This is a reminder that the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the ACRL
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section i…[Read more]

Your co-moderators, Jenna Stout and I, want to invite you to an informal meetup of the MLD at the Montréal Conference!

Date: Monday, May 4th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: TBD

We have not determined a place just yet, mostly because we aren't sure how many will attend. A number of you expressed interest during our winter…[Read more]

https://serials.atla.com/tcb/article/view/4519/5816

I think it might appeal to catalogers in this group who have reservations about…[Read more]

It is extremely frustrating to me that we're being forced to accept that we will need to work in the Official RDA which seasoned catalogers find confusing while also needing to move forward with the BIBFRAME/Linked Data/Modern MARC future that many of us don't have catalogs or discovery layers that can…[Read more]

Event Information: Museum Library Division – Winter Conversation – Art Libraries Society of North America

Zoom Lin…[Read more]

Introduction to Python

Instructor: Maneesha Sane

Date and Time:
Thursday, February 19th and Friday, February 20th, 2026
1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
ONLINE

Workshop fee: $50 VRA members/ $65 non-VRA members
Registration c…[Read more]

Museum Library Division - Winter Conversation - Art Libraries Society of North America

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Join the world’s largest virtual cataloging meeting
[image: OCL…[Read more]

Andrea Schuba

This is a reminder about an upcoming discussion through Core's Faceted Subject Access Interest Group.

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<p dir="ltr">Time: 2 - 3 pm Eastern / 1 - 2 pm Central / 12 - 1 pm Mountain / 11 am - 12 pm Pacific</p>
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We will be holding a January informal conversation (no recording) for members to chat about topics of interest and/or share about work in the field. Please indicate your preferred date / time and any topics of interest in this form by Friday, November 28: https://forms.gle/K5KL8ygQiM47yBgZ7.

Best,

Jenna Stout

Have any of your libraries decided to forgo security gates?

Conversations are happening here at the DMA about relocating the entrance to the library (as part of a much bigger building renovation project). The library's security gates are currently hidden in a large, built-in display case, which is unlikely to move to the new…[Read more]

"Dusting off the Shelves: Improving collections’ accessibility through b…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The PCC SACO Volunteer Trainers Group will hold a SACO office h…[Read more]

The report of the ARLIS/NA CAC group that led to LC's rule interpretation for AACR2 can be found at http://artcataloging.net/utwksart.html

From the bib records, it is u…[Read more]

My cataloging associate brought these two works to my attention today Leonardo y la copia de Mona Lisa del Museo del Prado and Leonardo da Vinci's earlier Mona Lisa

Both of these works have the subject heading 600 00 Leonardo, $c da Vinci, $d 1452-1519. $t Mona Lisa $v Exhibitions. Is this accurate or should the works be listed as $t…[Read more]

We're currently hiring for a Librarian III and a temporary Specialist II/Librarian II. These roles are crucial for providing…[Read more]

My name is Lillian Kinney, librarian and archivist, and Manager of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Research Center at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds, Ford, PA, managing our libraries, archives, and special collections.

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a major finding aid for the N.C. Wyeth Correspondence…[Read more]

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The New York Public Library’s (NYPL) Special Collections Processing (SCP) department is seeking a proven and collaborative Senior Manager for Rare Materials Cataloging to strengthen and e…[Read more]

Yes, it appears with almost identical text in PS 11.2.2.5 for Different Forms of the Same Name (pasted below).

Btw, I think you can access the Policy Statements in the Original Toolkit without being logged in.

Calli

University Libraries Named for Persons
LC practice/PCC practice: Universities of North America frequently have main…[Read more]

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Thanks for providing feedback on a pre-coordinated panel for the upcoming conference. Based on the suggested topics, we've developed a brainstorming spreadsheet for speakers: ARLIS 2026 Conference - MLD Panel

If you're interested in participating, please add your information to the sheet by Friday,…[Read more]

The ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on $v Retention invites you to participate in a survey investigating potential impacts on library collections, catalogs, staff, and patrons of the Library of…[Read more]

Please join us for our first virtual pop-up talk on September 22, 11am central. Abigail Guay, Director of Library and Archives at Crystal Bridges, will be presenting on her work to incorporate library and archival materials into gallery spaces. Details for the event are listed below.

ARLIS MLD Pop Up Talk…[Read more]

The Archivist asked my advice on what to call these items. They are part of the Harry Fonseca Archive and there are a bunch of them. They include a color reproduction of the item, the title, the size, and the asking price.  There was a suggestion "Reproduction of Work for Sale." That is a bit wordy. Has anyone come across these…[Read more]

Jenna Stout and I want to start a discussion about topics for a Museum Library Division workshop or pre-coordinated panel for the Montréal conference. Now that the theme and CFP are out, we would love to hear about topics you are interested in speaking and/or learning about. There has been…[Read more]

Sherman

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From: Andrea Elizabeth Schuba <aschuba@umd.edu>
Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Subject: [PCCLIST] CFP f…[Read more]

The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has posted for public comment a draft
of new photo metadata fields for AI-generated c…[Read more]

Rebekah Boulton and I are excited to serve as new co-moderators for the Division. Following the success of last year’s lightning talk session, we are planning a quarterly series of pop-up talks to share and learn about ongoing projects in the art librarianship field. Suggested topics include, but are not l…[Read more]

As catalogers, we are accustomed to seeing a mix of rules and practices in
our databases. For e…[Read more]

Please join us for the annual business meeting of the Cataloging Advisory Committee on Thursday, May 22 at 1:00pm EDT. While the CAC is a committee closed to members only, the annual meeting is open to all ARLIS members and potential volunteers.

Agenda:…[Read more]

(Please excuse cross-posting with ARLIS-L).

A reminder that the Cataloging Section Business Meeting and a meeting of the Cataloging Problems Discussion Group will take place today at 2:00pm ET. Here is the agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bVPoViCrb1cMoh2JZ2WZNO2paFXXIEL1uQNpPxcIeKg/edit?usp=sharing. The zoom link is…[Read more]

We will talk about Catablog at today's Section business meeting, but for anyone who is unable to attend the meeting, I wanted to highlight a post that has recently been added to Catablog, which can be found here: https://catablog.arlisna.hcommons.org/.

Thank you to William Blueher for contributing this post on the revised edition…[Read more]

WB

The online version…[Read more]

Sherman

I've masked the LCSH headings in my catalog, so the search is still running on the official LCSH terms but "Gulf of Mexico" and "Mount Denali" display to our users.

I'd be happy to share more technical details but it's very specific to our discovery layer.

Best!
Chloe