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

	TUESDAY, APRIL 30 [Top of File]
7:00 am - 7:45 am	YOGA ON THE BEACH [TBD]
7:30 am - 9:30 am [Miramar North/South]	LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST (Includes all officers, Division, Section and Round Table Moderators/Co moderators, Committee Chairs/Co- Chairs, Special appointments and invitees) Coordinator: Jack Robertson, President, ARLIS/NA
7:30 am - 4:00 pm [Foyer Left]	REGISTRATION DESK OPEN
8:00 am - 6:00 pm [Mediterranean Room East/Center]	EXHIBITS OPEN
9:30 am - 11:30 am [Regency Room]	SESSION VIII -- PRETTY IN PINK?: THE DESIGN AND REDESIGN OF YOUR LIBRARY Sponsor: Architecture Section Moderator: Kitty Chibnik, Associate Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Speakers: Sherry Carillo, Assistant Director/Reader Services, Florida International University "Books, People and Jackhammers Can Coexist" Bernardo Fort-Brescia, FAIA, Principle, Arquitectonica, Miami "Concept and Color" Christine Sala, Indexer/Reference Librarian, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University "Inside Stories: Library Interiors and Renovations" Susan Wyngaard, Head, Fine Arts Library, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University "Living in Peter Eiseman's Library: Managing the Mundane in Post-Modern Paradise" Library design is not static. Libraries change and re- arrange, morphing into different configurations to accommodate a wide variety of needs. Design decisions announce to the world, subtly and not so subtly, how a library wishes to be known. The speakers on this panel will address a range of renovation and interior design issues such as the planning process, client/architect relations, refurbishment in tight financial times, the psychology of color, ergonomics, and planning for technological connectivity.
9:30 am - 11:30 am [Mediterranean Ballroom West]	SESSION IX -- WHO ARE THE BRAVEST IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD? SITE LICENSING INITIATIVES FOR IMAGES Sponsors: Academic Library Division and Visual Resources Division Co-Moderators: Katie Keller, Avery Library, Columbia University ; Elizabeth O'Donnell, Dartmouth College Speakers: Kurt Wiedenhoeft, Saskia Ltd. "Saskia's Approach to Fine Art Imaging" Lauren Kingman, IBM "An Overview of Technology to Manage Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Library" Jennifer Trant, Getty Art History Information Program Imaging Initiative "The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project: a Collaborative Rethinking of Access to Digital Images" Walter Gilbert, Asst.Director, Computer Sciences Center, University of Maryland at College Park "7 Museums & 7 Universities: an Experiment in Digital Image and Document Sharing - The University of Maryland Experience" This session will focus on the issue of educational site licensing for images to be used in databases and other projects and will serve as an update on the activities of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project. Some speakers may touch on broader issues related to site licensing from either the provider or user point of view.
9:30 am - 11:30 am [Spanish Suite]	SESSION X -- MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVES Sponsor: Film and Video Round Table Moderator: Alison Pinsler, AGP Research & Consulting Services Speakers: Steven Davidson, Director, Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, Miami "An Overview of Moving Image Archives: From Preservation to Access" Barry Sherman, Director, Peabody Awards, University of Georgia at Athens "Arts and Cultural Programming in the Peabody Collection" Helene Whitson, Archivist, San Francisco State University "Profile of the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive" Dan Den Bleyker, Archivist, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson MS "New Film and Video Productions Utilizing Archival Moving Image Materials" Moving image archivists from around the country will provide an overview of film and video archives, addressing issues including: preservation, public access, utilization of archival images in new productions and other areas of concern facing archives and those who use them. The session will include screenings of recently preserved moving image materials from the institutions representatives.
11:30 am - 12:30 pm [Miramar North/South]	SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON THE ARLIS/NA STRATEGIC PLAN Coordinator: Amy Ciccone, Head Librarian, Architecture & Fine Arts Library, University of Southern California
	AFTERNOON TOURS (Preregistration required; all times listed include travel times to/from event.)
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm	TOUR G: PRIVATE COLLECTION Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Meet at lower level street entrance of hotel and board bus at 12 Noon; bus departs promptly at 12:30 pm.) Known as "one of the World's most comprehensive and idiosyncratic art collections," the Sackner Archive consists of over 60,000 works including books, paintings, sculpture, prints and poem objects relating to the integration of text and image. Beginning with Mallarme's "un Coup de Des," encompassing Russian Avant Garde, Futurism, Dada, Lettrisme and international Concrete and Visual Poetry, the collection continues to evolve and grow with contemporary artists' books and recent publications on the letter arts. Several artists are collected in-depth including Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, d.a. levy, Joel Hubaut, Sandra Jackman and John Furnival. Ruth and Marvin Sackner live at home with their Archive and are actively cataloguing the collection on a computer database.
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	TOUR H: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MOCA) (Meet at lower level street entrance of hotel and board bus at 12:30 pm; bus departs promptly at 1:00 pm.) The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami Beach, opened to the public on February 24th of this year. The 23,000 square foot facility was designed by Charles Gwathmey of Gwathmey/Siegel and Associations, New York, in conjunction with the Miami firm of Gelabert- Navia Architects. Featured exhibitions in April are "Pierced Hearts and True Love: A Century of Drawings for Tatoos," and Robert Rauschenberg Sculpture."
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	TOUR I: THE BASS MUSEUM OF ART / THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY (Meet at lower level street entrance of hotel and board bus at 12:30 pm; bus departs promptly at 1:00 pm.) The Bass Museum of Art holds important collections of Old Master paintings, sculpture, textiles, ecclesiastic artifacts, oriental bronzes, ceramics, decorative arts, 20th century American graphics, architectural drawings, prints, and study collections of Haitian and African- American folk art. The Wolfsonian Library houses approximately 50,000 books, periodicals and ephemera dealing with the decorative and propaganda arts, 1885 - 1945, primarily from the United States, the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and Italy.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm [Valencia Room]	AskARLIS 7 -- ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL ACCREDITATION Sponsor: Architecture Section Moderator: Betsy Peck Learned, Architecture Librarian, Roger Williams University, Bristol RI Panelists: Elizabeth Byrne, Head, Environmental Design Library, University of California at Berkeley; Anita Gilden Carrico, Head, Architecture Library, University of Maryland at College Park; Melissa McDonald, Head Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design Architecture librarians face many challenges in responding to the accreditation requirements of the National Architecture Accreditation Board (NAAB). This session will allow for a discussion among librarians who have had experience preparing for and undergoing accreditation of their school's program, as well as those who experiencing accreditation for the first time.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm [Miramar North]	AskARLIS 8 -- CATALOGING ISSUES AND PROBLEMS Sponsor: Cataloging Problems Discussion Group Moderator: Sherman Clarke, Head of Original Cataloging, Bobst Library, New York University Open discussion of cataloging issues and problems such as uniform titles for works of art, format integration, and authority work, as well as reports on ALA cataloging committees and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (NACO, etc).
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm [Mediterranean Ballroom West]	SESSION XI -- CURRENT ISSUES IN ART OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Sponsor: Reference and Information Services Section Co-Moderators: Amanda Bowen, Hillyer Art Library, Smith College ; Naomi Niles, Uris Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art Speakers: Carol Damian, Professor, Florida International University "The Latin American Art Scene and Miami at the Gateway City" Frederic Snitzer, Director, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami "The impact of Cuban Art of the 80's" Beverly Joy Karno, Bookseller, Howard Karno Books "The Utmost Art Publications From That Uttermost Part of the Earth - South America" Latin American art today is increasingly visible and endlessly varied, as demonstrated by the work in many local Miami collections and galleries. This session will provide a selective overview of this burgeoning art scene, including a survey of the publications which record this exciting work.
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm [Regency Room]	SESSION XII -- NEW IMAGING TECHNOLOGY: WHO GETS CUSTODY? Sponsor: Visual Resources Division Moderator: Adina Lerner, Research Administrator, The Walt Disney Archives, Burbank CA Speakers: Kevin Donovan, Luna Imaging "Financing the Move to Digital: Potential Winners and Losers' Susan Jurist, Art Librarian, University of California at San Diego "Mine, All Mine" Andrea Pappas, Art Historian, University of Southern California "Wolflin Meets Nintendo: New Instruction-Driven Challenges for Visual Resource Libraries" Benjamin Kessler, Director, Slide/Photo Collection, Princeton University "It Takes a Village" Photographs, slides, CD-ROMs, digital images and other new image technologies are integrating into the classroom, the museum, the library and visual resources collections. How are these materials used in the teaching and the research of art and art history? If usage is considered, where should the materials be housed: in the library or the VR collection? Who does the collection development? Does use reflect which area of the library of VR collection it resides in? How are the different formats used in teaching and what have those using a digital classroom learned? All of these issues will be addressed looking at each discipline it touches: the arts library, the visual resources collection, the art historian and finally, the vendor.
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm [Miramar North]	ART NACO FUNNEL PROJECT Coordinator: Sherman Clarke, Head of Original Cataloging, Bobst Library, New York University
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm [Mediterranean Room East/Center]	EXHIBITS CLOSING RECEPTION Sponsor: F. A. Bernett, Inc.
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm	TOUR J: PRIVATE COLLECTION Ruth & Richard Shack Collection (Meet at lower level street entrance of hotel and board bus at 5:30 pm; bus departs promptly at 6:00 pm.) Ruth and Richard Shack's Brickell Avenue penthouse offers breathtaking views of Miami, the surrounding communities and Biscayne Bay along with a fascinating, eclectic and personal collection of contemporary art. Works by Miami artists Robert Huff, Cesar Trasobares, Maria Brito, and Lydia Rubio are displayed alongside prints by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The couple are important community activists. As chairman of Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, Richard Shack was instrumental in bringing about the institution's expansion and the February opening of the new Charles Gwathmey designed building.
8:30 pm - 11:00 pm [Miramar North]	SERIALS SWAP II Coordinator: Gisele Guay, Head, Serials, Canadian Centre for Architecture Library, Montreal
9:00 pm - 12:00 am [Sandbar/Seabreeze]	HOSPITALITY SUITE

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March 14, 1996