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Dear All,
Here is the latest news from the art libraries world.

As an extra note, I am adding the news that David Mirvish Books in Toronto is closing at the end of February. I saw it as a newspaper story. Some of you may use them to source books on Canadian art, there really is no rival that I am aware of, and it is good to know that although the shop is closing down, they will continue to maintain mailorder.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090115.WBBooksblog20090115194632/WBStory/WBBooksblog/

Best wishes,
Erica Foden-Lenahan
Courtauld Institute of Art


2009-01-18 International News digested


NEW IFLA Publication - Nr. 134
Monday, 12 January, 2009 9:18:45
Sofia Kapnisi <[log in to unmask]>
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Just off the press as Nr 134 in the IFLA Publications Series:

Libraries and Information Services Towards the Attainment of
the UN Millennium Development Goals

The United Nations Millennium declarations of 2002 set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015.

The high poverty levels in most African countries make many aware that it is no longer up to the governments alone to find ways of abetting it, but that other organizations need to join the fight.
Libraries are well placed to contribute to the development process in supporting it by providing relevant, up to date and reliable information.

The papers presented in this publication address the question how African libraries and information professionals seek to make themselves relevant to national development.
All of them focus on how libraries and information centres could contribute to the attainment of these MDGs.

The papers are a selection of the proceedings of the Eighteenth Standing Conference of East, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) held in Lusaka, Zambia,
from 15th – 18th July 2008.

 

Libraries and Information Services Towards the Attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals
Edited by Benson Njobvu and Sjoerd Koopman. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2008 (IFLA Publications; 134)

ISBN 978-3-598-22040-1

 

Price: EUR 79,95 (EUR 73,50 for IFLA Members)

 

Price for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 112.00 (US$ 84.00 for IFLA Members)

 

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[ARLIS-L] New publication from The Morgan Library & Museum

Tuesday, 13 January, 2009 18:11:50

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The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to announce the publication of The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002, by Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Jennifer Tonkovich, Isabelle Dervaux, Cara Denison, and others; foreword by William M. Griswold, preface by Eugene V. Thaw.  
 
One of the most spectacular privately held groups of master drawings and a promised gift to The Morgan Library & Museum, the collection assembled by Eugene V. and Clare Thaw numbers almost four hundred works on paper. The current publication features the Thaws most recent acquisitions-a group distinguished by modern drawings, such as an important Jackson Pollock, as well as fine examples by Henri Matisse, Jim Dine, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, and David Smith. The nineteenth century, which remains of vital interest to the Thaws, is represented by a remarkable landscape by Edgar Degas; the seminal pastel Study for Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, by Paul Gauguin; a rare early figure study by Claude Monet; a refined pair of Ingres portraits long hidden from public view; and works by German artists, such as Johann Georg von Dillis, Carl Gustav Carus and the poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Though less numerous, the old masters, a traditional strength of the collection, are equally remarkable, with a sensitive pastel of a male head by Federico Barocci and a grand topographical view of Tangiers by Wenceslaus Hollar.
 
Published by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
8 x 11, 198 pp., 102 illustrations, most in color
January 2009
$25.00 paper (978-0-87598-153-6)
For ordering information, please call 212-590-0390.



[ARLIS-L] Exhibition opening in Windsor, Ontario
Wednesday, 14 January, 2009 17:18:44
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Dear list,

Please join me for the opening reception of "It's alive!" this Friday from 7-10pm at the Art Gallery of Windsor (in Windsor, Ontario CANADA). "It's alive!" presents paintings, advertisements and films by Bertram Brooker (1888-1955), one of Canada's first modern artists. For more information, please visit the AGW's website: http://www.artgalleryofwindsor.com/fr_exh.html

Also, on Saturday, January 17 at 1pm please join AGW curator Cassandra Getty and myself for a talk on Canadian modernism, with a special emphasis on the artists featured in the AGW's Winter/Spring programming: Kathleen Munn, Lowrie Warrener and Bertram Brooker.

Location information:

Art Gallery of Windsor
401 Riverside Drive West
Windsor, Ontario

 

(Apologies for cross postings.)

Hope to see you there!

 

 

Adam Lauder

Liaison Librarian

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

McGill University

3459 McTavish   

Montréal, Québec H3A 1Y1

T: (514) 398-4785

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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/