ARLIS/NA 24TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Doral Ocean Beach Hotel Miami Beach, Florida April 25-May 1, 1996

	MONDAY, APRIL 29 [Top of File]
7:00 am - 7:45 am	YOGA ON THE BEACH [TBD]
7:30 am - 4:00 pm [Foyer Left]	REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
7:30 am - 9:30 am [Miramar North/South]	CHAPTER OFFICERS' BREAKFAST Coordinators: Ann Gilbert, West Regional Representative; Murray Waddington, Canadian Regional Representative Sponsor: Puvill
8:00 am - 9:00 am [Mediterranean Room East/Center]	EXHIBITS OPENING BREAKFAST
8:00 am - 2:00 pm [Mediterranean Room East/Center]	EXHIBITS OPEN
9:45 am - 11:15 am [Miramar North/ South]	AskARLIS I -- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: THE CHALLENGE FACING US Moderator: Janis Ekdahl, Acting Director of the Library, Museum of Modern Art, New York Panelists: Maryly Snow, Librarian, Architecture Slide Library, University of California at Berkeley Guided discussion highlighting the intellectual property rights issues which are challenging our profession as it moves into the electronic age. Initiatives being undertaken by our members will be presented as well as information about following the United States national policy debate concerning copyright and the digital future. The audience will be expected to participate.
9:45 am - 11:45 am [Spanish Suite]	SESSION V -- FLORIDA DECORATIVE ARTS TO MID-CENTURY Sponsor: Decorative Arts Round Table Moderator: Jean Hines, Reference Librarian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library, New York Speakers: David M. Blackard, Curator of Collections and Exhibits, Ah-Tha-Thi-Ki Museum of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hollywood FL "The Emerging Seminole Artist: A Review of the Growing Literature" Diane Camber, Executive Director, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach FL "All That Glitters: Art Deco Jewelry" Marianne Lamonaca, Associate Curator, The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach FL "The Arts of Reform and Persuasion" Kenneth Triester, Architect (FAIA), Coconut Grove FL "The Historic Architecture of St Augustine and Coral Gables, Florida." This exciting and diverse session will focus on a variety of decorative art topics. Mr Blackard will discuss the growing body of literature on Seminole artists. He is also the author of Patchwork and Palmettos: Seminole / Miccosukee Folk Art since 1820. He will discuss the result of his ground-breaking research and describe its evolution. Ms Camber will discuss the evolution of costume jewelry and the social phenomena which influenced its development as a fashion accent and her presentation is based on the Bass Museum's 1994-95 exhibition of the same title. Focusing on the museum's inaugural exhibition, "The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885 - 1945," as the basis for her presentation, Ms Lamonaca will discuss the collections and resources of The Wolfsonian's facilities in Miami Beach and Genoa, Italy. Mr Treister is an artist, architect, architectural historian, and frequent lecturer on the subject of art and architecture in Florida. His lecture will focus on the Spanish Colonial city of St Augustine and the Mediterranean revival influenced Coral Gables region.
9:45 am - 11:45 am [Regency Room]	SESSION VI -- AWARD WINNING PUBLISHING: THE OLD & NEW WORLD OF ART BOOKS - IN CELEBRATION OF THE GEORGE WITTENBORN BOOK AWARD Sponsor: Wittenborn Committee Co-Moderators: Deborah Kempe, Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick Collection, New York ; Daniel Starr, Museum of Modern Art Library, New York Speakers: Faith Pleasanton, Librarian, Christie's Auction House, New York "George Wittenborn: A Bookseller-Publisher's Odyssey, From Berlin to New York: 1930-1970" Paul Gottlieb, President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief, Harry N Abrams, Inc., New York "Art Books Forever" Jesse Feiler, Software Director, Philmont Software Mill, New York "CD-ROMs: Are They Worth the Paper They're Not Printed On?" Additional Speaker, TBA: Publisher, author, or editor affiliated with a 1995 Wittenborn Award book In 1981, ARLIS/NA changed the name of their Art Publishing Awards to The George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award. The award, given annually to outstanding art books of North America, honors the premier art book dealer and publisher whose shop on Madison Avenue in New York City was an indispensable source of art literature. As a publisher, George Wittenborn (1905-1974) was responsible for the publication of a groundbreaking series of 14 documents on twentieth-century art. Much has occurred in the world of art publishing since 1981. Traditional publication of art books continues to flourish, although art publishers, like all publishers, are now confronted with the challenges of new media formats and new means of access made possible by rapidly developing technologies. The purpose of this session is to identify and examine those changes over the years, beginning with a tribute to Mr. Wittenborn, who by now may not be part of the collective memory of ARLIS/NA, and continuing with speakers from the publishing world addressing current and future trends in art publishing. The session ends with a talk by one of this year's Wittenborn honorees, to reaffirm the meaning and relevance of this award.
9:45 am - 11:45 am [Mediterranean Ballroom West]	SESSION VII -- LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO 20TH CENTURY ART Sponsor: Women and Art Round Table Moderator: Liesel Nolan, Head, Art & Architecture Library, University of Colorado at Boulder Speakers: Martha Zamora, Author/Historian, La Herradura, Mexico "Golden Oil: Frida Kahlo and the Latin American Art Market" Susan Nurse, Visual Arts Curator, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester "The Mexicanidad in the Art of Frida Kahlo" Carol Damian, Assistant Professor/Art Historian, Florida International University "Women Artists in Modern Art History: the Miami / Latin American Connection" Maria Brito, Artist, Miami "Maria Brito" This session emphasizes the work and contributions of professionally trained women artists from South and Central America, the Caribbean, but especially Mexico and Miami. The speakers will take into consideration the contributions of the recent traveling exhibit, "Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995," curated by Geraldine Biller of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Martha Zamora explores the exigencies of the US art market and the influence that sales of Kahlo's work exercise on the work of other Latin American women artists. Susan Nurse highlights the indigenous iconography explored by Kahlo in her work. Carol Damian writes "...Miami, with its cosmopolitan blend of art and artists from throughout the Americas...is...the location for an especially talented group of women artists educated locally and in other countries. They are a remarkable addition to the art community and easily incorporated into the history of modern women artists." Havana-born installation artist, Maria Brito introduces her own work, a variety of mixed media. She views her work "as a means of communication with others. It is part of a process of self-discovery that is at once personal, social and universal."
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm [Grand Promenade]	MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON (Preregistration required.) Speaker: Vivian Donnell Rodriguez, Executive Director, Metro-Dade Art in Public Places "Public Art: Defining a Sense of Place" Public art has evolved in the last two decades into a distinct discipline which seeks to give voice to the vocabulary of the visual artist in the development of public space. Intrinsic to that process is the emergance of artists as collaborators with architects, engineers, landscape artists, and other non-traditional partners in the creation of public art that defines public space / public place within the context of local culture, demographics and the aspirations of a community for itself. Ms. Rodriguez will illustrate with projects completed by Metro-Dade Art in Public Places how several public art installations have partnered artists with community groups in a process of community-based art making which have reflected and celebrated that which is unique about South Florida and its diverse populations. Results of this process have been a variety of artistic responses in many media which define a sense of place and which are a source of civic pride.
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm [Grand Promenade]	MEMBERSHIP MEETING
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm [Mediterranean Room East/Center]	EXHIBITS OPEN
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm [Miramar North]	AskARLIS 2 -- LET'S MAKE A DEAL: THE ART OF WORKING WITH A VENDOR Sponsor: Collection Development Committee Moderator: Paula Gabbard, Fine Arts Librarian, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Panelists: D. Bonner, Bibliographer, Yankee Book Peddler (approval book buyer; former cataloger) Jack Perry Brown, Director of Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago Susan Craig, Head, Murphy Art & Architecture Library, University of Kansas at Lawrence Brian Gold, Director, Worldwide Books Kenneth Soehner, Head of Technical Services and Collection Development, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kurt Wiedenhoeff, Director of Imaging, Saskia, Ltd. This session gives all attending librarians and book vendors the opportunity to openly discuss common issues of concern regarding any aspect of the library book acquisitions process. A small panel of librarians and vendors will present brief overviews of the current problems and challenges they face in their work with each other leaving time for members to ask questions and offer comments and advice. Questions that may arise in the session include: how are discounts for approval plans determined; how are postage charges determined (e.g. in the case of rejected approval books); how are return policies negotiated; how are profiles and exclusion lists defines and then how are they refined; what are the implications of the new technologies; and what is the potential for using these new technologies to help library processing units (acquisitions, billing, cataloging). With luck, by the end of the session, we will reach a common understanding in what we can expect from each other, and we will carry away a better sense of the complexities, the ambitions and the limitations within our separate domains.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm [Regency Room]	AskARLIS 3 -- COMPUTER IMAGING ISSUES Sponsor: Visual Resources Professional Issues Discussion Group Moderator: Adina Lerner, Research Administrator, The Walt Disney Archives, Burbank CA Panelists: Sara Jane Pearman, Slide Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art; Angela Bustamente, Slide Librarian, Department of Art, Miami-Dade Community College Three different collectors will speak about the how, why and when of digitizing various aspects of their collections. The session will address all the ins and outs of digitalization and why certain processes were addressed and others left to deal with at a later point. If you are contemplating or curious about what goes into creating and using digital image projects, this is an informal place to quiz your colleagues.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm [Spanish Suite]	AskARLIS 4 -- A WILDER KINGDOM: STALKING EPHEMERAL MATERIAL Sponsors: Museum Library Division / Cataloging Section Moderator: Roger Lawson, Head, Cataloging Section, National Gallery of Art Library Panelists: Pedro Figueredo, Assistant Librarian, The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach FL and Genoa, Italy (Bibliographic materials) Murray Waddington, Chief Librarian, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Archival materials) Elisa Lanzi, Manager, Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Williamstown MA (Visual materials and works of art) This session will review and compare efforts currently underway in the library, archival, and visual resources communities to provide effective description and access for materials in what Clive Philpott called the "inaccessible domain," i.e., those that have considerable research value but in a time of reduced staffing are either too numerous or too complex for standard cataloging, and therefore remain undocumented in national or local bibliographic systems. Projects to be discussed include the RLG Art and Architecture Group's "Inaccessible Domain" Materials Working Group proposal for a minimum-level cataloging record for collections, the RLG Archives and Manuscripts Task Force on Standards, the Library of Congress' proposed policy for collection- level cataloging, the Visual Resource Association Data Standards Committee proposal for core-level description of visual materials, and the Getty Art Information Task Force's definition of key elements in describing works of art.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm [Miramar South]	AskARLIS 5 -- NEW ARLIS/NA STANDARDS FOR STAFFING ART LIBRARIES AND VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTIONS Sponsor: Standards Committee Co-Moderators: Carol Terry, Director of Library Services, Rhode Island School of Design Library; Elizabeth Peck Learned, Architecture Librarian, Roger Williams University, Bristol RI This session will provide an opportunity to discuss the new staffing standards with those who worked on the document. Questions that might come up include how the document came about, how it can be used in specific situations, assessment criteria and their use.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm [Mediterranean Ballroom West]	AskARLIS 6 -- ARLIS AND THE WEB: MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH ISSUES LIBRARIANS ENCOUNTER Sponsor: Computer Section Moderator: Peggy Keeran, Reference Librarian, Penrose Library, University of Denver Panelists: Barbara Prior, Reference Librarian, Fine Arts Library, Cornell University ; Lee Sorensen, Art Bibliographer, Lilly Library, Duke University ; Deirdre C. Stam, Librarian, SyraCWIS, Syracuse University ; Edward Teague, Head, Architecture & Fine Arts Library, University of Florida After the technical connection to the Web is established, librarians encounter different obstacles and issues. Panelists will discuss some of their experiences, including administration issues, homepages, doing research, and evaluating sites. If you are thinking about getting connected to the Web, or are just starting out, or have experiences you can share with other members, please come and join in the discussion.
5:30 pm - 10:00 pm	BUSES AVAILABLE FOR ARS LIBRI PARTY (Meet at lower level street entrance of hotel and board bus at 6:00 pm and will run continuously. Last bus departs Centro Vasco promptly at 10:00 pm.)
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm	ARS LIBRI PARTY Location: Centro Vasco, 2235 Southwest 8th Street, Miami The Centro Vasco is a Basque/Cuban restaurant, lounge and nightclub that was relocated to South Florida from Havana in 1962. It is an eclectic institution with strong Cuban nuances, housed in a former Austrian restaurant, in Miami, an uncommon Florida city. It offers Basque cuisine fused with Cuban ingredients, entertainment by the latest and hottest Cuban refugee musicians, and a venue to commingle with Cubans/Americans who spend their days and nights plotting Fidel Castro's downfall and a triumphant return to Cuba.
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm [Miramar North]	SERIALS SWAP I Coordinator: Gisele Guay, Head, Serials, Canadian Centre for Architecture Library, Montreal
10:00 pm - 12:00 am [Sandbar/Seabreeze]	HOSPITALITY SUITE

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March 14, 1996