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ARLIS/Ohio Valley Chapter NewsSubmitted by Kay Downey / posted: 8 February 2005On October 14-15 the Ohio Valley chapter met in the Appalachian region of Ohio in the city of Marietta, a charming historic town on the banks of the Ohio River. Chris Hatten of the Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, organized this event. The meeting began with dinner on Thursday evening at the Marietta Brewing Company. On Friday the group met at the Campus Martius Museum for morning programs and the business meeting. The first program entitled "The Library Vertical File: Archaic Concept in a Digital Age?" was presented by Anne Morris (Toledo Museum of Art), Ellen Rohmiller (Dayton Art Institute) and Meg Shaw (University of Kentucky). Each presenter described the development, organization, content and user value of the vertical file collection within their own libraries. The second program was called "ARTstor in Action." Gary Ginther, fine arts librarian at Ohio University, presented an overview of ARTstor and its use by students and faculty. He described Ohio University's participation in ARTstor's test phase to assess ARTstor's progress in building the image collections and software tools. A short business meeting was held after the first session. The meeting included reports from the chapter officers and Suzy Frechette of the St. Louis Public Library, ARLIS/NA regional representative. Minutes of the business meeting can be found on the chapter web site http://home.insightbb.com/~prunge2/arlisov/. The ARLIS/Ohio Valley chapter also sponsors a chapter travel award in the amount of $200. This fall the award was presented to Elizabeth Meyer of the DAAP Library, University of Cincinnati. After a delightful lunch at Oliver's in downtown Marietta, the group returned to the Campus Martius for a tour of the museum. The museum highlights migration in Ohio's history; its early settlement and the prehistoric Indian populations that occupied this area as the white settlers moved in. The museum is on the site of the first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory. Founded in 1788, it was originally a fort that served as home for some of the pioneers while they established Marietta. Top of Page |