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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Lee and other ARLIS Competency Standards thread-followers: It would be interesting to see more specifically what the chemists are doing. Are the standards available on the web? In general, I wonder if it would be more appropriate to analogize to a competency checklist for art librarians, rather than art historians. The art historians are often so specialized that each subfield has its own "core" literature. We, as art librarians, are the generalists who need to know everyone's core tools. This issue came home to me last week when I was doing a short presentation on major art history databases for incoming art history grad students in non-western specialties. The Bibliography of the History of Art (certainly a core resource on most of our lists) really isn't very useful for students researching traditional arts of Africa or Japanese graphics. Or, what about trying to convince an art historian who never deals with architecture that s/he should keep the Avery Index in mind? I think competency guidelines are a great idea and well worth developing. But I also think they would be most useful to US. In fact, they verge on functioning as a textbook for art librarianship courses. Linda Duychak Reference Librarian Kohler Art Library Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison [log in to unmask]