The National Gallery of Art Library’s Image Collections Department welcomes applicants for two part-time student assistant positions. Students will have the opportunity to learn on-the-job about visual image resources in various formats and the role they play in research at museums and in the field of art history by working on a variety of t…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Summer Meeting will be held virtually on Friday, August 11 at 2:00 pm. An agenda is forthcoming.

Please join the Zoom meeting at:

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Meeting ID: 834 6904 9991Passcode: ARLIS23

In preparation for…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Summer Meeting will be held virtually on Friday, August 11 at 2:00 pm. Please let me know if you have any new business, announcements, or other items for the agenda. I will be sending the Zoom link and agenda in early August.

It’s also time to start thinking about our Fall/Winter Meeting. To…[Read more]

The International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL) invites abstract submissions for a special issue titled “Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums,” to be published in June 2024. IJoL is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on developments in the field of library and information science globally. IJoL is published quarterly, open acc…[Read more]

Hello Mid-Atlantic Chapter colleagues;

I am writing on behalf of Richard Merritt, a former furniture appraiser who is interested in donating books from his professional collection to libraries in the metropolitan DC area. The majority of the books are on early American furniture.

Mr. Merritt is kindly offering to donate books to libraries in…[Read more]

Happy Friday!

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of ARLIS/NA will conduct its spring business meeting virtually on Tuesday, May 2 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT. Please note that the meeting time listed in the Conference SCHED, 4 – 5 p.m. EDT, is incorrect.

• The meeting is open to Mid-Atlantic Chapter members and interested non-members.
• Join via Zoom a…

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The Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Chapters are joining together for a meetup at the Mexico City Conference! If you are a member of either chapter and are here in CDMX, join us at the Hilton Reforma Hotel Bar on Wednesday, April 19 at 6pm as we make a plan for a drink (or more) and an opportunity to bring our chapters together again.

See you…[Read more]

Hello, ARLIS Mid-Atlantic!

The big annual conference is approaching fast and we’re getting excited. In
that spirit we’ve prepared the list of conference highlights
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Check it out to see which members of our cha…[Read more]

Hello museum library colleagues! I am working with our curatorial department to assess and learn more about artists’ book collection in both our museum and library collections. I would love to find out a bit more about the logistics of your collections. I’ve created a short survey (less than 5 minutes) I kindly ask for those in museum libraries to…[Read more]

Hi all! I wanted to share an upcoming event that I am hosting on Friday, April 14 from 12-2, The Textile Museum’s annual Textile Research Day. It brings together university students from across disciplines to share their textile-related projects with the public. This year’s event will introduce the work of eight students whose topics range from t…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’d like to announce our Annual Meeting, to be held Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 10am PST/11am MST/12pm CST/1pm EST. Zoom information to follow. (Conference schedule link here.)

Join us for discussion of upcoming chapter plans, group updates, and calls for a new Vice Moderator and participants in a working group to kick off our updated…[Read more]

Hello, colleagues!

Please join us for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter’s spring business meeting on Tuesday, May 2 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT following the ARLIS/NA annual conference. The Chapter includes members from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Our meetings are open to anyone interested in attending. An…[Read more]

Sharing an RFQ!

This Request for Quote (RFQ) is issued by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI), for technical professional, non-personal services to provide to 2,000 hours of professional, technical, non-personal research and writing services to research, write, and review a minimum of-but not limited to- 30 fully…[Read more]

Hi all,

NPG has extended the period they are looking for a project-based contractor to assess a research collection! The CAP is an amazing collection.

This is ideal for someone with knowledge of art/historical research, so art historians or art-concentrated library experience is great. The term is more flexible than described—it does not r…[Read more]