I remember being on the ARLIS/NA Board when we arrived at "Art
Documentation" as the most format neutral expression possible. We
considered that a real victory for those of us who did not deal with
bibliographic material. And while I think it's very premature of us to
be suggesting names for what is at the moment only an interesting idea,
I do think the challenges of encapsulating Art + Images + Libraries +
Classroom Technology + Metadata + Social Software + Electronic Resources
+ Digital and Electronic Collection Development + User Services and
Interfaces + DAMS + Licensing + Presentation Systems + Archival
Collections will make for VERY interesting discussions.
The fact that this discussion is only happening on ONE of the relevant
listservs only goes to highlight the problems we face.
Eileen Fry
Indiana University
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Kathy,
Your suggested name "Visual Culture Association of North America" is
interesting to me, as is your tale of Miss Lucas, Wolfgang Freitag, and
the Fogg then and now. You, of course, also remember some of the
society discussions in the last 1970s about name changes. What is
especially interesting to me about your name suggestion is the lack of
any element of documentation.
While the name is only part of the game, there is a Visual Culture
Caucus in College Art as well as all sorts of Google hits for
organizations using "visual culture" in their name.
Sherman Clarke
NYU Libraries
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