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I've shared a document with you called "2009-05-08 INTERNATIONAL NEWS DIGESTED": http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhb7n34c_1097w7bvnpt&invite=1256586122 It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above. --- Dear Colleagues, It's a long digest this week - exhibition, new things from IFLA, RLG and Library of Congress, news about Avery and Getty Vocabularies, and so much more. Hope you find it interesting and useful. Best wishes, Erica Foden-Lenahan Book Library The Courtauld Institute of Art 2009-05-08 INTERNATIONAL NEWS DIGESTED [ARLIS-L] Lydia Venieri - See No Evil Friday, 1 May, 2009 17:21:29 Arezoo Moseni <[log in to unmask]> Lydia Venieri See No Evil 01 May - 24 June 2009 Art Wall on Third The Art Collection, 3rd floor Mid-Manhattan Library 40th Street @ 5th Avenue New York , NY 10016 212-340-0871 Mon-Wed 9-9, Thu-Sat 10-6, Sun 1-5 01 - 31 May 2009 Art in the Windows On view day and night The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library is pleased to present two exhibitions of color digital photographs by the well-known multi-media artist Lydia Venieri. In See No Evil she questions the media's distortion of reality by how images of war and terror are represented, as she juxtaposes hyper-realistic pictures of war taken from film-stills with the images of children's dolls. These constructed photographs engage viewers in a world addressing technology and human perception in relation to the dissemination of images and information. Douglas Maxwell curator, art critic and assistant professor of arts at New York University , will join Venieri for an Artist Dialogue on Monday May 18th at 6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor. The exhibition series Art in the Windows and Art Wall on Third are curated by Arezoo Moseni. [ARLIS-L] The Future of Auction Catalogs Saturday, 2 May, 2009 19:19:58 Joan Benedetti <[log in to unmask]> Dear Colleagues: For those of you that collect auction catalogs, some interesting news from today's NYTimes-- "For next week's spring sales, 10,000 of Sotheby's top clients received a USB stick no bigger than a credit card, an e-version of the catalog, which they can plug into their computers to read without being online. (They got the print version as well.) This tiny device is only one way that the auction houses are downsizing their catalogs. Christie's has cut back on color photographs and essays to make its catalogs thinner. And in addition to its USB stick, when Sotheby's mailed the print versions of its Latin American art sale catalogs earlier this week, it had shrunk them from the traditional 8 1/2-by-11-inch format to 6 1/2 inches square." On the other hand (from the same article)-- "While it is likely that online catalogs are the future for both companies, bibliophiles may miss the collectible aspect of some past sales publications. Christie's recent sale of art and objects belonging to Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, in Paris this winter, was promoted with a boxed set of five catalogs, totaling 1,800 pages. The set weighed 22 pounds and cost $290; its edition of 7,000 sold out weeks before the sale. Copies are now for sale on eBay for $1,900. And despite its innovations, Sotheby's doesn't rule out lavish printed publications. 'If we get a $100 million collection,' Ms. Middleton was quick to say, 'then we will print whatever catalog we need to.' " Obviously, print still has its privileges. Here's the link to the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02cata.html Joan Benedetti NEW IFLA Publication! nr. 138 - Library statistics for the 21st century world Monday, 4 May, 2009 10:31:09 Sofia Kapnisi <[log in to unmask]> NEW IFLA Publication! Just off the press as Nr 138 in the IFLA Publications Series: Library statistics for the 21st century world An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book presents the first results using the new statistics, and look forward to the next steps. It also contains other initiatives and developments in the fields of library statistics, benchmarking and indicators. Library statistics for the 21st century world Ed. by Michael Heaney. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2009 (IFLA Publications Nr 138). ISBN 978-3-598-22043-2 EUR 99.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 140.00. Special price for IFLA members EUR 75.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 105.00. * Also available as an eBook Order: K. G. Saur Verlag: www.saur.de or Rhenus Medien Logistik GmbH & Co. KG Justus-von-Liebig-Straße 1 86899 Landsberg, Germany Tel. +49 (0)8191 9 70 00-214 Fax: +49 (0)8191 9 70 00-560 [log in to unmask] For the USA - Canada - Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. P.O. Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960, USA Phone: + 1 (703) 661-1589 Toll free: +1 (800) 208-8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661-1501 [log in to unmask] TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword - Peter Johan Lor Introduction - Ismail Abdullahi Acknowledgements Part 1-Africa Introduction - Dennis Ocholla Public Libraries - Isaac Kigongo Bukenya Academic Libraries - Reggie Raju and Jaya Raju. Special Libraries - Janneke Mostert School Libraries - Robert Ikoja Odongo LIS Education - Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha and Mabel K. Minishi-Majanja Part 2-Asia Introduction - Abdus Sattar Chaudhry and Chihfeng P. Lin Public Libraries - Mei-Hwa Yang Academic Libraries - Trishanjit Kaur Special Libraries - Anthony W. Ferguson and Chihfeng P. Lin LIS Education - Christopher S. G. Khoo, Shaheen Majid, and Chihfeng P. Lin Part 3-Australia Introduction - Stuart Ferguson Public Libraries - Chris Jones, Philip Calvert and Stuart Ferguson Academic Libraries - Anne Horn, Philip Calvert and Stuart Ferguson Special Libraries - Sue Henczel, Gillian Ralph and Julie Sibthorpe School Libraries - James E. Herring LIS Education - Gillian Hallam and Philip Calvert Part 4-Europe Introduction - Leif Kajberg and Marian Koren Public Libraries - Marian Koren. Academic Libraries - Frédéric Blin LIS Education - Leif Kajberg, Aleksandra Horvat and Esin Sultan Oðuz Part 5-Latin America Introduction - Filiberto Felipe Martínez-Arellano Public Libraries - Elsa M. Ramírez Leyva University Libraries - Filiberto Felipe Martínez-Arellano School Libraries - Mary Giraldo Rengifo LIS Education - Adolfo Rodríguez Gallardo Part 6-Middle East Introduction - Sajjad ur-Rehman Public Libraries - Hayat Alyaqou Academic Libraries - Teresa M. Lesher and Yaser Abdel-Motey Special Libraries - Rehman Al-Issa School Libraries - Hamad Ibrahim Alomran LIS Education - Sajjad ur-Rehman Part 7-North America Introduction - Ismail Abdullahi Public Libraries - Carol Brey-Casiano Academic Libraries - Barbara I. Dewey Special Libraries - Rebecca B. Vargha School Libraries - Blanche Woolls LIS Education - Irene Owens and Tom Leonhardt Global Roles of Library Associations - Michael Dowling and Keith Michael Fiels Authors . Regional Editors Index Kind Regards, Sofia Kapnisi Professional Communications Officer Visit the new IFLA website at www.ifla.org ! P.O.Box 95312 2509 CH Den Haag The Netherlands tel. +31 70 3140884 fax.+31 70 3834827 www.ifla.org [ARLIS-L] Networking Names Report now available! Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 19:10:34 "Waibel,Guenter" <[log in to unmask]> Particularly in light of Rodica Krauss's panel "Evolving Authority Control Resources and Techniques in the Digital Age" in Indianapolis, I thought I'd forward this announcement of the new report "Networking Names", written by a delightfully diverse working group of RLG Partners. Some ARLIS regulars, such as Deborah Kempe, Daniel Starr and Amy Lucker, contributed to the report. Enjoy! Günter *** Networking Names report now available The fifteen members of the RLG Partners Networking Names Advisory Group have articulated the problem space that the research community needs to address and the necessary components for a "Cooperative Identities Hub" that would have the most impact across different target audiences. The group developed fourteen use case scenarios around academic libraries and scholars, archivists and archival users, and institutional repositories that provide the context in which different communities would benefit from aggregating information about persons and organizations, corporate and government bodies, and families, and making it available on a network level. Check out the just published Networking Names report that summarizes the group's recommendations on the functions and attributes needed to support the use case scenarios, and send your reactions and comments to Karen Smith-Yoshimura. Günter Waibel Program Officer, OCLC Research 777 Mariners Island Blvd. Suite 550 San Mateo CA 94404 voice: +1-650-287-2144 Günter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org [ARLIS-L] id.loc.gov is up Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 20:56:32 Sherman Clarke <[log in to unmask]> The Library of Congress has opened a new site -- http://id.loc.gov -- which will provide access to various vocabularies and standards maintained at LC. This replaces lcsh.info which was on a non-official site and provided access to LCSH is machine-readable formats. Below is the announcement message sent out by Sally McCallum, head of the Network Development and MARC Standards Office: The Library of Congress has opened its ID.LOC.GOV web service, Authorities and Vocabularies, with the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) as the initial offering. The primary goal of this service is to enable machines to programmatically access data at the Library of Congress but the web interface also provides simple user access. We view this service as a step toward exposing and interconnecting vocabulary and thesaurus data via URLs. For LCSH, we are fortunate to have been able to link terms to a similar service provided in Europe for RAMEAU, a French subject heading vocabulary closely coordinated with LCSH. We are very interested to get feedback on the uses and usefulness of the service to inform ways that we might enhance it. (There is a comment form at the site.). Over the next few months we will also be expanding it to other vocabularies commonly found in standards that the Library supports such as the Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, geographic area, language, and relator codes, and preservation events and roles. So please go to the site and explore it for yourself at http://id.loc.gov. **************************************************** Sally H. McCallum, Chief, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 USA [log in to unmask] (Voice: 1-202-707 5119) (Fax: 1-202-707 0115) **************************************************** [forwarded to VRA-L and ARLIS-L by Sherman Clarke, New York University Libraries (retired), [log in to unmask]] [ARLIS-L] Getty Vocabulary Program update Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 0:16:25 Jonathan Ward <[log in to unmask]> A message from Murtha Baca: Many of you may have read or heard about recent budget cuts at the Getty Trust. This is indeed a challenging time at the Getty, and at many other organizations. But we remain committed to fulfilling our core mission as an institution dedicated to research, collecting, preservation, and education. I am happy to report that the Getty Vocabulary Program will continue, and will be more closely integrated with the cataloging and descriptive metadata units at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). We will also continue to enhance the multilingual aspect of our vocabularies through international partnerships with other cultural organizations. Now, more than ever, the collaborative model of building and growing our vocabularies is the key to their continued development and usefulness for the international art history and visual resources communities. We welcome data contributions from the many professionals who use the AAT, ULAN, and TGN on a regular basis. Your continued use and support of our vocabulary resources will enable us to continue to provide up-to-date, relevant tools for the international art-historical documentation community. Murtha Baca Getty Research Institute [ARLIS-L] Avery Index update Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 13:45:05 Edward C. Goodman <[log in to unmask]> Many of you have seen Terry Ford's note regarding recent budget cuts at the Getty Trust or read about them in the newspaper. At the ARLIS/NA conference in Indianapolis, Jim Neal, Columbia University Librarian, announced that effective June 30, the Getty Trust will no longer be supporting the Avery Index. Jim Neal is determined to continue the Index under Columbia. The Getty will be returning all data and copyright to Columbia. The vendor contracts and royalties will also come back to Columbia. We do not anticipate any problems with the transition and you should expect the usual up-to-date information from whichever vendor you use. A joint press release will be released shortly. Thanks to the Getty Trust for supporting the Avery Index for 25 years! We look forward to the next 25 under Columbia! Best, Ted Goodman General Editor Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [log in to unmask]