The leadership of ARLIS/NA will get their motors humming as they meet to exchange ideas, formulate goals, and discuss strategies for meeting the need of the organization and its members. Generously Sponsored by F.A. Bernett
Convergence and Change are inevitable in today's library environment, but are they positive or negative forces? A view from the top with James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, and four ARLIS/NA Librarian Administrators representing Academic, Museum, Art/Design School and Visual Resoures perspectives.Generously Sponsored by ARTstor
Rebecca Cooper and Kristen Mastel, and their crew of tech-savvy and dedicated volunteers will help you try your hand at using a Web 2.0 Technology. Whether you've been too shy to venture into Web 2.0, or haven't yet found the time to see what all the buzz is about, take a few minutes to stop by and try your hand at blogging, flickr, RSS feeds, wikis, and even a tweet or two. Discover free tricks and tools and walk away with some hands-on experience and knowledge of how the world of art information is changing. Generously Sponsored by J. Paul Getty Trust
A major conference event - the opening of the 2009 Vendor Exhibit Hall. A no-conflict period devoted to enjoying the Exhibits and the Reception. Generously Sponsored by Richard Minsky
A tripartite approach to the historical importance of Columbus: an analysis of its architectural culture and corporate support; an overview of its architectural heritage relating to modernism; and an exploration of preservation issues of mid-century modernism.
How are Art Librarians managing the current identy transition? This presentation will present the results from a survey of art librarians working in academic, public, and museum libraries, as well as new art librarians. The panelists will also present mechanisms for exploiting this time of change to the benefit of libraries and to the patrons they serve.
How can art and architecture librarians work to serve increasingly diverse user populations? This session will address how to identify such populations, understand their needs, and create effective programs and services.
The US copyright law was established "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution). The law is intended to promote a balance between benefits to the creator and the greater good for the society, and has been modified many times to reflect developments in technology and in the changing relationship between US and international copyright laws.
As instructors in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library information literacy program at Wake Forest University, we are expanding beyond our introductory course model to teach discipline specific information literacy courses. As the subject specialists for Art, Dance, Humanities, Literature, Music, Religion and Theatre, we have been charged with creating an Arts and Humanities information literacy course for upperclassmen majors in these disciplines. Our presentation will discuss this process from start to finish, including the steps we went through to plan the course, including the utilization of Google Docs and other Web2.0 applications, as well as the final course implementation in Spring 2009.
As a tie-in with the session on Artist Files, this poster session will present a case study concerning the creation, rescue and evaluation of the Collection of Artists' Files at the University of California Berkeley's Art History/Classics Library. This project resulted in a unique cross-institutional collaboration between UCB's Art History/Classics Library and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Rebecca Cooper and Kristen Mastel, and their crew of tech-savvy and dedicated volunteers will help you try your hand at using a Web 2.0 Technology. Whether you've been too shy to venture into Web 2.0, or haven't yet found the time to see what all the buzz is about, take a few minutes to stop by and try your hand at blogging, flickr, RSS feeds, wikis, and even a tweet or two. Discover free tricks and tools and walk away with some hands-on experience and knowledge of how the world of art information is changing. Generously Sponsored by J. Paul Getty Trust
The session intends to present how, in the process of creating and maintaining authority control, art information specialists working with both print and visual media discover new resources and research tools to employ and integrate, and even invent some; how they not only strive to provide access for users, but how they themselves are users of resources provided by the applications of new technologies; how the process of discovery is part of their research work as well as it is essential for library users; how new technologies can be best streamlined for facilitating serious research as opposed to Google's "Whole Universe"; how to reasonably incorporate the "unstructured" (social tagging) into structured standards (LC, ULAN, Getty Vocabularies, Thesauri, etc.) Generously Sponsored by Duncan System Specialists Inc.
This "Ask ARLIS" session will focus on several aspects of how technology has impacted reference, and how reference service is evolving, and emerging as a result of available or adaptable technologies.
As Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs have empowered and given voice to the people, they have provided a means to build communities around modes of thought, express the opinions of the anonymous individual, and strip expression of sexuality. This panel will explore this level of content creation by women artists, who now have critical voices and collective power.
For alumni and current students from Pratt School of Information and Library Science. Food and drink will be served. a great opportunity to see old and new colleagues and friends
Saturday April 18, 2009 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
Meet in Hotel LobbyPlease join us for an event to socialize and meet new people. We'll walk between several local pubs, stopping for food and drinks along the way. Meet in the lobby of the Downtown Indianapolis Marriott at 9pm. Crawling destinations TBD. Coordinated by memb
