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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
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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.
"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 ½-by-11-inch format to 6 ½ inches square."
"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!
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
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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 Ođuz
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
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Index
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[ARLIS-L] Networking Names Report now available!
Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 19:10:34
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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
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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.
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[ARLIS-L] id.loc.gov is up
Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 20:56:32
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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.
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[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
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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
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