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]

Hey folks! If you are on the AASL listserv, you may have seen discussion about an architecture-specific repository for library lesson plans and activities. We are looking for collaboration between ARLIS/NA and AASL on this project!

Cindy Frank is spearheading this initiative and there has already been contact with the Teaching SIG of ARLIS/NA. If…[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]

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]

Hello,
I’m interested in adding some altered books to our book arts collection, and wonder if people can share sources with me (sellers or artists). I have in the past seen nice examples on Etsy but on my recent review there were not a lot that seemed appropriate. I’d like t0 find ones that are sculptural and expertly crafted.

Thank you!

Hello colleagues,
Brand Library & Art Center has an opening for a full-time Art Librarian!

Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including a collection of over…[Read more]

The Architecture + Planning Section co-moderators invite you to submit your proposals to participate in a pre-coordinated panel (up to 4 presenters with a moderator) addressing the conference theme POP!

The conference call mentions street artist Jordan Wong, muralist Keith Haring, and public artist Jenny Holzer. Pittsburgh is the birthplace of…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

The August(ish) installment of our newsletter is live!

Planning to attend the Friday Preview Hours of the LA Art Book Fair? We’re meeting up for lunch/a stroll around Little Tokyo!

Date: Friday, 8/11

Time: 1pm

Location: Meet at the entrance of the Geffen

No RSVP required! If you have any questions, email S…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

During my presentation in Mexico City I mentioned that Marnie Powers-Torrey and I would be hiring a NEH-funded Visual Books Project Assistant to work on metadata and controlled vocabularies for artists’ books and fine press books. The job posting is now live: https://employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-city-ut/visual-books-projects-assistan&hellip;[Read more]

Dear All,

Hello! This past week, the call for proposals for the 52nd conference in Pittsburgh has been made. I am very interested in going and presenting, however, an individual paper presentation seems a bit intimating to me at the moment. So I wanted to reach out through this page to see if anyone is interested in formulating a panel regarding…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

We’re created a brand new monthly newsletter to relate the goings on of our chapter. To view the inaugural July installment, please click here!

We’re also organizing a casual July happy hour.

Date: Thursday, July 20th

Time: 7pm

Location: De La Nonna in DTLA

We’re making a reservation, so if you plan to attend, p…[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]