Slide deck of the ARLIS/NA Northwest Chapter’s timeline and history over the past forty years.

During 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]

Information systems with a visual focus in the arts describe museum and library catalogues, digital libraries, image databases and search engines, all of which have unique requirements that set the visually focused systems apart from their more textually focused counterparts. For users who seek out and examine visual information in the arts as…[Read more]

Wikidata is a free, open, and multilingual knowledge base that serves as the structured data for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Staff at many libraries, archives, and museums have found that Wikidata provides an accessible method of making information about collections and resources available as linked open data, which in turn enables…[Read more]

The Art Institute of Chicago online collection is a freely accessible web-based platform that provides access to the most complete virtual version of the resources and collections of the museum. The site is full of detailed visual, textual, and multimedia material for more than one-hundred and sixteen thousand objects, showcasing the best possible…[Read more]

A sample of editorial movement, stored in the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum, of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo, Osneldo García and Lesbia Vent Dumois is presented. These bibliographical documents allow the study of their works. In content analysis and processing of their artistic files, a chronological classification is necessary, by documentary…[Read more]

In libraries without an accessibility specialist on staff, it can feel daunting to even begin work on creating accessible (or remediating inaccessible) digital content. This presentation will discuss how seeding and growing a culture of accessibility–in institutions of all sizes–can be an effective strategy for sustainably undertaking this…[Read more]