During February-March 2016 I developed a project for my PG Cert in Academic Practice, focused on how international students perceive the special collections drop-in sessions that we carry out every week at Chelsea College of Arts Library, University of the Arts London. The library holds an important collection of artists’ books, multiples, rare periodicals and […]
Artists’ Books News, August 2016 Exhibitions ‘Exploring Artists’ Books’ mini-project with Double Elephant Print Workshop and Exeter Library. Catherine Cartwright of Double Elephant Print Workshop reports on a recent ABPP loan of artists’ books and bookmaking tools from the Centre for Fine Print Research, with an exhibition opening in Exeter: This five-week project was specifically for […]
Council News, July 2016 Council met on June 21 in the meeting room of the National Portrait Gallery. Thank you to Joseph Ripp for hosting us. As I wrote in my last report from Council, ARLIS is at a crossroads and we have to evaluate everything we do so we spent time discussing the findings […]
In this August feature we meet David Thompson, Librarian for Arts and Media (encompassing courses in art, fashion, photography, journalism, media and production) at the University of Gloucestershire. David is a librarian, artist, parrot-keeper, and walking canvas. We talk theology, tattoos, and ARLIS catering… Image credit: Reece Pickering How did you come to art librarianship? I came to […]
ARLIS/Committee for Art and Design Archives Symposium – Matter and Meaning: Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive DATE Friday 23 September 2016 TIME 10.00am – 6.00pm VENUE University of Brighton, Room M2, Grand Parade, BN2 0JY On the one hand… material is discussed today in the light of an idea that it has been dissolved […]
ARLIS/UK & Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee MARCedit Training DATE 10 August 2016 TIME 10.00am-1.00pm (registration from 9.30) /2.00pm-5.00pm (registration from 1.30pm) VENUE Architectural Association, London WC1B 3ES The ARLIS/UK & Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee have organized two half-day MARCedit training sessions. Are you a small specialized library low on cataloguing time? Do you […]
ARLIS/UK & Ireland visit to the Imperial War Museum Library, Friday 15 April 2016. Located in Kennington, South London, the imposing building that houses the Imperial War Museum was originally opened as the Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1814. By 1930 the hospital had closed its doors, and was acquired by the museum in 1936 as […]
I recently took a short break in Oslo to coincide with the ARLIS Norden Annual Conference ‘Digitisation in Art Libraries and Art and Cultural Heritage Museums’ (9-11 June 2016), not so much because of the theme, but because the occasion marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of ARLIS Norden. I was able to wish […]
‘Radical Brighton: Alternative/Left/Freak/Radical/Hippie, etc. local papers’ A blog has been launched to document the progress of the Radical Brighton project, a digitisation project to preserve the ephemeral (and therefore archivally elusive and highly perishable) locally-produced radical publications- zines, countercultural activist publications, comics, diaries, calendars, etc., often hand-made – emerging from the UK, and Brighton in […]
Artlibraries.net was a cooperative project of ARLIS/UK & Ireland; providing an online union catalogue of serials in member libraries, together with a directory of institutions. Both originated in print products dating back to the early days of ARLIS/UK & Ireland, when it was far more difficult for libraries with complementary needs and resources to find […]