Slide deck of the ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter’s timeline and history over the past forty years.

During the fall of 2021, I piloted offering six virtual library lounges to the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) community on a range of information literacy topics, which included, Navigating the Catalogue & Search Strategies, Identifying a Research Topic: Mind Mapping, Evaluating Sources and Misinformation, Introduction to e-Resources,…[Read more]

Information systems with a visual focus in the arts describe museum and library catalogues, digital libraries, image databases and search engines, all of which have unique requirements that set the visually focused systems apart from their more textually focused counterparts. For users who seek out and examine visual information in the arts as…[Read more]

Curriculum mapping for art programs at a small liberal arts college reveals a need for information literacy instruction in three areas – basic art and general library information, art citation and deeper library research, and copyright, fair use and best practices for art-making. This presentation demonstrates how to identify prospective classes f…[Read more]

Wikidata is a free, open, and multilingual knowledge base that serves as the structured data for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Staff at many libraries, archives, and museums have found that Wikidata provides an accessible method of making information about collections and resources available as linked open data, which in turn enables…[Read more]

PAST DUE: Report and Recommendations of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic Memory Working Group is the culmination of 18 months of discussions on how to think about existing and future civic memory projects. The 40-member group included historians, artists, architects, curators, designers, civic leaders, cultural leaders, and Indigenous elders a…[Read more]

Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic (https://digitalmuseums.at) is an Austrian-based research project by Dr. Chira Zuanni on the impact of COVID-19 on museums and their digital strategies. The homepage presents a map of museum digital initiatives around the world. The digital initiatives are categorized by type: contemporary…[Read more]

A sample of editorial movement, stored in the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum, of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo, Osneldo García and Lesbia Vent Dumois is presented. These bibliographical documents allow the study of their works. In content analysis and processing of their artistic files, a chronological classification is necessary, by documentary…[Read more]