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Pierre B. Landry replied to the topic Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library / request in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoDear friends and colleagues,
On October 27 the Canada Chapter Executive Committee sent a message to the Vancouver Art Gallery Executive Director and Chief Operation Officer in support of the Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. You can view the message at…[Read more]
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Pierre B. Landry uploaded the file: Letter in support of the Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library to
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLetter sent on October 27, 2022 to the Vancouver Art Gallery Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer requesting that hiring Library staff and reopening as soon as possible should be made an institutional priority.
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Allie McCormack replied to the topic Artists’ Books Catalog Record Remediation Projects in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Book Art SIG on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoI guess Marnie didn’t mention my name in her talk – I’m the rare books cataloger at the University of Utah and am collaborating with her on that project. But I’ll check out the other CABC sessions.
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Richard Minsky replied to the topic Artists’ Books Catalog Record Remediation Projects in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Book Art SIG on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoHi Allie,
There was quite a bit about this at the CABC this week. You can view the entire Friday session of the conference at
I think Marnie Powers-Torrey ‘s presentation particularly relevant in the session
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Gwen Mayhew started the topic Call for applications: Student Advancement Awards in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear ARLIS community,
Are you a student who has written a paper that you’re especially proud of, and you want the opportunity to share it with the wider ARLIS Community AND get a $500 prize plus a scholarship to attend the upcoming conference?
Or maybe you’ve got an internship in an art library planned for next year, and you’d like to get paid…[Read more]
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Allie McCormack started the topic Artists’ Books Catalog Record Remediation Projects in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Book Art SIG on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoHi all,
I’m trying to gather information about artists’ books catalog record remediation projects. There is some published literature about this (ex., Dyer & Hibben’s “Developing a Book Art Genre Headings Index” in Art Documentation 31:1, or Carter & O’Keefe’s “Revealing Invisible Collections” in AD 37:2), but I expect that there are many p…[Read more]
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Pierre B. Landry replied to the topic Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library / request in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear ARLIS/NA Canada members,
The Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library letter was forwarded to the ARLIS/NA Canada executive committee thanks to Amy Furness. We are currently discussing a response. In the meantime we are inviting all of you to react to the situation expressed in Siegel, Brockington and Spurling’s letter by replying to…[Read more]
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Pierre B. Landry started the topic Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library / request in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library,
As librarians who have cared for and cherished the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library and Archives for a total of more than 60 years, we are deeply concerned that the Gallery has been without a Librarian since December 2021. After our cataloguer retired in August 2022, the Library…[Read more]
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Pierre B. Landry replied to the topic The Melva J. Dwyer Award: call for nominations in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoOups! Nominations must be received by December 23 2022!
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Pierre B. Landry started the topic Le prix Melva J. Dwyer: appel de candidatures in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMelva Dwyer était autrefois chef de la Bibliothèque des beaux-arts de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Le Prix Melva J. Dwyer a été créé en reconnaissance de sa contribution au domaine des bibliothèques d’art. Il récompense les créateurs d’instruments exceptionnels de consultation et de recherche dans le monde de l’architecture…[Read more]
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Pierre B. Landry started the topic The Melva J. Dwyer Award: call for nominations in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The award is adjudicated by a jury…[Read more]
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Gwen Mayhew deposited African Architecture Matters: Developing and Increasing the Visibility of African Architectural Collections in North America and Abroad in the group
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWhile it is easy to focus on collection strengths, recently the CCA has tried to articulate where our collection is lacking. This is to understand why we historically focused on certain architectural styles and geographical areas, and to identify where to shift priorities to address these imbalances. We recently received a donation of nearly 3000…[Read more]
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Richard Minsky started the topic Catalin Valentin’s Lamb by Rosalind Fox Solomon in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Book Art SIG on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoWorking on a new artist book by Rosalind Fox Solomon, where the photo on the cover is the subject of the text and images within. She took the iconic photo in 1981 in the Peruvian Andes. The text consists of two journal entries, each one page, and there are five photos within that relate to those texts. Planning to launch the edition at Paris Photo…[Read more]
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Allison Comrie deposited ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter History and Timeline in the group
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSlide deck of the ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter’s timeline and history over the past forty years.
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Allison Comrie deposited Keeping it Online: A Case Study of Virtual Library Lounge Instruction Sessions in the group
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoDuring the fall of 2021, I piloted offering six virtual library lounges to the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) community on a range of information literacy topics, which included, Navigating the Catalogue & Search Strategies, Identifying a Research Topic: Mind Mapping, Evaluating Sources and Misinformation, Introduction to e-Resources,…[Read more]
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Sha Towers created the group
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Pierre B. Landry started the topic ARLIS/NA 2022 Conference Chicago in the discussion
ARLIS/NA Canada Chapter on ARLISNA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago[Voir la version française à la fin]
For this year’s conference, ARLIS/NA invited us to Chicago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding. It was chilly on the streets of Windy City, April 4-9, but connecting and reconnecting together brought a considerable amount of warmth at this in-person conference, the first since 2019. On Wed…[Read more]
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Amy Furness created the group
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