Southern California Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America
Hi all,
It’s that time of year again…to renew your ARLIS/SC membership dues! You can find the membership form on the ARLIS/SC blog at this link http://arlis-sc.org/about/membership/
The ARLIS/SC Fall Newsletter will be arriving soon. Please check your mail boxes (physical and virtual)!
And last but not least, Alyssa Resnick (Vice-Chair) will take over as Chair in 2010. We also look forward to our new incoming Vice-Chair and Secretary!
We hope to see you next year!
Sarah Sherman, ARLIS/SC Chair
ARLIS/Southern California Chapter Meeting
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 11:00 am
Location: San Diego State University
In Attendance: Leslie Abrams, Virginia Allison, Antoinette Avila, Cathy Billings (Treasurer), Laurel Bliss, Maureen Burns, Robert Gore (Past Chair), Janine Henri, Celina Lee, Laurence McGilvery, Chizu Morihara, Lindy Narver, Alyssa Resnick (Vice-Chair/Chair Elect), Trish Rose-Sandler, Sarah Sherman (Chair).
Introductions
Review of Past Minutes
June 12, 2009 Chapter meeting minutes were approved without changes.
Elections
It was announced that the Chapter has two board positions to fill beginning January 1, 2010: Secretary and Vice-Chair/Chair Elect. The Board will issue a call on the Northern/Southern California listserv and ARLIS/SC blog calling for volunteers to serve on a nominating committee. It was noted that the Secretary is a two-year position responsible for the membership database and mailings to chapter members. The Vice-Chair/Chair Elect is responsible for planning events and meetings. Members were referred to the Bylaws on the ARLIS/SC blog for more detailed information about the duties of the two positions.
TEI (Technical Enterprises, Inc. – ARLIS/NA’s new management company)
TEI now offers to host chapter websites and listservs under a sub-domain of the ARLIS/NA website.
TEI can now collect Chapter dues, on a calendar year basis. They collect the dues and issue the chapter a check. The consensus among members was that the ARLIS/SC Chapter should not use this service at this time but wait and see how it goes with other chapters who do use the service. Reasons given for not using the service included:
It was noted that VRA recently transitioned to a similar process where chapter memberships are renewed online and it was a lot of work and the chapter had to update bylaws.
Starting a collection development group/collaboration
Kathleen Salomon at the Getty Research Institute asked Sarah Sherman to present and gauge interest in the idea of starting a collection development group similar to the catalogers’ group that exists in Southern California. The expectation is that it would operate similarly to this group, with in-person meetings and a listserv as forum for discussing issues and problems. There was a high level of interest among the members present, and it was noted that with the social networking tools available there would be collaboration tools beyond just a listserv. Sarah will tell Kathleen that there is interest and suggest that she reach out to members via the ARLIS/SC listserv.
Pasadena 2013 conference proposal update
The contact at the Pasadena Convention Center has spoken with the Executive Director of TEI. The Convention Center contact reported back to Alyssa Resnick that his sense is that TEI feels ARLIS/NA has been planning conferences too far in advance and perhaps that is why the Chapter has not heard further from the Board regarding their proposal. Alyssa has emailed the TEI Executive Director so the “ball is in their court”. She will follow-up.
The layout of the Convention Center was discussed and it was noted that the exhibits would be located in close proximity to the meeting rooms (an issue that is always of concern to the vendors).
Chapter meeting ideas for 2010
Treasurer’s Report
ARLIS/SC bank account balance is $3,183.66.
Secretary’s Report
54 current members; 4 new members joined at the OTIS meeting in June.
Chair’s Report
Member Announcements
Maureen Burns: The VRA national conference will be in Atlanta in March and reminds us that the following year is the joint ARLIS/NA – VRA conference in Minneapolis.
Robert Gore: Gave us an update on the status of the UCLA Arts Library. It is open for the full academic year. Janine Henri and Robert are on a study team that is looking at options for the library. The study team’s work ends in December and a report with recommendations will be written for the University Librarian Gary Strong.
Laurence McGilvery: In 1970 he created an index to the first 6 years and 4 months of ArtForum. In 2002 he made the index available for free on his website. In the next couple of weeks a new, improved version (easier to use) will be up on the website and still available for free. When the new version of the index is available he will send a post to the ARLIS-L listserv.
Meeting adjourned.
Submitted by Cathy Billings, November 24, 2009.
The ARLIS/SC Nominating Committee is accepting nominations for the positions of Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (1 year as Vice-Chair; 1 year as Chair; 1 year as Immediate Past-Chair) and Secretary (2 years). These positions will commence beginning January 1, 2010. Anyone interested in serving can self-nominate; you may also submit the name of an ARLIS/SC colleague to the Nominating Committee.
For a complete description of the duties and responsibilities carried out by these offices, see the chapter’s bylaws at
http://arlis-sc.org/about/mission-and-bylaws/.
There are many benefits to serving as a chapter officer. Officers gain valuable leadership experience while contributing towards ensuring that ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter meets the professional needs of art and architecture librarians and visual resources professionals in our region.
Please send your nominations to cbillings@ci.glendale.ca.us by Friday, December 11, 2009.
Sincerely,
ARLIS/SC Nominating Committee
Cathy Billings
Art Librarian & Gallery Manager
Brand Library & Art Center
Robert Gore
Visual Arts Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles
The ARLIS Southern California chapter is seeking two volunteers to form a nominating committee for the 2010 Executive Board officer elections. The Vice-Chair and Secretary positions are up for election.
The nominating committee is responsible to for candidate recruitment and voting (if needed) before the end of the 2009. New officers are expected to fill the positions beginning January 2010.
If you would like to serve on the nominating committee please send an email to Alyssa Resnick (ARLIS/SC Vice-Chair) at AResnick@ci.glendale.ca.us before Monday November 16.
Thank you,
Sarah Sherman, ARLIS/SC Chair
Please join ARLIS/SC in San Diego for our Fall Meeting!
Friday, November 6, 2009
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
9:00 Morning registration
9:30 Welcome from Jon Cawthorne, Interim Dean of the Library, San Diego State University
9:45 Opening speaker, Rob Sidner, Mingei International Museum
11:00 Business meeting (Please send agenda items to Sarah Sherman ssherman@getty.edu)
12:15 Lunch at Faculty Staff Club **
1:30 Maureen Burns Transitions & VRA White Paper
2:30 BREAK
2:45 Virginia Allison Time Management for Creative Types
3:15 Leslie Abrams UCSD’s New Arts Library
3:45 Tour of Special Collections
RSVP or Questions to Alyssa Resnick, aresnick@ci.glendale.ca.us or 818-548-2010
** Lunch buffet with hot food, sandwich and soup fixings, and a salad bar. $10 will be collected during morning registration; Cash only and exact change is appreciated.
Directions and parking: http://www.sdsu.edu/campusinfo/directions.html
• From the 5 or 15 South, merge onto 8 East, exit College Avenue.
• Bear to the right, and go to the Parking Kiosk at the corner of College Avenue and Crest Canyon Drive.
• Tell them you’re here for a meeting at the library, and you will purchase a $6 day permit that allows you to park in any student space.
• Park across the street in Parking Structure 1, on floors 4 or 5.
• Go up to floor 6 and take the pedestrian bridge to campus. There will be signs to the library, and look for the large glass dome.
• Enter the dome, and go down one floor. Continue straight through the Donor Hall to the old part of the library (aka Love Library) to the elevator and stairs. The meeting is in room LL-430, which is on the 4th floor.
Interactive campus map: https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/display.cgi
ARLIS-SC Chapter Meeting/Awards Celebration
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 7:00-8:00pm
Location: ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
In Attendance: Sarah Sherman, Alyssa Resnick, Cathy Billings, Julie Yamashita, Laurel Bliss, Chizu Morihara, Ann Roll, Virginia Allison, Krista Ivy, Allison Schulte, Leanne Hindmarch, Mary Stark, Barbara Furbush, Elizabeth Marshak, Barbara Rominski, Leslie Abrams, Anne Popadic, Sally McKay
Leanne Hindmarch was presented with the Judith A. Hoffberg Travel Award and Allison Schulte was presented with the Student Travel Award.
Next Chapter Meeting: Joint summer meeting with VRA-SC at Otis on June 12, 2009.
ARLIS proposal for meeting in Pasadena, 2013:
Barbara Rominksi (SFMOMA), ARLIS/NA Executive Board Member, spoke regarding ARLIS-SC’s proposal that the annual conference be held in Pasadena in 2013. She said that the Executive Board requests more financial details about hotel accommodations and Pasadena Convention Center use.
For Indianapolis, the attendance was 365, 320 of which were members.
ARLIS/Southern California Chapter Meeting
Date: June 12, 2009
Time: 1:15pm
Location: Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
In Attendance: Sarah Sherman (Chair), Alyssa Resnick (Vice-Chair), Cathy Billings (Treasurer), Julie Yamashita (Secretary), Robert Gore (Past Chair), Tony White (ARLIS/NA Board, Education Liaison), Chizu Morihara*, Allison Schulte, Susan Tockgo, Alexis Curry*, Carol Verheyen, Janine Henri, Virginia Allison, Jeri Byrne*, Susan Flanagan, Amy Ciccone, Nancy Norris*, Susan Sundquist*, Lindy Narver, Lynda Bunting*, Laurel Bliss
*–left at 2pm to attend SCASCC meeting
Introductions
Agenda Review and Additions
• Agenda was accepted with no changes.
Review of Past Minutes
• November 6, 2008 and April 18, 2009 minutes were approved.
Update from the ARLIS/NA Board
• ARLIS/NA, as of June 1, is run by a new management company, Technical Enterprises, Inc. (TEI).
• Please let the Board know of any interactions with TEI, good or bad. Feedback is important.
• Boston 2010 conference preparations are slow in coming given the economic situation. High food costs and room minimums are of particular concern, as they put a large strain on members.
• Pasadena 2013 conference proposal from ARLIS/SC has been received by the Board. Questions/concerns that still need to be addressed:
-Ease of getting to Pasadena from LAX/Burbank not always clear to vendors, people on the East Coast, foreigners, etc.
-Cost issues, including those that are being addressed by the Boston conference. More specific financial information re: hotel room rates, meeting room costs, food expenses, etc. should be submitted.
-Why not Northern California? This proposal was initiated by ARLIS/SC; the Pasadena Convention Center showed interest in having the conference; similar national organizations, including the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Museum Computer Network (MCN) have had successful conferences recently in Pasadena. Pasadena has a Meeting Center and a Convention Center, so there is the possibility of flexibility.
• L. Bliss initiated a discussion regarding the lack of Western and Canadian representation on the Strategic Planning Task Force. S. Sherman asked T. White if he would report this concern to the Board. T. White agreed to take comments to the Board.
• Discussion regarding how communication from TEI to general membership introducing it as the new management company, providing contact information, etc. would be helpful.
Treasurer’s Report
• Income total $783.00 ($243 donations/$540 dues)
• Expense total $1,903.19 (includes newsletter printing, travel awards, board conference travel, conference welcome party)
• Account balance is $3,317.25
Secretary’s Report
• Total 2009 membership is 50, including 14 students and 20 new members.
Vice-Chair’s Report
• Formal announcement will come in the fall and the winter meeting will occur in January.
• The Mentorship Workshop will be the same as the one presented at the national meeting for mentors and mentees. This will be the first chapter to do this on the regional level.
• Cathy, Sarah, Virginia, and Alyssa took the workshop at the national conference in Indianapolis and will be mentors in the national program this year; Janine took it and served as a mentor in a previous year.
• Next chapter meeting location suggestions:
-San Diego
-Santa Barbara
-Riverside
• Other meeting suggestions:
-Joint chapter meeting with Mountain West or Northern California
-Torrance (Torrance Art Museum and Public Library)—L. Bunting
• Update on today’s joint meeting with VRA/SC
-42 people in attendance
-Splitting the cost of lunch, expenses total $75, not including postcards and postage
Chair’s Report
• In late summer, there will be a call for contributions for the fall issue of Canvas
Adjournment
submitted by Julie Yamashita
6/17/2009
You are invited to attend the …
Joint ARLIS/VRA Southern California Chapters Meeting
June 12, 2009
Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Schedule of Events:
9:00 – 9:30AM
Morning Registration
Coffee and pastries
Forum, 1st floor of Ahmanson Building
9:30 – 10:00AM
Introduction to a New Getty Vocabulary
Jonathan Ward, Editor
The Getty Vocabularies are authoritative resources for indexing art,
architecture, and material culture. The presentation will discuss the
current editorial work and contributions of the Art & Architecture
Thesaurus (AAT), Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), as well as the development of a new Getty vocabulary, the Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA).
Forum, 1st floor of Ahmanson Building
10:15 – 10:45AM
Sustaining Digital Legacies: What Does It Take?
Victoria McCargar
Even as digital technologies have provided us with astonishing avenues
for access, they are also setting up a preservation challenge that may
eventually dwarf projects and programs in the analog world. Fortunately, developments like OAIS (open archive information systems) PREMIS (preservation metadata) and TRAC (trusted repository audit and certification) can provide even small libraries and archives with valuable strategies for tackling the sustainability of their digital collections.
Forum, 1st floor of Ahmanson Building
11:00 – 12:00
Exhibition Tour with Curator Meg Linton
3 Solo Projects: Lynn Aldrich, Jessica Rath, Carrie Ungerman
Second in a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Southern
California artists. Aldrich, Rath, and Ungerman have each created new
site-specific installations using common materials in quantity: dozens
of metal and plastic rain gutters, gallons of liquid latex, and
thousands of plastic water bottles to make tactile and poignant
experiences that are poetic metaphors of abundance, scarcity, and
growth.
Ben Maltz Gallery, 1st floor of Galef Building
http://www.otis.edu/public_programs/ben_maltz_gallery/index.html
Tour of the Millard Sheets Library with Cathy Chambers
http://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/index.html
Library, 3rd floor of Ahmanson Building
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch
Forum, 1st floor of Ahmanson Building
1:15 – 3:15 PM
Business Meetings
VRA/SC
ARLIS/SC
SCASCC
Rooms 502, 511 and 512, 5th floor of Ahmanson Building
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Panel on New Technology
Moderator: John Trendler
Forum, 1st floor of Ahmanson Building
5:00
Social Mixer at Bistrotek, Custom Hotel
http://www.bistrotekla.com/index.php
RSVP or questions to Alyssa Resnick (ARLIS/SC Vice-Chair), aresnick@ci.glendale.ca.us or 818-548-2010
Please send me any agenda items for the ARLIS/SC business meeting
Boxed lunch $15, payment by check or cash accepted day of event
Choice of roast beef, turkey or veggie sandwich, with chips, cookie, fruit & a drink
Free parking available on campus
Directions http://www.otis.edu/about/map_directions/index.html
I am very pleased to announce the next ARLIS/SC meeting in conjunction with VRA/SC!
Joint ARLIS/VRA Southern California Chapters
Meeting at Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009
Location: Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045
We’ll be releasing more information and a detailed schedule of events soon but the event will be all day from about 9am until 4:30pm.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or comments.
I would be interested to know if you have any agenda items for the ARLIS/SC business meeting and we are also planning a session on libraries using new technologies so please let me know if this applies to your library.
I hope to see you all there!
ARLIS/SC Vice-Chair,
…alyssa
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Alyssa G. Resnick, MLIS
Senior Library Supervisor
Brand Library & Art Center
Glendale Public Library
ARLIS/NA has a new management firm, Technical Enterprises, Incorporated (TEI.) TEI is headquartered outside of Milwaukee WI, and as their name implies, they provide a wide range of technology support. It was their technical capabilities, combined with their personalized support and more than twenty years experience that put them at the top of the twenty-one association management firms that responded to our call for proposals. I am very excited about what they have to offer chapters. They intend to provide web hosting for chapters as well as chapter listservs, which should give great relief to chapters which have struggled to maintain their sites and lists on various institutions servers. The transition will be complete on May 1, when Nancy Short become s our new Executive Director.
The ARLIS/NA Career Mentoring Program has expanded, and will have a kick-off workshop at the Annual Conference in Indianapolis. Because not everyone can attend the annual conference, the Mentoring Subcommittee invited chapter leaders to attend and learn how to present the workshop in their region.
The 2009 Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management has been announced. It will be held at Simmons College in Boston, MA, from June 8th – June 13th, 2009. The program, co-sponsored by ARLIS/NA and the Visual Resources Association Foundation, is in its sixth year. The SEI advisory group has recommended that SEI stay in one location two years in a row, which will ease pressure on the implementation team, while still allowing the program to move around North America and serve a wide audience.
The spring chapter meeting is a good time to brainstorm projects. Could your chapter’s idea be something the society would help fund? Applications for special funding are due July 1. Past projects have included support for symposia, and outreach materials targeted at library schools. Projects may be awarded up to $500 depending on merit of the project and availability of funds. The guidelines and a simple application form are available on the ARLIS/NA Web Site.
I am looking forward to a great conference in Indianapolis, and want to thank the Mid-States Chapter for all their hard work hosting what promises to be an exciting program!
