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I've shared a document with you called "2009-02-08 International News digested": http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhb7n34c_59gxt77qgw&invite=gk4srbh It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above. --- Dear Colleagues, Here is the roundup from this week's ARLIS international discussion lists. There is bad news as the budget cuts are hitting the museum sector hard in the US. Best wishes, Erica Foden-Lenahan Courtauld Institute of Art 2009-02-08 International News digested [ARLIS-L] Best practices for Access to Images:Recommendations for Scholarly Use and Publishing Sunday, 1 February, 2009 22:32:22 Sarah McCleskey <[log in to unmask]> From the Max Planck Institute, and fascinating (to me anyway) http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/MPIWGBestPracticesRecommendations.pdf Sarah McC. Sarah E. McCleskey Head of Access Services Acting Director, Film and Media Library 112 Axinn Library 123 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 [log in to unmask] 516-463-5076 (o) 516-463-4309 (f) [ARLIS-L] Fallout from Brandeis Monday, 2 February, 2009 13:59:03 Peter Stern <[log in to unmask]> "In the Closing of Brandeis Museum, a Stark Statement of Priorities By ROBERTA SMITH Published: February 1, 2009 WALTHAM, Mass. - Few things are more poignant than a gem of a museum whose days may be numbered. So it was at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University on a visit Friday, days after the university's trustees voted unanimously to trash the institution by closing it and auctioning off the 6,000 works in its collection. The action came without consulting either the museum's own board of governors or its director, Michael Rush." Entire article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/arts/design/02rose.html?ref=arts Peter Stern, Ph.D. Bibliographer for Romance Languages, Fine Arts, and Area Studies Adjunct Assoc. Professor, History Department 1967 Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts 154 Hicks Way Amherst MA 01003-9275 413-545-3967 413 577-2565 (fax) [log in to unmask] http://library.umass.edu/subject/latam [IFLAART] Trying to recruit new members to our IFLA Art Library Section Monday, 2 February, 2009 14:08:33 "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Dear colleagues, Last summer in Quebec, the Art Library Section Committee decided that something ought to be done to increase the number of our section members : you probably know that on our number of adhesions depends the level of the subvention we get from the IFLA headquarters, and the bigger we are, the better it is ... Consequently, we wrote together a little "recruiting" message, a kind of advertisement for our section, to be sent to all kind of libraries, associations, institutions, organizations, companies in the field of art or art documentation, NOT being already members of our section, possibly in all countries, to make new adhesions as quickly as possible. Here is this message : And what the standing committee would like you all very much to do is TO SEND (ME) ALL THE NAMES AND ADRESSES (preferentially EMAIL adresses) of any organization you could think about, IN YOUR COUNTRY, or in another one, belonging to any area not already present in our section for example, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I will then try to achieve quickly this international advertisement campaign for us all ... To help your brain storming a bit, here is the present list of members of ALS Section : THANK YOU ALL very much in advance, Best wishes Lucile Trunel Chef du secteur Art, Service Littératures orientales et art Département de Littérature et Art, Direction des Collections Bibliothèque nationale de France Tél : 01 53 79 56 10 [ARLIS-L] Registration for the ARLIS/NA - VRAF Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources & Images Monday, 2 February, 2009 17:06:58 "Keefe, Jeanne" <[log in to unmask]> REGISTRATION TO OPEN MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd FOR THE SUMMER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VISUAL RESOURCES AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT TO BE OFFERED IN JUNE 8-13, 2009. The Art Libraries Society/North America (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) are pleased to announce that registration for the sixth Summer Educational Institute (SEI) for Visual Resources and Image Management will open Monday, February 2, 2009. The Summer Educational Institute will be held at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, from June 8 through June 13, 2009. It is an intensive 5-day workshop intended to provide instruction in visual resources and image collection management. ARLIS/NA and the VRAF have developed a special curriculum to provide intensive training in these areas, training that is often not found in library and information science degree programs. The Summer Educational Institute is relevant for beginning visual resources professionals as well as experienced professionals requiring new skills and knowledge. Instructors are drawn from professionals in the field of visual resources and library and information science. Tuition is $675 for ARLIS/NA and VRA members and $725 for non-members. Reasonably priced accommodations in a Simmons College dormitory are available for $360 (single occupancy with AC). A cafeteria-style meal plan (breakfast, lunch & dinner) is offered at $27.50 per day. While this year’s curriculum will continue to evolve over the next few months, the basic course offerings will remain the same as they were in 2008. Information on accommodations, meal plans and registration procedures are now available on the SEI 2009 website. Contacts (Summer Educational Institute Implementation Committee Co-Chairs): Jeanne M. Keefe Visual Resources Librarian Architecture Library Greene Building, Rm 306 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 [log in to unmask] (518) 276-2727 Alix Reiskind Visual Resources Librarian Frances Loeb Library Harvard Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 [log in to unmask] 617.496.8673 [ARLIS-L] black friday at MOCA Monday, 2 February, 2009 20:00:55 Lynda Bunting <[log in to unmask]> Hi all, I’m reposting this message with a more descriptive subject line. I survived "Black Friday" at MOCA, but my one and only assistant was laid off. Looking at the cuts across the board, I have to assure you that the library was not singled out. We lost four other curatorial support positions. A couple of curators will be without assistants, at least in the short term. Our education department was hit the hardest. In an effort to look on the bright side, I'm forwarding a link to the online Artforum "critics' pick" review of the artists' book exhibition I co-curated: http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks21949. For the next two weeks, it will be the ONLY exhibition open at MOCA. The Geffen is completely closed for budget reasons; and Grand Ave is undergoing installation. The Dan Graham exhibition and some permanent collection will open on Feb. 15. If you're coming out for CAA, please stop by to say hello. Lynda Lynda Bunting Librarian and Archivist The Museum of Contemporary Art 250 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-621-1792 [ARLIS-L] New art conservation multilingual dictionary on-line: English-Spanish-French Thursday, 5 February, 2009 16:49:13 mireia xarrie <[log in to unmask]> New art conservation multilingual dictionary on-line: English-Spanish-French Dear collegues, I would like to ask your help to diffuse this project, which is a multilingual dictionary on-line (English, Spanish and French): http://www.balaam-art.com/translation.html You will find about 13,000 entries about art conservation, and if it is a useful tool, then we will add terms about museology, heritage and archives. Some institutions are adding this project to their websites, for instance, Stanford University (Conservation lexical resources). Kind regards, Mireia Xarrié Escoles pies 76 08017 Barcelona [log in to unmask]