Art Libraries Society of North America 32nd Annual Conference

Roosevelt Hotel, New York, New York, NY. April 15-20, 2004.

 

ARLIS/NA Architecture Section Meeting Minutes

Submitted by Heather Ball (h.ball@vt.edu)

 

New York, Saturday, April 17, 2004

8:30 am–10:30 am

 

Officers:

Sarah McCleskey, Moderator

Polly McCord, Vice-moderator

Karen DeWitt, Update Column Editor

 

New Officers:

Polly McCord, Moderator

Karen DeWitt, Vice-Moderator

Heather Ball, Update Column Editor

 

Conference Sessions of Potential Interest:

Sarah McClesky highlighted numerous conference sessions of potential interest to architecture librarians including: 

 

Matters of Scale:  The Nature of the Smaller Art and Architecture Library

Urban Excellence:  Shaping the City

Librarians as Art and Architecture Historians

Digitizing Columbia:  Collaborations in Art, Architecture and the Libraries at Columbia University

Modernizing Libraries:  Classical Architecture Meets Modern Technology

The Tall Office Building Reconsidered:  the 21st Century Skyscraper

The Image Down Under:  Collaborative Ventures in the Visual Arts, Architecture and Music in Australia and New Zealand.

 

AASL 2004 Meeting - Report

Janine Henri (outgoing ARLIS/NA liaison to AASL) reported on the 2004 annual Association of Architecture School Librarians meeting that was held in Miami, Florida in March.   She noted that the AASL meeting happens in conjunction with the annual ACSA meeting.  The new Executive Director of ACSA, Michael Monti met with members of AASL. 

 

Conference proceedings appear on the AASL website:  http://www.library.njit.edu/archlib/aasl/meetings/index.html

 

Sarah McCleskey is the new President and Barbara Opar is now the Past-President of AASL. Matt Cook is the new Vice-President/President-Elect and Jennifer Benedetto Beals is the new secretary/treasurer of AASL.

 

Janine asked the group to look at the AASL membership directory and please notify the AASL webmaster of any updates.

 

The AASL newsletter will be resurrected.  Janine asked for feedback on what people liked about the old newsletter that might be incorporated into the new publication.  She suggested it might highlight individual members and their libraries.  There is also the possibility of creating an AASL column in ACSA News.

 

Next year the AASL will offer a travel award to the conference for first-time attendees.  Funding will be available to cover conference registration for LIS graduate students, possibly one per local school. 

 

Polly McCord inquired about the possibility of AASL meeting with ARLIS/NA in the future, instead of during the ASCA conference.  Janine replied that the AASL wants to see how things develop with a new Executive Director in place.

 

NAAB Conference Report

Janine Henri gave a report of her attendance at the NAAB Validation Conference in October.  She attended as a “silent observer” representing AASL.  Janine’s full report will be available on the AASL website. 

 

Houston 2005 conference program ideas:

Program ideas for the 2005 conference were discussed.  Janine Henri asked how many in the group would be interested in a hands-on workshop in GIS – many in the group expressed an interest.  Rice University was mentioned as a possible venue for such a workshop.

 

Anne Lindell will be mailing out a survey related to study abroad programs in architecture and thinks this might be a good session topic.  The session could include discussion of collections and services at remote sights/extended campuses.

 

Margaret Culbertson would like to see a session on Houston architecture.  There was also interest in a session on border and/or Mexican architecture.

 

Janine Henri also proposed reviving the proposal that was not approved last year that is on materials labs/libraries.

 

Sarah McCleskey asked that everyone post their session ideas to the Architecture Section listserv.

 

Discussion of the Architecture Section website:

http://library.berkeley.edu/~skoskine/ArchitectureSection.html

Sue Koskinen (skoskine@library.berkeley.edu) has volunteered as webmaster for another year.  She asked the group to please send her any new links of interest.  Members came up with ideas for new website content including links to architecture guides and pathfinders, image sites, architecture archives, materials collections, online tutorials in architecture, any frequently used resources, a listing of architecture journals that include plans, and a link to the AASL core list of journals. 

 

A discussion followed on how to develop a list of peer reviewed journals in architecture.  ARCH-LIB website has a list.  Henry Pisciotta asked what might be considered a “peer reviewed” title in architecture.  He pointed out that there is not one definition of “peer review”.  SAH for instance, is not listed as a peer reviewed journal in Ulrich’s.  Penn State has been compiling a list and Henry asked if anyone would like to help with that project.

 

Discussion of databases and their usefulness:

Material Connexion:  A group from ARLIS/NA planned a trip to Material Connexion’s office to talk with them about their pricing models. 

 

AIA contract documents:  Jeffrey Scherer (an architect attending the conference) said the AIA subcommittee on publications would be happy to hear from architecture librarians.  Sara McCleskey volunteered to work on making this contact.

 

Architectural Graphic Standards:  License is available through Wiley. 

 

Overall comments:  Libraries should not be seen as a side market for these kinds of resources, but as way to foster potential future subscribers/clients (students who enter the workforce).  Henry Pisciotta asked if there would be some way to put together a package of typical/workable licenses for companies such as Material Connexion.  Another attendee noted that ACRL has guidelines for licensing and that the group should look to this resource instead of reinventing the wheel.  It was also noted that a conference session on licensing was scheduled for Wednesday.

 

List of Attendees (A-Z)

1.       Heather Ball, Virginia Tech

2.       Hannah Bennett, Yale University

3.       Elizabeth Byrne, University of California at Berkeley

4.       Judy Connorton, City College of New York

5.       Margaret Culbertson, University of Houston

6.       Beatrice De Clippeleir, Sint-Lucasbibliotheek Hogeschool (Gent, Belgium)

7.       Jane Devine Mejia, University of Notre Dame

8.       Karen DeWitt, North Carolina State University

9.       Maya Gervits, NJIT

10.   Nicole Gjertsen, University of British Columbia

11.   Renata Guttman, Canadian Centre for Architecture

12.   Janine Henri, University of Texas at Austin

13.   Ann Keith Kennedy, Drexel University

14.   Kathryn Kollar, Canadian Centre for Architecture

15.   Deborah Koshinsky, Arizona State University

16.   Susan Koskinen, University of California at Berkeley

17.   Susan Lewis, Boston Architectural Center

18.   Ann Lindell, University of Florida

19.   Sarah McCleskey, Clemson University

20.   Polly McCord, University of Arizona

21.   Jean McEvoy, University of Maryland

22.   Jennifer Parker, University of Virginia

23.   Betsy Peck Learned, Roger Williams University

24.   Henry Pisciotta, Penn State University

25.   Nancy Pistorius, University of New Mexico

26.   Rebecca Price, University of Michigan

27.   Irene Puchalski, University of Toronto

28.   Chris Quinn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

29.   Bonnie Reed, Texas Tech University

30.   Phyllis Robarts, University of Miami

31.   Jeffrey Scherer, Meyer, Scherer and Rockcast, Ltd.

32.   Dorothy Tao, State University of New York at Buffalo

33.   Laura Tatum, University of California at Berkeley

34.   Nancy Thorne, University of Pennsylvania

35.   Shannon Van Kirk, Miami University

36.   Ruth Wallach, University of Southern California

37.   Nicole Warren, “independent”

38.   Ann Whiteside, University of Virginia

39.   Hugh Wilburn, Harvard Design School

40.   Ines Zalduendo, Harvard Design School