A sample of editorial movement, stored in the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum, of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo, Osneldo García and Lesbia Vent Dumois is presented. These bibliographical documents allow the study of their works. In content analysis and processing of their artistic files, a chronological classification is necessary, by documentary…[Read more]

In libraries without an accessibility specialist on staff, it can feel daunting to even begin work on creating accessible (or remediating inaccessible) digital content. This presentation will discuss how seeding and growing a culture of accessibility–in institutions of all sizes–can be an effective strategy for sustainably undertaking this…[Read more]

In creating an oral history collection documenting the stories of those impacted by the Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires, efforts were made to make these stories accessible to a wide audience and representative of the communities affected by the disaster. The University of Tennessee Libraries’ recent implementation of the International Image…[Read more]

This presentation shares efforts to digitise glass plate negatives as part of the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. It provides examples of projects and individual records and also mentions the use of Zooniverse for crowdsourcing metadata. It was given as part of the “Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in…[Read more]

This lightning talk shared experiences with designing and implementing an asynchronous co-curricular visual literacy program. The interactive tutorial introduced students to fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons images and included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes using new visual…[Read more]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fluxus co-founder Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) used concrete as an actual material for his unique body of work, including the Betonbuch [Concrete Book]. Vostell’s Concrete Book is a concrete slab in the shape of a book, measuring 34x25x4.5 cm, weighing about 9 kg (20 pounds) that is believed to encapsulate a copy of…[Read more]

On December 4th, 1990, ARLIS/NA President Lyn Korenic interviewed Judith Hoffberg, a founding member of ARLIS/NA and its director. They were joined by Amy Navratil Ciccone, Judith’s assistant at ARLIS/NA headquarters. Judith explains how in the late 60s, art librarians did not feel that their needs were being met by the American Library A…[Read more]

Janis Ekdahl interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Patricia I. Barnett (2008) and Angela Giral (2003) on January 20, 2017, at the Morgan Library. Pat worked at the Metropolitan Museum starting in 1970 and was later head librarian at the Frick (1994). Angela’s career began in Mexico before she moved onto Michigan and then Princeton, w…[Read more]

Emily Walz interviews Distinguished Service Award winners Sherman Clarke (2005) and Daniel Starr (2014) on June 6, 2017, at the New York Public Library. Both librarians are career catalogers who joined ARLIS in its earliest years; Clarke is best known as the founder of Art NACO. Clarke and Starr both share their experiences during the Vietnam War,…[Read more]

Distinguished Service Award winners Margaret Webster (2010) and Ted Goodman (2012) interviewed by Janis Ekdahl on January 20, 2017. Both are former board members. The two discuss their careers in librarianship, talking about the rise of MARC and the relationship between ARLIS/NA and the Visual Resources Association (VRA), the creation of VRA Core…[Read more]

At the request of Stanford slide librarian Nancy McCauley, Luraine Tansey talks about her career and the foundation of the Slide Curators Association (now VRA) and ARLIS/NA. In addition to working in slide libraries, Tansey was a curator, professor, woodworker, mother, and contributor to Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. She discusses her…[Read more]

Merrill Smith, ARLIS/NA President, moderates this 1992 panel discussion at the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Chicago, on the occasion of the society’s 20th anniversary. Panelists include two charter members and three other longstanding members: Wolfgang Freitag, Bill Walker, Mary Williamson, Sherman Clarke, and Kathryn Martinez. All have had r…[Read more]