Research methods in art and design disciplines present unique challenges for library instruction.
These challenges are further complicated when art and design students are tasked with
conducting business and marketing research without any formal introduction to the resources
and methodologies of those disciplines. This presentation will…[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]

In creating an oral history collection documenting the stories of those impacted by the Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires, efforts were made to make these stories accessible to a wide audience and representative of the communities affected by the disaster. The University of Tennessee Libraries’ recent implementation of the International Image…[Read more]

This presentation shares efforts to digitise glass plate negatives as part of the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. It provides examples of projects and individual records and also mentions the use of Zooniverse for crowdsourcing metadata. It was given as part of the “Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in…[Read more]

This lightning talk shared experiences with designing and implementing an asynchronous co-curricular visual literacy program. The interactive tutorial introduced students to fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons images and included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes using new visual…[Read more]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fluxus co-founder Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) used concrete as an actual material for his unique body of work, including the Betonbuch [Concrete Book]. Vostell’s Concrete Book is a concrete slab in the shape of a book, measuring 34x25x4.5 cm, weighing about 9 kg (20 pounds) that is believed to encapsulate a copy of…[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]