ARLIS-SC event at the Brand Library on Monday, September 10th

Please join us for our upcoming meeting at the Brand Library in Glendale!  *As always non-members are welcome to join the event.

Agenda:

• 10:30-10:45 Meet and greet
• 10:45-11:15 Tour of the Brand
• 11:15-12:30 Artist Talk with Patsy Cox/Tour of the exhibit (information on the current exhibit can be found here)
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-2:30 Business Meeting
• 2:30-3:30 Panel Discussion – Internships: What’s in it for you?
• Panel Participants:
  • Chizu Morihara, recent UCLA IS graduate
  • Sarah Sherman, Reference Librarian, Getty Research Institute and recent UCLA IS graduate
  • Kristen St. John, Collections Conservator, UCLA Library Conservation Center
  • Jocelyn Gibbs, Head, Special Collections Cataloging, Getty Research Institute
  • Robert Gore (moderator), Visual Arts Librarian, UCLA Arts Library

Lunch will be available at a cost of $10 per person.  Personal checks or cash can by given to Alyssa Resnick, ARLIS-SC Treasurer, on the day of the event.

Please RSVP to Robert Gore, rjcgore@library.ucla.edu, by Thursday, September 6th and specify if you would prefer a vegetarian or non-vegetarian lunch.

A map showing the location of the Brand Library can be found here.  There is ample free parking on site.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Robert Gore
ARLIS-SC Vice Chair

Fall 2007 Meeting- VRA Greater Philadelphia Chapter

The VRA Greater Philadelphia Chapter is pleased to announce our Fall 2007 meeting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, held jointly with the Upstate New York chapter of VRA.

Date:  Friday, October 26th 10:30am to 3:30pm.

As the Museum is open on Friday evenings until 8:45pm, attendees are encouraged to plan a visit to the Museum galleries after the meeting concludes.

To reserve tickets to the Renoir Landscapes exhibition for Friday evening, please visit http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/260.html.=20

Activities will include talks and tours highlighting the Library, Archives, Albert M. Greenfield Visual and Digital Resources Center, and Wachovia Educational Resource Center in the newly renovated Perelman Building.

RSVP by October 1 to Evan and Nicole, and we look forward to seeing you in October!

Evan B. Towle, Chair VRAP
Visual and Digital Resources Librarian
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Nicole Finzer, Secretary/Treasurer VRAP
Visual Resources Specialist
Bryn Mawr College