Reminder: ARLIS/NA 2013 conference proposals due next Friday, June 22!

If you’re still considering submitting a proposal for next year’s conference, take a look at the email below. As Braegan posted earlier, you can also see Emilee Matthew’s RISS blog post on how to develop a conference presentation.

From the ARLIS-L listserv:

Dear Colleagues,

The clock is ticking! The Friday, June 22 deadline for Papers, Sessions, and Workshops Proposals for the ARLIS/NA 2013 Annual Conference Crafting Our Future is less than two weeks away.

If you are still scratching your head, thinking about what you could share with attendees in Pasadena and on the fence about submitting a proposal, let the following list inspire you. The Toronto Evaluation Survey respondents had the opportunity to answer an open-ended question about what topics and subject matter they would like to see covered at the Conference. The Program Committee distilled these responses; the most frequently named topics are below.

Topics (starting with most often mentioned)

• [Research & Scholarship] “art history” (2) / future of arts and humanities scholarship / research methods / art bibliography / research sources for Dadaism, Post-Fordism, Post-Situationism, new media / role of the art library in documentation and research of art collections
• [Teaching & Instruction] Curriculum – arts and design students / art undergraduate students / learning in the library / teaching modules, learning objects / using technology, web 2.0 with art & design students during research instruction / visual literacy (2)
• Museum library-related topics / Museum Library needs / museum studies / museums / Art museum collections information / Curatorial
• Copyright & licensing / Book Arts Copyright / current cases – international / copyright, open access / arts-specific copyright update at ALL annual conferences
• Film / film studies / Film, Digital, Music librarianship / Film, Television & Media Industries / video and animation
• [Future of the profession] Is there a future for art librarians outside of art museums / Alternative careers / librarians adapting to multi-disciplinary roles / Librarians’ roles expanding in museums towards information managers that deal with collection metadata / Transformation of the art library in a center of research
• Collection development / patron driven acquisitions / performance art (how to collect the media supporting it) / Photography and special topics in new options/tools of collection development
• Video arts/preservation / preservation / digital preservation
• Zines / zines & artist publishing / Concrete example of how other librarians/libraries are dealing with artist’s books, zines and artist multiples in their collection. Not necessarily in a collection development context, rather cataloguing and classification, exhibitions, programming, marketing and outreach.
• [Collaboration] cross-disciplinary nature of art/architecture / take arts specialization to any other units or departments or share their expertise with people in other fields / International collaborations
• Disaster preparedness / crisis, disaster management / Disaster Planning and Conservation
• Resource sharing / Interdisciplinary approaches to art-related resources / Visual resource initiatives: efforts to share cataloguing, provide more open collections, work with campus community
• Space planning and renovations / Space planning (when the shelves are full) / Designing library spaces to encourage inspiration, creativity, and creative collaborations. Can we get an architect and some local EDU librarians to present on this?

Links to the online proposal forms are on the Conference website: http://www.arlisna.org/pasadena2013/.

If you have questions please let us know. Happy “crafting”!

Sincerely,

Your Pasadena 2013 Program Co-Chairs

Cathy Billings
Brandy Library & Art Center
cbillings@ci.glendale.ca.us

Sarah Sherman
Getty Research Institute
ssherman@getty.edu

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