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Reference & Information Services Section
Who We Are
Year Established: 1989
Our current moderator is Ross Day.
The vice-moderator is Jacqueline Rogers.
The News Editor is Rebecca Friedman.
For a list of former moderators, see the ARLIS/NA Policy Manual in the Members' Area.
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Our Mission
- To study and analyze current issues, trends, and developments relating to the provision of reference and information (including instructional) services to art library users;
- To gather and disseminate information concerning the interactions between art librarians and their clientele within the context of serving the informational and educational needs of library users;
- To disperse information about techniques, methods, and trends in the field of reference and information services to all interested art librarians and others interested in the field;
- To develop a system of current awareness in reference and information services of Section members, as well as other Society Divisions, Sections, and Round Tables, which affect the provision of reference and information service in an art library setting;
- To recommend to the Executive Board appropriate actions and projects which may serve as effective means of accomplishing this charge.
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Working Groups
- RISS Workshops Working Group:
Barbara Prior (chair), Nedda Ahmed, Jeremy Blatchley, Laurel Bliss, Ross Day, John Hagood, Terrie Wilson
Purpose & Goals: To facilitate professional growth of ARLIS/NA members and conference attedndees in collection development and public service (esp. reference & instruction) in specific subject areas.
Membership: Six members drawn from RISS for two year terms.
- Artists' File Working Group:
Jon Evans, Roberta Geier
Purpose & Goals: To provide better acccess to artsist' files; explore the development of a directory of institutional holdings; promote best practices for artists' files.
- Free Web Resources Working Group:
Hannah Bennett, Laura Graveline
Purpose & Goals: To create a guide to free internet resources concerned with Art History and the Fine Arts.
Online publication:
Free Art Resources on the Web
- G.K. Hall Library Catalog Inventory Project:
Peter Blank
Purpose & Goals: To identify to what extent libraries covered by G.K. Hall catalogs have subsequently converted that catalog information into their online catalogs.
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