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Register for the ARLIS/SC Day at the Huntington Library!

Published on November 29, 2011 in Events and Meetings. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Lorraine Perrotta, Head of Technical Services, The Huntington Library, invites us to join her for an

ARLIS/SC Day at the Huntington Library
Art Collections and Botanical Gardens,
San Marino, CA.
Monday Dec. 12, 2011,

8:45 am: Meet Lorraine Perrotta in the entrance pavilion (for a welcome & to receive access badges)

9-10 am: Curator led tour of “Beautiful Science” exhibit with Dan Lewis, Dibner Senior Curator, History of Science, Medicine & Technology

Break

10:30-11:30: Curator tour led of “The House that Sam Built” exhibit with Hal Nelson, Curator of American Decorative Arts

11:40-12:30: Tour of the Conservation and Photography labs in the Munger Research Center

12:30-1:30: Group lunch in in the cafe (Dutch treat)

Afternoon: Visit exhibits and gardens on your own or in groups

[Note: the Huntington is closed to the public in the morning, thus we need to enter as a group]

(Directions: http://www.huntington.org/thehuntington_full02.aspx?id=308)

Registration fees (payable at the entrance by cash or check to ARLIS-SC):

Members: $5.00
Guests/Non-Members: $10.00
Students: free (must be ARLIS-SC members)

[Not yet a member? Please fill out the form at:
http://arlis-sc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/11-arlis-sc-memberform.pdf
and bring it with you!]

SPACE IS LIMITED: Please RSVP to jhenri at library dot ucla dot edu by Thursday December 8, 2011.

Best wishes,

Janine Henri, ARLIS/SC Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect

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ARLIS/SC Meeting at the Norton Simon Museum!

Published on June 21, 2011 in Announcements, Events and Meetings. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Please join us for an ARLIS/SC Day in Pasadena, at the Norton Simon Museum,

Monday, July 18, 2011.

FREE!

Meet at the Norton Simon Museum at 11 am for a special orientation to the museum and its collections, led by Melody Rod-ari, curator of the ‘Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World’ exhibit. (The museum opens to the public at noon: we will have access to the galleries before the museum opens!). Retired Art Historian David T. Sanford (specialist in South India and Hindu iconography) will join us in the South Indian bronzes galleries to discuss the Norton Simon’s superb collection of Chola bronzes and traditional bronze casting in southern India.

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Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship – Published!

Published on April 15, 2007 in Announcements. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Art Museum Libraries and LibrarianshipScarecrow Press and ARLIS/NA co-publish Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship edited by ARLIS/SC member Joan Benedetti. Described by Scarecrow Press as the “first publication of its kind” this valuable monograph focuses on issues that impact the often invisible but not insignificant art museum library. Information on ordering this publication can be found at http://www.scarecrowpress.com. For an insider’s account of how this publication came to life, check out Joan’s essay on The Making of Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship.

If you purchase the book at the ARLIS/NA Conference in Atlanta, you will receive a 20% discount!

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The Making of “Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship”

Published on April 12, 2007 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Joan BenedettiThe following is a “behind the scenes” account by ARLIS/SC member Joan Benedetti of the editing of the book, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, a co-publication of ARLIS/NA (Occasional Paper No. 16) and Scarecrow Press and the first book on the subject. Benedetti worked for 21 years as a solo librarian at the Craft and Folk Art Museum and then for five years at the L.A. County Museum of Art asa cataloger until her retirement at the end of 2002. She has written and presented several papers on the subject of small art museum libraries.

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