History & Mission

ARLIS DC/MD/VA is the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia chapter of The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) www.arlisna.org. The Society is a professional organization for art librarians, architecture librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, and others interested in visual arts information.

The DC-MD-VA Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) was founded in 1973 to advance the cause of art librarianship and to encourage the development, successful management, and enlightened use of art libraries and visual resources collections.