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The upcoming ARLIS/NA ~VRA joint conference offers an exciting program on
issues and topics of vital interest to all. Besides finding out about
the majestic beauty of St Louis on the specially designed TOURS, gaining
skills at WORKSHOPS, chewing on issues with colleagues in SEMINARS, this
year's program is enriched with ten two-hour long SESSIONS.
Many of the sessions will focus on topics that address our changing
research and collections environments, and the redefinition of our roles
and responsibilities. Other sessions cover a range of topics from the
history of image collections and preservation of architectural records to
sessions on the art that motivates us to be who we are and do what we
do!
To highlight just a few...
Come One, Come All! On Saturday, March 23, 9:30 a.m, our Plenary I
session is host to a meeting as part of the National Initiative Cultural
Heritage (NINCH) series on Copyright and Fair Use. This meeting, which
will be open to the public, will focus on the "information commons," the
various free and open public resources of information, and how that
concept intersects with licensing, one of the prevailing mechanisms for
distributing digital resources today.
Celebrate St Louis as a frontier for women artists!
Panelists will describe how St. Louis was a training ground and
rewarding work environment for women artists of the nineteenth century,
and how it continues to be today. Meet local artists and art historians
in this session, "Women Artists of St Louis: Past and Present," Monday,
March 25th.
Interested in the early history of image collecting and how they
were used in higher education? In the session "Property and
Capital in 19th and Early 20th century Visual Collections", on Sunday,
March 24th, 10:00 a.m., session panelists will discuss the development,
production and dissemination of image collecting for the study and
teaching of the history of art.
Going digital transforms research! Reflect on how digital
technology has transformed specific areas of the research environment in
"Patterns of Use" on Sunday, March 24th, 10a.m.
Session panelists will demonstrate how new technologies, standards, and
digital projects have improved access to resources such as Patterns
Books, Builders' Guide, and Trade Catalog Collections.
Listening is mandatory in the session on Sound Art! Session
moderator, Diane Tong, Head of Information, Research and Institutional
Studies San Francisco State University will give an overview of sound art
and then turn the session over to a panel of artists/performers in "Hey
Now Whats That Sound Everybody Know Whats Going On?", Monday, March 25th,
11 a.m.
The Three V's does not mean three valentines! Sorry! In
this Plenary Session II: The Three V's", Monday, March 25th, panelists
representing various roles in the creation, use, and delivery of digital
image products will openly dialogue about Visual Technology, Visual
Culture, and Visual Literacy. The Plenary II session brings together Max
Marmor of ArtStor, Jennifer Trant of AMICO, Susan Williams, Yale
University, and Paula Lupkin, Washington University, and moderator
Katharine Martinez, Fine Arts Library of Harvard College. The session is
sure to be lively, so bring your questions!
Need to know more about the conference programs? For full descriptions we
encourage you to visit our conference website at
http://library.wustl.edu/~beth/Conference.html. If you have any
questions about the programs please contact your co-chairs.
We look forward to seeing you soon in St Louis!
Deborah Ultan ([log in to unmask])
Margaret Webster ([log in to unmask])
ARLIS/NA~VRA 2002 program co-chairs
Deborah K. Ultan ph: (612)625-6438
Art/Art History Librarian fax: (612) 626-9353
University of Minnesota email: [log in to unmask]
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