Annual Report (2001)
Gay and Lesbian Interests Round Table, ARLIS NA

Submitted by William A. Peniston, Moderator
wpeniston@newarkmuseum.org
(973) 596-6625
Fax: (973) 642-0459

William Peniston, The Newark Museum, presided over the annual meeting in Los Angeles on April 1, 2001. In absentia, Bill Bunce, Director Emeritus of the Kohler Art Library at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, succeeded him as Moderator for 2001-2002. Stephen Patrick, East Tennessee State University, was elected Vice Moderator.

In June, Bill Bunce announced that, due to personal reasons, he would not be able to continue to serve as Moderator. In consultation with the Past Moderator, the Vice Moderator, and the President of Arlis/NA, William Peniston was prevailed upon to serve an extra year as Moderator.

The group made a proposal for a session entitled "Censored Sexualities? Erotica in Libraries and Visual Resource Centers" to the Joint Committee of the VRA/ARLIS Conference in St. Louis in 2002. The Committee did not accept the proposal, so for the first time in many years, GLIRT will not be represented on the conference program.

In August, William Peniston and Ted Goodman met with Clayton Kirking of the Estates Project and Christopher Hagan of Visual AIDS to discuss the possibility of using GLIRT members as resources of information on contemporary artists. Neither GLIRT the Estates Project nor Visual AIDS followed through on this conversation.

The listserv, GLIRT-L, continues to serve its members as a means of communication. It is still maintained by Eric Schwab at Cornell University. To subscribe to the list, send the message "SUBSCRIBE GLIRT-L" to listproc@cornell.edu. To unsubscribe, send the message "UNSUBSCRIBE GLIRT-L" to the same email address. For problems, contact Eric Schwab at ecs13@cornell.edu.

The Website, http://www.pitt.edu/~frickart/arlis/glirt.htm, is still maintained by James M. Viskochil, now at the Brooklyn Museum, and it is still hosted by the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh.