TY - JOUR
T1 - “And That Is the Basis of ARLIS/NA”
T2 - Enduring Values across the Fifty-Year History of the Art Libraries Society of North America
AU - Mathews, Emilee
AU - Salmon, Lori
AU - Copper, Cathryn
AU - Wratschko, Karina
N1 - Another recent initiative that illustrates the society’s collectivity is the National Digital Stewardship Residency Art Program, funded by an IMLS grant awarded in 2016 that took place in 2017 and 2018. This multi-institutional initiative worked to address the ways digital preservation intersects with arts documentation, while emphasizing professional development and education. In 2020, the Summer Education Institute (SEI) changed its name to the Summer Education Institute for Digital Stewardship of Visual Information, addressing the gaps that spurred NDSR Art, with resources available to more members.46
Freitag’s “How Humanists Use Libraries” and Hoffberg’s “Non-Book Materials.” Irvine also participated in a panel about slide librarianship. That same year, the Art Libraries Society in the United Kingdom formed and published a newsletter announcing the new group. Hoffberg corresponded with the British group’s leadership and alerted colleagues to the group’s formation.22 In 1972, she traveled to England to attend an ARLIS meeting and visited fifty-eight art libraries across the country, supported by funding from the Kress Foundation.23 Hoffberg returned home with enthusiasm for and commitment to creating a similar organization in North America. She contacted a number of leading figures in art librarianship-related groups and organized a meeting at that year’s ALA meeting in Chicago, Illinois, which led to the drafting of ARLIS/NA’s founding documents. This group of leaders would become the founding members listed above. After the August 1972 meeting of the charter members in Chicago, Hoffberg published the first issue of the ARLIS/NA Newsletter in the fall of that year and planned the first meeting, which took place in New York in 1973, where attendees voted to incorporate the group into an organization.24
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Since its founding in 1972, the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has helped art information professionals develop, promote, and improve library and information resources and services. For the society’s fiftieth anniversary, a group of members who previously served on the Strategic Directions Committee reflect on the society’s initiatives—past and present—that highlight the values of collectivity, inclusion, and transparency. The authors make recommendations as possible ways for ARLIS/NA to continue building on its history over the next fifty years, particularly that of documentation, so that members can better draw on the society’s history.
AB - Since its founding in 1972, the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has helped art information professionals develop, promote, and improve library and information resources and services. For the society’s fiftieth anniversary, a group of members who previously served on the Strategic Directions Committee reflect on the society’s initiatives—past and present—that highlight the values of collectivity, inclusion, and transparency. The authors make recommendations as possible ways for ARLIS/NA to continue building on its history over the next fifty years, particularly that of documentation, so that members can better draw on the society’s history.
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U2 - 10.1086/725521
DO - 10.1086/725521
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168602497
SN - 0730-7187
VL - 41
SP - 151
EP - 186
JO - Art Documentation
JF - Art Documentation
IS - 2
ER -