Hello SIG members!

Big news for the Auction Catalog SIG! Thanks to feedback and suggestions from our fall SIG meeting, we’ve set up an Auction Catalog SIG Slack channel! This is a place where we can collaborate, bring questions, and have discussions on all things Auction Catalogs. If you’re interested in joining, please email Charlotte or Tin…[Read more]

Call for Reviewers – Library Exhibitions Review due December 1, 2023!

Library Exhibitions Review is published annually by the ARLIS/NA Exhibitions Special Interest Group. Our inaugural issue was published in Spring 2023. We are in the process of putting together our second issue.

We have collected a list of exhibitions available for review!…[Read more]

Greetings, and thank you to everyone who attended our spring Auction Catalogs SIG meeting!  It was good to welcome new members and see familiar faces.  Notes from that meeting have been added to the documents section of the SIG page on Humanities Commons.  Many thanks to Jessica Aberle for compiling the minutes!

As a follow-up, we thought it wo…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!

The listserv is still down, so I’m sharing this on ARLIS Commons in a few relevant places. I hope it’s ok to share here! We are hosting a virtual conversation between feminist art critic Lucy Lippard and public artist Tomie Arai this coming Monday, October 2, at 3 p.m. ET. To register and read more information, please check out this…[Read more]

Hi all,

I wanted to share that the Digital Public Library of America recently included the SIG’s “Best Practices for Library Exhibitions” in its draft of “Digital Curation Guidelines” (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utVgnuXg1JJv2mD8v6nlC53tgs9tSvrL/view). Kudos to the SIG on creating and sharing this helpful document!

I wanted to ask if the…[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]

Greetings, Auction Catalog fans! This is a reminder to join us as we host the ARLIS/NA Auction Catalogs SIG meeting on May 3rd at 11am ET.

To register to attend the SIG meeting, please fill out this brief RSVP form: Link to Register. Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive the virtual meeting details by email before the meeting.

Our meetin…[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]