Dear ALD members,

I hope this finds everyone well!

Your moderators Claire and Lauren are currently working on a proposal for an ALD-led Roundtable at the 2024 ARLIS conference. Per the call for proposals, roundtables are “small, informal group discussions around a common theme or issue.” In our proposal, we will be identifying a topic and…[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]

Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! The Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Tuesday, August 8th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the transition from summer to the academic year. Forum topics will include the kinds of work many of us do over the summer, such as collection…[Read more]

Hi all!

Is there any interest in reviving the Postcards from the Edge series of workshops at ARLIS 2024? For those who don’t remember it, PftE was a hands-on workshop series where we covered “art-adjacent” fields like theatre, film studies, media & TV, etc. (In other words: fields academic art librarians frequently cover, often with little formal…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Summer Meeting will be held virtually on Friday, August 11 at 2:00 pm. Please let me know if you have any new business, announcements, or other items for the agenda. I will be sending the Zoom link and agenda in early August.

It’s also time to start thinking about our Fall/Winter Meeting. To…[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…[Read more]

Hello All –

Response from the Canadian Federation of Library Associations on the decision to hold IFLA 2024 in Dubai.

https://cfla-fcab.ca/en/news/canadian-statement-on-the-decision-for-ifla-wlic-2024-to-be-held-in-dubai-uae-declaration-canadienne-sur-la-decision-de-tenir-le-congres-de-lifla-2024-a-dubai-emirats-arabes-unis/

I’m a long time A…[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]

Dear ARLIS colleagues: I am in the process of trying to compile a list of academic libraries that currently administer/provide candidates with the list of interview questions in advance of an interview. While I am also looking at some of the literature as evidence to bring forward to my HR department, I would sincerely appreciate any insight or…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal community,

The Southern California Executive Board has developed a survey to measure chapter members’ preferences regarding future programming. Your generous participation will directly facilitate the organization of events and initiatives that align with our community’s diverse needs and interests.

Please complete this…[Read more]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal community,

As previously mentioned, Jennifer Martinez Wormser has generously offered to host an artists’ books event at Denison Library in Claremont. We’ve scheduled the visit for Tuesday, 6/27, and we’re now collecting RSVPs!

If you’d like to attend, please complete this RSVP form as soon as is convenient. If there is s…[Read more]

Received from Liv Valmestad. The deadline is August 1 for a proposal.

Dear Colleagues,

KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies has a new call for proposals for a multimodal scholarship issue: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/4. My co-editor Dr. Samantha MacFarlane and I would be very grateful if you…[Read more]