Annual Report
(2002)
ARLIS/NA
Texas-Mexico
Chapter
Chapter
Officers January 1-March 31, 2002
President: Laura Schwartz, The University of
Texas at Austin
Vice-President: Jon Evans, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Past-President: Polly Trump, University of
Arizona
Secretary/Treasurer: Beverly Carver,
University of Texas at Arlington
Webmaster:
Sam Duncan, Amon Carter Museum
ARLIS/NA
South Regional Representative: Paula Hardin, University of North Carolina
Chapter
Officers April 1-December 31, 2002
President: Jon Evans, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston
Secretary/Treasurer: Beverly Carver,
University of Texas at Arlington
Past-President: Laura Schwartz, The University
of Texas at Austin
Webmaster:
Sam Duncan, Amon Carter Museum
ARLIS/NA South Regional Representative: Laura
Schwartz, The University of Texas at Austin
NOTE: Paula
Hardin resigned as Regional Representative because she moved out of the South
Region. Laura Schwartz was asked to
replace her. ARLIS/NA policy
prohibits an individual from serving on the Executive Board and as a chapter
officer simultaneously. (ARLIS/NA POLICY NO.: C-3)
List of Chapter
Meetings
March 22.
Informal gathering in St. Louis at the ARLIS/VRA conference.
October 17-19. Annual Chapter meeting held in Austin, Texas at The
University of Texas at Austin. Beth
Dodd, Elizabeth Schaub, Janine Henri and Laura Schwartz served on the planning
committee. Noteworthy activities
include a tour of the Tarlton Law Library and Hyder Art Collection, tours of
local galleries, a disaster preparedness workshop, and a dinner reception at the
Charles Moore House with the Music Library Association of Texas. A complete itinerary can be found in the Summer 2002 issue of
The Medium (http://www.arlis-txmx.org/medium/issues/2002_v28_no2.shtml).
Summary reports and meeting minutes can be found in the Fall 2002 issue
Activities of
the Chapter
During
2002, the Chapter agreed to host a regional meeting in conjunction with the
ARLIS/Southeast Chapter in 2003, which will convene in New Orleans.
This will be the first regional meeting in which the Chapter has
participated. Special funding was
granted by ARLIS/NA is support of this venture.
Ongoing
recruitment efforts have been carried out by the Chapter.
In particular, Laura Schwartz focused efforts upon visual resources
curators in the region.
The
Chapter voted to support the largest funding grant for the Lois Swan Jones
Professional Development Award in Chapter history. This year’s $875 award is intended to help defray costs for
a member to attend and participate in the 2003 ARLIS/NA Annual Conference.
Rising travel costs, decreasing funding and the aim of attracting a
broader array of candidates influenced the Chapter’s decision to increase
funding. This year’s recipient is
Mary Leonard, Associate Librarian, Mayer Library, Dallas Museum of Art.
The LSJ Award committee consisted of John Hagood, Reader Services
Librarian, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Marty Stein, Visual Resources Curator,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Merriann Bidgood, Curator, Visual Resources
Library, University of Houston.
Membership
Statistics
41 members
Treasurer’s
Report
Balance beginning January 1, 2001
$1,510.33
Income
Membership
dues 480.00
2002
Meeting Registration 570.00
Chapter
Dinner 630.00
Lois
Swan Jones Travel Award 875.00
Disaster
Planning Workshop 140.00
MLA/Texas
Chapter contribution toward meeting expenses 231.60
Interest 5.27
Cash 5.28
TOTAL 4,447.48
Expenses
Lois
Swan Jones Travel Award
500.00
Domain
registration 70.00
Internet
Service Provider 172.40
Word
of Mouth Catering/Charles Moore Dinner
541.25
Chapter
Dinner 1,100.00
Stationery 116.55
Bank
fees
59.00
TOTAL 2,559.20
BALANCE $1,887.28
Additional
Comments
The
establishment of an ARLIS/NA Task Force devoted to Mexican relations was
proposed at this year’s Chapter business meeting. The membership concluded that the issue of relations with our
colleagues from Mexico is of concern not only regionally, but to the entire
ARLIS community. Further, we
recognized that it will require a long-term commitment of both personnel and
capital that is beyond the resources of any single chapter.
As a society that encompasses all of North America, we believe it is
essential that ARLIS/NA act with a broad coalition of chapters, interested
members and other professional institutions to reach out to this community.
In this way we can actively pursue a dialogue with Mexican art
information professionals that will benefit both parties.
The
Chapter submitted a bid to host the 2005 ARLIS/NA Annual Conference in Houston,
Texas. Tentative approval of this
bid has been given, but is pending full Executive Board approval.
Three
issues of the Chapter newsletter, The
Medium, were published during the year and are available to the ARLIS
community via the Chapter website. The summer issue of The Medium featured three members who have actively participated at
Society level. The spring and fall
issues featured conference reports from the ARLIS/NA and Chapter conference,
respectively.
v.
28, no. 1 (spring 2002)
v. 28, no. 3 (fall 2002)
Column
Editors for The Medium were:
Architecture - Beth Dodd
Museum - Mary Leonard
Academic - Tara Carlisle
Visual Resources - Sheryl Wilhite
Public - Gwen Dixie
Ongoing
improvements have been made to the Chapter’s website by webmaster, Sam Duncan.
The website serves as a significant communication tool not only for the
Chapter, but to the broader ARLIS community and beyond.
During 2002, the webmaster inserted a search
engine in the header of each page, which now allows the site to be fully
searchable. Additionally,
the Current Exhibitions in Texas and Mexico listing has been given more
prominence on the Chapter’s homepage.
The
Chapter recently submitted a bylaws revision to the ARLIS/NA Executive Board via
our South Regional Representative concerning a change in officer titles and
responsibilities. The change
consisted of splitting the position of Secretary/Treasurer into two independent
positions. The Board approved the
change and we have recently elected a separate Secretary and Treasurer to begin
their duties January 1, 2003. Respectively,
they are Elizabeth Schaub, Director, Audio Visual Resources Collection, School
of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin and Beverly Carver,
Architecture and Fine Arts Library Manager, University of Texas at Arlington.
Chapter
stationery was created to support recruitment and development efforts.
The Chapter voted to support the welcome party
at the 2003 Annual Conference in Baltimore with a donation of $200.
Submitted by Laura Schwartz and Jon Evans
January 2002