ARLIS/NA Book Arts Special Interest Group Meeting - Teresa M. Burk, organizer
The purpose of this group is to share information, ideas, issues, and resources related to the book and paper arts. Last year at ARLIS in Boston we discussed items such as new acquisitions, upcoming exhibitions, conferences, competitions, practices, digital initiatives, useful links and other related book art topics. A holdover topic from years' past that I would like to address again is cataloging issues with artists books and the problem of the lack of data. The idea was floated of having a form online that book artists could fill out and print to accompany their work when shipping to libraries (or wherever) that would include data for fields that are important to cataloging it. I would like to do what I can to move forward with this idea during the Book Art SIG in 2011 and provide a forum for all interested in the book arts to come together to share ideas and announcements.