Aerial view of the CMT team

From Clearing to Cataloging: The Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics is a new exhibition presented by The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks. The exhibition includes documents and photographs selected from the Margaret Alexander Collection. The Margaret Alexander collection documents the field work and publications of Corpus des Mosaïques de Tunisie (CMT), or the Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics, from c. 1960s to 1990s.

The exhibition will be up in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum through mid-June. For more information, please see the online exhibition page on the newly designed Dumbarton Oaks website: http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/icfa/special-projects/icfa-in-the-museum.

Bring along anyone you like, especially any colleagues, students, volunteers, or interns you think might be interested in joining our chapter. For late-nighters, post-viewing discussion and drinks are encouraged!

A slide show about participants can be viewed here.

ITINERARY

Study trip to Washington, DC for

AKMB members from Germany and Switzerland

organized by the

ARLIS/NA International Relations Committee

April 22-26, 2012

Sunday, April 22nd

Monday, April 23rd 

Tuesday, April 24th

Wednesday, April 25th

Thursday, April 26th

Also:
-Don’t forget to check with your cell phone carriers about international rates for voice/text/data service while in Canada so as not to incur unexpected charges.

-I have been asked to add our chapter meeting to the Sched application for Toronto. Because we are not using a conference-sanctioned meeting space, I am unable to do so. Please keep your personal schedules open for our meeting on Saturday, March 31, at 9:30 am, location TBA. The first half of our meeting will be standard chapter business, followed by a 2014 conference planning session.

-Finally, before attending our chapter meeting next Saturday, take a moment to review minutes from our Fall meeting.

Sincerely,
Sarah
Chapter Chair/ARLIS-DMV

UPDATE: Please gather for our chapter meeting at the ARLIS Hospitality/Check In desk at 9:30am on Saturday, March 31. We will move to a meeting location from there.

“As the Gallery marks its 71st anniversary, it is fitting that we introduce NGA Images and an accompanying open access policy, which underscore the Gallery’s mission and national role in making its collection images and information available to scholars, educators, and the general public,” said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. “In turn this supports research, teaching, and personal enrichment; promotes interdisciplinary research; and nurtures an appreciation of all that inspires great works of art.”

Many of the open access images have been digitized with the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

For more information about NGA Images and the open access policy, please see the full press release.

Roger Lawson
Administrative Librarian
National Gallery of Art

Sincerely,
Sarah Osborne Bender
Chair, ARLIS/DMV

For those not attending the conference, I look forward to seeing you at our local summer meeting.

Sincerely,
Sarah Osborne Bender
Chair, ARLIS/DMV

Heather is the Director of the Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. This will be her first year presenting at the conference. She will be a New Voices in the Profession panelist, and will be session moderator for The Changing Landscape for Museum Libraries and Librarians.

Please join me in congratulating Heather Slania.

Sally Stokes
Chair
Caroline Backlund Professional Development Award Committee
ARLIS DC-MD-VA

I am writing on behalf of the ARLIS/NA International Relations committee, which is in the process of organizing a study trip for librarians from Germany to visit New York and New Haven after the ARLIS/NA conference in Toronto (April 14-21, 2012). This reciprocates the study trip organized and partially sponsored by German librarians in their country for US librarians in 2009. Five members of the group will continue onto Washington, DC to visit additional libraries from April 23-25, 2012. Kristen Regina and I are the local contacts for the DC part of the trip.

Based on the German librarians’ requests, we have drafted an itinerary that will include site visits to libraries at the following institutions:

· National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
· National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
· American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
· The National Gallery of Art
· Library of Congress
· Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

While the schedule is not yet finalized, we wanted to let ARLIS/DC-MD-VA chapter members know that the trip is being planned. We also wanted to ask for some help with hosting our colleagues from Germany. So, we thought we would pose a few questions:

1. Would anyone be willing to host any of the guests for a homestay? Depending on their travel plans, the librarians will likely arrive in DC on Sunday, April 22nd and depart Thursday, April 26th, for a total stay of 4 nights.

2. Alternatively, does anyone have any suggestions for a hotel or bed and breakfast with affordable rates, which we can recommend to our visitors?

3. Would the chapter be interested in hosting an event for the German librarians, such as a potluck “farewell” party the last night of their stay (April 25th)?

4. Finally, does anyone have any suggestions for cultural or other events in the evenings during the trip that we might recommend?

We would really appreciate any suggestions from the membership. We are looking forward to showing our colleagues from Germany how rich and diverse the art libraries community is here in DC and we can’t do it without your help. If you are able to host one of the visitors or have any ideas about hotels or events, please feel free to get in touch with either Kristen or I directly (kregina@hillwoodmuseum.org and WhiteS@doaks.org). We will keep you all posted on the progress of the planning as the trip takes shape.

Many thanks,

Shalimar and Kristen
ARLIS/NA International Relations Committee

Deadline Feb. 3, 2012

ARLIS/DC-MD-VA will present a professional development award of $500.00 to a chapter member to attend the 40^th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference to be held this year in Toronto, March 29–April 2, 2012.  This award is intended to help members become more involved in ARLIS/NA at the national level.

For more information on eligibility and application process visit: http://arlisdmv.org/membership/awards/