ARLIS/Ohio Valley 2007 Fall Meeting

The Akron Art Museum is extremely pleased to host the ARLIS/Ohio Valley 2007 Fall Meeting. We invite you to participate in an informative meeting at the newly expanded and renovated Akron Art Museum on Friday, October 26th at 9:00 a.m. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. There will be a dinner on Thursday, October 25th at 6:00 p.m. for anyone who
would like to join us.

The agenda will include:

• David Holmes from the Foundation Center – Cleveland,
• Barbara Tannenbaum, Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Akron Art Museum,
• Becky Bristol, Image Manager, Cleveland Museum of Art and Bryan Loar, Resource Librarian at Fitch, creators of the ARLIS/OV and ArLiSNAP websites,
• And a moderated discussion by Pam Eyerdam, Head, Fine Arts Department, Cleveland Public Library on two topics – Collaboration between public and academic libraries and the ARLIS/NA Artist File progress.

Registration includes a continental breakfast, a buffet luncheon and admission to the galleries after the meeting.

If you have any questions or would like to receive a registration packet via US mail or email (current members will automatically be sent a registration packet), please contact Ellie Ward, by phone at 330-376-9186 ext. 221 or by email at eward@AkronArtMuseum.org.

Texas-Mexico Annual Chapter Meeting: Oct. 25-28, Dallas

Information about the Texas-Mexico chapter’s annual meeting is currently available online.

The meeting will be held in Dallas from October 25-28 in venues throughout the city, including an afternoon excursion to Waxahachie. The planners of the meeting hope that you will find much in the program to be of interest and enable you to experience parts of the Dallas area previously unexplored.

A link to the registration form is at the bottom of the meeting page referenced above. Please submit your completed form along with the registration fees to Craig Bunch (contact information is printed on the form) with a postmark no later than October 10, 2007 — one month from today. Please note that hotel reservations should be made as soon as possible prior to the deadlines of October 4.

Thanks,

Mark Pompelia
Vice President, ARLIS/NA TX-MX Chapter