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Dear Colleagues,

This is the last digest before Christimas, but I think you'll find it is an important one with the preliminary programme for ARLIS/NA conference and the call for papers at the IFLA Conference in Milan, with a pre-conference in Florence.

Best wishes for the holiday season and for 2009.

Erica Foden-Lenahan
Courtauld Institute of Art

2008-12-13    International news digested

[ARLIS-L] PRELIMINARY PROGRAM for the 2009 ARLIS/NA Conferencen Indianapolis, April 16-21st, now availabl
Monday, 8 December, 2008 20:54:44
"Fry, P. Eileen" <[log in to unmask]>
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We are pleased to announce that the PRELIMINARY PROGRAM for the 37th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference in Indianapolis, April 16-21, 2009 is now available on the conference website http://www.indiana.edu/~indycon/

 

Our PRELIMINARY PROGRAM, available both by day and by type of event, is packed with intriguing tours, enriching workshops, challenging sessions, and sumptuous events, all packaged in the friendly, comfortable, and convenient setting of the Indianapolis Marriot Downtown, the museum-studded Canal Walk, the campus of IUPUI, and the Circle Centre Mall.

 

 

Indianapolis is in the center of the country.  Those of you flying in will be among the first to experience our stunning new airport, but with gas now so cheap (can you believe it?), many of you may want to consider driving and carpooling.

 

Conference highlights include:

- Opening Plenary on Managing Progressive Change, keynote with Jim Neal, University Librarian, Columbia University

- Workshops on Cataloging Artists Books, Mashups, Letterpress, Decision Trees, Resumes, and Mentoring

- Web Kiosk & Internet Caf¨¦

- IU Reunion in honor of BJ Irvine

- Tours in Indianapolis, Columbus, and Bloomington

- First-time attendees survival guide

 

Get Ready to ¡°StART your engines¡± for our Circle City Convergence!

 

Eileen Fry and Tony White

2009 Conference Program Co-Chairs

 

Sonja Staum-Kuniej and Alba Fern¨¢ndez-Keys

2009 Conference Local Arrangements Co-Chairs




[ARLIS-L] Islamic/Mudejar architecture images
Wednesday, 10 December, 2008 18:21:00
Linda Duychak <[log in to unmask]>
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Colleagues--
This is a belated announcement of an online digital project created by the University of Wisconsin, Madison libraries for open use in research and teaching. 

The Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain is a searchable digitized collection of approximately 4,000 color and black/white images.

For more info, see http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.CasselmanImage

And let me know if you have questions or comments.
Best,
--Linda

Linda Duychak, Art Reference Librarian
Kohler Art Library
University of Wisconsin, Madison



[ARLIS-L] NEH Summer Institute Opportunity
Thursday, 11 December, 2008 15:38:00
Kristen Regina <[log in to unmask]>

I am posting this on behalf of Robert Davis , one of the Co-Directors of this institute.  Please feel free to contact him directly if you have any questions (his coordinates are listed below).

 

Kristen

 

America Engages Russia, Circa 1880-ca. 1930:

Studies in Cultural Interaction

 

A Summer Institute Funded by

The National Endowment for the Humanities

The New York Public Library

Sunday June 14 ¨C Friday July 3, 2009

 

     The Institute will bring together twenty-five university teaching faculty, curators, and senior bibliographers with nationally-recognized Session Leaders to consider, investigate, and reflect upon the implications of the various forms of cultural engagement between the United States and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 1930s. Over a period of three weeks, daily sessions, discussions, field trips, and independent project research will explore strategies for developing and implementing new teaching and educational paradigms.

During the Institute, participants will have the opportunity to work with many of North America¡¯s greatest repositories of Americana and Slavic and East European materials, among them the NYPL and Columbia University Libraries.  In addition, the Co-Directors Edward Kasinec (NYPL) and Robert Davis ( Columbia ) will assist participants in gaining access to the myriad other museums and archives in the Greater New York Metropolitan area.  

            A full description of the program, and details of the application process are available at www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/2009_neh.pdf, at www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/slavic/2009NEH.html; alternatively, you may contact the Co-Directors for further information at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]. 

Admission is competitive, and all applications MUST be postmarked no later than March 2, 2009.

Kristen Regina
Chief Librarian
Hillwood
Estate, Museum & Gardens
4155 Linnean Ave NW
Washington , D.C. 20008
202-243-3934
202-966-7846 fax
http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/resources/library.html




[IFLAART] Call for Papers

Friday, 12 December, 2008 10:04:22

Eila Ramo <[log in to unmask]>


World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage"
23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
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Call for Papers
Art Libraries Section

Theme: Art Libraries and Cultural Heritage: select, collect and connect.

In conjunction with the IFLA theme the Art Libraries Section proposes a two-part program under the title, ¡°Art Libraries and Cultural
Heritage: select, collect and connect. The sessions will address the art library¡¯s role and influence in selecting, gathering and disseminating cultural heritage. The Section welcomes proposals that address this theme in terms of technology, preservation, history, collection development, cataloging, display, outreach and other relevant areas of interest.

IFLA's Art Libraries Section invites you to submit a paper for a presentation on this theme for its 2-hour Open Session at the 75th World Library and Information Congress in Milan or at the Pre-Conference in Florence 19-20 August.

The aspects of the general topic could be:

- The heritage of art libraries: origin, development and direction.
- Case studies of private art libraries and collectors transferring their libraries into the public domain.
- New approaches to the original through technology.
- Fashioning Collections: The collector as selector. 
- Do art libraries today reflect personal or cultural bias or taste from the past?
- Preservation and conservation: of the libraries, the collections and the heritage they represent.
- Is the notion of rareness and value reserved only for printed and manuscript items? - What about files that are "born digital?"
- Text and Image: Developments in representing art library collections (cataloging, image databases, exhibition practices, outreach, publications, etc.)
- Simultaneous access to resources from libraries, museums and archives.
- New forms of access and analysis of cultural heritage materials.

Pre-Conference - Florence, 19-20 August 2009
For more interactive discussion of the practical issues related to the up-mentioned theme, the Art Libraries Section is pleased to announce its intention to hold a Pre-Conference in Florence, which should be more focused on the role of the art libraries for research and preservation of cultural heritage.
The pre-conference will be held in four different locations (institutions) and stress on four different thematic blocs. Every institution will have the time and the occasion to present its holdings, activities and projects. Afterwards time will be dedicated to presentations, conferences and discussions which should refer to a predefined general thematic line.

The institutions and themes:
1.      Library of the Uffizi Gallery: ¡°Art libraries and (museum) collections¡±
2.      Kunsthistorisches Institut: ¡°Research libraries and art history¡±
3.      Villa I Tatti: ¡°libraries and interdisciplinary research¡±
4.      Biblioteca Marucelliana (in cooperation with Riccardiana and Laurenziana): ¡°Libraries with historical holdings: local history and cultural heritage¡±

Submission guidelines
The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must  contain:
¡ñ    Title of paper.
¡ñ    Authors of the paper.
¡ñ    Abstract or summary of the paper (200-400 maximum words).
¡ñ    Speaker's info: name, address, professional affiliation, email address, biographical note (40 words).

Important Dates
January 30th 2008: Deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts.
March 1st 2008: Notification of acceptance by the Review Committee of the Section.
May 1st 2008: Deadline for submission of full text of the paper.

Please submit your proposals to:
Olga Sinitsyna, Chair of the Section
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
and
Eila Ramo, Secretary of the Section
E-mail: [log in to unmask]




For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2008 at http://www.arlis.org.uk/