Monthly Archive for January, 2009

Travel Award Committee: Call for volunteers

Published on January 22, 2009 in Announcements. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Volunteers are needed for the ARLIS/SC 2009 Travel Award Committee.

ARLIS/SC offers two travel awards: the Student Travel Award and the Judith A. Hoffberg Travel Award. The awards support the winning applicants with monetary assistance for the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Indianapolis, IN.

We currently have one volunteer and looking for (preferably) two more eager volunteers to complete the committee!

If you are interested in serving on the committee please email me at ssherman@getty.edu by Friday January 30.

Thank you,
Sarah Sherman
Chair, ARLIS-SC

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Announcing new ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter Officers

Published on January 17, 2009 in Announcements. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This year the ARLIS/SC Nominating Committee sought nominations for two
positions: Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (1 year as Vice-Chair; 1 year as
Chair; 1 year as Immediate Past-Chair) and Treasurer (2 years).  We
received a nomination for each office, and the nominees have confirmed
their willingness to serve, thus these nominees are now our new office
holders.  We are pleased to announce the following new board members
for 2009:

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Alyssa Resnick.

Alyssa has been the Senior Library Supervisor at the Brand Library &
Art Center for almost 5 years. She is responsible for a library (art
and music section of the Glendale Public Library), recital hall, and
art gallery.  She earned her MLIS from UCLA and a BFA from USC.

Prior to coming to the Brand Library she was the Assistant Librarian
at the American InterContinental University, dabbled in audiovisual
sales to public libraries, did consulting work at Library Associates,
and was a Sr. Acquisitions Assistant at the Getty Research Institute
and a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress.

She has been a member of ARLIS/NA and ARLIS/SC since first starting
work in art libraries and has previously served the ARLIS/SC chapter
as Treasurer and as Vice Chair/Chair Elect. She is currently moderator
of the ARLIS/NA Public Librarians Round Table, and a member of the
ARLIS/NA Membership Committee. She looks forward to being Vice Chair
once again and is pleased to have an opportunity to remain on the
board.

Treasurer: Cathy Billings.

Cathy earned her BA in art history at the University of Oregon and her
MLIS at the University of Washington. For the last three and a half
years she has been the art librarian and gallery manager at the Brand
Library and Art Center, the specialized art and music branch of the
Glendale Public Library. Prior to that Cathy worked for six years
managing information systems for the University of Washington Treasury
Office. While earning her MLIS she served as Treasurer for the
American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Student Chapter.
She says that she looks forward to this opportunity to serve our
wonderful community of Southern California art librarians!

Our full 2009 board composition is as follows::

Sarah Sherman, Chair
Alyssa Resnick, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Julie Yamashita, Secretary
Cathy Billings, Treasurer
Robert Gore, Past Chair

Please join us in congratulating our new officers!

ARLIS/SC Nominating Committee:
Janine Henri and Nancy Norris

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Business Meeting Minutes: November 6, 2008

Published on January 8, 2009 in Meetings. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

ARLIS/SC Meeting Minutes

November 6, 2008

10:00-11:30am

Beverly Hills Public Library

32 Attendees: Robert Gore (Chair), Sarah Sherman (Vice-Chair), Alyssa Resnick (Treasurer), Barbara Rominski (ARLIS/NA Exec Board Liaison), Sally McKay, Jeri Byrne, Marti Pike, Angi Brzycki, Emily Meredith, Leanne Hindmarch, Mary Stark, Jeanne Roberts, Heather Cleary, Nancy Norris, Janine Henri, Lorraine Perrotta, Allison Schulte, Susan Tockgo, Joel Parham, Jessica Thomas, Maureen Burns, Cathy Billings, Lorinda Holmes, Rachel Longaker, Liz Pickering, Linda Modesitt, Delores Nielsen, Patti Peregrine, Christine C. Maasdam, Virginia Allison, Jeannie Koh

Review of past meeting minutes

· Agenda item “Review of meeting minutes, September 10, 2007 and January 25, 2008” was postponed until the next Business Meeting (date tbd)

Treasurer’s Report

· Account balance $4,237.44. Account still healthy as a result of the Artists Books Conference in 2005.

· In 2008, membership total $300 and contributions total $100.

· 2009 Membership forms passed out to attendees

Secretary’s Report

· 27 current members for 2008

Vice-Chair’s Report

· Cathy Billings and Sarah Sherman have been working on the fall newsletter. It is almost complete. ACTION ITEM: The newsletter will be mailed to current and lapsed members as well as posted on the ARLIS-CA and ARLIS-L listservs.

Chair’s Report

· R.Gore attended the California Connecting to Collections Project on 10/2/08 at the Huntington. It has yet to be seen what ARLIS/SC’s role in this collaboration of California institutions will be. Final report of meeting will be written. ACTION ITEM: R. Gore to post link to listserv.

· As Past Chair R. Gore will dedicate efforts on membership to increase members.

Membership discussion

· Current student involvement has increased.

· Within the last couple of years (since A. Resnick has been Treasurer) the chapter membership as been as high as 70 members.

· M. Burns and J. Roberts remember in the early/mid 1990’s that membership as high as 120 members.

· Suggestions to increase membership: more overlap with VRA/SC (M. Burns), utilize member’s area of website (J. Henri), day of week when meeting are scheduled is not always convenient for all members (J. Roberts), the chapter used to plan 4 meetings per year, which were ½ day events with a tour of local site/institution (N. Norris).

· Possible locales for future meetings are San Diego, Santa Barbara, Riverside.

Nominating Committee

· ACTION ITEM: J. Henri and N. Norris volunteered to be the Nominating Committee for 2009 Vice-Chair and Treasurer officer positions. Task of committee: get people to run for the positions, send out ballots (if needed), and notify Board with results.

Blog update

· Heather Cleary gave a demonstration of new blog/website.

· ACTION ITEM: H. Cleary to look into blog appearing as 1st result in a Google search. Take down old website could solve this. H. Cleary to add information about ARLIS/SC logo and its creator Susan Jurist.

ARLIS/NA annual conference 2013 in Pasadena

· ACTION ITEM: J. Henri made a motion for ARLIS/SC to submit formal proposal to ARLIS/NA for Pasadena 2013. A. Resnick seconded motion. Vote by attendees was unanimous. R. Gore passed motion.

· R. Gore asked B. Rominski if ARLIS/NC would be interested to help the SC Chapter. B. Rominski agreed NC would be interested. ACTION ITEM: B. Rominski to mention this agenda item at the NC fall meeting on Nov. 7.

· Rep. from Pasadena Tourism Bureau contacted A. Resnick.

· MCN 2008 conference held in Pasadena. M. Burns said people could walk downtown and it was a convenient location.

· CLA will be in Pasadena. A. Resnick to attend.

· Metro Gold Line will make it easier for visitors to travel from Pasadena to downtown L.A. (S. McKay)

Judith Hoffberg

· ACTION ITEM: R. Gore to re-post information regarding Judith Hoffberg fund on listservs.

· Interview with J. Hoffberg in Art Documentation Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2008 may be of interest to members.

· Ideas discussed regarding individual effort to raise money for J. Hoffberg included auction of art-related items on Ebay coordinated by J. Henri.

Executive Board Liaison Report (B. Rominski)

· New role in ARLIS/NA is the Chapter Coordinator Liaison (currently held by Cate Cooney)

· Exec. Board candidates review

· Dues increase. Dues have not been increased in 10 years and the decision reflects current cost of living.

· Art Documentation will become a peer-review journal. Spring issue will be a modified peer review. Fall will be total peer review. Reviews will be double blind.

· Occasional papers 1 -14, Technology papers, and Member’s Handbook will be available in pdf, print on demand, for members only on ARLIS/NA website.

· ARLIS/NA will no longer distribute hard copies of the Member’s Handbook.

· Members will be able to receive RSS feeds from the entire ARLIS/NA website or choose from selected sections.

· ARLIS/NA archives will be processed and housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

· Cate Cooney working on mentor program at the chapter level.

· ARLIS/NA is currently reviewing RFP’s to seek a new Administrative Company/Headquarters. Should be in place by the next annual conference. It may be possible that contractors (Susan Rolick and Elizabeth Clarke) that work with the current headquarters, MacPherson, will be able to continue work with ARLIS/NA with future headquarters.

Chapter support, welcome reception ARLIS/NA 2009 annual conference (Indianapolis, IN)

· ACTION ITEM: Board will send a $200 contribution. No objections by attendees.

· Chapter sent the same amount ($200) last year.

Joint chapter conference, 2010

· R. Gore said Mountain West chapter suggested this venture because they have interest to visit California. Because of above motion to submit proposal for Pasadena 2013 annual conference, it might be best if there is a continued interest to hold a joint conference ideal locations would Northern California or Mountain West location.

College Art Association conference in LA (Feb. 2009)

· VRA sponsored session. M. Burns passed out information.

· ARLIS sponsored session. A. Resnick, C. Billings, and M. Stark to participate on panel about how different user groups use public libraries

· CAA conference registration is not required to attend sponsored session (M. Burns)

· Discussion about a joint VRA/SC ARLIS/SC social event. Details to tbd.

submitted by Sarah Sherman

11/11/2008

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