Hi everyone. Here’s a set of slides from a local (Illinois) discussion about diversity audits. I know in our group yesterday we didn’t know where to start on this – hopefully this will help some folks brainstorm about how to approach an audit in their own libraries.

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that the Academic Library Division will be hosting an open forum on Wednesday, November 16th at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST.

See more details below:

The hour-long open forum will be a discussion centered around building and maintaining inclusive and diverse collections in art, architecture, and design. We will focus…[Read more]

Dear friends and colleagues,

On October 27 the Canada Chapter Executive Committee sent a message to the Vancouver Art Gallery Executive Director and Chief Operation Officer in support of the Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. You can view the message at…[Read more]

@courtneyahunt Thanks Courtney. I appreciate your feedback. Super helpful!

I guess Marnie didn’t mention my name in her talk – I’m the rare books cataloger at the University of Utah and am collaborating with her on that project. But I’ll check out the other CABC sessions.

Thanks,
Allie

Thanks Jessica!

We also subscribe and like it. I echo the feelings already expressed in wishing more of the full catalog was available, but we subscribed specifically on the request of faculty who wished to expand the streaming offerings for video art and underrepresented video artists. Everyone seems happy with it.

We subscribe also and are happy with it. There is a lot of content that isn’t available elsewhere and I also love the related archival documents and resources that are often included alongside the videos. My only complaint is that the site navigation takes a little getting used to and it’s easy to end up searching the full catalog vs what is ava…[Read more]

@gianaricci @jillchisnell Thank you. this info is very helpful, including knowing that not all the titles are available right now.

Hi Cindy, we also subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming at NYU Libraries. The students are always very excited when I demo it during instruction sessions. In my opinion, it is very easy to use. Only streaming access though, no download capabilities, which is understandable. I’ll echo Jill and say the only drawback is that it doesn’t contain all…[Read more]

Hi Cindy — We subscribe to EAI Educational Streaming. I have been pretty pleased with the product. It’s easy to use and the cost is pretty affordable especially compared to other resources. One thing to keep in mind is that the Educational Streaming Service does not include EVERY EAI title. There have been several titles we have had to license…[Read more]