ARLIS/NA just posted their May/June 2011 book reviews. The books reviewed cover a host of topics, including Nazi art theft, manuscripts, African art, design, architecture, and tapestries to name just a few. Check out full text on their website. Older reviews are also available online.
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Art Book Reviews
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011Call for Papers
Sunday, April 10th, 2011If you are interested in scholarship in the field of art librarianship, check out the call for papers for next year’s ARLIS/NA conference. 2012 will be the 40th anniversary conference and it is being held in Toronto. The theme will be “Colouring Outside the Lines.” Abstracts are due by May 15th, so don’t delay! For more information, including abstract guidelines and thematic areas, see the online submission form.
2011 ARLIS/NA VRA Conference
Saturday, March 26th, 2011If you weren’t able to go to Minneapolis for this year’s joint ARLIS/NA VRA Conference, you still have a chance to keep up on everything that is happening at the conference. Greg Borman is writing a series of blog posts on ArLiSNAP’s blog summarizing his experience at the conference. These posts are a great way to see what’s happening in the world of art and visual resource librarianship from the comfort of your own home.
Going to the ARLIS/NA and VRA Conference?
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Make sure to stop by the ArLiSNAP Pub Stop! The location hasn’t been announced yet, but it promises to be a fun opportunity to meet other students and new professional members of a variety of art library associations, so be sure to save the date.
Extended Deadline for Travel Awards
Saturday, January 15th, 2011According to the ARLIS/NA Event Calendar, the deadline to apply for conference travel awards to attend the upcoming joint conference for ARLIS/NA and VRA in Minneapolis has been extended to January 21st.
For more information on the available travel awards and how to apply, check out the 2011 ARLIS/NA Travel Awards Application available online.
ARLIS/NA Webinar
Monday, November 29th, 2010ARLIS/NA will be offering a Webinar entitled A Matter of Discipline: The State of Open Access in the Arts on Friday December 3rd at 2pm. The webinar will provide an overview of open access, and particularly open access publishing, in the arts. This webinar includes a discussion of open access journals and open access repositories. It will discuss applications in multiple disciplines including art history, architecture and design. This is an encore presentation of a talk given at the ARLIS/NA 2010 Boston convention last spring and more information on it is available on the ARLIS/NA website.
ARLIS/NA Award – Deadline November 19, 2010
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010This week I want to highlight an award offered by ARLIS/NA. The Gerd Muehsam Award is an annual award given for a paper or internet project on an art librarianship topic by a graduate student enrolled in an accredited graduate library science program or in a post-graduate library program in a field related to art, art history or a related field. To be eligible, the paper or internet project must have been prepared during the previous 18 months as an assignment for a course. Papers submitted for the award must be 10 to 25 pages in length. The deadline for submission is Friday, November 19, 2010.
More information on the requirements, process and prize are available on ARLIS/NA’s website: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/muehsam_info.html