New York City, New York | February 25-March 1 | New York Hilton Midtown

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Proceedings

Special Events

Convocation

• Program

Distinguished Service Award

• Introduction | Gregory P.J. Most
• Recipient Remarks | Kathryn Wayne

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Sessions

Monday, February 26, 9:45am

Video Presentation

Born-digital and Other E-journals in Art History: Crossing Boundaries Among Art Historians, Editors, and Librarians

• The Art History Journal Unbound: An Editor’s Perspective on an Evolving Readership | Elizabeth L. Block
• Creating a Born-Digital Journal for Art History: Objectives, Challenges, and Lessons | Martina Droth
• Indexing for Access: How Librarians Can Help Situate E-journals Online | Alexandra Provo
• Preservation Management in E-journals: What Are We Doing to Fix Links and Archive Resources and Are We Doing Enough? | Isabel L. Taube

New Voices in the Profession

• Interdepartmental Collaborations to Improve Access to Collections: The Patricia Young Collection of Southeast Asian Religious Art and Architecture | Luiza Wainer and James Sobczak
• Collaborating Out of Bounds: Exploring a Renewed Interest in Audio/Visual Collections and Preservation in Canada | Lelland Reed
• Der Berliner Kunstmarkt: An Analysis of the Berlin Art Market, 1930–1945 | Caroline Frank and Jason Kaplan

Reaching Out and Showing Off: Exhibitions and Collections in Academic Libraries

Sponsored by IvoryPress

• Extending our Reach: Building a Curatorial Fellowship at the Hamon Arts Library | Jolene de Verges and Beverly Mitchell
• Show Them What You Got: Outreach with Collections | Emilee Mathews
• Rollin’ Out: Using a Pop-Up Library to Bring Collections to Users | Carolina Hernandez and Sara DeWaay 
• Question and Answer Segment

Zines: Exploring Projects and Perspectives Across Institutions

Sponsored by IvoryPress

• Collaborations Beyond the Library: Creating a Citywide Zine Fest | Becca Pad
• Logical Synergies: Zine-based Library/Museum Collaborations | Cristina Favretto
• DIY Zine Collecting: How to Start a Zine Collection at Your Library | Katie Riel
• Creating Digital Access to the OCAD University Library's Zine Collection through Artstor's Shared Shelf | Marta Chudolinska
• Zines in Higher Education: A Multidisciplinary Survey of Faculty Practices | Susan Thomas
• Zines as Community Praxis: Reading, Making, and Collecting Zines at SUNY New Paltz | Madeline Veitch 

Monday, February 26, 11:15am

Crashing the IR Party: Artists as Scholars in Institutional Repositories

• I Want You to Want This: Building Institutional Repository Buy-In with Art Students and Faculty | Ashley Peterson and Andrea Schuler
• In on the Conversation: Establishing a MFA Thesis Collection in the University Repository | Jennifer Akins
• Art, Rights, and Repositories: Making Connections for Students through Information Literacy Instruction | Larissa Garcia and Jaime Schumacher
• An Exploration of Fine Arts Faculty Perceptions of Institutional Repositories | Kate Lambaria 

Design Thinking for Libraries: strategies, tools and a case study

• Jennifer Martinez Wormser
• Rebecca Barham
• Susan Smith
• Deb Verhoff

Strategic Library Exhibitions: Engagement, Outreach, and Innovation

• Building Bridges, Creating Partnerships, and Elevating the Arts: Low Cost, High Impact Exhibition Spaces at the Rutgers University Art Library | Megan Lotts
• Creating Exhibits to Promote Library Collections | Nancy Hampton
• Curating to Connect: Enhancing Curriculum and Campus Relationships Through Exhibits | Caitlin McGurk
• Exhibitions: Engaging Students / Emphasizing Research | Alex Regan 

The Labor of Curiosity: Expanded Practices of Artists and Librarians

Sponsored by IvoryPress

• Kate Joranson
• Marc Dombrosky
• Lareese Hall

Monday, February 26, 1:45pm

Different by Design: How Art Librarians are Undertaking User Experience

• Continuous Design: The SVA Library's Iterative Website | Phoebe Stein and David Pemberton
• Form Ever Follows Function: Takeaways From Redesigning a Library Discovery System | Matthew Garklavs
• The User Isn't Broken: Applying User Experience Design to Library Guides | Kaitlin Springmier
• Primo User Interface Redesign Project: From Concept to Launch | Susan Flanagan
• Hard Refresh: Redesigning a Data Driven Collection Search | Nick Curotto 

Diversity Forum

• A workshop on bias in the workplace | Project Implicit

Video Presentation

Finding a Better Balance: Personal and Institutional Solutions to the Contemporary Work/Life Crisis in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

• Jill E. Luedke
• Kathleen Christensen
• Rachael Ellison
• Amy Furness
• Carla Moquin

Pushing the Boundaries: Teaching and Learning outside the Classroom

• Who Invited the Librarian? Studio Critiques as a Site of Information Literacy Education | Larissa Garcia and Ashley Peterson 
• Research Services for Off-Campus SUPRASTUDIO Students: Trials, Errors, and Successes? | Janine Henri 
• Take a Hammer to Your Hard Drive: Facilitating Metacognition among Humanities Graduate Students @ The University of Pittsburgh | Kate Joranson 
• MFA Graduate Studio Visits with a Librarian @ SAIC | Mackenzie Salisbury

Tuesday, February 27, 11:30am

Accessing Visual Culture: Deconstructing the Intellectual and Physical Challenges of Making Visual Content Accessible for Researchers

• Piecebooks, Flicks, and Burners -- Talking about Graffiti | Jerrold Shiroma
• Revealing Visual Culture: Digitizing Modern Illustrated Periodical Tear Sheets in the Walt Reed Illustration Archive | Skye Lacerte and Andrea Degener
• Taking Visual Materials ‘Out of Bounds’: Using Our Visual Collections to Teach Information Literacy Outside the Arts Curriculum | Peggy Keeran, Jennifer Bowers, Katherine Crowe, and Kristen Korfitzen 

Everything Old is New: Metadata Migration and Enrichment

• Linking Across the Getty: Reconciling the Getty Provenance Index and the Getty Vocabularies | Melissa Gill and Jonathan Ward
• Information Icebergs: Metadata in Legacy Projects | Kelly Davis
• Photographic Research and the Photographers’ Identities Catalog | David Lowe 

The Future of the Catalogue Raisonné: Artist Legacy, Accessibility, Preservation of Data and Distribution

• A general introduction to Artifex Press | Artifex Press 

Tuesday, February 27, 1:30pm

Library Collections and Object-based Learning in the Art and Design Curriculum

• The Exotic Familiar: The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab and the Web of Making and Knowledge | Lareese Hall
• Tactile Literacy: Vital Skills in a Digital Age | Rebecca Price
• De-Objectifying Collections | Jen Wong
• Creativity & Materials Collections: Supporting Arts Based Research through Haptic Learning | Christopher Jones
• Object-based Collections Supporting Art + Design Pedagogy | Annemarie Haar

NDSR Art: Developing Cross-Institutional Strategies for Sustained Access to GLAM Assets

• Developing Cross-Institutional Strategies for Sustained Access to GLAM Assets | Kristen Regina and Karina Wratschko
• Establishing Preservation Practices for Born-Digital Art Collections and Projects at Penn | Hannah Bennett and Coral Salomón
• A New Paradigm for Preserving Born-Digital Art Collection Records at the Yale Center for British Art | Rachel Chatalbash and Cate Peebles
• Philadelphia Museum of Art: Planning for Time-Based Media Artwork Preservation | Marge Huang and Elise Tanner
• NDSR|Art @ Mia | Frances Lloyd-Baynes and Erin Barsan
• Notes

Solo Problem Solvers: Finding a Voice and Building Resources as a Solo Professional

• No Need to Plead: Advocacy and the Solo Librarian | Traci Timmons
• The Pseudo-Solo Librarian: An Art Gallery Librarian in a Global Gallery System | Arielle Cohen
• Life Comes First: A Solo Librarian’s Balance of Life and Work | Cindy Frank
• Seeking Out and Cultivating Partnerships | Elsa Loftis
• Don't Do it Alone: Working with Volunteers and Graduate Students | John Stucky
• Work with What You've Got: Creative Staffing Solutions | Micki Harrington 

Video Presentation

Thinking Outside the (Library) Box: Using Your Librarian Skills for the Public Good

• A panel discussion recorded for the virtual conference / ARLIS/NA Learning Portal | Siân Evans, Nora Almeida, Sherry Antoine, Alice Backer, Jenna Freedman, Lia Friedman, Heather Hart, and Jen Hoyer 

Tuesday, February 27, 3:15pm

Video Presentation

Common Ground: Provenance Research Agendas in Libraries, Archives and Museums

• Samantha Deutch
• Louis Adrean
• Philip Dombowsky
• Rodica Tanjala Krauss
• Catherine Larkin
• Lynn Rother
• ARLIS/NA International Relations Committee

Libraries Resist

• Activism at MIT Libraries | Anna Boutin and Rhonda Kauffman
• From Anxiety to Engagement: Resistance at the SVA Library | David Pemberton and Rebecca Clark
• Pushing the Bounds: Library as Physical and Intellectual Civic Space | Alan Michelson and Rebecca Price
• Discussion Notes | Serenity Ibsen 

Photography and Books across Boundaries in Art Libraries, Archives, and Museum Collections

Sponsored by IvoryPress

• The Incunabula of Photography and the Internet Archive | Isotta Poggi
• Publishing Edward Weston’s Daybooks Again: Photography, Text, and Objects United Online | Emily Weirich
• Books of Photobooks Rock One Small Library | Deirdre Donohue 

The Outcome of the ARTFRAME Project, a Domain-Specific BIBFRAME Exploration

Sponsored by Casalini Libri, Fiesole, Italy

• Maria Oldal
• Amber Billey
• Jason Kovari
• Marie-Chantal L'Ecuyer-Coelho
• Melanie Wacker

Wednesday, February 28, 9:45am

Big Changes, Big Moves, Smaller Footprints: Strategies for Rightsizing the Onsite Print Collection for the 21st Century Library

• Big Changes, Big Moves, Smaller Footprints: Strategies for Rightsizing the Onsite Print Collection for the 21st Century Library [Columbia University] | Jeff Carroll
• Big Changes, Big Moves, Smaller Footprints: Strategies for Rightsizing the Onsite Print Collection for the 21st Century Library [Hunter College] | Steven Kowalik
• Big Changes, Big Moves, Smaller Footprints: Strategies for Rightsizing the Onsite Print Collection for the 21st Century Library [UC San Diego] | Laura Schwartz
• I Saw THE SIGN: Visualizing Collection Trends | Scott Stone
• It’s All About the Variables | Amy Trendler

Boundless: Digital Publishing and Online Scholarship

• Digital Fugitives: New Frontiers in 21st Century Art Publishing & Production | Coral Salomón
• Style Revolution: A Prototype Edition for Instruction and Online Scholarship | Alex Gil and Anne Higonnet
• The Fashion History Timeline: Concept to Completion | Molly Schoen
• Taking the Library Out of Bounds—Library/Faculty Collaborations in the Digital Humanities | Jennifer Parker and Selena Anders

Copyright Assessment in the Trenches: Workflow, Tools, Metadata, and more

• Deborah Kempe
• Megan De Armond
• Greg Cram
• Rina Elster Pantalony
• Victoria Pilato

Thinking Outside the Bounds of the Typical Library: A Spotlight on Three New York City-Based Libraries and Archives

• Erin Barsan
• Anthony Cocciolo
• Emily Drabinski
• Esther McGowan
• Branden Wallace

Wednesday, February 28, 11:15am

#artlibraries: Taking the Pulse of Social Media in Art Library Environments

• Is Anybody Out There? Measuring the Impact of Social Media Engagement in Art Library Environments | Chantal Sulkow
• A Blog Is Not a Tweet Is Not a Gram Is Not a Pin: Creating Platform-Specific Social Media Policies | William Blueher
• How Much is 140 Characters Worth? How to Assess Your Library’s Social Media Efforts | Anna Simon
• Our PR Problem Is Real: Social Media in the Context of Labor and Strategic Planning | Jennifer Ferretti
• How Art Historians Use Social Media (. . . and How They Don't) | Betsy Brand
• #rarebookfriday: Systematizing an Approach to Social Media to Reach a Targeted Audience | Viveca Pattison Robichaud

Fashion & Textile Lightning Talks

• An Unlikely Second Act: Overseeing the Evolution of a Textile Library as a Solo Librarian | Lynora Williams
• #FASHIONLIBRARIANSHIP: A Case Study on the Use of Instagram in a Specialized Museum Library Collection | Julie Lê
• Crossing the Threshold: Innovations in Information Literacy | Alexandra Duncan
• Many Hands: Cross-Department Collaboration in Processing the Charles James Papers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Celia Hartmann
• Stylish Scholarship: Historical Fashion Forecast Archives at the Fashion Institute of Technology Library | Lana Bittman
• Fashionable E-Resources for Academics and Industry-Insiders | Sandra Ley

PHAROS: The Photo Archive Re-Imagined for Digital Art History

Sponsored by the Frick Art Reference Library

• The Metamorphosis of Photoarchives from Paper to Pixels | Gregory P. J. Most
• From Tactile to Virtual: The Long Road to Discovery for the Photo Archives of the Yale Center for British Art | Kraig Binkowski and Melissa Fournier
• Harnessing Technology for Art History: Image Recognition, CIDOC-CRM and PHAROS | Louisa Wood Ruby
• (mass)Digitizing the Berenson Photo archive at Villa I Tatti: Metadata Creation, Enrichment, and Discovery | Lukas Klic 

President’s Choice: "Moving from Diversity on Paper to Equity in Action"

• Moving from Diversity on Paper to Equity in Action | Nasha Taylor and Melinda Brown

Wednesday, February 28, 1:45pm

A Value Proposition: Understanding Distinctive, Special, and Archival Collections

• Building a Collection from the Ground Up | Rebecca Price
• The Pedagogical Value of Provenance Research in Rare Book Collections and “Heritage Libraries”: Re-discovering the First Collection at the Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh | Kiana Jones
• Turning the Catalog into Data at the Architecture and Planning Library, University of Texas at Austin | Jessica Aberle
• Access and Stewardship: “Black Americana” in the Menil Collection Library | Lauren Gottlieb-Miller
• Thinking Outside the Search Box: Finding New Possibilities for Discovery and Access at the Canadian Centre for Architecture | Mar González Palacios

Scope Drift: Blending and Rebranding in Visual Resources

• Not a Drift, More of a Sharp Turn: Director of Visual Resources One Day, Librarian the Next | Cindy Frank
• When Drift Becomes Current: Collaborating to Expand Beyond the Visual | Kimberly Detterbeck and Mēgan Oliver
• On the Evolution of Visual Resources: A Case Study from the Institute of Fine Arts | Jenni Rodda
• Building the Digital Commons at RISD: Expanding Visual Resource Services | Mark Pompelia
• Evolving the Visual Resources Collection: Developing Student-Centered Resources & Services | Elizabeth Schaub
• Visual Resources at the Fashion Institute of Technology | Molly Schoen

Stimulating Creativity in Practice: Incorporating Creative Practice into the Academic Library

• Thematic Book Displays | Ellen Petraits
• Supporting Creative Practice in a (mostly) Liberal Arts Library | Alex Chappell
• Creative Engagement in the OCAD University Library’s Learning Zone | Marta Chudolinska
• Collaborative Displays | Emily Coxe
• Altered Books—Collaboration, Exhibition, Discussion | Jane Darcovich
• Incorporating Creative Practice into the Bard Graduate Center Library | Heather Topcik

The Indispensable Art Museum Library: Challenges and Solutions for Change

Sponsored by Michael Weintraub, Inc.

• State of Art Museum Libraries 2016 |  Anne Evenhaugen
• A State Museum and a State University: A Successful Partnership | Elisa Hansen
• Milwaukee Art Museum Research Center, A Century in the Making | Heather Winter
• The Barnes Foundation, Always Complicated | Amanda McKnight
• Creative Problem Solving for the Field | Shaina Buckles Harkness

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Posters

1. Working with Wikipedia , Art + Feminism + More | Gabrielle Reed
2. Doing Artists Books: Creating a Book Arts Studio in the Library | Jamie Vander Broek
3. X Degrees of Separation: Using Google Art Experiments in Visual and Information Literacy |  Marianne Williams
4. The Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship | Meredith Kahn
5. Linked Data for Cultural Heritage: Comparing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Fuseki, OpenRefine and Silk for Reconciliation against Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Luiza Wainer
6. Copyright Out of Bounds | Stephen Marvin
7. ARIES: ARt Image Exploration Space | Samantha Deutch and Louisa Wood Ruby
8. Preservation, Control, and Access for Born-Digital Theses | Mike Satalof
9. Building for Tomorrow: Collaborative Development of Sustainable Infrastructure for Architectural and Design Documentation | Ann Baird Whiteside
10. Experiencing VR: Facilitating Information and Visual Literacy Through Virtual Reality Technologies | Claire Powell
11. The Artist Is Reading | Lindsey Reynolds
12. Decker Library Erotic Collection | Kelly Swickard
13. It Takes a Village: A Catalog Redesigned | Jill Kehoe and Seth Persons
14. Outside the Box: Using Active Learning for Student Staff Reference Training | Sara DeWaay and Karen Bankole
15. Digital Connections: Reuniting the Marjorie Merriweather Post Papers | Abby Stambach
16. Librarian by Design - Embedded Information Literacy | Vanessa Viola
17. Library / Exhibition, Case study: Mieczysław Porębski Library | Magdalena Mazik, Anna Pyzik, Marta Mosiolek, and Rafal Sosin
18. Living legacy: Controlled Vocabularies, Subject Matter Description, and Indigenous Visual Culture in Libraries and Museums | Michele Jennings
19. Vincent van Gogh Knowledge Hub: The Future of the Van Gogh Museum Library | Anita Vriend
20. MYOB: Make Your Own Book | Delia Tash
21. Accessing Virtual Reality in the Library | Peter Schreiner
22. Creating Guidelines for Provenance Research | Ellen Faletti
23. Using Omeka to Collaborate with Students in a Curatorial Practicum | Iris Finkel and Steven Kowalik
24. Mining the Library: Bringing Precious Materials into New Light | Christiane Ramsey
25. Know Your Art Meme: Teaching Web Literacy and Art through Mozilla's Framework | Cory Budden
26. Design Matters in the Transit Library: Intersecting Art and Design | Bronwyn Dorhofer
27. Housing Non-traditional Special Collections Materials: A Candle Story | Katy Parker
28. A Museum Libraries Network: An Old But Relevant Way to Expand the Boundaries of Art Librarianship | Marie-Laëtitia Lachèvre and Valerie Chanut-Humbert
29. Construct, Collect, Connect: Building a Space and Catalog for the Fisher Fine Arts Material Sample Collection | Patricia Guardiola
30. An Art Librarian’s Contributions to the Digital Exploration of Lewis Lindsay Dyche’s Panorama | Andi Back
31. A Librarian's Reflection on Collaboration in Cuba | Jill Chisnell
32. Linked Collections and Enhancement Ecosystems | Duane Degler
33. Integrated Pest Management Planning at Thomas J. Watson Library | Andrijana Sajic and Jenny Davis