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(Apologies to ARLIS/NY members for duplicate posting) Art Books & Ebooks: A Difficult Conversation? Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Time: 3:30 - 5:00 pm Even as scholarly publishing in most disciplines makes the transition from print to digital, art ebooks have encountered hurdles in providing the same measure of reward to publishers, libraries and researchers. Issues of format, content, pricing, selection and user-friendliness persist. Are these hurdles real or imaginary? Are they truly specific to art publishing? If real, what prospects are there to solve these problems-and where will they come from? Each speaker will address the benefits and challenges of art ebooks from her/his perspective as creators, curators and consumers of art ebooks. A respondent will summarize the presentations and invite the audience to share its observations, opinions and predictions. Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Study Room in the Uris Education Wing on the south side of the museum. Please enter the museum by the ground floor doors at 81st Street, not the main stairs at 82nd, and take the long corridor out of Burke Hall. Buttons will be distributed at the door. Reception: A reception will follow in the Thomas J. Watson Library. RSVP: Please reply by Friday, September 21st, to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "Art Books & Ebooks" in the subject line. ---- About the speakers: ---- Mark Polizzotti, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is responsible for crafting a publishing program for the Museum that is intellectually rigorous, visually appealing, and economically viable. Part of this means engaging with digital media in ways that take advantage of the opportunities these media offer to the publication of scholarship. But it also means exploring the design and marketing of print books so as to keep them relevant and vital in a changing world. Erika Hauser, Librarian, Collection Development at the Thomas J. Watson Library, led the project to study and implement a policy to select, acquire and make available ebooks that complements an already dynamic print acquisition program. For the last eight years Erika has been active in the selection and acquisition of monographic and serial resources. Jeff Carroll is the Director for Collection Development at Columbia University Libraries. His responsibilities include managing the collections budget and overseeing the collection development policies for the 20+ libraries that make up the Columbia University system. Although new to this position Jeff has worked at Columbia, in one capacity or another, for the past fifteen years. Ross Housewright (respondent) is a Senior Analyst at Ithaka S+R, where he has explored the changing attitudes and practices of scholars in an increasingly digital environment and system-level collections management strategies that balance libraries' pressing space needs with community preservation goals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~