Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! In partnership with the Collection Development SIG, the Academic Library Division will be hosting its quarterly open forum on Tuesday, November 28th at 3pm EST/ 2pm CST / 1pm MST / 12pm PST. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the management of serials collections.

Forum topics will…[Read more]

November 16th : 5:30 PM ET. Hybrid Event: Trance, Dance, and Surrealism: Françoise Sullivan & Les Automatistes in World War II-era Montréal

Join the McGill Libraries, the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and the CIAC (Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal ) for a talk by art historian Prof. Abigail Susik, celebr…[Read more]

Call for Reviewers – Library Exhibitions Review due December 1, 2023!

Library Exhibitions Review is published annually by the ARLIS/NA Exhibitions Special Interest Group. Our inaugural issue was published in Spring 2023. We are in the process of putting together our second issue.

We have collected a list of exhibitions available for review!…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS friends,

The ARLIS-MOQ chapter is excited to be hosting a Research Roundup of conference presentations given earlier this year. We hope some of our colleagues from across Canada will join us! More info below.

All best,

Gwen

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Un tour d’horizon de la recherche Research Roundup

Diego Rivera Mural of Mexican History: C…[Read more]

Greetings, and thank you to everyone who attended our spring Auction Catalogs SIG meeting!  It was good to welcome new members and see familiar faces.  Notes from that meeting have been added to the documents section of the SIG page on Humanities Commons.  Many thanks to Jessica Aberle for compiling the minutes!

As a follow-up, we thought it wo…[Read more]

We are having a meeting of the Artist Files SIG on Thursday, October 26 at 10am PDT/ 11am MDT/12pm CDT/1pm EDT/2pm ADT. All are welcome to join!

Meet your new SIG co-coordinators (myself and Freyja Catton) and join in an informal conversation to share updates on all things related to artist files, and make some plans for the year ahead.

This is…[Read more]

Melva Dwyer était autrefois chef de la Bibliothèque des beaux-arts de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Le Prix Melva J. Dwyer a été créé en reconnaissance de sa contribution au domaine des bibliothèques d’art. Il récompense les créateurs d’instruments exceptionnels de consultation et de recherche dans le monde de l’architecture e…[Read more]

The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The award is adjudicated by a j…[Read more]

Please join us on November 8, 2023 at 11 am Pacific time to learn more about the Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA)!

CARTA facilitates the development of a collaborative entity of art libraries building collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice. Through this consortial approach, the project…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

The listserv is still down, so I’m sharing this on ARLIS Commons in a few relevant places. I hope it’s ok to share here! We are hosting a virtual conversation between feminist art critic Lucy Lippard and public artist Tomie Arai this coming Monday, October 2, at 3 p.m. ET. To register and read more information, please check out this…[Read more]