Fanfiction communities are not formal libraries nor are they traditional archives. They are staffed almost entirely by volunteers who are anonymous writers and readers of the content. These communities are a fascinating look at the organic ways information management and homegrown folksonomies can come about. With fanfiction growing in popularity,…[Read more]

On December 4th, 1990, ARLIS/NA President Lyn Korenic interviewed Judith Hoffberg, a founding member of ARLIS/NA and its director. They were joined by Amy Navratil Ciccone, Judith’s assistant at ARLIS/NA headquarters. Judith explains how in the late 60s, art librarians did not feel that their needs were being met by the American Library A…[Read more]

Janis Ekdahl interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Patricia I. Barnett (2008) and Angela Giral (2003) on January 20, 2017, at the Morgan Library. Pat worked at the Metropolitan Museum starting in 1970 and was later head librarian at the Frick (1994). Angela’s career began in Mexico before she moved onto Michigan and then Princeton, w…[Read more]

Emily Walz interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Sherman Clarke (2005) and Daniel Starr (2014) on June 6, 2017, at the New York Public Library. Both librarians are career catalogers who joined ARLIS in its earliest years; Clarke is best known as the founder of Art NACO. Clarke and Starr both share their experiences during the Vietnam War,…[Read more]

Distinguished Service Award winners Margaret Webster (2010) and Ted Goodman (2012) interviewed by Janis Ekdahl on January 20, 2017. Both are former board members. The two discuss their careers in librarianship, talking about the rise of MARC and the relationship between ARLIS/NA and the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the creation of VRA Core…[Read more]

At the request of Stanford slide librarian Nancy McCauley, Luraine Tansey talks about her career and the foundation of the Slide Curators Association (now VRA) and ARLIS/NA. In addition to working in slide libraries, Tansey was a curator, professor, woodworker, mother, and contributor to Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. She discusses her…[Read more]

Appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion recommendations in use at Michigan State University for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.

Example faculty review forms in use at the Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.