Dear Colleagues; Earlier this Spring, I was delighted to announce a multi-year grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the Art Libraries Society of North America that would fund international travel. The Kress Foundation generously extended its support of an existing travel award for European travel and expanded the scope to include travel to the annual ARLIS/NA conference by European art information professionals. It is with great pleasure that I announce the recipients of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Awards for International Travel. The financial support provided by the awards will allow a greater number of ARLIS/NA members to promote the exchange of ideas and information outside of North America. Five of our outstanding arts information professionals will attend the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Congress meetings in France this summer. The 2014 recipients of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Award for International Travel to Europe are: Hannah Bennett, Princeton University Jonathan Franklin, National Gallery of Canada Lindsay King, Yale University Isabel Ayres Maringelli, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Walter Schlect, Pratt Institute IMLS student Bringing our European colleagues to interact with their North American counterparts at the annual conference of the Society likewise promotes the exchange of ideas and information and fosters better international communication. The 2014 recipients of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Award for Travel to the ARLIS/NA Conference in Washington are: Alexandra Büttner, Universität Heidelberg Anne-Elisabeth Buxtorf, Institute national d'histoire de l'art, Paris Rüdiger Hoyer, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich Geert Jan Koot, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Andrea Lydon, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Evelin Morgenstern, Initiative Fortbildung für wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken e.V., Berlin Please engage our European colleagues in conversation at the Washington conference! My thanks to the Kress Travel Awards Review Panel for their hard work with special thanks to the chair (and our Past President) Deborah Kempe. With best regards, 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 e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> URL: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/library/imagecollections.html phone: 202/ 842-6100 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~