VRA + ARLIS/NA 2011

ARLIS/NA Academic Libraries Division Meeting - Patricia Kosco Cossard, Chair

ARLIS/NA Art and Design School Libraries Division Meeting - Co-Moderators: Elinor Nacheman, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design and Gabrielle Reed, Morton R. Godine Library, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Agenda
1. Welcome and Attendance Sheet
2. Introduction of current officers (Elinor Nacheman and Gabrielle Reed)
3. Announcement of next year’s co-moderators (Heather Koopmans and Deborah EvansCantrell)
4. Volunteers for incoming vice-moderators
5. Announcement of conference sessions involving ADSL members
6. Open Forum Topics:

• Studio artists in the library…what is the collaboration?
• How do we keep ourselves relevant to today's student?
• What social networking tools do you use in your library?
• Collaborative collection development…How are we collecting?
• Special Collections (artists book etc)…How are we teaching with our collections?
• Consortia power…are you alone at your library?
• Accreditation statistics…are we collecting what they are asking for?
• Vertical files / Artist files …. Collect and manage, what are people doing?
• Changing demographics …. What role might distance learning play?

ARLIS/NA Museum Library Division + VRA Museum Visual Resources Group Joint Meeting - Lee Viverette, ARLIS Museum Library Division Chair and Billy Kwan, VRA Museum Visual Resources Group

Groups will meet jointly to discuss issues of common concern, followed by a breakout to separate business meetings.

ARLIS/NA Visual Resources Division Meeting - Nicole Finzer, Chair

ARLIS/NA + VRA Joint Chapter Chairs Meeting - Co-organizers: Laurel Bliss, ARLIS/NA Chaper Liaison and Trudy Levy, VRA Membership Committee, Chapter Liaison

The ARLIS/NA Chapter Chairs and VRA Chapter Chairs will meet separately to discuss business specific to each organization for 1/2 hour, followed by a joint meeting for 1/2 hour to discuss issues of concern to both organizations and identify potential areas of collaboration. 

ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section Meeting - Organizers and Co-Moderators: Laurie Chipps, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago and Dan Lipcan, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Speakers: Elizabeth O'Keefe, Morgan Museum and Library; Penny Baker, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Abstract: "The Morgan/Clark RDA Survey Experience" - Elizabeth O'Keefe and Penny Baker will share their institution's experiences during the national testing phase of RDA.

ARLIS/NA Reference and Information Services Section Meeting - Virginia Allison, Chair

VRA Publishing Advisory Group (PAG) + ARLIS/NA Communications and Publications Committee Meetings - Betha Whitlow, VRA PAG Chair  and Jonathan Franklin, ARLIS/NA Communications and Publications Chair 

VRA PAG and ARLIS/NA Communications and Publications will hold separate business meetings followed by a joint meeting for a portion of the allotted meeting time to discuss issues of common concern to both organizations. 

Organizational Collaboration: Building Bridges between ARLIS/NA and VRA -  Elaine Paul, organizer

The ARLIS/NA-VRA Joint Task Force on Collaboration submitted its final report in 2008. It contains specific recommendations for "a more fertile infrastructure for information exchange between the two organizations and a corresponding reduction in redundancy, while maintaining the individual identities of each group." Where do we stand as affiliated organizations three years later? Where are we going over the next several years? This discussion forum is an opportunity for the members and leaders of both groups to communicate about the most promising possibilities for collaboration between our organizations, and how we might continue moving forward with implementing and sustaining them.