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Awards open to current ARLIS/NA members:

Student Conference Attendance Award ($750)
Eligibility: Student members who are active participants in ARLIS/NA and are currently enrolled in an accredited graduate program in Library Studies and/or Information Studies or have recently graduated (within 12 mos. of graduation).
Awards open to any eligible member

Judith A. Hoffberg Student Award for Conference Attendance ($750)
Eligibility: Students who are currently enrolled in an accredited graduate program in Library Studies and/or Information Studies or have recently graduated (within 12 mos. of graduation).

Student Diversity Award for Conference Attendance ($750)
Eligibility: Students from a traditionally under-represented group who are currently enrolled in an accredited graduate program in Library Studies and/or Information Studies or have recently graduated (within 12 mos. of graduation)

For more information and the application form, please visit this site . If you have any questions about the Travel Awards, please contact Jennifer Friedman, Chair, Travel Awards Committee (jrfried@mit.edu).

Rachel Resnik, our esteemed ARLIS liason, brought the following item to our attention. Even if you’re not interested in actually being a speaker, this sounds like an awesome program and an enticement to attend ARLIS’s ‘08 conference in Denver:

If you are a trend spotter with a keen interest in and knowledge of the
changing world of libraries, consider participating in “What’s Hot and
What’s Not: Incoming and Outgoing Technologies and Services,” a session
at the annual ARLIS NA Conference, to be held in Denver, CO, May 1-5,
2008.

With the world of information and information-sharing in constant flux,
how do arts librarians keep abreast of trends in library resources,
technologies, and services? And, are the trends in academic libraries
equally meaningful for museum or public libraries?

Selected panelists must be able to give a dynamic 15-20 minute
presentation that is focused on one library type (academic, public, or
special), with an eye toward resource-sharing, services, collection
management, Web 2.0 tools, services, etc., that impact art and
architecture libraries and librarians. The session will serve as a
snapshot of future trends.

Selected virtual poster sessions–modeled after the hugely popular Eye
to I sessions at ALA [http://eye2i.wordpress.com/]–will complement the
Denver session and allow for greater participation by the ARLIS NA
membership

If interested in either opportunity, please send an abstract and contact
information by September 24 to Joan Stahl, Moderator, at jstahl@umd.edu

“Space: The Final Frontier”

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Brandeis University

Waltham, MA

Hassenfeld Conference Center

http://www.acrlnec.org/springconf07/home.shtml

Mark your calendars for JUNE 1, 2007, for the ACRL NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
Annual
Meeting Conference. It will be held at Brandeis University and promises to
be one of
the outstanding events this Spring, 2007 for New England librarians. The
conference theme is
Space: The Final Frontier” which will be addressed throughout the day from a
wide range of
perspectives and many ideas offered as potential alternative solutions.

Many libraries here in New England and around the country are struggling to
balance core values
such as the preservation and retention of resources, with the reality of
limited space. The ACRL
New England Conference in Spring, 2007 will explore whether/how we can keep
pace with users’
increasingly niche demands for resources and multi-purpose facilities
without sacrificing library
core values, and how we can continue to provide access to necessary
collections and services
within our libraries.

Summary

The morning will begin with two outstanding speakers in a forum on space
issues in libraries:
Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt University, and Brian F.
Lavoie, Consulting
Research Scientist at OCLC. Paul and Brian will be followed by our keynotes
respondent,
Anne Sauer, Director of Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), Tufts
University.

In addition to being involved in several digital publication projects, such
as one to create tools
for history research, Gherman brings expertise as former President of ASERL
(Association of
Southeastern Research Libraries), and has proposed programs of “deep
cooperation,” including
championing the idea of “virtual storage.”

Brian Lavoie has worked as OCLC liaison to the Data Dictionary for
Preservation Metadata,
andas a member of the Digital Library Federation Framework Working Group.
Among other
ventures he has given us all a ‘reality check’ when he analyzed the holdings
of the original
“Google 5″ and has spoken on the exploration of “collective collecting.” As
Director of Digital
Collections and Archives, Anne Sauer will bring a fresh perspective to the
issues raised by the
morning speakers and lend her own unique voice as well as lead the
discussion.

In the afternoon, there will be two sessions of concurrent events. These
will include:

Linda Oldach of Mt. Wachusett Community College.
–Linda will address leadership issues for space planning and summarize the
experiences at
MWCC.

A Collaborative Collections Panel will include:
–Leslie Button, Collection Development Librarian, UMASS Amherst
–Steve Hyndman, Regional Manager YBP Library Services
–Pat Adams, Sales Director Blackwell Book Services
–Barbara Preece, Executive Director of the Boston Library Consortium
All will be giving their various perspectives on the process.

Additional sessions will include:

Gregory Crane, editor-in-chief of Perseus Digital Library at Tufts,
Gregory’s remarkable number of publications demonstrating his interest in
ancient Greek
authors goes hand in hand with his work on the rapid development of digital
resources in
the humanities

Greg Pronevitz, Regional Administrator of Northeast Massachusetts Regional
Library,
Greg will give insights into the applications for the Digital Commonwealth.

All of this, and a delicious lunch! This will prove to be a remarkable day
looking at and discussing so many possible alternatives to space problems in
libraries. Registration is open now, but space is limited.

See more conference details at
http://www.acrlnec.org/springconf07/home.shtml.

Direct any questions to:

Judith Pinnolis, Vice-President, ACRL/NEC & Chair, Conference Planning
Committee

pinnolis@brandeis.edu

PH: 781-736-4705

I don’t know if the place and date would be convenient for anyone here at Simmons, but it may be helpful to know about such events. There are similar workshops in the Los Angeles area every year.

Are you responsible for creating and maintaining sustainable digital collections?
Don’t miss this popular conference, celebrating its 11th year!

SCHOOL FOR SCANNING:
The A–Z of Creating Digital Collections
Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

Co-sponsored by the Midwest Art Conservation Center

Register Online Today! www.nedcc.org Click on School for Scanning.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, April 9, 2007

May 1–3, 2007
Marriott Minneapolis City Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota

The School for Scanning conference takes digitization from theory into practice and is geared toward participants with a beginning or intermediate level of digital knowledge. Participants who already have experience in digitization can obtain an up-to-date briefing. From metadata to rights management, from file formats to funding, learn how to create and manage sustainable digital collections.

CONFERENCE COST: $595

NEW! Concurrent break-out sessions and Vendor Showcase.

If you are a vendor interested in exhibiting at the conference,
download the Exhibitor Prospectus at: www.nedcc.org.

For complete conference information and to REGISTER ONLINE: www.nedcc.org Click on School for Scanning.

The Northeast Document Conservation Center is one of the largest nonprofit, regional conservation centers in the United States.

NEDCC is grateful for support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its field services.

March 27-31
The 25th Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association will be held March 27-31, 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri. http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/vra25/

April 13
“At the Turn of the Centuries: The Influence of Early 20th Century Book Arts on Contemporary Artists’ Books” conference to be held at Yale University on April 13, 2007: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/centuries/index.html

April 26-30
ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, 2007, Atlanta
The ARLIS/NA Conference Planning Team announced the opening of Early Registration on the Conference website http://www.arlis-se.org/atlanta2007/. A registration form is available for download and online registration is coming soon. Early Registration is available through March 30, 2007

May 25
Mark your calendars. The spring meetings of the New England Chapters of ARLIS and VRA will be held jointly at the new library of the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, May 25th. Details will follow later.

June 24-29
The ARLIS/VRA Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management will be held at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana, from June 24 through June 29, 2007. It is an intensive 5-day workshop intended to provide instruction in visual resources and image collection management. ARLIS/NA and VRA have developed a special curriculum to provide intensive training in these areas–training that is often not found in library and information science degree programs. More information available at http://www.vraweb.org/seiweb/index.html