Please see the messages below, which may be of interest to ARLIS/UK &
Ireland members. The usual apologies for cross-posting. I have sent this
message in plain text - some might be a bit difficult to read because of
the lack of formatting. However, this is to avoid the issue that Jiscmail
does not allow attachments to be delivered to the list. Due to the
various formatting of the original messages, a simple cut and paste is not
possible. I hope this message is, at least, readable.
Happy New Year!
Best wishes,
Erica Foden-Lenahan
Geffrye Museum
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:20:52 +1000
From: "Ellen Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [Arlisanz-l] Conference dates and venue confirmed
Dear all
New on the blog: the dates and venue for the 2008 Arlis/ANZ conference are
confirmed:
http://arlisanzpresident.blogspot.com/
Mark your diaries for the Thurs/Fri 9th & 10th October 2008 (with an
optional Saturday morning event)
Venue: Queensland State Library
On behalf of Arlis/ANZ, I wish to thank Acting State Librarian Vicki
McDonald, and to acknowledge the Queensland State Library as our major
sponsor for the conference.
Registrations and the call for papers will open early in the new year, to
coincide with the launch of the new Arlis/ANZ Website. We hope to advertise
and manage the conference entirely through the new site, therefore, there
are only the briefest of details on the current site, but which does include
contact details for initial enquiries.
regards
Ellen
Ellen Thompson
Arlis/ANZ National President
Creative Industries Librarian
Library. Level 3, R Block
Queensland University of Technology
Kelvin Grove Campus
Victoria Park Road
Kelvin Grove 4059 Q
p: 07 3138 5503
f: 07 3138 5890
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Cricos No. 00213J
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:59:39 -0500
From: "David Green" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:[ARLIS-L] "Cyberinfrastructure & the Liberal Arts" - Academic
Commons special issue released today
To: [log in to unmask]
Monday Dec 17, 2005
Academic Commons today released its December 2007 special issue
devoted to CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & THE LIBERAL ARTS
(www.academiccommons.org/).
Edited by David L. Green (Principal at Knowledge Culture), the issue
is dedicated to the memory of Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), an
extraordinary historian who inspired a generation of fellow
historians and others working at the intersection of the humanities
and new technologies (http://thanksroy.org/).
Cyberinfrastructure offers the liberal arts new resources and new
ways of working - with revolutionary computing capabilities, massive
data resources and distributed human expertise. How will students,
scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals and others
connect, use and contribute to these new capabilities? Will humanists
work collaboratively and produce new forms of scholarship "more
interesting than the book"? How will institutions change the way they
do business in putting cyberinfrastructure to work?
This collection of essays, interviews and reviews captures the
perspectives of scholars, scientists, information technologists and
administrators on the challenges and opportunities
cyberinfrastructure presents for the liberal arts and liberal arts
colleges. What difference will cyberinfrastructure make and how
should we prepare?
Table of Contents: http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/
announcement/table-of-contents
*Introduction*
- David L. Green, "A Cyberinfrastructure for Us All."
*Humanities Cyberinfrastructure*
- Gary Wells, "The (Uncommon) Challenge of the Cultural
Commonwealth" (Review)
- Kevin Guthrie, "Beyond the ACLS Report: An Interview with John
Unsworth." (Interview)
*Beyond the Two Cultures*
- Michael Lesk, "From Data to Wisdom: Humanities Research and
Online Content." (Essay)
- Sayeed Choudhury and Timothy Stinson, "The Virtual Observatory
and the Roman de la Rose:
Unexpected Relationships and the Collaborative
Imperative." (Essay)
*Cyberscholarship*
- Gregory Crane, "'Building the Infrastructure for
Cyberscholarship'." (Review)
- Janet Murray, "Cyberinfrastructure as Cognitive Scaffolding:
The Role of Genre Creation
in Knowledge Making." (Essay)
- Amelia Carr, Guy Hedreen, and Dana Leibsohn,
"Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of
Art History." (Roundtable Discussion)
*Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums*
- David Green, "Leveraging Institutional Change: An Interview with
James J. O'Donnell." (Interview)
- David Green, "Museums, Cataloging & Content Infrastructure:
An Interview with Kenneth Hamma." (Interview)
- John Weber, "College Museums in a Networked Era--Two
Propositions." (Essay)
*Institutional Change: Colleges and Museums*
- Francis Starr, "Deploying Cyberinfrastructure for the Sciences
at
Liberal Arts Colleges." (Essay)
- Todd Kelley, "Managed Cyber Services as a Cyberinfrastructure
Strategy for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education."
(Essay)
- Matthew Coté, "The Sciences, Cyberinfrastructure and the
Liberal Arts:
The Case of the Bates College Imaging Center." (Essay)
*Profiles*
An initial list with descriptions of some key organizations and
networks whose missions include leveraging cyberinfrastructure.
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (AHDO)
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- ARTstor
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Cyberinfrastructure Partnership (CIP) & Cyberinfrastructure
Technology Watch
- Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced
Collaboratory (HASTAC)
- CenterNet
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Ithaka
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- NITLE
- Open Content Alliance
- Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research
(SEASR)
David Green
Knowledge Culture
http://www.knowledgeculture.com
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203-345-3228
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:13:17 -0800
From: "Christine L. Sundt" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:[ARLIS-L] Visual Resources XXIII:4 - just published
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VISUAL RESOURCES
An International Journal of Documentation
Edited by Christine L. Sundt and Helene E. Roberts, Senior Editor
ISSN 0197-3762
Vol. XXIII, No. 4, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial: The Photograph as Document (287)
News from the Field (289-290)
ARTICLES
Wendy A. Grossman, From Ethnographic Object to Modernist Icon:
Photographs of African and Oceanic Sculpture and the Rhetoric of the
Image (291-336)
Carol Payne, Negotiating Photographic Modernism in USA: A Quarterly
Magazine of the American Scene (1930) (337-351)
EDITORS' CHOICE
William C. Brumfield, Photographing an Architectural Legacy in the
Chita Region of Eastern Siberia (353-393)
REVIEWS
Nora Niedzielski-Eichner and Sarah Richardson, Figuring It Out:
Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, edited by Ann Shteir and Bernard
Lightman (395-400)
Edward H. Teague, Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for
Libraries, by Mark Jordan (400-402)
Contributors (403-405)
Author Index (Volume XXIII) (407-409)
Image Index (Volume XXIII) (411-419)
____________
Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation is devoted
to the study of images and their uses. While images of architecture
and works of art constitute its main focus, it also includes other
subjects and contexts in a wide range of formats. Its scope delves
into the past and looks toward the future, revealing how images have
influenced the perception of art and how the interpretation of images
conditions and enhances academic disciplines such as archaeology,
history, and particularly art and architectural history.
Visual Resources explores how visual language is structured and visual
meaning communicated and also illustrates how picture collections are
acquired, organized, indexed, and preserved. VR examines early attempts to
document the visual, reports on the state of visual resources, assesses the
effect of electronic technology on current and future uses, and provides a
platform for reporting innovative ways to organize and access visual
information – while aiming to increase the recognition and appreciation of
visual documentation.
Over the years, VR has published articles about verbal descriptions of art
and architecture; copies, casts, and facsimiles; drawings,
paintings, and prints; photography; library, archive, and museum
collections; iconography; and computers and electronic imagery - and
how these have functioned as documents of art and culture.
For more information about Visual Resources and special subscription
offers (News & Offers) for members of CAA, VRA, and AHA, please visit
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01973762.asp
--
Christine L. Sundt
Visual Resources
Editor, Consultant & Educator
P.O. Box 5316
Eugene, OR 97405-0316 USA
541.485.1420
VR Website: http://www.mindspring.com/~sundt-vr/<http://www.mindspring.com/%7Esundt-vr/>
csundt(at)mindspring.com or
csundt(at)gmail.com
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:49:36 -0700
From: "Wolfe, Paula" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:[ARLIS-L] As promised! More tours for ARLIS Denver Conference;
To: [log in to unmask]
ARLIS/NA at Altitude – Denver Conference Tours – 4 hour tours
Denver conference planners have arranged several tours for you to get to
know downtown Denver, Denver's parks, neighborhoods and cemeteries, and the
cities of Colorado Springs and Boulder.
Denver Cemetery Tour: learn more about Denver through its departed
denizens. Professor Annette Stott from the University of Denver, a local
cemetery scholar, will lead this tour of Riverside and Fairmount
cemeteries. Find out how local cemeteries reveal Denver's transition from
the Wild West to civilization, about the excavation of stone for markers,
the stone carvers, and those who are buried and commemorated.
Denver Parks and Neighborhoods: join guide Carolyn Etter, a former
manager of the Denver Parks and Recreation Department, for a tour that
starts on the east side of town in City Park, with its view west over
downtown Denver to the Rocky Mountains. The next stop is Cheesman Park,
which borders the Capital Hill neighborhood, then you'll have time to walk
around and explore Denver's 23-acre Botanic Gardens (admission included in
tour price) [http://www.botanicgardens.org/ourgardensnew/yorkstreet.cfm.]
Next, to Washington Park on the south side of town—with its lake and boating
Pavillion, this is one of the most popular local spots for runners. Two
parks on the west side of town, Berkeley and Sloan's Lake, will cap the tour
with views of the mountains to the west and downtown Denver to the east.
Denver Mountain Parks: Denver's mountain park system comprises over
14,000 acres, from the renowned Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre, to Genesee
with its bison herd, to Buffalo Bill Cody's gravesite and museum, which
overlooks the entire Denver area. This tour to the west of town will take
you into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, including the scenic towns of
Evergreen and Golden, Colorado.
For the full list of tours with their dates and times, check the program on
the conference web site: http://arlisna-mw.lib.byu.edu/denver2008/
Paula Wolfe
Fine Arts and Architecture Librarian
1015 N Olive Street
University of Arizona
Fine Arts Library
Office 231b
Tucson, Arizona 85721
520-626-9434
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:15:41 -0800
From: "Cara List" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:[ARLIS-L] Timberline Acquisitions Institute
To: [log in to unmask]
Timberline Acquisitions Institute Program Proposals due by Dec. 30, 2007
What is the Acquisitions Institute?
The pre-eminent Western North American conference on acquisitions and
collection development, now in its seventh year at Timberline Lodge, one
hour east of Portland, Oregon on the slope of Mt. Hood
Saturday, May 17th through Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A small, informal and stimulating gathering in a convivial and glorious
Northwestern setting
A three-day conference focusing on the methods and madness of building and
managing library collections
See the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge
website<http://libweb.uoregon.edu/events/aitl>for more information.
Topics we are looking for?
The planning committee is open to presentations on all aspects of library
acquisitions and collection management. Presenters are encouraged to engage
the audience in discussion. Panel discussions are well received. The
planning committee may wish to bring individual proposals together to form
panels.
The committee is especially looking for submissions on the following topics:
Operations management of acquisitions or collection development
The culture of acquisitions
Organization for collection development
Role of consortia in collection development
Financial management, accounting practices, and audits
Integrated library systems as management information systems
Personnel issues and strategies for change
Recruiting and retaining technical services and collection development
librarians
Changing roles of book vendors and subscription agents
Vendor selection and assessment
Economics of scholarly publishing
Publishing, pricing and distributing electronic journals
Electronic books: content, access, cataloging
External forces driving a library's collection management decisions
Problems of (and solutions for) managing electronic resources
Linking collections with learning outcomes
HOW do I submit a proposal?
* Send an abstract of 200 words or less to:
Richard Brumley
Oregon State University Libraries, retired
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
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Voice: (541) 725 - 6635
The Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge planning committee consists
of Richard Brumley, Oregon State University; Nancy Slight-Gibney, University
of Oregon; Faye Chadwell, Oregon State University, and Scott Alan Smith,
Blackwell's Book Services.
--
Cara List
Art and Architecture Reference Librarian
Architecture and Allied Arts Library
5249 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5249
541-346-2200
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--
Erica Foden-Lenahan
Geffrye Museum
