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For ARLIS members that will be attending the ALA Annual Conference in
Washington D.C. I am forwarding some additional information.
Greetings.
Here are the meeting places for ARTS activities at the D.C.
Conference, along with some more details about the program
and the General Membership meeting.
Please note below that Sunday's General Membership meeting will be
held in the Research and Scholars' Center at the National Museum of
American Art, which is located across the street from the D.C.
Convention Center in the building that houses both the NMAA and the
National Portrait Gallery. (I'll send on more specific directions
soon for the correct entrance, since we will meet before the Museum
actually opens.) The actual membership meeting will begin at 9:30am
as usual, but we are invited a half hour earlier, at 9am, for light
refreshments and to hear a short presentation about the Research
Center/Library by Cecilia Chin and Christine Hennessy. Tours of the
facility will be offered at the close of our business meeting, which
I promise to make short and efficient enough to get you out at our
regular time.
We're very grateful for their hospitality, and I hope you all will
have the opportunity to attend.
Remember also our tradition of a dutch treat lunch immediately after
Sunday's membership meeting to acquaint new and old members and to
reacquaint us all.
The meeting schedule for all ARTS meetings in Washington is finally
posted:
--All Committees:
Saturday, June 26, 9:30am-12:30am,
J.W.Marriott-Dirkson
--ARTS program, "Local Traditions in the Global Village . . ."
Saturday, June 27, 2-4pm, Grand Hyatt-Constitution B
This should be a wonderful program. Our 3 speakers are:
Edward J. Sullivan, Professor and Chair,
Department of Fine Arts, New York University
Joanne Zellers, Area Specialist (Africa),
African and Middle Eastern Division, Lib. Of Congress
Lily Kecskes, Librarian, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library,
Freer Gallery of Art, Wash. D.C.
--General Membership Meeting
Sunday, June 27, 9:30am-12:30pm,
Library of the National Museum of American Art
--preceded at 9:00am by an presentation, and followed by a tour
of the NMAA Library.
--Technology in the Arts, "The MESL Experience:"
Sunday, June 28, 2-5:30pm, Crowne Plaza-Farragut Sqare
--Dance Librarians Discussion Group:
Sunday, June 28, 2-4pm, Washington Courtyard by Marriott-Oak Room
--Film and Broadcast Video Discussion Group:
Sunday, June 28, 2-4pm, Hyatt Regency Washington-Columbia C
ARTS is also co-sponsoring the ACRL/WESS (Western European Specialists
Section) program: "Digitizing a Continent: National-Level Planning
for Western European Libraries,"
Mon., June 29, 9:30-11:30am, Loew's L'Enfant Plaza-Grand Ballroom A,B
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I look forward to seeing you all in Washington.
Steve Bloom
PAULA EPSTEIN
ARTS Section Liaison to ARLIS/NA
