Dear colleagues:

As announced in July 2018, the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), in partnership with the Internet Archive, has received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant in Curating Collections. The grant, entitled Advancing Art Libraries and Curated Web Archives: A National Forum, will facilitate collaboration among art libraries and museums for the creation of collections of web-based art resources for scholarly use.

During the first phase of the grant, project staff are conducting a community survey to determine the current practice and attitudes about web archiving in art libraries within the United States and Canada, with the objective of identifying areas for discussion, training, and education at our national forum and related workshops/meetings. The anonymous results of the community survey will be made publicly available in fall 2018 as a published summary report, in conjunction with a short literature review that covers publications about web archives in art library and museum settings.

Please note that no prior experience with web archiving is necessary to participate in the survey and we especially welcome feedback from those who are interested in getting involved.

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and it will remain open until Saturday, October 6th, 2018.

Take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/artweb

Thank you for your participation in this survey—your feedback is very important!

To learn more about this initiative, please visit:  https://archive-it.org/blog/learn-more/art-libraries/ 

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