Sponsored by the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NY)
Date: Friday, April 11, 2014
Time: 3:00-5:30 PM (Event and Reception)
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Uris Center for Education 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. Museum tickets will be distributed at the event. A reception will be held in the Irving Reading Room, Watson Library, following the presentations.
RSVP: Please RSVP through the ARLIS/NY Website: http://arlisny.org/events/technology-and-the-cultural-heritage-object-an-introduction-to-local-projects- Membership in ARLIS/NY is not required. Please note that space is limited.
Event: This series of presentations features representatives from four local arts and special collections libraries who will discuss how their institutions are using technology to improve knowledge of and access to cultural heritage objects. While new technologies may be introduced through library school coursework, it is often helpful for students to observe how such tools are applied locally in working institutions. The emphasis will be on the practical nuts and bolts of each project: Why was the particular technology or technologies chosen? Where did funding come from? What (if any) infrastructural adjustments were required? Why was the project given priority? Speakers have also been encouraged to share any special skills that a student or recent graduate might need to become involved in a similar project.
The program will conclude with a Q&A session, followed by a wine reception in the Watson Library. Attendees may also enjoy visiting the museum’s galleries, which remain open until 9:00 pm on Friday evenings. Students and new professionals are especially encouraged to attend!
Moderator: Meghan Constantinou, Librarian, The Grolier Club, and Student/Professional Development Liaison for ARLIS/NY
Speakers & Presentations
Robyn Fleming and William Blueher (Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art) will discuss recent digitization efforts at the Watson Library. They will outline how the Watson’s digital initiative, begun in 2007, has evolved over time; provide updates on significant projects, including recent collaborations with curatorial departments; and discuss the outreach and Wikipedia initiatives that have increased awareness and use of the Watson’s digitized collections.
Robyn Fleming is Librarian for Interlibrary Services and Digital Projects at the Watson Library. She received a BA in Art History and Italian from Syracuse University, and an MLS from Queens College, CUNY. A staff member since 2001, she participates in the Library’s Digitization, Interlibrary Loan, Reference, and Instruction Teams.
William Blueher is Library Associate at the Watson Library. He received a BA in Philosophy and English from the University of New Mexico, an MA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MLIS from Pratt Institute. A staff member since 2012, he participates in the Library’s Digitization, Technical Services, and Selection teams.
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Stacy J. Schiff and Jen Cwiok (American Museum of Natural History Research Library) will give a presentation entitled: “Digital Ethnology and Cultural Heritage: Library Digital Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History.” Through vibrant images digitized from a variety of photographic formats, rich item level records, links to finding aids, curated online exhibits, and browsable collections, the AMNH Digital Special Collections database benefits researchers and the public through access to the history and breadth of the Library’s holdings of more than a century of study and exploration. Ms. Schiff and Ms. Cwiok will discuss work plans, staffing, skills, and growth over time to give attendees a window into the development and use of a digital project addressing cultural heritage, ethnology, and the natural sciences from around the world.
Stacy J. Schiff is the Visual Resources Librarian in Special Collections at the AMNH Research Library and is responsible for the curation and management of metadata for the Library’s image database initiative to describe thousands of historic images from the Photographic Collections. Ms. Schiff holds an MLS and certificate in Archives, Records Management, and Preservation from the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.
Jen Cwiok is Digital Projects Manager of Collections at the AMNH Research Library where she deployed and designed the Omeka-based Digital Special Collections site. She is a librarian by trade with an affinity for digitization workflows and applications architecture.
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Deborah Kempe (Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection). Deborah Kempe will discuss an innovative program of web archiving for specialist art historical resources, which was made possible by a recent generous grant to NYARC (New York Art Resources Consortium) from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The two-year program will follow a 2012 pilot study, Reframing Collections for the Digital Age, also funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. That study demonstrated that the types of materials the NYARC libraries had been collecting in printed form were increasingly migrating to online versions available exclusively on the web. It concluded that there was an urgent need to document the dynamic web-based versions of auction catalogues, catalogues raisonnés, and scholarly research projects, as well as artist, gallery, and museum websites, because otherwise there is a real and imminent danger of a “digital black hole” in the art historical record
Deborah Kempe is Chief of Collections Management & Access at The Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, with previous positions at Avery Art & Architectural Library of Columbia University, New York University, the New-York Historical Society, and the University of Arkansas. She holds a BA with Honors in Art History and Archaeology and an MLS from the University of Missouri. An active participant in international library consortia initiatives, she serves as a director of NYARC (New York Art Resources Consortium), and as a member of the artlibraries.net committee. In 2013, she received the John Jacob Astor Award in Library and Information Studies in Berlin, Germany.
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Carole Ann Fabian (Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University) will be presenting on various initiatives underway at the Avery, including CAUSEWAY, a web-archiving initiative of Columbia University and the IviesPlus: A+A group, and on several of Avery’s place-based digital projects focusing on the use of geo-location as a discovery strategy for special collection materials.
Carole Ann Fabian is the Director of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, one of the most comprehensive architecture and arts library collections in the world. As Avery Director, she oversees strategic directions and daily operations of the Avery Library including bibliographic and user services, collection development for its extensive research collections and three special collections: Avery Drawings and Archives, Avery Classics, and the department of Art Properties. She is also responsible for the production, publication and ongoing innovative development of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals – the leading indexing and abstracting publication for the discipline.
Prior to joining Columbia University Libraries, she held positions at ARTstor Digital Library, the University at Buffalo Libraries, RIT Archives, the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Museum. Ms. Fabian is Vice-President/President elect of ARLIS/NA and project director for several large-scale projects including:
ˇ The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art
ˇ The Built Works Registry, an IMLS National Leadership Grant project
ˇ The Old York Library collection digital library project supported by the Durst Organization grant
ˇ Avery’s American View Books, a Mellon funded CLIR Hidden Collections grant
ˇ The Future of Art Bibliography, a Getty/Kress funded international initiative.
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