Moderator:  Laurie Whitehill Chong, Rhode Island School of Design
Recorder:  Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design, moderator-elect

Old Business

Sponsorship at the 28TH annual conference, Pittsburgh
The division co-sponsored the following sessions:

•  “Creative Multiples:  Artists’ Books as Teaching Tools”
• ?“From Collaboration to Consortia:  Developing Partnerships”

Archives
Sara MacDonald, The University of the Arts, located former moderator Martha Hall’s files.  The archives now contain a list of past moderators and focal points.  A list of session proposals sponsored by the division over the last ten years is included as well.

Bibliographic Instruction
The division retired the binder containing bibliographic instruction materials, since the LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction offers comparable, if not precisely the same, information.  Participants agreed that there are opportunities for sharing instructional aids and information guides on the World Wide Web.

Statistics
The statistics task force can be asked to address the needs of the division, especially as they relate to accreditation applications.

Strategic Plan, 1996-1999
The division’s involvement in this version of the strategic plan has finally been noted.  The division will proceed with identifying and expressing issues and concerns for the current strategic plan.

New Business

Division Web Site
Kari Horowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology, reported that, although there is no official site yet, there is a basic design.  Until the establishment of the site, it was agreed to move toward the use of electronic mail for as much communication in place of print.

Accredidation
There was discussion of NASAD versus ACRL standards, as well as of descriptive versus numerical standards.  It was recommended that the division advocate comparisons with peer institutions (benchmarking), rather than a reliance on formulae, although some remained in favor of quantification as a desirable method of relaying needs to boards of directors and trustees.

Election
Jill Patrick, Ontario College of Art & Design, became moderator-elect by acclamation.  Mary Louise Castaldi, The University of the Arts, became Update column editor by acclamation.

Strategic Plan
Laurie Whitehill Chong reviewed action items from the 1996-1999 strategic plan.  The following were recommended as action items for 2000-2002 strategic plan:

• Create a roster of art and design school libraries interested in hosting interns in art librarianship (goal I.C).
• Use the division Web site to provide references and links to recommended print and electronic non-art interdisciplinary information resources (goal I.G).
• Establish and maintain a roster of art and design school members who have been, are currently, or will be involved in the accreditation process, available on the division Web site (goal I.E).
• Encourage art and design school members to include poster sessions at the annual conference by providing a set of guidelines for proposals (goal II.D).
• Organize visits to local art and design school libraries at conferences (goal II.D).
• Create a clearinghouse of shared statistics for art and design school librarians (goal III.A).  Moira Steven (The Atlanta College of Art), Fred A. Hillbruner (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Kathleen L. List (Ringling School of Art & Design), and Moira Steven (The Atlanta College of Art) agreed to work with Carol Graney (University of the Arts), who will serve as representative to the Executive Board and its statistics task force, on this.  Promote the inclusion of division members in accreditation visiting teams, such NASAD, NEASC, SACS, MSACS, WASC, NCA, FIDER, and NAAB.

Program proposals for the 29th annual conference in Los Angeles, 2001

• Ask ARLIS session, “The Accreditation of Art Libraries:  Benefit or Burden?”, presented by Paul Glassman, New York School of Interior Design.  Clayton Kirking, Parsons School of Design, and Robert Craddick, Pacific Northwest College of Art, agreed to work with him.
•  “Film Collections in Art Libraries” (title to be revised), presented in absentia by Claire Eike, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• Leadership training.  Paul Glassman agreed to invite Pat Wagner of Pattern Research in Denver and to submit a proposal for this.
• Case studies of image searching on the World Wide Web (idea).
• Bibliographic instruction training (idea).
• Art & design school library visits.  Kari Horowicz, Rochester Institute of Technology, agreed to work on this.