Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Wednesday, November 16th at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST.

See more details below:

The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around building and maintaining inclusive and diverse collections in art, architecture, and design. We will focus…[Read more]

Dear friends and colleagues,

On October 27 the Canada Chapter Executive Committee sent a message to the Vancouver Art Gallery Executive Director and Chief Operation Officer in support of the Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. You can view the message at…[Read more]

@courtneyahunt Thanks Courtney. I appreciate your feedback. Super helpful!

Thanks Jessica!

We also subscribe and like it. I echo the feelings already expressed in wishing more of the full catalog was available, but we subscribed specifically on the request of faculty who wished to expand the streaming offerings for video art and underrepresented video artists. Everyone seems happy with it.

We subscribe also and are happy with it. There is a lot of content that isn’t available elsewhere and I also love the related archival documents and resources that are often included alongside the videos. My only complaint is that the site navigation takes a little getting used to and it’s easy to end up searching the full catalog vs what is ava…[Read more]

@gianaricci @jillchisnell Thank you. this info is very helpful, including knowing that not all the titles are available right now.

Hi Cindy, we also subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming at NYU Libraries. The students are always very excited when I demo it during instruction sessions. In my opinion, it is very easy to use. Only streaming access though, no download capabilities, which is understandable. I’ll echo Jill and say the only drawback is that it doesn’t contain all…[Read more]

Hi Cindy — We subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming. I have been pretty pleased with the product. It’s easy to use and the cost is pretty affordable especially compared to other resources. One thing to keep in mind is that the Educational Streaming Service does not include EVERY EAI title. There have been several titles we have had to license…[Read more]

Hi all,

I have attached notes from the ALD August open forum if you’re interested in taking a look at what was discussed.

Thanks to everyone who attended – we had really great attendance & discussion and are looking forward to the next one!

Your moderators,

Shoshana & Claire

Dear ARLIS/NA Canada members,

The Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library letter was forwarded to the ARLIS/NA Canada executive committee thanks to Amy Furness. We are  currently discussing a response. In the meantime we are inviting all of you to react to the situation expressed in Siegel, Brockington and Spurling’s letter by replying to…[Read more]

Oups! Nominations must be received by December 23 2022!