Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

During our business meeting last week we made a formal call for volunteers to serve on one of two upcoming nominating committees. We are in need of at least three more volunteers to serve on the following ad-hoc committees:

Nominating Committee for the SoCal Travel Award
Two people needed for committee; most of the…[Read more]

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Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:15 AM
Subject: [PCCLIST] Attend the RBMS BSC Cool Things We Cataloged Webinar,
December 4th
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The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL Rare Books and
Manuscripts Section invites you to the w…[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]

There’s Nothing Punk About Punk Orientalism

Or maybe orientalism is ok as a noun but not as a descriptive adjective.

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From: Berthoud, Heidy <hberthoud@loc.gov>
Date: Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Subject: [SACOLIST] New resource available: Topical Heading Proposal
Checklist
To: <SACOLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

Hello all,

There is a new resource available on the SACO R…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Let’s learn from each other! Have you tried out new professional practices or approaches that might be relevant to others in our community? The ARLIS/NA SoCal Mini Conference is our opportunity to gather virtually to share inspirations, fresh ideas, innovative critical approaches, and lessons learned. We look forward to sharing o…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

The September installment of our newsletter is live!

Save the date! Our Fall Business Meeting is approaching.

Date: Wednesday, November 1st

Location: The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library

Meeting Schedule:

• 10-11am: Fall Business Meeting
• 11am-12:30pm: Tour of the Library
• 12:30-2pm: Lunch at Fanny’s

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Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal community,

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) seeks a creative, curious, dynamic, and collaborative leader for the role of Dean of the Library. The dean will work within the library to build a shared vision and tangible and incremental plans for growth and experimentation within the library and in support of the…[Read more]

Let me know if you have any comments to pass on via SAC.

Sherman
ARLIS/NA liaison to ALA Subject Analysis Committee

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Sep 21, 2023 11:28 AM
Minyoung Chung
<https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=c4d8bdbf-0880-4fe4-b206-f753d61c68f9&gt;

Hi everyone,

The LCSH Tentative Monthly List 10 for October is available…[Read more]

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From: LC Genre Form Project <genreform@loc.gov>
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Subject: [SACOLIST] LC Genre/Form Terms Tentative List 2310g is now
available
To: <SACOLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

To: Bibliographic Access cataloging division chiefs and other
recipients

(PLEASE FORWARD TO APPROPRIATE S…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

Hello and happy fall! The exec board is assiduously organizing the 2023 issue of our chapter’s Canvas newsletter, and we hope to solicit some info and material from members of our community.

• Did you participate in the CDMX conference? Please let us know! Participation could include:
  • Workshop facilitation

  …

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Hi everyone! Raphael here (the screenname for HCommons and the site are the same). Sorry it took forever, but I finished migrating and updating the website (except for the annual reports, which I still I need to track down):

https://southerncalifornia.arlisna.hcommons-staging.org/

It doesn’t look as good as the old site because there’s a limited…[Read more]

Let me know if you would like to send a comment through SAC.

Sherman Clarke
ARLIS/NA liaison to SAC

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From: Devine, Stacey <sdev@loc.gov>
Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Subject: [SACOLIST] CYAC Tentative subject list 09 CYAC is now available
To: <SACOLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

The CYAC Tentative Subject L…[Read more]

Please save the date for “TBM IRL: Examining Lifecycles of Time-Based Media Art”, a day-long colloquium organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which will gather Southern California artists, galleries, collectors, museums, archives, and estates as we consider our shared roles in stewarding time-based artworks.

This event is ticketed and…[Read more]

Aug 18, 2023 12:12 PM
Minyoung Chung
<https://connect.ala.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=c4d8bdbf-0880-4fe4-b206-f753d61c68f9&gt;

Hi everyone,

The LCSH tentative monthly list 09 for September is available:

classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2309.html

Please have all comments posted by Friday, September 15.

Thank…[Read more]