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Preliminary Program Schedule Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday All events are listed in chronological order.
When two or more events begin at the same time, they are listed in order
of the ending item. Tour
itineraries, workshop descriptions, and other program information, together with
fees and other details, are in a separate section. 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tour 4 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tour 6 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1:00 pm
-- 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
8:00 am
. – Workshop III Workshop IV
Tour 9 Tour 10 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Workshop VI Workshop VII 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Tour 12 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
7:00 am – 12:00 pm
7:00 am – 8:00 am
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
This
session will explore possibilities for navigating in new ways across online art
information resources. Resources discussed will include: ARTstor, the Getty
indexing and abstracting services (Avery Index, BHA), Oxford University
Press’s Grove Dictionary of Art, JSTOR’s forthcoming art history collection
(which will include full runs of Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine,
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, October, et al.) and others.
The Session will be introduced from the wider perspective of digital
repository interoperability solutions under development in the Digital Library
and e-Learning communities. Speakers:
Session
II
Traditional books remain a primary format for art information within our libraries. Allocation decisions, forecasts of space requirements, and service plans are based on our predictions for what will happen with art book publishing in the future. This session will present an experienced panel of editors and publishers from university and commercial presses who will talk about the business of guiding a book from conception to publication to market. They will tell us about the impact of the economic downturn since 9/11, the reorganization of some major art publishers, and the process now used to determine what art books will be published, who the authors will be, and how the book will be priced. After the panel presentations, time will be available for audience questions regarding art publishers' policies, procedures, and predictions.
Speakers:
Session III Classical civilizations extend from what is now Scotland in the northwest to the Indus Valley in the southeast, encompassing not only the Mediterranean basin but also all its dependencies; its time span ranges from the Iron Age to the Renaissance and lives on today. Modern scholarship on the topic is even more far-flung, linguistically diverse, and relies on collection of ancient material remains, manuscript and printed texts from papyri to the latest monographs, and, since the early 1970s, electronically stored and indexed sources both visual and textual. Our panel will help orient you to the scope of modern scholarship on these enduring, cosmopolitan civilizations. What is published, where, and in what form? What are the most efficient means to acquire it? What are the speediest means to access it, and to focus on the sources your students and researchers need? Most important, how do librarians and teachers integrate this enormous body of material culture and textual knowledge into classroom instruction, and how can librarians contribute to that work? Speakers:
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
What approaches and challenges are faced by those who have
sought to record the destruction of the Speakers:
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Session V The varied disciplines of the arts present multiple challenges for nurturing information literacy competence. Art, art history, and architecture present different teaching and learning cultures that require unique instructional methods. Not only are art information resources expansive and multi-disciplinary, the learning needs of our user groups are quite diverse. Art librarians need to identify differential models of IL instruction that respond to our varied communities of learners (students, faculty, curatorial staff, the public at large) and that address wide-ranging curricular goals. The panel will provide a framework for designing information literacy programs, applicable across the broad spectrum of arts instruction and will address the basic question: What is information literacy in specific art disciplines? Speakers will describe unique challenges within each disciplinary area and suggest some successful methods that promote teaching effectiveness and enhance student learning and performance. Topics to be explored include: building relationships with faculty, curricular planning, development of IL course content, establishing IL baselines, and learning assessments. Speakers:
Session VI This session is a follow-up to the session, “Betwixt and
Between: Integrating MARC Data with
Museum Object Records”, presented at the 2003 ARLIS/NA conference in Speakers will describe how their institutions have met or plan to meet this challenge and how technology (e.g., XML, PERL scripts, etc.) can assist integration. They will address questions such as: How can personal and corporate names and work titles formulated according to library convention co-exist with curatorial terms for the same entities? How can a database manager manage conflicts and overlaps between multiple vocabularies for subjects, genres, and iconographic content? Is it possible to reconcile art historical practices such as attributions to anonymous artists or national schools and frequently changing titles with descriptive cataloging practices based on AACR2? How can catalog or database interfaces (choice of name for fields and indexes, placement of fields within a display) be tailored to accommodate different types of material? How can the catalog be configured to enable users to distinguish between museum, library, and archival holdings, and to include or exclude records in search results? Speakers:
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
7:00 am – 8:00 am
8:00 am – 9:00 am
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Throughout history there are numerous examples of the intentional destruction of cultural artifacts. This panel will begin with a brief overview of the topic and summary of the current state of the international laws and conventions protecting artistic and cultural works. The destruction and removal of sacred artifacts of the Native American cultural heritage will be examined as well as recent initiatives at reconciliation and recovery (e.g. the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act of 1990). The fate of libraries and museums in Speakers:
Session VIII The field of art librarianship is facing daunting challenges because of the revolutionary changes that are taking place at an unprecedented pace in the information environment. This panel addresses issues that are critically important to the future development of LIS professionals who will work in art and museum collections. They include: How should library and information graduate programs respond to the rapid changes in art librarianship? What new initiatives are needed? What are the unique needs of those seeking careers that blend traditional as well as digital art environments? To meet these new challenges, Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science (Pratt-SILS) has forged partnerships for education with NYPL Research Libraries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on their experience, this panel of practitioners, LIS faculty, and an MLS student will discuss educational programs for art librarianship and new perspectives gained in developing innovative educational partnerships. As a library school residing in one of the nation’s leading colleges of art and architecture, Pratt-SILS has placed particular emphasis on its programs related to art librarianship, from its dual degree in art history and library science to development of an updated curriculum that prepares students for the challenges posed by digital resources. New course initiatives, including a digital archiving lab for student projects in digital exhibitions and collections, image catalogs and preservation will be discussed. The audience will be given a chance to ask questions of the panel and to provide comments. Session IX Whether a branch of a research institution, a museum library, or an art and design school library, art libraries face unique challenges in times of changing budgets, technologies, and institutional priorities. Speakers will represent large research institutions, a small art and design school, and the director of a library shared between an art museum and a design school. The session will cover several aspects of management in these types of libraries. Specific management issues (technology, reference and information literacy, space planning, cataloging, fundraising, and professional development) will be discussed. The speakers will present positive, proactive approaches to redress the marginalization of the branch library in the research library setting. The final speaker will discuss the transformation of core values in research institutions and the effect on art libraries within these institutions. Speakers:
10:30 am -11:00 am Poster Session I Poster Session II 11:00 am – 12:30 pm When Americans think about New York, do they think crowded streets and subways, tall buildings, noise, crime, and grime? Or do they think of the first interstate park; large inner city parks, botanical gardens, and zoos; a city perched at the mouth of the lush Hudson Valley starting with the Palisades and continuing North? This presentation will focus on a few of New York’s finest parks and gardens and the documentation used to build, preserve, and restore them. Speakers:
Session XI Increasing research into gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender history and literature has led inevitably to interest in homosexuality and art. The outing of famous artists such as Leonardo da Vinci helped generate the study of gay art history. In turn, contemporary artists such as Tee A. Corinne and Robert Mapplethorpe found a public venue in which to explore homosexuality in their own art. By the late 1980s, “queer theory” came to the foreground of academia and quickly evolved into an important trope to re-evaluate the literary and artistic canon. Yet, queer art is still highly controversial. Exhibitions have been censored, government funding has been withheld, and schools have refused to offer courses with homosexual content. Despite these setbacks, queer art flourishes as individuals attempt to educate not only about same-sex orientations, but also gender differences, transsexuality, homophobia, and other issues related to the queer art world. This session will introduce librarians and visual resources professionals to queer art. The speakers represent various perspectives and will address their perception of queer art as artists, art historians, and curators/gallery owners. Speakers:
Session XII Many library organizations have developed core competencies to establish recommendations on the knowledge, skills and personal attributes that are essential for effective professional practice. Core competencies may also articulate the shared values of an organization or profession. In 2003, the ARLIS/NA Board appointed a sub-committee charged with the creation of a core competencies outline for the art library and visual resources professions. In this session, the document Core Competencies for Art Library and Visual Resources Professionals and its applications will be discussed. Speakers will present several examples of how to apply the core competencies in practical and effective ways, such as in writing new position descriptions, updating existing job descriptions, creating interview questions, evaluating employee performance and in developing LIS and continuing education curricula in art librarianship and visual resources management. The session will conclude with a forum on this topic. The sub-committee will consider feedback gleaned from the forum when drafting the core competencies document. 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm One of the current pressing needs in the visual resources community is the development and dissemination of a shareable cataloging resource that will both promote more efficient and standardized description of images and simultaneously decrease the cost of that work. Speakers will discuss the need for shared cataloging as evident in Harvard University’s Fine Arts Library, some of the key infrastructure elements required for the successful development and implementation of a shared cataloging resource, and the objectives and strategies of the UCAI project underway at UCSD, a Mellon funded effort to develop a copy cataloging prototype for visual material collections. Speakers:
Session XIV This session will introduce urban design as a unique disciplinary specialization within architecture, and describe the development of a digital collection of urban design case studies. The panel will center on the Rudy Bruner Foundation Awards (http://www.brunerfoundation.org/p/rba.html), a bi-annual that seeks to promote innovative thinking about cities, and encourages excellence in the design of urban environments. The session emphasizes: the urban design process, the development of the Rudy Bruner Awards for Excellence in Urban Design Digital Archive, and the educational use of digital archives in the teaching of urban design. Speakers will present specific Bruner Award winning examples in New York City and elsewhere. Representative examples will include projects that demonstrate arts integration in urban design, and focus on diverse community involvement. Speakers:
Session XV The practice of art and architecture librarianship draws not only from sound training in the library profession but also from a scholarly background in the arts. Many academic art librarians pursue their own art historical research and publication; indeed, it is not unusual for them to seek advanced degrees in art history while working in the profession. Whether for the love of research or the pursuit of tenure, librarians who publish as art and architecture historians can provide special insights to the researchers they serve as well as to other librarians while making their own contributions to the literature. This panel features ARLIS/NA art and architecture historians who will discuss their research processes on particular projects and present finished papers. Speakers:
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm 7:00 am – 7:00 pm 7:00 am – 8:00 am 8:00 am – 9:00 am 9:00 am – 1:00 pm 9:00 am – 10:30 am Speakers: TBD Session XVII This session will explore the intricacies of licensing agreements in order to help you develop strategies for negotiating the broadest possible access to electronic journals for your library. Two speakers—a librarian who has specialized in negotiating contracts with e-journal providers and a representative from an e-journal publisher or vendor—will provide perspectives on the topic. Both presenters will address interlibrary loan restrictions, archiving, duplication among aggregator databases, and withdrawal of content. Attendees will learn about the do’s and don’ts of crafting library friendly agreements. Participants will learn about the process of negotiating a licensing agreement and will be able to identify those clauses that are particularly important or sensitive. A representative from one of the major e-journal providers will present the publisher’s perspective. Alternative solutions such as SPARC and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) will be presented. Session XVIII This session will discuss three historically prominent libraries in New York City constructed prior to the 1920’s: the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan, and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. All three have undergone or are currently undergoing major construction, renovation, or expansion. The speakers will discuss how the need to expand and accommodate new technologies was governed by the need to respect and maintain the aesthetic and structural integrity of the original building; as well as, in some cases, working within strict landmark status guidelines. The speakers will discuss their unique library needs and how they arrived at their final architectural solutions. This session will provide useful information for attendees who are either in the midst of or facing similar building plans. The session will be held within the newly constructed South Court building at the New York Public Library, the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (Davis, Brody, Bond, 2002). Speakers:
10:30 am – 11:00 pm 11:00 pm – 12:30 pm Jewish New Yorkers have played an integral part in shaping New York City. The Jewish settlement of Manhattan closely paralleled the growth of the city, and the role of Jewish New Yorkers and the arts in New York City are tightly intermeshed. Renowned both as artists and patrons of the arts, the first two speakers in this session will highlight the manifestation of the arts in Jewish New York with a verbal tour of New York synagogues and an introduction to the Jewish Museum. The second two presentations will explore decorative and graphic arts. Speakers:
Session XX The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), a 1998 IFLA report, has turned the cataloging world upside down in the last five years. Its impact on the cataloging code was realized soon after publication, but it is only in the last two years that concrete applications of its fundamental principles are beginning to appear. Potentially, FRBR will have the most far-reaching impact on cataloging since AACR was conceived half a century ago. It is of particular importance to the art cataloging community because of its implications for the integration of library, archival, visual image, and museum object records. This session will examine the basic principles of this report, look at two of the current implementations, and discuss its special relevancy to the world of art research. Speakers:
Session XXI With the advent of digital technology, image repositories are no longer limited to a single physical presence on a campus, in a museum, or in a library. This development provides opportunities to think about realities and issues in new ways as we look at establishing new working relationships both within our own institutions and on a national level. Visual resources professionals no longer go to the library just to find sources for copy photography. Patrons no longer go only to visual resources collections to find images. As libraries and faculty members become involved with the development and use of digital images, many find it advantageous to forge new relationships to optimize the development and sharing of our resources. At the 1982 IFLA meeting, Wolfgang Freitag discussed his theory of the “Indivisibility of Art Librarianship.” This paper, which was published in the Art Libraries Journal, is being revisited by Martha Mahard in an article that will appear in the Fall, 2003 issue of Art Documentation. We will explore the current realities, practicalities, and opportunities of visual resources in the digital environment in the context of the notion of the “Indivisibility of Art Librarianship” as proposed by Freitag and reinterpreted by Mahard. Speakers:
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm 7:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 9:00 am 8:00 am – 10:00 am Amico User Group 10:30 am – 12:00 pm The result of a collision of economics, technology, aesthetics, and environmental concerns, the tall office building, now well into its second century, continues to stimulate interest, discussion, and debate among urbanists, architectural historians, and practitioners. Several technological developments created this building type: rolled steel structural members, fireproofing of structural members, and scientifically planned foundations. In the history of architecture, the accomplishment of the skyscraper has been compared with that of the churches of medieval Europe and the palazzos of Renaissance Florence. Currently, ecological or “green” skyscrapers are being designed and built. These buildings have positive, reparative, and productive consequences with minimal environmental disruption. The destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, has called much about skyscrapers into question, and many assumptions about them have been revised. Once targets of criticism, the Twin Towers became beloved American icons, perhaps the first built works to achieve martyrdom. In this session we shall explore the origins of the tall office building, how they have expressed and continue to express a national identity, and what their future is likely to be. Speakers:
Session XXIII This session will focus on the historical and contemporary role of women collectors. Linda Nochlin has asked, “Why have there been no great women artists?” In doing so, she alerted the art world to the necessity of expanding the Western canon to include women artists. At the same time, her question is a charge to consider the invisibility of women in the arts more generally. Through the voices of librarians, art historians, and collectors themselves, this session will explore women collectors from a variety of perspectives. The subject of women collectors is of interest to the New York art world, given the legacies of Peggy Guggenheim and others. Exploring the role woman of collectors is much more than a simple discussion of female patronage of the arts; it expands the canon to explore the larger issue of women in the arts. Speakers:
Session XXIV The opportunities and synergies provided by digital technology and the web environment in developing sustainable access to resources in the visual arts, architecture and music in Australia and New Zealand will be explored. Local, national and international initiatives in research and development in these areas will be examined in response to the challenges of a rapidly changing environment. Four speakers from both the museum and university sectors in Australia and New Zealand will present different perspectives. Speakers:
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Workshop IX 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm 9:00 am – 5:00 pm This hybrid Session/Tour will take place at Columbia University. The panel session will take place from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at Room 523 Butler Library. The afternoon events will include tours of the renovated Butler Library, Avery Library, the new Lerner Hall, and landmark buildings such as Low Library (the original Columbia Library and the current administration building) and St. Paul's Chapel. Nearby landmarks such as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Riverside Church are within easy walking distance for those who wish to tour beyond campus. Moderator: Barbara Sykes-Austin, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University This event includes a morning session with a panel presentation of three digitization projects in art and architecture initiated by the Visual Media Center (formerly the Media Center for Art History) in the Graduate School of Art History and Archaeology; the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCMNTL), a program originating in office of the Vice Provost and now under the direction of the University Librarian; and Project CLiMB (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building), a research project being conducted by the Center for Research on Information Access (CRIA), also under the direction of the University Librarian. Tours of new and renovated buildings on campus (including the McKim Room and the Wallach Study Center for Art and Architecture in Avery Library) will form the afternoon's activities. A continental breakfast will be included; lunch will take place on your own in various locations near campus with Columbia library staff as guides. Speakers:
Tour 14 ARLIS/NA Executive Board
Meeting 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Tour 17 11:00 am – 3:00 pm 11:00 am – 3:00 pm 11:00 am – 3:00 pm |
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