Interview with Jennifer Martinez Wormser, formerly director of the library at the Laguna College of Art and Design, conducted in 2017. She talks about instruction, collections, and programming at an art and design school library.

The presentation slides from this session provide a comprehensive guide to library program reviews, an increasingly common practice in academic libraries. The session emphasizes the importance of honesty in highlighting the library’s strengths and weaknesses during these reviews.

The slides detail a library program review’s processes, tools,…[Read more]

Our poster engages a collaboration between Library Instruction and Black Studies/English, examining how we used an interdisciplinary pedagogy to create an environment where students understand themselves as contributors to the disciplines. Over the course of four years, the librarian came to the professor’s courses to provide scaffolded library i…[Read more]

In the words of the late scholar, critic, and artist, bell hooks, “though rarely articulated as such, the camera became in black life a political instrument, a way to resist misrepresentation as well as a means by which alternative images could be produced.” Black librarianship and memory work has been integral to preserving the evidence of thi…[Read more]

Many libraries hold rare book collections and they maintain and explore them with special attention, usually by following international standards. Over time, extensive knowledge has been accumulated about these books. However, the intensity of research on these collections can vary. My library’s rare book project presented here is based on the…[Read more]

Presentation slides for the ARLIS/NA 2023 Convocation and Awards Ceremony. Compiled by Courtney Stine, Awards Committee Chair.

The Art Foundation (AFO) program is a prerequisite for entry into all visual art and design departments at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). As such, it provides an introduction to materials, strategies and ideas that will shape their futures in their chosen disciplines. The library is a critical resource for tools and expertise that would…[Read more]