Dear ARLIS community,

Are you a student who has written a paper that you’re especially proud of, and you want the opportunity to share it with the wider ARLIS Community AND get a $500 prize plus a scholarship to attend the upcoming conference?

Or maybe you’ve got an internship in an art library planned for next year, and you’d like to get paid…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’m trying to gather information about artists’ books catalog record remediation projects. There is some published literature about this (ex., Dyer & Hibben’s “Developing a Book Art Genre Headings Index” in Art Documentation 31:1, or Carter & O’Keefe’s “Revealing Invisible Collections” in AD 37:2), but I expect that there are many p…[Read more]

Dear Friends of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library,

As librarians who have cared for and cherished the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery Library and Archives for a total of more than 60 years, we are deeply concerned that the Gallery has been without a Librarian since December 2021.  After our cataloguer retired in August 2022, the Library…[Read more]

Melva Dwyer était autrefois chef de la Bibliothèque des beaux-arts de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique. Le Prix Melva J. Dwyer a été créé en reconnaissance de sa contribution au domaine des bibliothèques d’art. Il récompense les créateurs d’instruments exceptionnels de consultation et de recherche dans le monde de l’architecture…[Read more]

The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in recognition of the contribution made to the field of art librarianship by Melva Dwyer, former head of the Fine Arts Library, University of British Columbia. It is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The award is adjudicated by a jury…[Read more]

First, as mentioned earlier, Shannon Robinson (now at the University of Southern California) will be serving as the Architecture & Planning Section Co-moderator from now through the 2024 Annual Meeting. Also, Callie Cherry, Wentworth Institute of Technology, has graciously offered to serve as the Section’s Communication Coordinator as we…[Read more]

Shannon Robinson has offered to serve as co-moderator of the Architecture & Planning Section, with a term running through the 2024 ARLIS/NA Annual meeting. Here is a brief bio for Shannon:

In September 2022, Shannon will become Head of the Architecture and Fine Arts Library at the University of Southern California. Prior to relocating to LA, she…[Read more]

Hi all. I would like to form a group on how our Section can best utilize the Commons Group to facilitate communication. Interested? Volunteer below (especially if you have experience using either the ARLIS/NA or Humanities Commons!)

Working on a new artist book by Rosalind Fox Solomon, where the photo on the cover is the subject of the text and images within. She took the iconic photo in 1981 in the Peruvian Andes. The text consists of two journal entries, each one page, and there are five photos within that relate to those texts. Planning to launch the edition at Paris Photo…[Read more]