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]

The International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL) invites abstract submissions for a special issue titled “Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums,” to be published in June 2024. IJoL is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on developments in the field of library and information science globally. IJoL is published quarterly, open acc…[Read more]

There’s a new job opportunity for a Humanities Librarian within the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. We would love someone who knows about Digital Humanities.

Three hundred days of sunshine makes up for the starting wage (which can be negotiated, I am pretty sure). Plus, we’re all poor, so you…[Read more]

ARLIS/NA MOQ 2023 Réunion du printemps / Spring Meeting 9 juin/June 9th

Reminder it’s happening tomorrow/Rappel c’est demain!!
Début / Start: 9 h 30 sur Zoom https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/87124671664

Bonjour à tous et à toutes,

Artexte est à la recherche de quelqu’un pour pourvoir le poste de Bibliothécaire, responsable des collections et de l’expérience utilisateur. Vous trouverez les détails dans l’offre ci-jointe. N’hésitez pas à le partager dans vos réseaux!

Hello to all,

Artexte is seeking to fill the position of Collections and User…[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]

Hello Mid-Atlantic Chapter colleagues;

I am writing on behalf of Richard Merritt, a former furniture appraiser who is interested in donating books from his professional collection to libraries in the metropolitan DC area. The majority of the books are on early American furniture.

Mr. Merritt is kindly offering to donate books to libraries in…[Read more]

Hi all,

Good afternoon! Attached are notes from the Division’s May 2 Annual Business Meeting. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in our brainstorming activity.

One highlight I’ll share from the notes: we are excited to have Lauren Gavin on board as our 2023-2024 Vice Moderator. I also want to thank Shoshana Vegh-Gaynor for her…[Read more]