I sent the following comments to list 2308:

Aug 7, 2023 12:26 PM
D Sherman Clarke
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*150 Glass art–China–History [sp2023001601]*
*150 Glass art–China–History–To 221 B.C. [sp2023001602]*

*Glass art* is a fine art topic (not decorative arts)…[Read more]

The following two lists of LCSH proposals are now out for comment. If you
would like to pass on comments via ARLIS’s representation on SAC, send me
an email.

Sherman Clarke

Hi all,

The link posted appears to be for the special list (to change “Gays” to
“Gay people”).

Here’s the link for the other subject…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Summer Meeting will be held virtually on Friday, August 11 at 2:00 pm. An agenda is forthcoming.

Please join the Zoom meeting at:

https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/<wbr />83469049991?pwd=<wbr />Szl4L1ZnM0hHU3Jwa1lJUEwxeS9Ydz<wbr />09

Meeting ID: 834 6904 9991Passcode: ARLIS23

In preparation for…[Read more]

Dear ALD members,

I hope this finds everyone well!

Your moderators Claire and Lauren are currently working on a proposal for an ALD-led Roundtable at the 2024 ARLIS conference. Per the call for proposals, roundtables are “small, informal group discussions around a common theme or issue.” In our proposal, we will be identifying a topic and…[Read more]

ALA Core Metadata and Collections Section

Subject Analysis Committee

Report from June 2023 meetings

The June 2023 SAC meetings were held virtually on 14-16 June 2023. Relevant documents are posted on the SAC Public Space on ALA Connect.https://connect.ala.org/core/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=f0f2a3bc-328d-47ac-a0db-8cc40d7fef1f

*…[Read more]

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]

I’m looking for technical services librarians who have a background in Medieval Studies to join a hybrid roundtable discussion at next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 9-11, 2024). If you held a technical services role (considered broadly) at any point in your career, and you studied any aspect of the…[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]

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&hellip;[Read more]

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From: Frank, Paul <pfrank@loc.gov>
Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 7:48 AM
Subject: [PCCLIST] NACO Online Training Workshop: September 2023
To: <PCCLIST@listserv.loc.gov>

Hi everyone,

ok, the cat is out of the bag (and will be well taken care of).

Back in 2012, when online training options became more a…[Read more]