Hi everyone! Raphael here (the screenname for HCommons and the site are the same). Sorry it took forever, but I finished migrating and updating the website (except for the annual reports, which I still I need to track down):

https://southerncalifornia.arlisna.hcommons-staging.org/

It doesn’t look as good as the old site because there’s a limited…[Read more]

Hello Teaching SIG members!

My co-mod Stefanie Hilles and I are seeking SIG members who would be interested in one or both of the following in our efforts to revive the Teaching SIG blog after its protracted transfer to the Commons platform:

• Contributing a guest post: Guest posts are write-ups focusing on topics relevant to teaching and…

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Please save the date for “TBM IRL: Examining Lifecycles of Time-Based Media Art”, a day-long colloquium organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which will gather Southern California artists, galleries, collectors, museums, archives, and estates as we consider our shared roles in stewarding time-based artworks.

This event is ticketed and…[Read more]

Hi folks,

It was great to see many of you (and new faces) at our meeting last week! If you couldn’t make it, take a look at our August 2023 meeting notes – feel free to comment if you have corrections or additions. I’m delighted to announce that Fong Ku at Alberta University of the Arts is our new vice moderator!

We are also working on a Draft:…[Read more]

I’m a Research and Instruction librarian at College for Creative Studies, in Detroit, MI. Recently our library has added a PS5 and a small collection of video games to our collection. We’ve developed this collection with our Motion Design and Video Game Design students in mind and I’m beginning to brainstorm ways that I could approach…[Read more]

Hello colleagues,
Brand Library & Art Center has an opening for a full-time Art Librarian!

Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including a collection of over…[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]

Dear ARLIS/NA SoCal Community,

The August(ish) installment of our newsletter is live!

Planning to attend the Friday Preview Hours of the LA Art Book Fair? We’re meeting up for lunch/a stroll around Little Tokyo!

Date: Friday, 8/11

Time: 1pm

Location: Meet at the entrance of the Geffen

No RSVP required! If you have any questions, email S…[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]

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 All,

Hello! This past week, the call for proposals for the 52nd conference in Pittsburgh has been made. I am very interested in going and presenting, however, an individual paper presentation seems a bit intimating to me at the moment. So I wanted to reach out through this page to see if anyone is interested in formulating a panel regarding…[Read more]