5 i CAA.Reviews Category Selections CHRONOLOGICAL SUBJEOCT TYPE PUBLICATION TYPE BETWEEN PrehisU:l'ric Art Education Artist's Book/Livre Ancient Collecting/Art Market d'artiste 4th-14th centuries Cultural Studies Collection Catalogue NOTHING 15th-16th centuries Gender Studies CD-ROM 17th century General Hjst9W­ Exhibition Catalogue 18th ,century Museum Studies and Online AND 19th century Practices Reference 20t~,;~~ntury Studio Practice Textbook EVERYTHING 21st'century Theory and Criticism GEOGRAPHICAL MEDIUM KEYWORD Africa Architecture/Urban Planning/ The keyword category allows Caribbean>' Historic Preservation the user to enter any term here cannot be many CAA Central Asia Archaeology they wish. The database will members who have not gone East Asia Art/Mixed Media periorm a search based on immediately to the "Books Europe Decorative Arts/Oesigl) data collected from all the T Islam FilmNideo book titles and authors Received" list of recently published Latin America Graphic Arts previously found on the books in the field upon receipt of the Art 5 Native/Pre-Columbi~n New Media ~'\\' Books Received list. Bulletin or when visiting eAA.Reviews at Americas Painting (includes trt~:' illumination) September 2000 http://www.caareviews.orglbooks/ North America Performance/Installation bookindex.html. These lists have long oc~~H!~;Y Photography College Art Association served as personal and professional SO\)th~rQ<Asia Sculptur!3 275 Seventh Avenue Landsca'Pa (includes gardens) New York, New York 10001 desiderata. Turning the book list into an interactivef searchable database, and The current working list of categories for the CAA.Reviews searchable book database. Board of Directors permitting a cost-effective and timely way for CAA staff and reviewers to keep subject headings by using the indexes important step also became our most and keywords, and combining search challenging development issue. Ellen T. Baird, President on top of the business of book reviewingf John R. Clarke, Past President seemed a logical next step in developing terms. This is the beauty of a digital One problem inherent in any Michael Aurbach, Vice President, Committees CAA member services; putting it all up database. indexing scheme is the fact that basic Vanalyne Green, Vice President, External Af£airs on the Web-a masterstroke. To this endf the eAA.Reviews information retrieval processes can be E. Bruce Robertson, Vice President, Annual Conference eAA is happy to announce that the Editorial Board and staff have as their inimical to one another. Search strategies Joe Deal, Secretary goal a functional and purposeful designed for specificity can defeat search John W. Hyland,Jr., Treasurer "Books Received" list will soon be Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel available as a searchable database on the database that reflects the needs of a strategies designed for collocation, and Susan Ball, Executive Director eAA.Reviews website. Currently in the diverse community of users. The book vice versa. We also have the problem of programming phase, the books database database should serve as the source for how best to represent, in an economical Catherine Asher Michael Ann Holly is scheduled to be launched during timely information on art history and indexing scheme, information as Holly Block Dorothy Johnson related bibliography. We chose 19 intellectually complex as that relevant to Marilyn R. Brown Ellen Levy winter 200l. It Nicola Courtright Valerie Mercer In the process of development for a indexes or "fields" through which you "Art," or "visual studies." is even Bailey Doogan Yong Soon Min year and a half, the books database will be able to search. In developing our difficult to find a term to encompass Nancy Friese Andrea Norris allows you to become the indexer"on the approach to creating indexes for the completely all that those tenns imply. Joanna Frueh Bruce Robertson fly.fI Each of you, within the hard-won books database, we were anxious to And any of the others you might be Vanalyne Green Thomas F. Reese limits we have provided (see diagram make such a tool as relevant to the CAA thinking of. Is it any wonder, therefore, Alison Hilton Joyce Hill Stoner community as possible. This most that the fields causing the most trouble in Linda C. Hults Edward Sullivan above), will be able to design your own CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Between Nothing elaborate index structure, we are opportunities for new art professionals work. She became interested in the topic and Everything counting on a high degree of flexibility is greatly enhanced with the addition of at the beginning of her Ph.D. program CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and recombinant searching strategies the Terra Foundation Pre-1940 Ameri­ after seeing several exhibitions of our database development are the fields (keywords in titles, names, etc.; broad can Art Scholarship. Terra scholars Carrington's work at Brewster Gallery in Voillme 25, Number 5 2000 Justine Walden and Kristin Ann New York. Interviewing Carrington in September 2000 potentially most useful as the ones categories for "big net" data capture; primarily designed for collocation? They mixing and matching index fields) to Schwain will each receive grants of Mexico also inspired Susan enormously. are "Chronological/, "Geographical/' assist you. FEllOWS $5,000 toward the completion of their In addition to her studies, Susan has "Medium/' "Publication Type," and Moreover, our database is very dissertations and will be given stipends an extensive history teaching a wide to spend a week-in-residence at one of variety of courses at Parsons School of Between Nothing "Subject Type." The terms included in much a work-ill-progress. It will only NAMED Terra's two constituent museums-the Design, City College, CUNY, New York 1 and Everything these categories are the ones familiar to succeed if it proves its worth to CAA indexing in our fields. They are also members. Consider the categories on Terra Museum of American Art, University, and Caldwell College. fraught with real and potential argu­ page one and let us know what you Chicago, or the Musee d'Art Americain, As the Director of the Visceglia Art Giverny. The format of each residency Center of Caldwell College, she also ment, as we found out when they were think. Keep in mind the dilemma of AA proudly armounces the 2000 Fellows Named will be negotiated between the recipi­ 3 reviewed by our editorial board. nothing-or-everything. But don't fellowship recipients for 2000. oversaw every aspect of exhibition ents and their host institution and may production including curating, handling Certainly none of the categories could be hesitate to recommend changes or CAA administers five of the C include working with docents, teachers, press coverage, and arranging symposia Advocacy Update considered "complete." I argue they enhancements. We need to hear from grants through the Professional Devel­ or curators on new programs and and public programs. Other credits and 6 Join a CAA Committee should not, and could not be. We needn't you, and we will take everything under opment Fellowship Program (PDFP), exhibitions. awards include a Dissertation Fellow­ be encyclopedic. consideration. Don't expect to see a funded through the generous support of All seven recipients will receive ship and two travel grants to Mexico Let me give you an example. The CAA version of "Big Red" any time soon the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Thanks to Members complimentary CAA memberships and City and Guatemala from the Graduate twenty-second edition of the Library of though. There is a reason that the National Endowment for the Arts, the 8 travel grants to attend CANs 2001 Center, CUNY. Art Bulletin to Become Congress Subject Headings (1999) has Library of Congress is as big as it is. It's National Endowment for the Humani­ the difference between your tax Annual Conference. There, they will be Susan plans to continue her Fully Digitized, 6,526 pages. "Big Red," as it is affection­ U.s. ties, and the Geraldine R. Dodge dollars at work, and your membership paired with mentors to help them rigorous practice as an art historian and 9 CAANews ately called (a reference to its rubicund Foundation.. CAA is also pleased to bincting), is an attempt at categorizing dues! award two new scholarships in collabo­ navigate the conference and provide teacher. In addition, she hopes to advice as they pursue their professional everything likely to corne under the -Katherine Haskins, Head of Reference and ration with the Terra Foundation for the develop several exhibition topics and Annual Conference Update goals during their fellowship term. At publish books and articles in her field. purview of the Library of Congress. As Information Services, University of Chicago Arts, to art historians studying pre-1940 10 a practicing librarian and an art histo­ Libranj; Executive Committee Member, American art. the conference, the recipients will be invited to give a presentation about John Delk is an rian, I can tell you, in indexing, there is CAA.Reviews EditoriJll Board PDFP recipients receive grants of Affiliated Society News, virtually no middle ground between $5,000 toward the completion of their their work during a session entitled M.F.A. photography "Work-in-Progress: 2000 Professional student at the School 14 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members nothing and everything. "Big Red" Editor's Note: We invite CAA members to M.F.A., Ph.D. or terminal M.A. degrees of the Art Institute of constitutes the ideology of a place for engage in an online dialogue about this topic at in the 2000-2001 academic year. Then, Development Fellows." Chicago and a People in anything and everything in its place. www.collegecrrt.org. Send your comments to CAA assists the fellows in the following Susan Aberth is a Geraldine R. Dodge the News For CAA.Reviews, we adopted a this article or questions to Katherine Haskins at year, as they pursue postgraduate 16 National Endow­ rather different philosophy.