 3.8 “Physical Resources” and Section 3.9 “Information Resources” are most pertinent, as are Appendices B and C.

2.) 2008 NAAB Procedures for Accreditation Report Section 6.5, Appendix H For the documents below, see: http://www.naab.org/documents/home_origin.aspx?path=Public+Documents%5cAccreditation%5cWinter+2008+Task+Group+Reports

3.) NAAB REPORT OF EVOLVING CONDITIONS AND SPC TASK GROUP See section 3.9 Information Resources; this group indicated the following: “CONDITIONS REVISIONS Evolving Conditions and SPC Task Group — 02.14.08 3.9 Information Resources (WM) It may be time to reassess what we mean by information resources, and the expectation of what appropriate resources are for programs today. What does 5000 NA volumes mean today? I also think that this section should be assessed by the architectural librarians and edited as appropriate. I question doing a mini-APR (Architecture Program Report) for the library. (ACSA’s ’07 Survey) • Our librarians work hard on this part. • This is the lifeline to the future • Libraries becoming less relevant”

4.) REPORT OF TRENDS IN EDUCATION TASK GROUP (Indicates new directions in architectural education.) 5.) REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL/ GLOBAL TASK GROUP Again, see Sections 3.8 and 3.9 An final agenda for the Architecture Section Meeting will be forthcoming.

Thank you!

Alan Michelson
Moderator, Architecture Section 2008
Generalissimo, Architecture and Urban Planning Library
University of Washington
Box 355730
Seattle, WA 98195-5730
tel: 206.543.7091
alanmich@U.WASHINGTON.EDU

Saturday, May 3, 2008, 5:00-6:00 PM

Agenda

1. Welcome - Isabella Marqués de Castilla, moderador Business and updates Election of Section’s Web Editor - to succeed Angela Sidman Election of new vice-moderator
2. A presentation by Deborah Confer, Anthropology Collection Manager at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
3. Discussion: Audience contributions on cataloging Topics of interest to discuss at ARLIS/NA 2009
4. Wrap-up

Moderator:
Isabella Marqués de Castilla
Senior Cataloging Specialist
Library of Congress
imar@loc.gov
Tel: 202 707-7024

Vice-moderator / Incoming-moderator:
James Phillip Ascher
Cataloging Librarian. Special Collections Team
University of Colorado at Boulder
James.Ascher@Colorado.edu

ARLIS/NA Academic Library Division (ALD) Annual Business Meeting, Denver, CO: Saturday, May 3, 2008, 3:45-4:45

Agenda

1. Announcements (on the spot contributions welcome)
2. Election of new vice-moderator
3. Discussion Topic: LibGuides, subject guides utilizing 2.0 technology, interactive tutorials — experiences, tips, horror stories
4. Discussion Topic: Drawing new faculty into the library — what’s worked and what hasn’t
5. Discussion Topic: Where do we want ALD to go? ARLIS-ALD?

Thanks,

Rijn Templeton, ALD out-going moderator (rijn-templeton@uiowa.edu )

Kathleen Lonbom, ALD in-coming moderator (klonbom@ilstu.edu )

Everyone is invited to the join in the conversation at the RISS (Reference & Instruction Services Section) ‘business meeting’ on Saturday, May 3, from 5 to 6 p.m.

This year we’re putting aside the usual business meeting fare - soliciting ideas for next year’s programming and arm-twisting attendees into volunteering to run the group. You may hold your applause.

What are you doing?

The meeting, billed as “Reference and Information Services Section Project Update,” is an opportunity for ARLIS members to share reference and outreach projects undertaken at home libraries. Emphasis will be on publicizing projects in which others can participate or ones which other libraries can adopt and adapt. Not allprojects turn out the way one expects: this session can also include projects which encounter unexpected obstacles or conclusions.

Time will be limited, so be prepared to offer a concise summary of the project’s goals, tools, and reception. (Works in progress are fine, too.) The hope is that the conversation will lead to increased communications and sharing of successful reference projects across member libraries. Even more, we hope to find a dynamic and effective way to take advantage of the Society’s ‘collective wisdom’ other than a one hour meeting once a year.

What should RISS be doing?

To that end, over the past year the leaders of RISS have been struggling to answer these questions:

• Is art reference adequately served in the current resource universe?

• Is there a need for cooperative art reference products?

• What local art reference initiatives are exportable? Shareable?

• What web tools are ripe for collective exploitation?

• What role can ARLIS in general and RISS in particular play in providing an appropriate and viable platform for sharing ideas and resources?

• Is ARLIS equal to the task?

• Should we be looking elsewhere and relying on our own initiative?

• What’s right (and what’s wrong) with ARLIS-L for art reference?

We hope to give an equally concise overview of the brainstorming and possible solutions we have identified. Joining us for these discussions will be Martha Ruddy, appointed by the Executive Board to report on extending ARLIS/NA’s technological possibilities. We eagerly solicit your reactions.

Ross Day
Moderator, RISS

Reminder: RSVP deadline tomorrow, 4/23!

Simmons GSLIS alumni and ARLIS/NE members: Please join Simmons and ARLIS/NE for a mixer at ARLIS/NA! Simmons alumni and ARLIS/NE members are invited to a cocktail reception from 5:30-6:30 pm on Sunday, May 4th. Please come by and visit before heading off to the Denver Art Museum.

Sunday, May 4th 5:30-6:30pm
Mt. Princeton Room - Grand Hyatt Denver
RSVP to anne.reid@simmons.edu by April 23rd.

Please join us for a very interesting session with Deborah Confer.Ms. Confer is the Anthropology Collection Manager at the University Of Colorado Museum Of Natural History. She has worked in natural history and historical museums for the past 22 years, including the National Museum of Natural History and the Lane County Historical Museum, Eugene, Oregon.

According to the current schedule, the section will be held:

Saturday, May 3

5:00pm - 6:00pm

http://arlisna-mw.lib.byu.edu/denver2008/program.htm

Isabella Marqués de Castilla, moderator
James Phillip Ascher, vice-moderator/moderator elect
imar@loc.gov

This is the first message in a series of “Denver Firsts” messages, wherein we highlight the many elements of the ARLIS/NA Annual Conference in Denver May 1-5 that we believe to be innovations in the ARLIS conference experience! Caveat: we have not done historical research in the archives, so this represents our collective memory only!Denver First:

Complimentary breakfast at the membership meeting:
With signing up for lunch or dinner no longer an extra step, ARLIS/NA members can eat and meet at the same time! We hope this Denver First will result in increased attendance at the Membership Meeting!

*This posting on behalf of the Denver co-chairs (Peggy Keeran and Tom Riedel for Local Arrangements and Jeanne Brown and Mary Graham for Program) and the entire Conference Planning Advisory Committee whose brainstorms resulted in many of the approaches we are calling Denver Firsts!