Monday, April 26, 2010 |
| 10:30am - 4:00pm |
The City Experience: The Fenway |
| Maximum number: 30 |
| Cost: $10 |
| The Fenway City Experience brings you to Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. Along this lovely greenway you will find the heart of artistic Boston: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), and Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). As part of your City Experience you will enjoy a tour of the history of the Museum of Fine Arts by MFA Archivist and the author of Invitation to Art: A History of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Maureen Melton. No trip to Boston is complete without a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts and this tour offers a rare opportunity to experience it with a true expert.
After lunch at the MFA or nearby restaurant (a list will be provided), you will head over to MassArt for an engaging session entitled “Defying Domains: Collectively Documenting Art Library Resources by Collaboration, Innovation, Cooperation and Transformation”. In the course of one day you will experience the best of the history and future of art.
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Schedule |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Travel with local guide to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston via public transportation |
| 11:30am - 12:15pm |
Tour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with Maureen Melton |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm |
Free time in museum, gift shop, and lunch |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm |
Session at the Massachusetts College of Art: Defying Domains: Collectively Documenting Art Library Resources by Collaboration, Innovation, Cooperation and Transformation |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Return travel with local guide to the Seaport hotel via public transportation |
Session |
| Defying Domains: Collectively Documenting Art Library Resources by Collaboration, Innovation, Cooperation and Transformation |
| In a time of shifting library usage, increased demand and cost-cutting imperatives, collaboration among institutions is essential. This session will explore how three organizations seized opportunities to deliver library services collectively. Lily Pregill will describe the creation of Arcade, the shared ILS of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA. Jen Green, Caitlin Pereira and Chris Ford will recount the birth and growth of the FLO Image Group, a consortium of 10 Boston academic libraries creating a common digital collection. And Francine Snyder will explore the generation of Koha, an open-source ILS, as the first online catalog of the Guggenheim Museum Library. |
Moderator |
| Susan Chute, Supervising Librarian, Circulating Art and Picture Collections, The New York Public Library |
Speakers |
| Fenway Libraries Online (FLO): An Image Sharing Initiative |
Jen Green, Art Librarian, Lamson Library and Learning Commons, Plymouth State University
Chris Ford, Forner Visual Resources Curator, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Caitlin Pereira, Assistant Director of Visual Resources, Massachusetts College of Art |
| Open Source Reality: Guggenheim Museum Library's implementation of Koha, an Open-Source ILS |
| Francine Snyder, Manager of the Library and Archives, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives |
| No Data Left Behind: Collaboration and the Building of Arcade |
| Lily Pregill, NYARC Project Coordinator & Systems Manager, NYARC (The New York Art Resources Consortium) |
| The City Experience: MIT |
| Maximum number: 30 |
| Cost: $10 |
| The City Experience in Cambridge and at MIT will bring you just across the Charles River to the city of Cambridge and the MIT campus. We’ll take public transportation from the Seaport to Cambridge, where we’ll meet with a curator from the List Visual Arts Center, one of the most prominent centers of contemporary art in New England, who will provide a tour of the amazing MIT Public Art Collection. The collection is a living archive of artist work that is integrated into the fabric of the campus. After the tour, we will find lunch at one of the eclectic restaurant options near to campus. Following lunch, we will attend the session “Seeing Past and Present Anew: Animating the Archive”. This City Experience will provide a day of experiencing Cambridge, MIT, and the idea of archives of different types in the contemporary world. |
Schedule |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Travel with local guide to MIT via public transportation |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm |
Tour of MIT’s public art with List Visual Arts staff |
| 12:30pm - 1:45pm |
Time for lunch and visit to the Rotch Library |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm |
Session at MIT: Seeing Past and Present Anew: Animating the Archive |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm |
Return travel with local guide to the Seaport hotel via public transportation |
Session |
| Seeing Past and Present Anew: Animating the Archive |
| Traditionally the “archive” is thought of as a treasure trove of primary source materials, developed via an ongoing cumulation and classification that, over time, allows researchers to triangulate in their investigations into past cultural practices. The Future Archive Project at MIT expands this notion by documenting artists’ methods of creation and collaboration so other artists, historians, and theorists can view artistic process as works are created via a Web portal, not years later. At Stanford a reconceptualization of “collection” from an incrementally increasing aggregate to an ever reconstituting and redefining mass of cultural detritus redefines collection development and instructional practices.
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Moderator |
| Günter Waibel, Program Officer, OCLC Research |
Speakers |
| Research at the Intersection of Creation, Archiving, Dissemination and Study of Contemporary Art |
| Michael Mittelman, Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Founder and Publisher of ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Rediscovering the Archive: Playing in the Fields of Cultural Production. Case Study: 1959 – More Than Robert Frank’s The Americans |
| Peter Blank, Head Librarian, Stanford University Art & Architecture Library |
| The City Experience: Harvard |
| Maximum number: 30 |
| Cost: $10 |
| The City Experience at Harvard will take us via subway from the Seaport across the river to Cambridge. First an architectural walking tour led by Design School Special Collections Librarian Mary Daniels will focus on the modern architecture of Quincy Street including Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center. Loeb Library at the Design School and the Fine Arts Library will be open to receive us afterward and the prospect of seeing the Harvard Art Museum, the Peabody Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History will tempt us to take a very short lunch break.
Following lunch at a choice of campus cafeterias and restaurants, the afternoon session held back at the Design School will be "Focus on the
Near: Mastering Local Architecture and Urban Planning Information".
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Schedule |
| 10:30am - 11:15am |
Travel with local guide to Harvard Square via public transportation |
| 11:15am - 12:15pm |
Tour of Harvard architecture focusing on the Quincy Street arts corridor |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm |
Time for lunch, visits to the Design Library, Fine Arts Library and Harvard Museums |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm |
Session at Harvard: Focus on the Near: Mastering Local Architecture and Urban Planning Information |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm |
Return travel with local guide to the Seaport hotel via public transportation |
Session |
| Focus on the Near: Mastering Local Architecture and Urban Planning Information |
| The mass media would have us believe that all the information we need is ubiquitous and readily available. One might also imagine that location and place no longer matter—having been replaced by digital connectivity. Ironically, successful and sustainable building projects often rely on a thorough understanding of the local climate, materials, customs, codes, and expectations, information that is often obscure or unpublished. More than ever, architects and urban planners (students and professionals alike) need access to local, detailed and site-specific resources. How do we become experts on local subject matter? This session will focus on strategies that architectural and urban planning librarians can employ to become experts in local information, ranging from the concrete, such as municipal building ordinances and regional ecosystem conditions, to the abstract, such as local social conditions and customs. |
Moderator |
| Kitty Chibnik, Associate Director/Head, Access Services, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University |
Speakers |
| A Micro Focus in a Macro World: Mastering Local Urban Planning Information |
| Alan Michelson, Head, Built Environments Library, University of Washington, Seattle |
| The Place of Architecture: Mastering Local Architectural Information |
| Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning, and Visual Resources Librarian, Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, University of Michigan |
| 10:30am - 5:00pm |
The City Experience: RISD and Providence |
| This is a shared bus excursion with the Providence tour. |
| Maximum number: 20 |
| Cost: $30 |
| The City Experience in Providence, RI will include a bus trip to Providence hosted by the Rhode Island School of Design, a tour of the RISD Library, and an architectural orientation to the RISD Campus. Lunch will be on your own and because there are so many wonderful places to eat, a list of nearby places will be provided. The engaging and interactive afternoon session will be an “Artist Book Slam”, held in the Special Collections department of the RISD Library. An exhibit of artists’ books from the collection will also be on view. Refreshments will be provided for the return bus ride. This City Experience will give participants a taste of Providence and RISD plus the benefit of a lively and hands-on discussion of the issues and practices surrounding the use of artists’ books in the academic environment. |
Schedule |
| 10:30am - 11:30am |
Travel to Providence via bus |
| 11:15am - 12:15pm |
Tour of of the RISD library and orientation to the RISD campus |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm |
Time for lunch on your own. A list of places will be provided. |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm |
Session at Harvard: Artists' Book Slam |
| 3:15pm - 4:00pm |
Return travel to the Seaport hotel via bus |
Session |
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| To start the session we will have an “Artist Book Slam” with each participant discussing, critiquing, and analyzing a pre-selected artist book from the RISD Library collection. After that there will be a facilitated discussion of creative strategies for integrating and using artists’ books in the studio classroom. More information about this session and details about pre-selecting artists’ books from the collection can be found on the ARLIS/NA Book Art SIG blog: http://arlisnabookartsig.blogspot.com/. |
Presenters |
| Tony White, Head, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University |
| Laurie Whitehill Chong, Special Collections Librarian / Curator of Artists’ Books, Rhode Island School of Design |
