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ARTifacts The Newsletter of The Art Libraries Society of North
America, Southeast Chapter June 2002 |
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Notes from the President
by Roberto C. Ferrari,
President, ARLIS/SE
Greetings, Fellow ARLIS/SErs,
Here we are halfway through the year 2002 already. It seems like we just met
in St. Louis at the national conference, and now we're getting ready for our
annual chapter meeting in Asheville. It always amazes me how fast time
flies-especially when you're among such great colleagues and friends like those
of you in ARLIS/SE!
The first annual joint conference between ARLIS/NA and VRA in St. Louis this
past March was a smashing success. The theme, "Gateway to the Future:
Visual Information in a New Age," highlighted the development of art and
visual resources in the twenty-first century. It was fascinating to learn about
the exciting work VRA is doing. There were great sessions on everything from
copyright issues in the art profession to the future growth of image databases
and online art journals. And then there were the parties! The ARLIS/NA 30th
Anniversary Party at the City Museum was especially loads of fun, with members
of the ARLIS/NA Executive Board and others climbing through plastic tunnels and
soaring down slides! Make plans to attend the next ARLIS/NA conference in
Baltimore, March 20-26, 2003.
In the meantime, Vice President/President-Elect Moira Steven and her
conference planning committee are hard at work on our 2002 regional conference
in Asheville, North Carolina. They're going to have some wonderful events
planned, like a visit to the magnificent Vanderbilt Biltmore Estate. Mark your
calendar for the dates, November 7-10, 2002, and visit the conference web site,
http://www.arlis-se.org/ash
eville.htm, for more information. And because of the positive feedback from
the members of ARLIS/SE and our neighbor ARLIS/TX-MX, our two chapters have
decided to have a joint meeting in fall 2003 in New Orleans. I predict it will
be a huge success.
With all of these great things we are making happen in the art information
profession, I urge you to get involved. We need to increase awareness of
ARLIS/NA and all that it can do for art/architecture librarians and visual
resource curators. ARLIS/NA and its chapters provide a professional support
network to share ideas and concerns, recognize achievements both within the
profession and in related fields, and make a difference in the global
information world in which we live. The best way we can continue to support
these accomplishments is to increase membership and to serve the organization
in whatever capacity possible. Talk to your colleagues and your local library
school students-talk to anyone about ARLIS/NA and ARLIS/SE! I challenge each of
you to recruit at least one new member or to volunteer to serve the
organization. I guarantee you will find it rewarding.
See you in Asheville!
Laura Tartak, formerly Assistant Librarian at American
InterContinental University, is now at Georgia Perimeter College in Conyers,
Georgia, as of May 13.
From Pat Thompson, Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill:
Lee Sorensen (Lilly Library, Duke University) and I were awarded a
Robertson Scholars Program Collaboration grant, which we will use to develop a
joint program for our incoming art history graduate students.
I was also awarded an IBM/FITAC grant, which I will use to develop a web
page for UNC-CH art history graduate students on the order of the ARTIFAQ page
I developed for the English 12/ Ackland Art Museum writing projects this past
year.
I published a book review on Leo Steinberg's Leonardo's Incessant Last
Supper in the most recent Art Documentation (spring 2002). I have
submitted a final (I hope) draft of my M.A. thesis on Titian's last Prado Entombment
to my adviser and will go look at the painting in Spain on May 21.
From Sarah McCleskey, Gunnin Architecture Library, Clemson
University:
Clemson University Libraries has received approval from the Board of
Trustees to lease a building close to campus for a remote storage facility. We
are in the process of planning shelving, inventory control, moving, etc., and
hope to start actually moving items in about six months. Older serial titles
(no longer received) will be targeted for storage first. In the long-term, we
plan to house around 350,000 volumes in the storage facility.
Phyllis Pivorun and I received a Provost's Innovation Grant of
$12,000 to implement the Madison Digital Image Database system. We purchased a
server, a large-format high-resolution scanner, a slide scanner, and a
super-duper workstation with a 19-inch color monitor. We are now in the process
of getting all the equipment set up and networked so that we can have the
system running by the time our new Visual Resources/ Reference Librarian is
hired.
Kinko's are us! I think I've reported previously that we are now running a
printing output facility out of the Architecture Library. Business has been
humming all year, and we are conducting a user survey to determine what
additional services or equipment our patrons need and to learn what we can do
to improve existing services.
I am working on an article for the Journal of Library Administration
that will focus on staffing issues and core competencies for academic
art/architecture libraries. Some of you may receive a request from me to fill
out a web survey for your library; if you do, please respond! It will not only
help me out tremendously but will benefit our profession, I think, as little
work has been written on this in the past ten years (literature review-ugh).
On the lighter side! I reported previously that the main library at Clemson
has a "cyber-cafe" called Java City that is wildly popular with
students. The Architecture Library tried to get one of its own, but the campus
food service (Aramark) didn't think we would get enough customers to make it
profitable. So. They installed a coffee-making machine that looks like
what you see at rest stops by the side of the highway. I made fun of it to one
of my friends who works for Aramark, and he informed me that this was an elite
coffee-making machine with Java City beans ground fresh for each cup. The
coffee is actually pretty good. Believe it or not, the Dean of Libraries is
trying to get one of these machines in the main library for when Java City is
closed!
NCSU Libraries Designs
Slide Image Database
by Rachel E. Kuhn, Design Library, NCSU Libraries
North Carolina State University Libraries has been working on an image
database project for over three years. The project grew out of a need to
provide better physical and electronic access to the slide collection housed in
the Design Library for faculty, students, and staff. The faculty of the College
of Design and the libraries staff have worked together to make this project a
success.
The project as a whole involves creating a web-accessible database, a
circulation module, a cataloging module, and a classroom presentation and study
guide tool for the Design Library Visual Resources Collection. Everything has
been completed except for the presentation tool, which is forthcoming.
Extensive planning went into the development of the web-accessible database.
When the project began, the only finding aid for the slide collection was a
card catalog that did not provide item-level cataloging for all of the slides
in the collection. These cards had been made from the thorough accession books
maintained by library technician Lynn Crisp. These books were invaluable for
inputting the data needed for a searchable database.
The relational database and the tables within the overarching structure were
developed by a team of library staff members representing Cataloging, Digital
Library Initiatives, Systems, and the Design Library. Temporary and student
employees were hired to input the data into an Access database. The data had to
be cleaned and authority files established. The 68,000 slides in the collection
are being systematically scanned. Currently, there are 26,032 digital images in
the database. The database itself lives on an Oracle 9i server, and the images
are delivered through Cold Fusion.
Along with the digital aspects of this project, there is also a simultaneous
retro-cataloging project providing item-level records for all the slides. As of
January 1, 2002, there were 9,594 slides in the new classification. The main
citation structure of the database was based on a new classification system
written by the Visual Resources Librarian, Rachel Kuhn, and the Head of
Cataloging, Charley Pennell, in consultation with the College of Design Library
Committee and Design Library staff. The cataloging module is an Access
interface with tables, forms, and queries for Design Library staff to
manipulate. The retro-cataloging of the collection is slow-going and will take
far longer than the other elements in the project.
The circulation system had previously been a manual checkout sheet that
patrons filled out; when the slides were returned, staff members sifted through
the many different sheets to cross off the accession number of each slide. A
circulation module was developed by Rob Main of the Systems Department in order
to expedite and streamline this process. Approximately half of the slides have
been barcoded, and the others can be entered into the web circulation module by
typing in the accession number. The new method of circulating slides also
allows running circulation statistics and overdue notices and eventually will be
used as a collections tool to evaluate what types of slides are being used.
The classroom presentation and study guide module has been one of the most
challenging and exciting elements of the project. Faculty, students, and staff
can build presentations through a tool called Portfolio Builder, developed by
Troy Simpson. This tool allows searching the digital images in the database and
saving and arranging these images in named folders or carousels. Only a small
beta group of faculty is testing the tool, but further implementation will
occur in fall 2002.
The new interface "look and feel," with templates and other
display improvements, is in development and will be released August 15, 2002.
After many years of development and implementation, the Design Library Image
Database project has been an incredible learning experience for all involved.
For more information about the Design Library and access to the search
interface go to http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/design/.
Simeon Solomon Site Awarded,
Updated
by Roberto C. Ferrari, Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University
Effective April 1, I have updated the Simeon Solomon Research Archive (http://www.fau.edu/solomon). For those
unfamiliar with him, Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was an Anglo-Jewish
Pre-Raphaelite artist who flourished in the 1860s, but whose public career
faltered when he was arrested for homosexual crimes in 1873.
I am pleased to announce that in March 2002, the SSRA received the first
Worldwide Books Electronic Publication Award, a research award from ARLIS/NA
(Art Libraries Society of North America). I would like to thank both Worldwide
Books (http://www.worldwide.com) and
ARLIS/NA (http://www.arlisna.org) for
their support of my work on this electronic information resource and the
overall continuing growth of electronic art information resources.
Current updates to the SSRA include the following:
- The section on Solomon's art has been fully enhanced with new pages broken
out for his extant 97 paintings, 135 drawings, and 47 illustrations.
Information includes titles, dates, mediums, and location. These web pages are
of course works in progress, as many of his paintings and drawings are being
rediscovered on a continuous basis.
- 12 new digital images of Solomon's illustrations of Jewish subjects for
the Victorian periodicals Good Times, Once a Week, and Leisure Hour
are now reproduced on the SSRA. My thanks to the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, for providing these digital images and for granting me permission
to make these images available. My thanks also to Nancine Thompson and Lynnette
Connor at the FAU Library for creating thumbnail versions of these works.
Additional links to digital images provided by others on the Internet of work
by Solomon have been added to the SSRA.
- Thomas Mosher's foreword to the 1909 version of "A Vision of Love
Revealed in Sleep" (Solomon's 1871 prose-poem) is now available online in
full-text.
- 3 new annotations or updated annotations on secondary sources have been
added.
Statistics on the SSRA as of April 1, 2002:
- 32 web pages
- 133 annotated secondary sources (only 89 appeared in print version)
- 3 new annotated citations or updated annotations
- 16 full-text documents in HTML
- 3 full-text documents in PDF
- 15 digital images
Please visit the Simeon Solomon Research Archive at http://www.fau.edu/solomon. As always, if
you have any comments, questions, or citations that you wish to share, please
do not hesitate to contact me at rferrari@fau.edu.
Museums and galleries, educational institutions, libraries, organizations,
and commercial presses are encouraged to submit publications for consideration
for the ARLIS/SE 18th Annual Mary Ellen LoPresti Art Publication Awards
Competition for 2001 publications. All publications will be judged on the
quality of content and format within the appropriate category. The number of
items that may be submitted is not restricted.
Entries should be received by August 31, 2002, to be considered. There is
no entry fee, but ARLIS/SE reserves the right to retain all works submitted
for consideration. Winners of this year's award will be announced in November
2002 at the ARLIS/SE annual meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. For further
information, see announcements from our web site at http://www.arlis-se.org/seannounce2.htm
or contact Allen Novak at 941-359-7583, email: anovak@Ringling.EDU.
Minutes
from ARLIS/SE Business Meeting,
ARLIS/NA-VRA Conference
March 23, 2002, St. Louis, Missouri
Position Available at
Clemson University Libraries
Position: Visual Resources/Reference Librarian.
Institution: Clemson University Architecture Library.
Clemson seeks a creative, innovative, and technologically savvy librarian to
implement a digital image database, provide reference services, and teach
bibliographic instruction classes. The position will be located in the Gunnin
Architectural Library and will report to the Branch Head.
Required qualifications: ALA-accredited library degree (MLS or equivalent)
and educational background in art or architecture. For full job description,
see posting at http://www.lib.clemson.edu/vizr
ef. Salary range: $33,000-$40,000. Review of applications will begin on May
17, 2002, and will continue until the position is filled.
Submit cover letter, resume, and name, title, address, telephone, and email
address (when possible) for at least 3 references to Ms. Joyce Peebles, Human
Resources Manager, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, SC 29634-3001.
Applications may be submitted electronically as attachments in either Acrobat
or rtf format to peebles@clemson.edu.
Clemson University is an AA/EOE and encourages applications from minorities.
I am pleased to announce that the Southeast Chapter has its own URL now! You
can find our informative web site at http://www.arlis-se.org
or http://www.arlis-se.com. (We are only
the second regional chapter to have its own URL; Texas-Mexico beat us to it!)
If you see needed additions or corrections, please contact me, Sarah McCleskey,
at smccles@clemson.edu.
Information about the Asheville annual meeting, November 7-10, 2002, is
available at http://www.arlis-se.org/asheville.htm.
More information will be added as plans develop.
Web Site
If you have information to post on
the ARLIS/Southeast Web Site, contact Sarah McCleskey at smccles@clemson.edu.
For information about the Asheville
annual meeting in November, go to: http://www.arlis-se.org/ash
eville.htm.
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