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ARLIS/DMV in Pasadena

Last week’s ARLIS/NA 41st Annual Conference in Pasadena was a great success, due in part to the active participation of so many of our local colleagues. We provide here a list of chapter members’ conference activities in Pasadena. For those who were not able to attend the conference, we will update the list as the proceedings, presentations, and minutes are published in the coming months. In the meantime, we look forward to increasing our chapter’s presence at next year’s conference here in DC.

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 41st Annual Conference, “Crafting our Future”

Pasadena, CA, April 25-29, 2013
http://www.arlisna.org/pasadena2013/

Conference Networking Guides:

  • Roger Lawson (National Gallery of Art)
  • Heather Slania (National Museum of Women in the Arts)
  • Julia Wisniewski (Library of Congress)

APRIL 26, 2013

Workshops:

  • ARLIS/NA Yearlong Career Mentoring: Crafting our Future Leaders

Instructors: Anna Simon (Georgetown University) and Heather Slania (National Museum of Women in the Arts)

  • The Art of GLAM-Wiki: The Basics of Sharing Cultural Knowledge with the World on Wikipedia

Instructor: Sara Snyder (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

  • Crafting Assessment Questions: Creating the Tools to Assess Information Literacy Objectives for Art and Design

Instructor: Kathy Clarke (James Madison University)

Session:

  • New Voices in the Profession

Moderator: Jenna Rinalducci (George Mason University)

Special Interest Group Meetings:

  • Crafting a Thesaurus: An Update on the Artists’ Books Thesaurus from the Book Arts SIG

Presenter: Heather Slania (National Museum of Women in the Arts)

  • Artists’ Files Special Interest Group

Presenters and Participants: Anne Simmons (National Gallery of Art), Heather Slania (National Museum of Women in the Arts), and Sarah Osborne Bender (The Phillips Collection)

APRIL 27, 2013

Sessions:

  • Artists’ Books: Turning the Page to the Future

Presenter: Tony White (Maryland Institute College of Art), “Contemporary Artist’s Books Artist’s Publishing”

  • Archaeology Archives: Excavating the Record

Presenters: Lucie Stylianopoulos (University of Virginia), “Managing the Digital Dig: Partnerships and Progress on the ArchaeoCore Metadata Project” and Shalimar Fojas White (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection), “Surveying the Survey: Archival Processing, Buildings Archaeology, and Online Outreach”

  • Emerging Technology Forum

Presenter: Bettina Smith (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution), “Tumblr: A How-to”

  • The Evolution of Art Reference and Instruction: Outreach, Overlay, Online

Moderator: Anna Simon (Georgetown University)

Poster Sessions:

  • Mary Anne Dyer (Virginia Commonwealth University), “Full Speed Ahead: The Challenges of Cataloging a Historic Editorial Cartoon Collection”
  • Sarah Osborne Bender (The Phillips Collection), “History and Identity: Experiments in Creative Institutional Blogging”

APRIL 28, 2013

Sessions:

  • Gift Horses: Contending with Donated Labor and Library Materials

Presenter: Jacqueline Protka (Corcoran Gallery and Corcoran College of Art + Design), “I Don’t Do Copying” Structuring a Meaningful Library Internship”

  • To the Front! Bringing Collections and Librarian Expertise into User Communities and the Classroom

Presenter: Yuki Hibben (Virginia Commonwealth University), “Crafting Hybrid Library/Studio Courses to Enhance the Arts Curriculum”

Membership Meeting:

  • 2014 ARLIS/NA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Presented by the conference planning committee co-chairs: Megan Halsband (Library of Congress), Roger Lawson (National Gallery of Art), Anne Simmons (National Gallery of Art), and Kathy Woodrell (Library of Congress)

Internship Opportunities in ICFA at Dumbarton Oaks

The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is currently recruiting interns for the Summer 2013 term:

Archival intern will assist the Archivist with the conversion of ICFA’s long-form Word-based finding aids to a hierarchical multi-level archival description maintained in the department’s new open-source web-based collection management system, International Council on Archives Access to Memory (ICA-AtoM).

Metadata intern will assist the Metadata and Cataloging Specialist with the migration of legacy metadata for implementation into a new collection management system.

For more information about joining the ICFA team, please check our website: Internship Policies and Opportunities.

Mary D. Doering to lecture and show Women’s Clothing from the Civil War Era at the Library of Congress

1855 ikat dressWomen’s Clothing during the Civil War Era:  Dresses, Foundations, and Accessories from the Collection of Mary D. Doering will showcase original clothing from the nineteenth century. Planned to compliment “The Civil War in America” exhibit currently on display at the Library of Congress, this lecture and presentation will take place on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Dining Room A, sixth floor of the James Madison Building, at noon.

The April 18 presentation “Women’s Clothing of the Civil War Era” will combine a traditional lecture and a discussion of original garments from the period 1855 to 1870 with an emphasis on the Northern States. The evolution of the garments’ styles, the accompanying foundations, as well as the related technology and marketing media will be discussed. Despite the trauma imposed by the Civil War, the mid 19th century witnessed the development of ready-to-wear garments and the growth of urban department stores, both of which were essential contributions to the modern American fashion industry.

Mary D. Doering has specialized in costume history for forty years as a collector, lecturer and guest curator.  Since 2001 she has taught costume and textile history at the Smithsonian Masters Program in the History of the Decorative Arts (an academic partnership with George Mason University).  In addition, she has lectured at numerous professional conferences and museums.  She earned her M.A. in Art History/Museum Studies at George Washington University in 1980.  She pursued additional study in the History of Dress at the Courtauld Institute (University of London) in 1982. Selections from the collection have been loaned to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the D.A.R. Museum, the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Smithsonian Institution, to name a few. Exhibitions at historic sites and regional museums have been a particular specialty, and Ms. Doering has worked as guest curator and lender for a variety of locations including Dumbarton House, James Madison’s Montpelier, the John Marshall House, and the Maryland Historical Society.

While still in High School Ms. Doering was given a small collection of family heirloom clothing dating from the 19th century. In the intervening years her collection has grown to comprise over a thousand items, which span the period from 1600 to 1975.  In March 2008, Arts and Antiques Magazine included the collection among its “Top 250 Collectors”.

— Kathy Woodrell, Reference Specialist, Fine & Decorative Arts, Library of Congress