Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! The Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Tuesday, August 8th at 2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the transition from summer to the academic year. Forum topics will include the kinds of work many of us do over the summer, such as collection…[Read more]

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]

Fashion, Textile & Costume Librarians is the FTC SIG online journal and can be found: https://arlisftc.wordpress.com/.

The editors are always looking for new contributors. Write the SIG coordinator team to get started! FTCs is looking for articles of all types, book/resource/exhibition reviews, bibliographies, news, etc. If it’s related to FTC…[Read more]

Hello and welcome to the Fashion, Textile and Costume SIG! Your 2023-2024 SIG leaders are Coordinator A.M. LaVey and Vice-Coordinator Shandy Fey.

A.M. LaVey is a museum archivist-librarian specializing in eastern Slavic spaces with research interests that includes archives, creativity and visual culture. Trained both as an art historian and…[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,

I’m reaching out as the new and lone Co-Moderator of ART/WARC. Thanks to those who attended our annual meeting in early May. It was lovely to meet you, and I hope that we get the chance to meet in person soon!

Is anyone thinking of attending the upcoming Archive-it Partner meeting in DC on the 25th of July? I have yet to confirm all…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

I am gearing up for my first year as coordinator of SCIP and in need of a vice-coordinator! A few things I’ve been thinking about planning are an artist talks session for the next annual conference, and another “show and tell” style meetup or a skill sharing session over the summer.

If you have any interest in helping me to scheme…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The co-editors of the Notable Graphic Novels Review are looking for up to 10 volunteer reviewers for this year’s edition. To apply, please fill out this brief form:

https://forms.gle/odfJK4F4QHYP2ani8 

All ARLIS/NA members are welcome to apply, including those who have never written a review before.This is a good opportunity…[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]