ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits – January 7-11, 2011 – San Diego, California
Posted: January 4, 2011 Filed under: ALA, ArLiSNAP, Conference Planning, News, Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Events, Opportunities: Professional Development Leave a comment »The New Members Round Table (NMRT) will host the following events at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting that may be of interest to members of ARLIS/NA:
Membership, Networking, & Committee Interest Meeting (NMRT) (Open)
Saturday, January 8, 2011 – 8:00am – 10:00am
Location: Marriott Hotel & Marina (MAR)
Description: Interested in learning how you can get involved with the New Members Round Table? Stop by this informal meeting to hear some of the exciting things NMRT has to offer you. Membership, networking, and committee work are but a few – let us help you get involved!
Sponsors: NMRT (New Members Round Table)
Cost: Included with conference registration
Midwinter Social (NMRT) (Open)
Saturday, January 8, 2011 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Offsite Location (OS) Borders, Gaslamp Dist.
Description: Come join NMRT members for an evening of networking and fun at Borders in the Gaslamp District, 668 6th Ave. Light refreshments will be provided.
Meeting Type: Social Event
Sponsors: NMRT (New Members Round Table)
Cost: Included with conference registration
Group Home: NMRT Midwinter Social Committee (New Members Round Table)
NYARC’s Arcade Featured in NYT
Posted: April 15, 2010 Filed under: Catalogs/OPACs, News Comments OffNice write up including ARLIS/NA folks
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection — have combined forces to share resources, save money and make their holdings more accessible to the public.
The database, at arcade.nyarc.org, is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ancient Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18LIBRARY.html
Getty Site Provides Free Access to The BHA
Posted: April 1, 2010 Filed under: News Comments OffBibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is a huge deal in the scholarly world. In the words of Susette Newberry (Cornell), ““The BHA is the decisive periodical citation index for art history scholarship….” The world was about to loose BHA (+ IBA & RILA), but the Getty has stepped up to the plate & then some.
As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha. Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the database but also to such potential users as institutions in developing countries and independent scholars worldwide, who until now have been unable to afford access to the BHA.
However, it still brings up an interesting discussion of how fragile our ownership of information is in this digitally-licensed era.
For the full press release, go here.
libraries and e-books
Posted: October 15, 2009 Filed under: Academic Librarianship, Discussion, News, Public Libraries, Technology, Web 2.0 3 Comments »Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
A recent article in the New York Times highlights ways that libraries are providing access to e-books and digital audio books for their patrons. E-books are certainly gaining in popularity at my institution. Most students actually seemed relieved when a book is online because that means they won’t have to brave the stacks at a large university library!
A (brief!) Review of the Kindle DX
Posted: June 11, 2009 Filed under: News, Technology 1 Comment »Courtesy of the Gadgetwise Blog at the New York Times:
When I reviewed the Kindle 2 in February, I wasn’t sure if I was ready to get on the e-book bandwagon. Still, I found it to be convenient and just the right size to fit in my handbag. It at least felt like a book. But after toting around the Kindle DX, it suddenly feels as if I am carrying a computer.
Introducing ArLiSNAP Discussion Opportunities & Coordinatoors
Posted: May 11, 2009 Filed under: ArLiSNAP, Blogs, Fun, News 2 Comments »As a result of feedback, you’re going to see a few new additions to the ArLiSNAP blog and community. One of the new features we’re rolling out is increased content on the site to help generate discussion about issues important to ArLiSNAP members.
Caley Cannon and Meredith Kahn are the current discussion coordinators, and we’ll be making weekly posts about a range of topics (emerging technologies, social networking sites, teaching, mentoring, transition from student to professional, changing role of art librarians, professional development, recent news in art and architecture, new developments in the publishing industry, etc.).
We hope you find these posts interesting and thought provoking, and that you feel compelled to participate in a discussion via the comments. If there are any topics you’d like us to address, please let us know.
And let the fun begin…
Big-Screen E-Readers and the Future of Newspapers
Posted: May 4, 2009 Filed under: News, Technology 3 Comments »Interesting piece in the New York Times about larger e-readers and their potential for reading newspapers and magazines:
The screens, which are currently in the Kindle and Sony Reader, display no color or video and update images at a slower rate than traditional computer screens. That has some people in the magazine industry, in particular, keeping their hopes in check until E Ink evolves.
“I don’t think we would be anywhere near as excited about anything in black and white as we would about high-definition color,” said Tom Wallace, the editorial director of Condé Nast, publisher of glossy magazines like Vogue and Wired. “But technology changes at a pretty high clip these days, and if we are now in the Farmer Gray days, it will be only a very short while until we are in the video game era.”
Posted: April 20, 2009 Filed under: Education: LIS Programs, News, Opportunities: Professional Development Comments Off
Online Visual Information Class at University of Rhode Island – Summer 2009
If you are interested in meeting challenges in our profession, explore beyond the textual information world, and take a course at the pace of your time and space anytime and anywhere, have you thought about taking LSC544 Visual
Information Science this summer? It will be a complete WebCT course in 10 weeks this summer starting from May 19 to July 21st hosted by University of Rhode Island.
Course Title: LSC544 Visual Information Science
Dates and Time: Thursday, 6:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. from May 19- July 21. The time is set as a deadline for posting assignments purposes. I will post all answers or necessary class materials by the specified class time. You do not need to be at your computers during the designated class-time. You can be anywhere and anytime to take this course as long as you have access to the Internet.
Format: WebCT (No face to face meetings. No chat-room discussions).
Instructor: Professor Yan Ma
What Does LSC544 Cover?
With the proliferation of visual information in our daily lives, the need to incorporate the studies of visual information and visual literacy into the curriculum is one of the most pressing tasks. Our efforts in the past have been focused on textual information. How about visual information at this visual information age? That is the challenge to all of us and our profession. LSC544 will provide you with an exciting opportunity to examine visual information science issues.
LSC544 Visual Information Science will cover the following topics:
1. Study the nature of information in textual and visual forms.
2. Study the interdisciplinary nature of visual information science.
3. Study information and visual information and communications theories.
4. Understand and analyze needs and uses for both textual and visual information. User information seeking behavior for both textual and visual information.
5. Discuss information policy, intellectual property, and copyright for both textual and visual information.
6. Understand the theory and practice of information storage and retrieval systems for both textual and visual information.
7. Understand and study issues relating to user interface design.
8. Explore information technology for visual information science
9. Study research methods for textual and visual information.
10. Become familiar with important journals, books, and authors.
Summer Registration
http://www.uri.edu/summer
If you are interested in taking this course, please email Dr. Ma for the course syllabus. Email: yanma@uri.edu
Thank you! I hope to you in the class!
–Yan Ma
David Adjaye chosen for National Museum of African American History and Culture
Posted: April 14, 2009 Filed under: Architecture, News 1 Comment »More interesting architecture news from the New York Times here:
A dream almost a century old moved another step closer to reality on Tuesday as the Smithsonian Institution chose a team led by David Adjaye, the celebrated Tanzanian-born architect, to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture, scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington in 2015.
Pritzker Prize Awarded to Peter Zumthor
Posted: April 12, 2009 Filed under: Architecture, Architecture Librarianship, Art History, News Comments OffSee the story at the New York Times:
He is not a celebrity architect — not one of the names that show up on short lists for museums and concert hall projects or known outside of architecture circles. He hasn’t designed many buildings; the one he’s best known for is a thermal spa in an Alpine commune. And he has toiled in relative obscurity for the last 30 years in a remote village in the Swiss mountains, out of the limelight and away from the crowd.
But on Monday, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, was to earn the highest recognition of his profession: the Pritzker Prize.
2009 ARLIS/NA Conference “Stimulus Package”
Posted: March 24, 2009 Filed under: 2009 ARLIS/NA Conference Indianapolis, ARLIS/NA, News, Opportunities: Conferences Comments OffStudents, and those on a budget, be sure to take advantage of this extended offer on early bird registration, as well as half price tours & workshops!
WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE 2009 ARLIS/NA CONFERENCE “STIMULUS PACKAGE”
#1. Early Registration date is extended to April 1st.
(anyone who has registered since March 15th and has paid the late fee will be credited the $100 in the same manner in which it was paid.)
Conference Registration info is at http://www.indiana.edu/~indycon/registra=tion.html or contact Sue Rawlyk arlisna@mcphersonclarke.com
#2. If you are already registered for a Full or Half-day tour or workshop, (or register for one now), you can get a second Half-day or Two-hour workshop or tour for HALF PRICE. ($25.00 for half day workshop or tour, $12.50 for 2-hour workshop or tour)
Workshops still open:
- Mashups (2-hour, Thursday Afternoon and Tuesday Morning);
- Image Resource Decision Trees (Half-day, Friday Morning); Cataloging
- Artists Books
- High and Hot Technology (Thursday Afternoon),
- Kokomo Opalescent Glass (Friday Morning),
- Auto Design/Speedway (Friday Afternoon),
- Dec.Arts at Indiana State Museum (Friday Afternoon), and
- Historic Theaters in Indy (Friday Afternoon)
There are still a few spots available on the all-day Bloomington Tours (Friday and Tuesday) and the Tuesday all-day Columbus Tour.
The all-day Letterpress workshop in Bloomington is full.
The Resume workshop on Friday (free) has a few spots available.
The Mentoring workshop (free) has all the Mentees it can handle, but would welcome more mentors.
To take advantage of the tour/workshop stimulus offer, please contact Sue Rawlyk directly at arlisna@mcphersonclarke.com
Eileen Fry and Tony White
2009 ARLIS/NA Conference Program Co-Chairs
Forbes: “U.S. museums cutting back due to recession”
Posted: March 15, 2009 Filed under: Job Search, Museum Librarianship, Museums, News 1 Comment »A recent item with some bad news for our art museum colleagues.
“In New York, the Museum of Modern Art implemented a hiring freeze in October and ordered a general operating budget cut of 10 percent. Other major museums in the city declined to discuss whether they had suffered endowment losses or had plans for layoffs or salary cuts.”
Copyright suit over Shepard Fairey’s Obama image
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Images, News Comments OffAnother recent NYTimes article of interest:
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image
“In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.”
LISjobs.com launches new website
Posted: October 24, 2008 Filed under: Employment Resources, Job Search, News Comments OffVilla Park, IL — Visitors to LISjobs.com will notice a new look and feel today as the newly-redesigned site launches. The redesign brings LISjobs.com in line with current web standards and adds new content and features. Note that old links willl be broken; please update your links and bookmarks.
Highlights of the redesign include:
- Better integration of the LISjobs.com forum and other interactive site features.
- Job ads that, as always, are free to both job seekers and employers.
- New content on education and career development, including information on MLIS scholarships as well as on funding conference attendance and other CE opportunities.
- A more standards-compliant and accessible design.
- A new logo designed by Wendy Koff, Librarian and Web Designer.
- Updated links to outside resources; all links were checked manually in October 2008.
- Improved organization — information for both job seekers and employers is now easier to find.
- Opportunities for sponsorship — relevant organizations can easily reach an audience of librarians and info pros.
British Architect to Redesign City Library
Posted: October 23, 2008 Filed under: Architecture, Libraries: Public Art Libraries, News Comments OffNew York Times reports about plans to renovate the New York Public Library:
Some are bound to question whether the library can raise the necessary funds, given the current financial crisis. But library officials said they were determined to press on. “We are committed to this program,” Ms. Marron said. “We recognize the world is different than what it was, and it might take a longer time. We’re not going to be foolhardy.” “Libraries are needed in times like this,” she added. “More people need to borrow books, to get job information — it’s free. So I think everybody strongly believes the library is needed more than ever.”
University of Iowa Museum of Art Implements Disaster Plan
Posted: June 13, 2008 Filed under: Disaster Planning, Museums, News Comments Off
Arts campus libraries, including music and art have been closed as if they shouldn’t expect to get back into the buildings until August.
Some flooding photos from yesterday can be seen here:
http://uiflood.blogspot.com/2008/06/flooding-photos.html
The School of Art and Art history is the building in the photo, the library is on the second level.
RSS Feeds on ArLiSNAP
Posted: April 17, 2008 Filed under: Blogs, News, RSS, [ Creating the ARLIS/NA Student Blog ] 2 Comments »I was going to put our RSS feeds (widgets) back on the site. It seems it really was the platial mapkit that was causing loading problems.
But, since the wordpress.com dashboard redesign, our old links have disappeared!
What are your favorite RSS feeds for art and/or library news or related blogs that you’d like to see on this site??
ArLiSNAP & The Shifted Librarian
Posted: March 28, 2008 Filed under: ArLiSNAP Press, News 2 Comments »I’m happy to write that ArLiSNAP was included in Jenny Levine (aka The Shifted Librarian)’s presentation this month @ the University at The Hague, Netherlands. Levine’s presentation was on tagging, and she included ArLiSNAP’s Del.icio.us in her review.
Tagging Your World, presented March 7, 2008, by Jenny Levine, ALA.
Also, check out this write up @ the Art Underground blog.
Check out even more with a Google search here.
Frame That Spam!
Posted: March 5, 2008 Filed under: Exhibitions, Fun, News 1 Comment »A unique multimedia presentation of the intersection of art and information from Wired:
Data-Crunching Artists Transform the World of Information
http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_dataart_1603
