Art Libraries Society of North America 32nd Annual Conference
Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY - April 15-21, 2004 

 

Photography Librarians Speed Meeting

Sunday, April 18, 2004, 8:30-9 a.m.

 

Chair, 2002-2004: Miguel Juarez, University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography

In-coming 2004-05 Chair (elected in New York), Peter P. Blank, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago

Incoming 2004-05 Vice-Chair, Barbara Rockenbach, ARTstor, JSTOR

 

Minutes taken by Sarah E. Falls (University of Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

Members in attendance: Miguel Juarez, Lily Moureaux, Tom Beck, Fred Pajerski, Jane Devine, Peter Blank, Barbara Rockenbach, Deirdre Donohue, Chris Ramsey, Jane Devine-Mejia, Sarah Falls.

 

Miguel, co-founder of the Photography Librarians Discussion Group recounted a short history of the group.  Photography Librarians Discussion Group had its first meeting in St. Louis in 2002.

 

Announcements

 

 

1. ICP Tour and Reception at ICP on Monday, April 19th from 3-5 p.m. (yes, it conflicts with the Christo extravaganza)

 

 

2. Exhibit at Queen's College, Sunday, 1-5 p.m.--let's meet at the Roosevelt at 12:30 p.m. so we can share a cab or venture into the subway tunnels-we should be back before 5:30 p.m. to catch buses to the Convocation at El Museo del Barrio or perhaps we can go directly there from Queen's College?

 

Discussion on our structure

 

 

After discussion as to whether the PLDG should become an ARLIS Roundtable everyone agreed to maintain the current ad-hoc status for at least another year.

 

In order to assure continuity for the group it was suggested that we begin a system of annually selecting an incoming Vice Moderator/Chair who would assume leadership of the group the following year. In the absence of a current Vice Chair Peter Blank offered to serve as Chair for the incoming year and Barb Rockenbach volunteered to serve as the incoming Vice-Chair.

 

Ideas for Houston

 

 

Session ideas for Houston were discussed:

 

Jane Devine and Barb Rockenbach will develop a proposal on the theme of "Border" photography.

 

Peter Blank and Deirdre Donahue will develop a proposal related to the literature of photography.

 

 

 

Other business

 

Barbara Rockenbach asked what photographic collections would people like to see in ARTstor?

 

 

Miguel asked Barbara what will happen to images in AMICO.

 

 

Barbara replied that ArtStor is talking with AMICO, with an announcement to be made next month.

 

  

 

Peter expressed concern that the prices of photographic publications are rising, making it more difficult for librarians to collect.  He suggested that perhaps our group could come up with a bibliography of the History of Photography to aid us in collection development and maintenance and so we could share sources for replacing these titles.

 

  

 

Raffle

 

  

 

An array of items was raffled off from attendees' institutions.  Everyone was a winner.