Book review: Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Terezita Romo. Yale University Press, March 2022. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25898-1 (h/c), $50.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300258981/traitor-survivor-icon. Reviewed May 2022 by Clayton C. Kirking, New York Public Library, Retired,…[Read more]

Book review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara J. Bloemink, and Florine Stettheimer. Hirmer, February 2022. 435 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3834-4 (h/c), $29.95. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-3-3/florine_stettheimer-2235/. Reviewed May 2022 by Vada Komistra, Library Technician, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.,…[Read more]

The Art Institute of Chicago online collection is a freely accessible web-based platform that provides access to the most complete virtual version of the resources and collections of the museum. The site is full of detailed visual, textual, and multimedia material for more than one-hundred and sixteen thousand objects, showcasing the best possible…[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 libraries without an accessibility specialist on staff, it can feel daunting to even begin work on creating accessible (or remediating inaccessible) digital content. This presentation will discuss how seeding and growing a culture of accessibility–in institutions of all sizes–can be an effective strategy for sustainably undertaking this…[Read more]

Studio art students are often looking for research content outside of art. These areas of research are connected to long-established scholarly conversations between experts. For students starting at zero, in terms of prior subject knowledge, this is a daunting task. As librarians, we are tasked with connecting students with information sources…[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]

Visual literacy skills empower learners in any academic research process, and in critically navigating our networked and media-saturated lives. Teaching visual literacy can start with tools readily available to library educators and with competencies learners already possess. In this case study, two presenters from a large public university…[Read more]

The Library of Congress Classification System (LCC) and its subject headings (LCSH) are not neutral; they show the biases of the society that created them. Nor is this a new conversation in librarianship. As early as 1971, Sanford Berman argued that LCSH were deeply intrenched in white, male, Eurocentric power structures in his text, Prejudices…[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]

This presentation highlighted a case study featuring a programmatic approach to information and visual literacy instruction within the New Media & Design curriculum at UNC Greensboro, with a special focus on work within ART 344: Digital Darkroom.

Presented as part of the “Programmatic Information Literacy Instruction in Art and Design…[Read more]

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945 is an online catalog that brings the museum’s collection of 110 French paintings and pastels to visitors and scholars worldwide. Launched in 2021, it is the seventh volume in a series of catalogs that systematically documents the NAMA’s encyclopedic collection and the first…[Read more]

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA), launched in 2009, is the open-access digital journal of the professional organization Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA). Over the past decade, JHNA has become a reliable, streamlined, and technologically savvy resource for art historical writing related to the Low Countries in the early modern…[Read more]

Malangatana: Mozambique Modern is the third installment of The Modern Series at the Art Institute of Chicago. The free digital publication builds and expands on the physical exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago which showcased the work of Malangatana Ngwenya focusing on the artist’s work from the late 1950s until 1975. Compelling and w…[Read more]