Annual Report (2003)
ARLIS/NA
Southern California Chapter


Chapter Officers

Rina Vecchiola, Chair
Kelley Wolfe, Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Trish Rose, Treasurer
Anne Blecksmith, Secretary

Chapter Meetings

Fall Meeting, September 5, 2003, University of California, Irvine—The morning started with an architectural tour of the campus given by Eric Lutz, a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara.  25 people attended the afternoon business meeting, coffee break, and panel presentation.  At the business meeting, the ARLIS/SC Board and new chapter members were introduced.  Kelley Wolfe solicited calls for nominations for the openings on the SC board.  Enough of the membership was present to vote on the issue of raising local membership dues to the level of other chapters’ dues.  The proposal to raise local dues to $15.00 and offer free membership to students received a unanimous vote.  Anne Blecksmith announced plans for a fundraiser at the San Antonio Winery in downtown Los Angeles.  Rina Vecchiola reported on the ARLIS-West conference held in Portland and proposed planning for a joint ARLIS/SC-NC meeting for 2004.  After a coffee break sponsored by the UCI Libraries, a panel of speakers discussed the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) including history and background, image delivery, encoding finding aids, and reference and instruction.  The panelists were:

Jackie Dooley, Head of Special Collections and Archives, UC Irvine Libraries

Maureen Burns, Humanities Curator, UC Irvine Visual Resources Collection

Kelley Wolfe, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Libraries of the Claremont Colleges

Susan Flanagan, Electronic Resources Librarian, Getty Research Institute

After the panel, attendees enjoyed a reception at the Visual Resources Collection.

Activities

Joint ARLIS NC & SC Luncheon at ARLIS/NA Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 23, 2003--At the recent ARLIS conference in Baltimore, 21 members of both the northern and southern California regional chapters held a joint luncheon in order to strengthen relationships among the state's ARLIS members. Even though these chapters share the same geographic boundaries and unfortunately budget crisis, the sheer size of the state doesn't allow for many face to face meetings between northern and southern halves and necessitates the need for 2 state chapters. Members seemed to enjoy the opportunity to finally affiliate faces with the names of their CA colleagues and discussed the possibility of another joint meeting sometime in the next year. While the agenda of the luncheon was more social than business, travel awards were announced and distributed to 2 southern CA chapter members in appreciation of their service to both the regional chapter and ARLIS as a whole. The recipients were: Nancy Norris, an Arts and Humanities Cataloger at the UCLA Research Library and current Assistant Head of the Monographic Cataloging and Authority Sections and Alan Michelson, the Architecture and Design Librarian at the UCLA Arts Library. Nancy has attended ARLIS conferences since 1986 and was co-chair of the 2001 LA conference in addition to being Chair of this year's Wittenborn Award Committee. Attending his third ARLIS conference, Alan was Moderator of this year's Art and Design School Libraries' Section meeting and on the ARLIS/NA Travel Awards Committee. Most recently he served as Chair of ARLIS/SC chapter. Congratulations to both of them.

ARLIS/SC Fundraiser at San Antonio Winery, December 6, 2003--12 members attended the fundraiser where they had lunch, did some wine tasting, and took a tour of the Museum of Neon Art.

Membership Statistics

Total Members            38                   

New Members             8                     

Treasurer’s Report

Beginning Balance  1/1/03                          2168

Income                                           1866                     

Expenses                                        1778

Ending  Balance  12/31/03                      2256