ARLIS/NA
Annual Meeting,
Co-Moderators
Rachel
Vice-Moderator:
Amanda Gluibizzi, Art Institute of
Beckwith
and Brailo introduced several figures important to
ADSL division:
Earlier
in the year Beckwith and Brailo had solicited recommendations
from the ADSL members regarding our mission statement. One major change was the
revision of the statement of purpose to allow for more than one moderator or
vice-moderator. This is the current practice so it should be reflected in the
division’s written documentation. Katherine Cowan, Maryland Institute College
of Art, suggested that the term for moderator be
extended to two years so that they have time to implement changes or
initiatives. Carol Graney, University of the Arts,
pointed out changes to terms of office need to go
through the ARLIS/NA board. Beckwith
added that there is some consistency of office due to the fact that a person
serves for a year as vice-moderator before becoming moderator. Cowan recommended that vice-moderators be
more incorporated in their first year.
Beckwith
and Brailo thanked Michelson for updating the website
and announced to the division members that the website includes recent meeting
minutes, the mission statement, annual reports,
conference sessions related the ADSL, and more. Michelson was overwhelmingly
voted back to another year as website administrator. Michelson acknowledged
Kari Horowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology, for
her contributions to the website.
Brailo asked if there are ARLIS/NA guidelines for the division websites. Graney responded that ARLIS/NA is working on revising its
website, but that there are currently no guidelines. She will bring that
suggestion to the Board. Brailo also pointed out that
some schools won’t allow for website hosting, so in the future we may be forced
to use a commercial provider for our website.
Two
sessions which have already passed:
• Building Bridges Between Online Art Information Resources
• Instructing Diverse Learners:
Information Literacy Competency in the Arts
Two
upcoming sessions:
• Destruction and Reconstruction of
Cultural Heritage Affected by Wars
Moderators: Nensi
Brailo, CCA, and Vibiana
Bowman,
Sunday, April 18,
• Matters of Scale: the Nature of
the Smaller Art Library
Moderator: Sarah McCleskey,
Sunday, April 18,
Jeanne
Brown, incoming ARLIS/NA President, and Margaret Webster, incoming ARLIS/NA
Vice-President came in and introduced themselves.
In
her role as former program co-chair Webster welcomed everyone and asked for
people to submit proposals for conference sessions for
Brown
announced the meeting to discuss the revision of the strategic plan and invited
all interested parties to attend. She also announced that Jack Robertson who is
the incoming chair of the Publications Committee is focusing his attention on
revising the ARLIS/NA website. Graney asked if the
national website will consider hosting division websites to which Brown replied
they will look into that.
Update update
Nachman, the editor of ARLIS/NA Update, reminded everyone that Update is
published twice a year and is available on the ARLIS/NA website. She tries to have a thematic topic for
discussion in each issue and would love for ADSL members to make suggestions
for topics. Last year she polled libraries via ARLIS-L about auction catalogs
in art and design school libraries. She had also researched a piece on picture
collections and digitization, but there was a conference session held on this
topic instead.
New
topics suggested during the ADSL division meeting were:
-
strategies for dealing with book mutilation
-
information literacy in art and design schools
-
plagiarism and what information is made available to students about
plagiarism
Beckwith
and Brailo called for brainstorming on conference
sessions that could be moderated by ADSL members.
Graney – reminder that the theme
is Beyond Borders: Collaborative and Explorative Ventures
Cowan – Idea 1:
involving students in the design of library instruction materials and
databases; exploring ways the library could serve as a lab for students doing
visual and conceptual design. Idea 2: the DC/MD/DE chapter is holding a
workshop this summer on digital arts that could be modified for the
Paul Dobbs, MassArt – look
at the supply-oriented business models of our vendors (like ARTStor);
how do we become more than pawns
Eric Wolfe, NY School of
Interior Design – seconded Dobbs’ suggestion; how can we create a more demand-side
relationship with vendors or bypass them all together?
Robert Lobe, SVA – career
resources for students; collaborating with placement offices (handful of
schools represented at the meeting don’t have a career centers)
Moira
Steven, Atlanta College of Art, announced that the AICAD group met with
representatives from ARTStor and offered them
suggestions about ways the art and design school libraries are different from
academic libraries and why we should receive a different pricing model. ARTStor agreed, so it is suggested that each library
contact Barbara Rockenbach at ARTStor
to ask about pricing for his/her particular library. They are also considering
giving discounts to libraries that have already done their budget for fiscal
year 2004-5. If you are a charter member you can distribute the initiation fee
over a three year period. To project images from ARTStor
you must use the ARTStor system; you cannot project
images with Luna or MDID. But you can
project any images from ARTStor not just those in
their database. Directors of AICAD are sending a letter to ARTStor
addressing the concerns art and design schools have about ARTStor.
It was suggested ARLIS work more collaboratively with VRA in addressing these
issues, because of their expertise in digital imaging.
Proposals cont.
Beckwith
– how art libraries work within consortiums to ensure their particular needs
Beckwith
wrapped up the brainstorming session by encouraging people to work together to
get some of these suggestions in proposal form.
Members can use the website to track each other down
The
sign-up sheet that is being circulated will be posted on the website. If you
know of someone who is missing ask him/her to e-mail Michelson contact
information to be included on the website.
Tony White, Pratt Institute, and Rachel Resnik, MassArt, volunteered and were approved as co-vice-moderators of ADSL. Beckwith volunteered to act as moderator for another year to replace Marjorie Chenoweth who resigned from the position on leaving art librarianship. She will co-moderate with Gluibizzi, who could not be here due to a scheduling conflict.
Minutes submitted by Rachel Resnik