Dear ARLIS/NA Members,

In the afterglow of a wonderful ARLIS/NA conference, I am very pleased to announce, on behalf of the Communications and Publications Committee, the release of two new online resources.

Artist Files Revealed: Online Directory
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Artist Files Revealed: Documentation and Access
       
By the ARLIS/NA Artist Files Working Group,
Project Coordinators: Jon Evans,  Sally  McKay, and Barbara Rominski

These two pioneering online resources represent a giant step forward in providing access to one of the most important “hidden” collections in art libraries, the Artist Files.
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Artist Files Revealed: Online Directory

by the ARLIS/NA Artist Files Working Group
Project Coordinators: Sally McKay, Research Library, Getty Research Institute;

Barbara Rominski, Research Library and Archives, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Technical Support: Alan Berta from Area 37 Project Company


The Online Directory is an interactive, web-based directory of institutional holdings of artist files that allows for efficient browsing of collection statements and provides links to further artist files resources. The Directory framework was created as a centralized repository for cultural institutions to add and promote their collections of artist files and for users to discover these resources more readily.

Link to the Directory and add your holdings information now! As more libraries and institutions add their information to the Directory, the more valuable a resource it will become. The Directory now includes records from a core beta group of institutions with artist files holdings but from this point forward, all institutions, regardless of size or geographical location, are encouraged to contribute records.

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Artist Files Revealed: Documentation and Access
by the ARLIS/NA Artist Files Working Group
Project Coordinator: Jon Evans, Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  

This online publication provides much-needed documentation that helps the art librarian catalog, arrange, and provide local, national, and international access to artist files collections. Included are general guidelines for creating MARC records representing artist files, and a plethora of further information that includes links to online collections, conference papers, societies and centers devoted to artist and ephemeral papers, and a full comprehensive bibliography that for the first time brings together the published literature on the topic.


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For a full description of both resources please take a look at the full press release at: http://www.arlisna.org/news/press/artistfiles.pdf

 

Both of these online resources are available free of charge and can be linked to from the Online Publications section of the ARLIS/NA website: http://www.arlisna.org/pubs/onlinepubs/index.html

 

 

Kraig Binkowski
ARLIS/NA Professional Resources Editor

Jonathan Franklin, Chair
ARLIS/NA Communications and Publications Committee

 

 

Kraig Binkowski

Chief Librarian
Reference Library and Archives
Yale Center for British Art

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8280

 

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