The American Craft Council will be holding its Winter 2024 Forum this Thursday, Jan. 25 at 1:00pm Central time via Zoom.  Attendance is free, but please register in advance at https://www.craftcouncil.org/programs/forums

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What comes to mind when you think of New Orleans? Mardi Gras? Bourbon Street and the French Quarter? The…[Read more]

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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Hi Everyone,

A Pay-What-You-Can virtual tour of the Dorothy Liebes Exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright is now available for registration.

Journey through decades of influential textile artistry from a master in the field in this Virtual Tour of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes. This exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt,…[Read more]

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

I’m writing on behalf of a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, who wrote to me recently

I will be travelling to Scotland next year to learn more about knitting.  I am searching for a book that would assist me in finding knitting/yarn centers in Scotland.  I found one company on the Isle of Lewis but am not able to get additional l…

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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]

Position announcement: Curator of Special Collections, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library, NYC

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Library (“Cooper Hewitt Library”), within the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA), is hiring a Curator for rare books and distinctive collections of/on American, European, global, and con…[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]

A Decorative Arts, Craft and Design SIG Fall event in partnership with the William Morris Society will be held on Wednesday, November 1 at 1pm Eastern, 12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific time over Zoom.  All are welcome to attend.

Please mark your calendars, and RSVP for the event here.

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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]