Greetings, all!

In advance of our Annual Meeting on May 3rd, I’m calling for membership contributions. Please let me know if you have any corrections to the attached Fall + December meeting minutes, or any new items to add to the agenda. I’ve also attached a copy of the Bylaws up for discussion.

Draft Agenda:

Call to Order
Welcome &…

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Hello all!

I hope all of those who just returned from the ARLIS/NA Conference in Mexico City are getting much needed rest from such a wonderful event! I was so happy to see so many of you there and hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Your experiences in Mexico City are perfect for submissions to The Medium. Don’t feel like you have to submit a full…[Read more]

Hi, Hello, All –

Thank you to everyone who replied about which sponsorship we should direct our $750 towards.

An update and lesson learned about the definition of “shared sponsorship” that I am now aware of. Hopefully some of you will find the humor in this and get a little giggle out of it too. A shared sponsorship implies that multiple spons…[Read more]

Hi fellow Chapter Members!

The conference in Mexico City is fast approaching and that means that it is time to think about the spring issue of The Medium! Whether you are heading to Mexico City or not, please consider contributing to the next issue of our chapter newsletter.

You can write about a number of library-related things, including but n…[Read more]

Hi, Hillary,

I think your recommendation is an excellent one.

Best regards,

Shari

Shari A. Salisbury
Scholarly Resources Librarian II
Liaison for Art & Art History, History, and French
University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museums

From: Veeder, Hillary <Hillary.Veeder@ttu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 3:33 PM
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Hi, Hello, Chapter!

During our special meeting held before the New Year, consensus was to allocate our $750.00 donation to a specific conference sponsorship (see Prospectus<https://assets.noviams.com/novi-file-uploads/arlisna/pdfs-and-documents/Conference/2023/ARLIS-NA-2023AC_Prospectus-1-27-Update.pdf&gt;). In communication with Michaela, she…[Read more]

The Stewart Program for Modern Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has published a beautiful new website for the project Designed By Women.

“It presents the design contributions of women from around the world. Works date from 1900 to the present and are drawn from the Stewart Collection, formed under the leadership of philanthropist…[Read more]

Hello museum library colleagues! I am working with our curatorial department to assess and learn more about artists’ book collection in both our museum and library collections. I would love to find out a bit more about the logistics of your collections. I’ve created a short survey (less than 5 minutes) I kindly ask for those in museum libraries to…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’d like to announce our Annual Meeting, to be held Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 10am PST/11am MST/12pm CST/1pm EST. Zoom information to follow. (Conference schedule link here.)

Join us for discussion of upcoming chapter plans, group updates, and calls for a new Vice Moderator and participants in a working group to kick off our updated…[Read more]

Dear conference planning team,

Below is the agenda for our next Mexico City conference planning meeting which takes place tomorrow at 11 am CT/12 pm ET. Please take a moment to review the Minutes<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TcY8pthARuPEjwBqM2Os6CoJ33-WqN5oxqJeIm0MW3U/edit?usp=sharing&gt; from our last meeting as well as the Action…[Read more]

The minutes from the Winter 2023 SIG meeting and the Book Share List compiled at that meeting are now posted and available on the SIG website:

Winter 2023 SIG Meeting Minutes

Winter 2023 Book Share List

*Save the Date*

The Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Annual Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 27 at 2:00pm Central time.…[Read more]

I want to share this information about a series of courses on craft history offered at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.  “Taught by craft historian Rachael Schwabe, the course is presented in three modules, each composed of two online lectures with discussion and one field trip.”
What is Craft History?

• Crafting Modernism, April…

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Hi all,

We are going to send this out via ARLIS-L today as well, but I know many of you are going to the conference in Mexico City so if your schedule permits and you are inclined, we would love to have you volunteer at a shift or two.

Hello all!

The ARLIS/NA 51st Annual Conference Planning Advisory Committee (CPAC) is excited to invite…[Read more]

Dear all,

We’re accepting applications for our Special Collections Cataloger position here at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Hirsch Library. I welcome any questions you might have concerning the position.

My best,

Jon

Jon Evans
Chief of Libraries & Archives
MFA H | Museum of fine arts,…[Read more]