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The Student Awards Subcommittee of ARLIS/NA is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s awards: Sam Regal has been chosen to receive the Gerd Muehsam Award, and Joana Stillwell was selected for the Wolfgang M. Freitag Internship Award. Sam is a librarian, writer, and artist living... Continue Reading
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is pleased to announce the winners of the ARLIS/NA Conference Travel Awards for 2022. The Conference Attendance Award was created to encourage participation in ARLIS/NA by assisting conference attendance by committee members, chapter officers,... Continue Reading
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is pleased to announce this year's winners of the ARLIS/NA H. W. Wilson Foundation Research Award. The H. W. Wilson Foundation Research Award supports research activities by ARLIS/NA individual members in the fields of librarianship, visual... Continue Reading
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has awarded the 2021 George Wittenborn book award for excellence in art publishing to the exhibition catalogue Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories published by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to accompany their exhibition of the same... Continue Reading
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is pleased to announce Louis (Lou) Adrean as the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Service Award. He is the 31st person to receive the Society’s highest honor. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual whose... Continue Reading
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine who are facing military aggression. Continue Reading
Authored by the ARLIS/NA Art and Design School Library Division, this report aims to shed further light on issues and trends affecting art and design school libraries (ADSLs) before and during the pandemic. Continue Reading
Read the March 2022 issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews on ARLIS/NA Commons. View ARLIS/NA Reviews Continue Reading
Statement Against White Appropriation of Black, Indigenous & People of Color's Labor Advocacy & Public Policy Committee (APPC) News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to... Continue Reading
Tempestt Hazel (Plenary Session) Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a Chicago-based arts publication and archiving initiative that has promoted and preserved the practices of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists with disabilities across the... Continue Reading
ARLIS/NA mourns the passing of our distinguished colleagues this past year. Name Institution Date of Passing Link to Obituary Ray Smith RW Smith, Bookseller October 16, 2021 Herbert Sherer University of Minnesota Libraries December 22, 2021 Obituary Margaret Ford Museum... Continue Reading
