Dear Colleagues;
Over the last 50 years or so, arts librarianship and the disciplines it serves have become inconceivable without multimedia resources and ever-changing technologies. Today, websites, specialized software, mobile technologies, collaborative
forums, films, and video games are just a few areas constituting one’s engagement with arts research. As arts information specialists, we must remain attune to these technologies and resources as we develop new dimensions or spaces fostering arts research.
Thus, I am pleased to announce a new category of reviews for ARLIS/NA, the Multimedia and Technology Reviews.
Developed in the same spirit of the
ARLIS/NA Reviews, these reviews will target projects, products, events, and issues within the broad realm of multimedia and technology as they pertain to arts scholarship, research, and librarianship. While assessing current products and projects, these
reviews are also designed to engage the membership in a conversation about how technologies and multimedia are being or can be deployed within our profession and by our constituents. These reviews are designed to incorporate an element of experimentation by
highlighting resources that take readership a bit by surprise and are not as likely to be covered in other library literature.
The publishing schedule will alternate with the bi-monthly schedule of the
ARLIS/NA Reviews, with the first installment expected towards the end of the summer or early fall. These reviews will be overseen by a small editorial team convened by the Professional Resources Editor and will include a standing co-editor from the ARLIS
Reference and Information Services Section, namely Emilee Mathews, section moderator, as well as a third editor to be chosen by a selection committee. The editorial team and the new review category will, organizationally, fall within the Communications and
Publications Committee’s purview.
If you are interested in serving on this editorial board, please stay tuned for a call for applicants to be distributed on ARLIS-L in the weeks to come. As with the
ARLIS/NA Reviews, reviewer participation from ARLIS/NA and its affiliates is key and the editorial team will be soliciting reviewer participation. In the mean time, if you have something in mind that would be perfect for this category of reviews, please
pitch it to Hannah Bennett, Professional Resources Editor, while also directing any questions about this new category to her.
On behalf of the new ARLIS/NA Communications and Publications Committee,
Gregory Most
Gregory P. J. Most
President
Art Libraries Society of North America
Chief, Department of Image Collections
Library
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC 20565
URL:
http://www.nga.gov/resources/dlidesc.shtm
phone: 202/ 842-6100