ARLIS/SE Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, November 12–13
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ARTifacts The Newsletter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Southeast Chapter January 2016 ARLIS/SE Annual Conference Michael C. Carlos Museum as well as those at in Atlanta, Georgia, SCAD Atlanta and the High Museum of Art. A special visit by Vamp and Tramp completed the November 12–13 afternoon's activities. by Kasia Leousis, Architecture and Art Librarian, I'd also like to thank the team for arranging such Library of Architecture, Design, and beautiful weather during our stay in Atlanta! And Construction, Auburn University, a special thank-you goes to Sandra Still for open- Auburn, Alabama, ing up her beautiful home to us and hosting 2015 President, ARLIS/SE Thursday night's reception. Congratulations to the Atlanta Chapter Confer- My congratulations extend to Kim Windham at ence Planning Committee! Florida A&M University, who is our vice presi- dent and president elect, and Katy Parker at Teresa Burk, Marty Miller, Amanda Meeks, Kim SCAD, who is our new treasurer. Thanks to you Collins, Sandra Still, Caroline Barratt, Emily both for volunteering to serve our chapter in such Luken, and Courtney Baron organized and hosted important ways. an absolutely wonderful chapter conference in Atlanta that had an outstanding thirty-two at- I look forward to seeing everyone in Seattle in tendees! What a powerhouse team—kudos to March and then Sarasota in the fall! everyone involved! I especially enjoyed the broad ranging and in- formative presentations from our lightning round speakers Caroline Barratt and Courtney Baron, Breanne Crumpton, Lee Sorensen, Ann Lindell, and Lindsey Reynolds along with the full-length talks given by Courtenay McLeland, Erin Dickey, Elizabeth Grab, Kelsey Moen, Olivia Miller, Patricia Gimenez, Stephanie Grimm, and Katy Parker. I feel fortunate to be a member of this chapter and to have such engaging, innovative, and inspiring art professionals as colleagues. Attendees at the annual meeting of ARLIS/SE in Our group benefited from multiple tour opportu- Atlanta, November 12–13, 2015. nities at Emory's Woodruff Library and the Photo by Sheila Cork. 1 Member News From John J. Taormina, Director, Visual Media Center, and Coordinator, Communications, Publi- cations and Exhibitions, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina: The Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) will be meeting in Roanoke, Virginia, October 19–22, 2016, hosted by Virginia Tech with Hollins University. Sessions will take place at the official conference hotel, the Hotel Roa- noke & Conference Center. Hotel Roanoke is in the heart of downtown and within walking dis- tance of the Taubman Museum of Art, the Harri- son Museum of African American Culture, and the O. Winston Link Museum, as well as restau- rants and bars. The Visual Resource Association–sponsored Affiliate Session will be "Reconfiguring Knowledge: Making the Digital Humanities student and one of six fellows in the IMLS- Visual, Part 2." I am the session organizer. As an funded project called Learning from Artists' affiliate organization, VRA is guaranteed a ses- Archives: Preparing Next Generation Art Infor- sion slot, and the Call for Papers for the sessions mation Professionals through Partnerships with will be posted in April. North Carolina's Artists' Archives. _______________________ As Erin Dickey, Kelsey Moen, and I presented at From Floyd Michael Zula, retired librarian and this year's chapter meeting, the Learning from lifetime member of ARLIS/SE: Artists' Archives fellowship held an Archiving for Artists Workshop in October 2015 at the North For more than fifteen years, I have been a book Carolina Museum of Art, which is meant to serve design judge for the Independent Book Publishers as a model for future collaborations between Association's (IBPA) Annual Benjamin Franklin artists and art information professionals. The Awards and have again been asked to do so in the second workshop—slated for spring 2016 at the twenty-eighth year of the association's awards. Mint Museum—will elaborate on that work. The IBPA is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California. The grant will also provide an internship at the ________________________________________ Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center to better my understanding of how an artist's work and legacy factor into an institutional context. As a subse- New Members quent field experience, I hope to apply that knowledge by working with a Raleigh-Durham From Elizabeth Grab, MSLS and MA candidate, area book artist in formulating a studio and per- SILS & Art History Department, UNC Chapel sonal archive to facilitate her or his daily practice, Hill, North Carolina: grant writing, and legacy planning. I am pleased to become a fledgling member of the Before graduating from Wellesley College in ARLIS/SE community as a first-year dual-degree 2014 in art history and English literature, I con- 2 centrated on material cultures and book arts. At I learn here in my new position at Strozier Li- UNC, I plan to combine my enthusiasm for both brary. As a new member of the ARLIS communi- subjects by focusing on how the book arts can ty, I look forward to working with you all and best be served by and contribute to the digital learning as much as I can, especially this next humanities. year. I will be at the conference in Seattle this _______________________ March, and I very much look forward to meeting each of you! From Leah Sherman, Visual and Performing _______________________ Arts Librarian, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida, and MLIS candidate, FSU: From Kim Windham, Head of the Florida A&M University Architecture Library, Tallahassee, Florida: Although not a new member, I would like to introduce myself as the new vice president of ARLIS/SE. Head of the Florida A&M University Architec- ture Library since 2014, I am the subject liaison to art, architecture, humanities, and theater. I earned a BA degree in 2006 and an MLIS degree in 2013 from Florida State University, and I am currently pursuing graduate studies in art history. A graduate of the ARLIS/SE mentoring program, I credit that experience with developing profes- sional skills and leadership capacity in art and architecture librarianship. My research interests include information-seeking in the arts, open educational resources, and diver- sity in the arts and libraries. I am a current student in the MLIS program at FSU in Tallahassee, Florida. As I begin my last year of course work, I am excited to announce that this January I will be moving out of my current job as the program coordinator for the Art History department on campus and over to FSU Libraries to serve as the new Visual and Perform- ing Arts Librarian. My background thus far is largely research-based as I've already earned my BA and MA degrees in art history—my specialty is Italian modern art (particularly Italian futurism.) While this will be my first-ever library job, I am absolutely thrilled to begin this new chapter of my professional life in such a big way! I am excited to get involved in ARLIS and to use what 3 Report from the ARLIS/NA Code of Conduct ARLIS has devised a draft of a more permanent Chapters Liaison Code of Conduct statement, called a Statement of by Rebecca Friedman, Appropriate Conduct. A code was developed for Chapters Liaison, the Fort Worth conference, but we needed some- ARLIS/NA Executive Board; thing more permanent to cover all ARLIS transac- Assistant Librarian, Marquand Library of Art tions. Heather Gendron, the current vice president & Archaeology; Acting Librarian, of ARLIS, is working on finalizing and integrat- School of Architecture Library, ing the document into the ARLIS website and Princeton University, into official documentation. It may be that all Princeton, New Jersey chapter sites link to it, and it becomes the code for the entire society. ARLIS/NA Learning Portal The Learning Portal was originally created to provide virtual content from ARLIS/NA annual conferences, but it has evolved to provide addi- tional programs and sessions. The board voted in August to provide this content free to members and to all interested parties. The Educational Technology Subcommittee of the Professional Development Committee will be sending out an Hello Southeast Chapter Members! announcement very soon regarding the portal's new open access status. Check out what's there, in I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend any case, if you haven't yet: https://www.arlisna. your conference meeting in Atlanta in November, org/career-resources/arlis-na-learning-portal. and I reported on many of the items listed below. I want to congratulate chapter officers and the Seattle Conference conference planning team on an enriching and Registration for the Seattle conference opened on enjoyable couple of days. Kudos to all of the Dec. 1. Thirty-three sessions are scheduled over conference speakers and a special thank-you to three days (versus twenty-eight in Fort Worth). Kasia, Marty, and all of the Atlanta hosts. Feel Most chapter, section, and division meetings are free to follow up with me via e-mail with ques- scheduled to meet very early because it has prov- tions or comments, and if there's anything that en challenging to avoid conflicting with sessions. needs to be brought to the attention of the board, Thanks to the Southeast Chapter for a generous do let me know anytime. $300 donation towards general conference sup- port. The Seattle conference looks to be shaping Strategic Planning and Directions up to be a super event. The board has been thinking about and drafting new versions of our core values and vision state- Chapter Archives ments to help guide the work of the Strategic ARLIS/NA formed a Documentation Committee Planning Committee.