Dear colleagues,

Each year, ARLIS/NA bestows honors and provides opportunities for funding via a number of awards. This year, Awards Subcommittee Chairs are pleased to invite you to an information session on how to apply or make a nomination for these ARLIS/NA awards and honors! In this one hour session, each Chair will briefly present inf…[Read more]

Virtual Fall/Winter Meeting Speaker Announcement:  Haema Sivanesan, 1:30 PST | 2:30 MST, Friday, December 2, 2022

We are delighted announce that the speaker for our Northwest Chapter Fall/Winter meeting will be Haema Sivanesan, Curator at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre. Haema has held leadership and curatorial positions in public art…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual whose exemplary service in art librarianship, visual resources professions, or a related field, has made an outstanding national or international contribution to art information.   The conferring of this award is one of ARLIS/NA’s most joyous and venerable tra…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,   The ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual whose exemplary service in art librarianship, visual resources professions, or a related field, has made an outstanding national or international contribution to art information.   The conferring of this award is one of ARLIS/NA’s most joyous and venera…[Read more]

Happy November, everyone! To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, I’d like to start a thread of your favorite resources related to First Nations and Indigenous architecture in the Americas. This can be books, authors, LibGuides, digital exhibits, or anything that you think is noteworthy. This thread will be available year round for folks who…[Read more]

Dear 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]

Dear 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]

Melva 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]

The 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]

First, as mentioned earlier, Shannon Robinson (now at the University of Southern California) will be serving as the Architecture & Planning Section Co-moderator from now through the 2024 Annual Meeting. Also, Callie Cherry, Wentworth Institute of Technology, has graciously offered to serve as the Section’s Communication Coordinator as we…[Read more]

Dear MOQ-ers and MOQ-ettes,We hope that your fall is off to a good start. We are excited to announce our very first “Research Roundup” which will be hosted over Zoom on Friday, October 14th 2022 at 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time.This Research Roundup will feature the following presentations which were given by ARLIS/NA MOQ members at the 2022 ARLIS…[Read more]

Cher.e.s MOQ-ers et MOQ-ettes,Nous espérons que votre automne commence bien. Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer notre tout premier  « Research Roundup » qui aura lieu sur Zoom le vendredi 14 octobre 2022 à 15h15, heure de l’Est.Ce « Research Roundup »  comprendra les présentations suivantes qui ont été données par des membres d’ARLIS/NA MOQ lo…[Read more]

Hi!

I am excited to announce a leadership opportunity within the Visual Resources Division <wbr />of ARLIS/NA! We are currently looking to fill the vice-moderator position vacancy for the remainder of 2022-2023 (now through April 2023 at the start of the ARLIS/NA’s 51st annual conference) and 2023-2024 (a one-year term starting after the confere…[Read more]