Hello Material Friends,

The virtual spring meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, April 17 at 12:30pm ET (9:30am PT). Zoom information and a full agenda will be shared closer to the date.

Two important bits of SIG information:

• The SIG will have a session at the Pittsburgh conference! Keep an eye out in the program for “POP! into H…

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Dear Colleagues, A faculty member has requested that I susbscribe to ARTMargins, a publication from MIT press.
Can you recommend it? I am being choosy with my shelf sapce, and the print and online versions carry different content. Thank you for any impressions.
Cindy Frank
University of Maryland

Hey now,

My colleagues and I have been exploring membership to the Urban Land Institute. We have noticed the user interface is not great and was wondering what your experiences have been working with this resource. Have you become ULI members? Is it worth it?

Your experience is much appreciated.

With gratitude,

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Dear Colleagues,

Save the date! In partnership with the Collection Development SIG, the Academic Library Division will be hosting its quarterly open forum on Tuesday, November 28th at 3:00pm EST/12:00pm PST. The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around the management of serials collections.

Forum topics will include assessing…[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]

Hello fellow Academic Library Division members.

We hope you will join the Education Subcommittee for a chat with members of the ARLIS/NA Research Awards Committee about the funding available for research and publication. Each year, ARLIS/NA offers members the opportunity to apply for funding to conduct research (H.W. Wilson Foundation Research…[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 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]

Hey folks! If you are on the AASL listserv, you may have seen discussion about an architecture-specific repository for library lesson plans and activities. We are looking for collaboration between ARLIS/NA and AASL on this project!

Cindy Frank is spearheading this initiative and there has already been contact with the Teaching SIG of ARLIS/NA. If…[Read more]