Don’t forget about our 2018 AGM, taking place 8th May 2.30 – 4.30 pm at The Prince’s Charities Shoreditch Gallery: 19-22 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3SG We have important issues to decide, good news to share, and many new and enthusiastic Officers/Trustees, Council and Committees’ members to vote in and to meet! We hope that […]
ARLIS UK & Ireland Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Art Librarians Unite! Down with default man! We want women on the wikis! Catch up with all your favourite Art Librarians during a session of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to gender, art and feminism. #fightthepower #artandfeminism #noweditingaf #AF5 Wednesday 7th March 2018, 2pm-7pm Chelsea […]
The local launch of the Art Researchers’ Guide to Liverpool and Merseyside will be held on Thursday 9th November 5:30 – 7:00 pm at Aldham Robarts Library. Please join us for light refreshments and the opportunity to view the guide and meet the contributors. There will be an opportunity to take a behind the scenes […]
Taking the Plunge: Art Librarianship as a Career Option ARLIS/UK & Ireland Professional Development Committee, Goldsmiths, University of London, April 19, 2017 On April 19th, I attended my first ARLIS/UK & Ireland event, ‘Taking the Plunge: Art Librarianship as a Career Option’, held at Goldsmiths, University of London. I recently volunteered to give a presentation about working […]
Taking the Plunge: Art Librarianship as a Career Option ARLIS UK/Ireland Professional Development Committee Goldsmiths, University of London, 19 April 2017 A personal reflection I have recently begun considering professional development. I also harbour a longing to return to my arts background. In relation to this I am keen to learn more about the art […]
On 10 March 2017 I attended the event ‘Beginner’s Guide to Cataloguing: AACR2 and MARC21 Basics’, organised by the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee. The event was held at the National Portrait Gallery, in a pleasant training room with enough space to mill about and get to know other participants during the coffee […]
Taking the Plunge: Art Librarianship as a Career Option Wednesday, 19 April 2017 from 14:00 to 17:30 (GMT) The Library, Goldsmiths, University of London 8 Lewisham Way London SE14 6NW Library The ARLIS Professional Development Committee are pleased to present Taking the Plunge – an event aimed at introducing those interested in a career in art librarianship to the diversity of […]
ARLIS social event, London, Tuesday 20 December 2016, 6pm – all welcome! As it’s been a year of changes for ARLIS, the Professional Development Committee thought it would be nice to finish on a positive note and have organised a social get-together in a pub. Please join us upstairs at The Prince Arthur, 49 Brunswick […]
Library as Laboratory: Bedford Creative Arts project, November 2016 Library as Laboratory – How can Libraries exist in the future? Bedford Creative Arts has been exploring new ways that libraries can evolve for the future by bringing together artists and libraries. The result is five pioneering projects created by eight artists, ranging from festivals and […]
Book Works artists’ bookshop and publisher in London is organising a programme of Library residencies, presenting a series of four residencies and commissions for artists to work with libraries, special collections and archives located in England/internationally in 2016–2019, entitled ‘You Must Locate a Fantasy’. For the first open call they invite artists to propose a […]