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The art librarianship journal Art Documentation (published by ARLIS) is looking for submissions for its Spring 2008 issue. Details:

Art Documentation editors are seeking articles both for the Spring 2008
and Fall 2008 issues. We would like to hear from authors who have
written, or plan to write, articles on topics of broad relevance to our
profession.

For the Spring 2008 issue, we are particularly interested in papers that
only need fine tuning or editing for publication; the preliminary
deadline is October 15, 2007. We are also seeking proposals for the new
“Between the Lines” feature that will appear in each issue of Art
Documentation. These articles should be 1,500-2,500 words in length and
take the form of an in-depth review of a significant publication, a
comparative review featuring related publications, or a bibliographic
essay.

For the Fall 2008 issue, please send us your ideas and abstracts for
articles concerning research or projects on which you are working,
professional issues about which you are passionate, or other subjects
related to art librarianship and visual resources curatorship. The
preliminary deadline for this issue is May 15, 2008.

Art Documentation contributor guidelines may be found at:
http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/contrib_guidelines.html

We look forward to hearing from you!

Kathy Zimon (zimon@ucalgary.ca)
Judy Dyki (jdyki@cranbrook.edu)
Co-Editors, Art Documentation

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The College Art Association has posted the September 2007 edition of CAA News.
The PDF is available here:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-09-07.pdf

From the CAA website:
"Published since 1976, CAA News presents information on CAA’s activities, programs, and conference; updates on legal issues; articles on the arts and academia; interviews with artists, scholars, and curators; member achievements; calls for entries, papers, and participation; and much more.

About 14,000 individual and 2,000 institutional members receive CAA News, which comes out six times a year (January, March, May, July, September, and November) as a PDF; it can be downloaded, read on screen, and printed."

Worth checking out!

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On July 17, 2007 ARLIS New England and Panopticon hosted an Art Libraries Career Panel that brought together top-notch professionals in the field to discuss the paths they chose to get to where they are today. Invaluable job-seeking advice was shared in a candid and sincere manner with time for Q & A at the end. Well worth a listen!

http://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/index.php?cat=LISCareers

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The repatriation of works of art was a hot topic on the LIS 446 - Art Documentation blog this summer and I just came across a great article in the LA Times:

The return of antiquities a blow to Getty

Forty disputed artworks that are hallmarks of the museum's collection will be returned to Italy in end to a long legal fight.

By Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino
Special to The Times

August 2, 2007

The J. Paul Getty Museum's agreement Wednesday to return 40 disputed antiquities to Italy brings to a close a cultural and legal fight that has dogged the institution for decades. But it comes at a high price, claiming some of the finest pieces in the Getty's collection.

After months of impasse, the breakthrough came with a flurry of faxes late Tuesday. Of the 46 pieces Italy had demanded, the museum agreed to send back its signature statue of Aphrodite, 10 other masterpieces and more than two dozen other important vases and sculptures.

The objects are expected to be taken off display in the fall, museum officials said, and returned to Italy by the end of the year. The exception is the Aphrodite statue, which will remain at Getty Villa, the Getty's recently renovated antiquities museum near Malibu, until December 2010.

Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli, speaking to reporters Wednesday evening at the Parliament, where he was attending to other business, said the deal with the Getty was "an agreement of historic value."

Getty Museum Director Michael Brand also welcomed the accord, which came after two years of often-rocky negotiations.

Click here to read the rest.

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This isn't really news but you may have heard that the Smithsonian and Corbis had announced that they had reached a "non-exclusive" licensing partnership "to provide widely recognized digital images from the Smithsonians collections for editorial and commercial use at www.corbis.com." Smithsonian Corbis Licensing Agreement This announcement, coming as it did on the heels of a fire-storm of protest when the Smithsonian announced a similar agreement with Sony, caused the archival community to write again and express concern. The pdf file attached below is the response that SAA received (dated 5 March 2007) which was circulated to the SAA leadership today.

Continue reading "Smithsonian and Corbis agreement update" »

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Arezoo Moseni recently posted this to the ARLIS-Listserve. It is an interesting resource to know about.

M i d - M a n h a t t a n L i b r a r y Presents

"Ask the Lawyer"

An Artist Career Development Lecture
Presented in cooperation with
Volunteers Lawyers for the Arts

Monday April 9, 2007
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor

Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871


The Art Collection is pleased to host the fifth lecture in the series addressing the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City.

This interactive panel presentation with a question-and-answer format will cover a wide array of legal and business issues with an overview of the major legal topics affecting artists and professionals within arts organizations. The topics to be addressed include:

• Intellectual Property (copyrights primarily)
• Contracts
• Entity Choice and Formation including
nonprofit and for profit options.

Elena M. Paul is the Executive Director of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. In addition to overseeing all of VLA's programs and services, Ms. Paul represents many individual artists and arts organizations. She received her B.A. in Economics from Davidson College, phi beta kappa, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 2000 she was elected to serve as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Alexei Ormani Auld is the Director of Legal Services for VLA, where he specializes in intellectual property matters oriented toward film, music, visual arts and related industries. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University (B.A. 1994, summa cum laude) where he majored in History and Columbia Law School (J.D. 1998).

Elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.

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This announcement concerning a gathering in Second Life was taken from the ARLIS/NA listserve.

The oh-so-very-informal "artslib" group (librarians in the arts, architecture, design...)
will meet in Second Life on Monday, March 26th, 2007.

Please join us for a tour of the installation:

! Architecture 101
Architecture Island (45, 131, 24)

Meet there at 9:00 a.m. SLT (PDT)

Keystone Bouchard (a.k.a. Jon Brouchoud in RL) will lead a tour and discussion of his
projects in SL. Jon/Keystone is also the creator of "The ARCH"
http://archsl.wordpress.com/about/ -- a blog that explores the convergence of
the metaverse with the real life practice of architecture and related fields.

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