ARLIS South West event: Special Collections & Zine-making at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 3rd March 2020 With several universities in the south-west of England supporting art and design courses, over the years many of us have discussed holding ARLIS events outside London. With encouraging support at the ARLIS conference in Glasgow, we got […]
An ARLIS/UK & Ireland and University of the Arts London event. Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world 80% of its global content is written by white men from Europe and North America Tired of the internet reflecting the same bias as society? Help us to change it. It’s March, […]
Arlis 50: Irish Art Libraries Networking Event Hosted by the National Gallery of Ireland Library & Archives, Sir Denis Mahon Reading Room & Art Library Reading Room, National Gallery of Ireland, 11 December 2019. Aims of the event: To strengthen the network of art libraries in Ireland by inviting representatives from various art and […]
We are pleased to announce the Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland will hold its annual conference from Wednesday 22nd – Friday 24th July 2020, at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge Over the past decade, the importance of museums, libraries and archives within the UK and Ireland and beyond, has been subject to increased scrutiny as […]
GUT HOUSE: Deptford Town Hall, 25 October-4 November 2019. ‘Now we, organs, return to fish-like times and begin to think.’ GUT HOUSE is a thirty-minute audio guide for Deptford Town Hall. It was included in the Deptford X Fringe programme 2019, 25 October – 4 November, a free artist-run community arts festival in and […]
Connecting Collections: Art Libraries in Collaboration, Leeds Central Library, 5th November 2019 LALIC (Leeds Art Libraries in Cooperation) is twenty-five years old this year and members were keen to host an event that would look back at the history of the group and its activities and generate ideas for future events and projects. We […]
Viva Las Projectionistas: ARLIS celebrates women’s art through slides and slides through women’s art Centre for Contemporary Art, Goldsmiths, University of London Wednesday, 30 October 2019: 4-6pm This event, organised by Althea Greenan, and Antonia Lewis from Goldsmiths Library and Special Collections, brought together practitioners and students from Goldsmiths and beyond to look back at […]
ARLIS 50th Anniversary event: MISSES EVERYTHING, August 2019 The exhibition MISSES EVERYTHING took place at Jupiter Woods in South London during August 2019. The project stemmed from a year-long conversation between artist Georgia Lucas-Going and curator Katie Simpson, in collaboration with The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College, London, responding to the question ‘how can we thrive […]
IFLA WLIC 2019 Athens, Greece 24-31 August Attendance at an IFLA WLIC is a profession-affirming experience. As a solo librarian, it can be easy to become isolated and the activity of WLIC, the sessions attended, the posters viewed and the exhibition navigated remind one of the bigger picture. The discussions that ensue and ideas […]
Many happy years of my working life at UAL were spent as slide librarian at Central Saint Martins, supporting academics in their teaching. Back then the 35mm slide was integral to the delivery of all lectures and seminars but as digital took over, the slide and its projector were used less and less, and eventually […]