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• Preliminary Program with registration forms (3.46 MB .pdf document; this document last updated 1/26/2005).

Registration

Registration

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart Hotel at 8:30 a.m.

Description: An amazing concentration of 19th-century architecture lies only 50 miles from Houston in the seaside city of Galveston. Architectural historian and author Ellen Beasley (Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston and Galveston Architecture Guidebook) will share her knowledge of Galveston?s high-style and vernacular architectural treasures. The visit will include walking tours of the commercial architecture on the Strand and the residential East End, both of which are National Historic Landmark Districts; tours of the 1839 Samuel May Williams House and the 1886 Gresham House, now known as the Bishop?s Palace. Box lunch on the verandah of the Samuel May Williams House is included. (Bus transportation, but walking required.)

Board Meeting

Meeting

Description: Attend this orientation session if you're volunteering at the registration/hospitality desk.

Tour

Notes: Please meet at the Registration Desk at 8:45 a.m.

Description: Enjoy visiting Houston downtown landmarks including the 32-story Niels Esperson Building of 1927, built by Mellie Esperson as a memorial to her husband; the Gulf Building of 1929, with its grand banking hall, lobby murals, and Art Deco decorative detailing in polished Benedict nickel; Houston City Hall of 1939; Hermann Square with its Hare and Hare landscaping; and the Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library, designed by Cram and Ferguson in 1926 and with interior murals sponsored by the Public Works Art Project.

Workshop

Notes: Enrollment limit: 35 | Fee: $100

Description: Complete with "how to" information, this workshop focuses on project management and establishing digital image collections. The presenter has managed the digitization of over five million images and consulted on numerous educational and corporate projects of all sizes. The workshop will cover best practices, pros and cons of outsourcing, needs assessment, image selection, in-house cost calculations, soliciting outside quotations, comparing costs, and decision-making.

Workshop

Notes: Enrollment limit: 35 | Fee: $60

Description: Building on the success of similar workshops at past ARLIS conferences, this workshop will explore Latin American bibliography with guidance from expert librarians and faculty. The workshop will cover art and architecture from the Pre-Columbian and Colonial periods (starting with European contact and colonization in the early 16th century) through the Contemporary. The setting for this workshop, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has undertaken an exemplary program to develop connections among literature, arts and people of the Americas, and can likewise offer on-site bibliographic tools, art objects and staff expertise. Learn about Latin American art in a setting that explores the rich relationships and complexities of the cultural heritage of the Americas.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 12:30 p.m.

Description: Bayou Bend, the magnificent home of Miss Ima Hogg, is best known for her superb collection of American decorative arts. The series of gardens surrounding the house should also be in prime form in early April. We will then visit nearby Rienzi, former home of arts patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III. We will tour the collections of European decorative arts in the house and visit the beautiful gardens. Both homes are now part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its growing cultural complex.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart from hotel at 2:00 p.m.

Description: Jean Caslin, the Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography, will give an introduction to this vital educational and cultural organization, as well as a tour of the current exhibits. The Main Gallery will house the exhibit "Authenticity of Memory: Alternative Processes," guest curated by Clay Harmon. Other exhibits include "The Guatemala City Dump Project," with Misty Keasler?s portraits of homeless children living in Guatamala and writings by Charles D?Ambrosio, and "Bye-Bye Baby," with color images of pre-adolescent girls by Michelle Sank. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, an introduction to the photography collections will be given by Anne Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography. The tour will include a visit of the behind-the-scenes Works on Paper Study Center.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 3:00 p.m.

Description: Visit four modern sanctuaries in Houston, completed between 1971 and 2002: the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel-Museum, the chapel of St. Basil at the University of St. Thomas, and the Live Oak Meeting House. The Byzantine Fresco Chapel-Museum was built to shelter two thirteenth-century Cypriot frescoes. As its name suggests, the Rothko Chapel houses an installation of paintings by Mark Rothko, the Live Oak Meeting House incorporates a piece by James Turrell, and St. Basil is an architectural transformation of a painting by Kazimir Malevich. The tour will end with a sunset viewing of James Turrell?s "skyspace" at the Live Oak Meeting House. Architectural historian Nora Laos from the University of Houston will lead the group.

Special Event

Notes: Open to Society Circle Members | Event location: Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery

Description: Society Circle Members will be treated to an evening of cocktails at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery. The gallery has become a Houston institution over the past twenty years, featuring the work of contemporary sculptors, painters, draftsmen, and printmakers. Known for their mix of established international artists and local talent, the gallery represents Jennifer Bartlett, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, as well as local luminaries Joseph Havel and Terrell James. Members will have the opportunity to view livres d'artiste from ULAE, while taking in some of Houston's beautiful spring weather in a compound including gallery, garden, and home. The residence, a modest working class cottage dating from 1880, houses a collection of Contemporary prints including work by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Andy Warhol, and Sherrie Levine.

The Society Circle supports the work of ARLIS/NA through personal donations by Circle members. Learn more about the Society Circle and become a member at the web site.

We are delighted to report our hosts are generously underwriting the event. Thank you Hiram and Devin!

Registration

Special Event

Notes: By invitation only.

Sponsor(s):

Meeting

Description: See Agenda.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 9:30 a.m.

Description: Visit the open-air folk-art project created over a 20-year period by retired postal worker Jeff McKissack to honor his favorite fruit. Enjoy wandering through the architectural maze of walkways, balconies, arenas, and exhibits decorated with mosaics and brightly painted iron figures. You will also be treated to a private "Eye-Opener" guided bus tour of other Houston visionary art works, including the amazing Beer-Can House, created by John Milkovisch, who proudly claimed to have drunk the beer from every can that he used to festoon his modest house.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 9:30 a.m.

Description: Glenwood Cemetery is Houston's Victorian landscape cemetery, laid out in 1871 on rolling land near Buffalo Bayou. With its glorious trees and landscaping and its Victorian monuments and statuary, Glenwood is of the most beautiful outdoor spaces in Houston. Our walking tour of the cemetery will highlight artistically significant monuments, as well as those marking the graves of famous inhabitants, including Howard Hughes and Gene Tierney. We will then bus to the historic neighborhood of Houston Heights, laid out in 1891, which is the first large, planned community in the area, and to Woodland Heights, a streetcar suburb, begun in 1908, that featured bungalows. Short walking tours in both neighborhoods will enable you to enjoy the Queen Anne and Craftsman style houses.

Workshop

Notes: Enrollment limit: 13 | Fee: $90

Description: More and more architecture and planning librarians are called upon to evaluate data sets for possible acquisition and to assist users in locating freely available GIS data. But few of us have experience with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) or even a clear understanding of what can be done with these data sets. The venue, Rice University's Fondren Library is equipped with a GIS/Data Center where courses are regularly offered. The workshop will include Rice's 'Introduction to GIS' course with parts of their 'Editing in GIS' and 'Using Census 2000 Information for Research' courses.

Workshop

Notes: Enrollment limit: 35 | Fee: $100

Description: Some people are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership roles thrust upon them. Whichever path is yours, your personal library leadership skills can be enhanced through study and practice. There are five specific practical behaviors that enable managers to rise to leadership; to be able to confidently create and achieve goals in library work units and departments as well as through cross functional committees, teams and task forces. In this workshop you will learn about these key behaviors, see and hear examples about putting them to use, and be introduced to practical techniques for realizing your full leadership potential. You will come out of the workshop with skills, tools, and a solid understanding of how personal leadership development supports your broader goal to create a more productive, innovative and harmonious workplace.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 12:30 p.m.

Description: After a short ride to the Menil Collection, architect and author Ronnie Self will lead a walking tour to the Menil's several buildings and collections, including the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, the Rothko Chapel, and Richmond Hall, with its installation by Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin. The Menil Collection Library will also be open for visits. Time will be allowed for viewing the collections on your own.

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 1:30 p.m.

Description: Join architectural historian and author Stephen Fox (Houston Architectural Guide and Architecture of Philip Johnson) on this bus tour of the fascinating contrasts found in Houston?s built environment. In addition to the remnants of Houston's nineteenth-century beginnings, enjoy its monuments of modern architecture, postmodernism, and the latest influences of the multicultural inhabitants of the city.

Workshop

Notes: Enrollment limit: 7 | Fee: $40. Classes will be held at the Museum of Printing History at 1324 West Clay, Houston, Texas 77019

Description: Craftsmen from the Printers Guild will discuss hand type, it's structure, style and typesetting technique, including case layout, line measure and point sizing. This hands-on session offers exposure to manual assembly and justification of hand type. Demonstration of form composition, press work, linotype and press safety included.

Meeting

Notes: Closed meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Notes: Only open to committee members.

Committee Meeting

Notes: Open only to committee members.

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Plenary

Description: Dr. Fred Heath Vice Provost and Director of University of Texas Libraries will speak on the implications of the digital library for collection development in the arts environment.

Special Event

Description: Join friends and colleagues at the Welcome Party, the official opening reception for the Society's 33rd annual conference. Held in the fabulous foyer of the hotel's 4th floor, the Welcome Party is the place to meet new faces, get reacquainted with familiar ones, and to celebrate the commencement of a great week of programming. With its high ceilings adorned with Venetian glass reminiscent of Chihuly, the space features an impressive panorama of the Houston skyline. The event is sponsored by Chapter contributions, making it a truly welcoming reception.

Registration

Special Event

Notes: This morning session is planned for those with or without prior Yoga or Qigong experience.

Description: Wake up your body and mind with a series of gentle stretches based on Yoga and related systems of exercise (Qigong). Practice includes both deep breathing and positions of physical ease.

Meeting

Notes: Open only to attendees contributing to Handbook of Art Museum Librarianship

Division Meeting

Division Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Division Meeting

Division Meeting

Poster Session

Description: The University of New Mexico is home to a vast political poster collection. The core of this collection, acquired in 1991, is the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian Posters. Emphasizing political posters from the last decades of the twentieth century, this major collection contains over 10,000 images from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. Hispanic community. Other noteworthy posters from Puerto Rico, Chile and Peru have since been obtained.

Poster Session

Description: Explore the possible applications of open source software by art libraries to manage the storage of student work, digital material for use in classrooms and catalog records. The presenter will discuss a digital library project undertaken by a library in Huntsville, Texas to digitize and catalog approximately 5,000 photographs using an open source software package.

Poster Session

Description: Have you ever thought about putting on a Director?s hat and creating a DVD to showcase a collection, a building or honor a donor at your institution but are uncertain where to begin or how much to budget? The presenters will share their experience creating a DVD showcasing the Posner Center & Collection to address the important questions one must answer before embarking on such a project. Take the Director's Personality Quiz to answer the burning questions: What kind of a director will you be? Are you a Spielberg or Brooks? Ford or Landis? Wilder or Waters?

Session

Description: In addition to their pivotal roles as art collectors and patrons, Dominique and John de Menil commissioned a stellar series of architects--including Philip Johnson, Louis I. Kahn, Luis Barragan, and Renzo Piano--for a variety of building projects. Some of their architectural projects were realized, while others remain as tantalizing drawings preserved in archives. A panel of architectural historians will examine the built and unbuilt architectural works commissioned by the de Menils and reflect upon the place of these works within their overall art patronage, their relations with the architects, and the development of a de Menil architectural aesthetic.

Session

Description: This session will compare and contrast the development of two collectors of primarily the fine arts - Dominique de Menil and Marion Koogler McNay - and two collectors of primarily the decorative arts - Ima Hogg and Marjorie Merriweather Post - much of whose wealth flowed from Texas. The panelists will focus on personal styles of collecting, explore how historical and cultural events affected the collectors, and examine the influence those collectors had on American museums during the century in which they lived, especially legacies through house museums where applicable.

Session

Description: As colleges and universities encourage use of digitally formatted information across campus, the traditional boundaries between the art library and the visual resources collection are blurring. With the transition to the digital age, collection managers and patrons are no longer restricted to obtaining digital content from a local or administrative unit. Successful implementations of digital image archives across campuses often involve collaboration between those who have traditionally managed book/text collections and those who have managed image collections. This session seeks to highlight successful collaborations between libraries and visual resources collections that have resulted in the development of digital image archives for teaching and research that are accessible to patrons across the entire institution.

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting

Exhibits

Description: No ARLIS/NA conference would be complete without our exhibits. There's really nothing quite like seeing the real thing before buying where visual materials are concerned! The Houston conference will feature many of our regular exhibitors as well as some first timers, so make sure to plan enough time in your schedules to stop by the exhibit hall.

Exhibits

Sponsor(s):

Special Event

Notes: For those of you who are artists, we encourage you to contribute a work or works to benefit ARLIS/NA. Complete guidelines and donor form are available on the web site. The deadline for submitting the donor form is February 1, 2005.

Description: While in Houston we invite you to participate in what we anticipate will be a singular event. Please join us in the Exhibit Hall for an exhibition and silent auction featuring the artwork of your colleagues. Each artist/member has chosen to donate a work of their own creation in support of The Society. Works will be on display in the Exhibit Hall prior to the auction, as well as online beginning March 25, 2005 (check back for a preview closer to the time of the conference).

Chapter Meeting

Notes: Join us at the debut of our Lo Presti Book Award display in the Exhibits area. We will move to self-scheduled meeting room to start our business meeting at 12:30 p.m.

Session

Description: This is a rare opportunity to discover Texan and Mexican photography through the work of two contemporary artists and that of Mexican master Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Geoff Winningham will discuss his images of travel along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville. Delilah Montoya will present her powerful installation "Sed: trail of thirst" depicting the perilous illegal migration route across the Arizona-Sonora desert. Roberto Curley will show a series of unpublished Alvarez Bravo images of post-revolutionary rural Mexico that sought to define an authentic Mexican identity. Discussion will focus on how photographers depict the two neighboring cultures when national borders are fixed, but social and ethnic boundaries are more porous.

Session

Description: Many patrons of art libraries are visual learners who search for information that is visually formatted. With an increasing number of technologies for information retrieval now available, the time has come for ARLIS to discuss visual access. In addition to content-based image retrieval (CBIR), this panel will cover creative ways to provide our patrons with visual access to information from thumbnail images as a component of OPAC bibliographic item displays to the enhancement of numerical and verbal range finders and subject indicators with images. The need for both textual access and visual access to information provides an opportunity for collaborative efforts between art libraries and visual resource collections staff.

Session

Description: Branding: Why do it? What works? What doesn't? Branding, as well as marketing and public relations, will be covered by this panel of professionals with varied perspectives from the museum, public and academic library contexts. Experiences with efforts at the panelists? respective institutions and a discussion about concepts, costs, results, and lessons learned will help shed some light on how to effectively build you unit?s identity.

Session

Description: Four years ago the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published new information literacy competency standards for higher education in order to assist librarians in meeting the challenges of educating students in an increasingly technological world. Since then college and university librarians have been working to implement new teaching strategies based on the performance outcomes addressed in the standards. This session will create an opportunity for sharing successful teaching models that may be applied in a variety of art library and visual resource settings. Specific ways of engaging and educating visual learners will be addressed and active learning activities will be shared.

Exhibits

Sponsor(s):

Meeting

Notes: Closed meeting

Poster Session

Description: The presenter will describe how art ephemera and small publications have the potential to document 'alternative' art spaces and help to inform a contemporary 'complex' notion of the 'alternative.' Collecting such materials supports the ability of researchers to contextualize current trends by looking at past influences as is the case when one studies present day London in relationship to the past in New York and on the West Coast. The presenter will emphasize the importance of a critical and aesthetic approach to art librarianship, as she considers the collection as a representation of the field. The approach, produced by a dialogue with practice-based research in visual arts, is facilitated by current developments in 'dematerialised' cataloguing offered by FRBR.

Poster Session

Description: The presenter will discuss her research which involves the exploration of the formal and contextual aspects of public art works funded by transportation agencies in large urban environments with a different metropolitan "feel": Los Angeles, New York (particularly Manhattan), and Washington, DC. She will review the similarities and differences in the conception of "public art for transit" projects. Although her research does not cover Houston, it is relevant, because Houston is part of several fast growing metropolitan areas that have recently begun to explore the beautification of select transportation environments.

Poster Session

Description: What is visual literacy and why do librarians need to teach this skill to library users? Both Information Literacy and Visual Literacy educate users on how to find, understand and use information in a visual context. Therefore, it should be natural for librarians to incorporate this skill into library instruction. In a world that is becoming more and more visual, we need to pay attention to what our users are asking us for, and most important, be keenly aware of the types of information they want to use. Librarians need to understand users perceptions of images and the reasons libraries should use Visual Literacy to promote the services the library offers.

Section Meeting

Section Meeting

Section Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Notes: Open only to discussion group members.

Special Event

Description: We'll convene our Convocation Ceremony this year at the Stude Concert Hall on the campus of Rice University. One of the true jewels of performing arts centers in Houston, this facility is known for its fine acoustics and beautifully crafted interior.

The agenda for this year's Convocation is a full one. We are pleased to note that The Society will honor the latest recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. Additionally, The Society will present a variety of awards ranging from travel to research to publications.

The event will be capped off by a presentation from Houston's own, The Art Guys, a dynamic duo of wit, whimsy and downright wackiness. The Guise, as they are affectionately known, will wow us with their latest and greatest, while sharing insights about process and collaboration.

The Convocation Ceremony is definitely a highpoint of the conference, and this year's event promises to afford us both the opportunity to honor and recognize our colleagues and a chance to have some fun.

Special Event

Notes: Heavy hors d?oeuvres and a light bar (beer, wine, soft drinks) will be provided.

Description: Following on the heels of the Convocation Ceremony at Rice University, we'll migrate to the campus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Here we'll gather in Cullinan Hall, the centerpiece of Mies van der Rohe's late 50s addition to the Museum?s original Neoclassical structure. It's worth noting that this is one of only two museums designed by Mies in the world.

As one might expect, this grand example of the International Style is an ideal environment for the display of modern and contemporary art. On view for the duration of the ARLIS conference and accessible during the reception will be African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, which is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the MFAH. Recognized as the finest collection of its kind in the world, this show features 33 artists from 15 countries and explores the diversity and range of expressions by contemporary African artists.

Registration

Program title: Registration/Hospitality Desk
Monday, April 4, 7:00 AM
Monday, April 4, 7:00 PM
Location: Hilton Americas | Registration/Hospitality Desk (Room 431)
Program ID: Event 24

Special Event

Program title: Yoga in Houston
Monday, April 4, 7:00 AM
Monday, April 4, 8:00 AM
Location: Hilton Americas | Room 346 AB
Program ID: Event 32

Notes: This morning session is planned for those with or without prior Yoga or Qigong experience.

Description: Wake up your body and mind with a series of gentle stretches based on Yoga and related systems of exercise (Qigong). Practice includes both deep breathing and positions of physical ease.

Exhibits

Program title: Exhibit Hall Hours
Monday, April 4, 8:00 AM
Monday, April 4, 11:30 AM
Location: Hilton Americas | Grand Ballroom A-F
Program ID: Event 04

Description: No ARLIS/NA conference would be complete without our exhibits. There's really nothing quite like seeing the real thing before buying where visual materials are concerned! The Houston conference will feature many of our regular exhibitors as well as some first timers, so make sure to plan enough time in your schedules to stop by the exhibit hall.

Special Event

Program title: Members' Exhibition and Silent Auction Preview
Monday, April 4, 8:00 AM
Monday, April 4, 11:30 AM
Location: Hilton Americas | Grand Ballroom A-F
Program ID: Event 15

Notes: For those of you who are artists, we encourage you to contribute a work or works to benefit ARLIS/NA. Complete guidelines and donor form are available on the web site. The deadline for submitting the donor form is February 1, 2005.

Description: While in Houston we invite you to participate in what we anticipate will be a singular event. Please join us in the Exhibit Hall for an exhibition and silent auction featuring the artwork of your colleagues. Each artist/member has chosen to donate a work of their own creation in support of The Society. Works will be on display in the Exhibit Hall prior to the auction, as well as online beginning March 25, 2005 (check back for a preview closer to the time of the conference).

Round Table Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Users Group Meeting

Notes: Conference participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance to the moderators.

Description: ARTstor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 300,000 images of art, architecture and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods. Topics will include: interoperability, upcoming collections, update on the Institutional Hosting Pilot, plans for metadata improvement, technology (Offline Image Viewer, Personal Collections), and usage stats and user feedback. Several ARTstor users will briefly share their experience in order to facilitate discussion. ARTstor representatives will participate in the User Group meeting.

Session

Description: Over the years, ARLIS/NA has addressed a myriad of issues but it has never examined how the work of an individual cataloger fits into a cataloging workflow or how the cataloger?s supervisor evaluates that work. This session will focus on the supervisor's viewpoint and describe the challenges a manager faces when attempting to encourage the expansion of an individual cataloger?s horizons beyond his or her daily work. Issues that will be covered include setting priorities, applying standards, outsourcing, evaluation criteria, and professional activities that promote the development of cataloging skills.

Sponsor(s):

Session

Description: How did the advent of industrial art schools influence the long-term course of professional education in art and design? Schools founded in the 1870s in response to the perceived need to nurture U.S. economic development by increasing skills and understanding of drawing and design had effects far beyond those imagined by the industrialists and social engineers who called for them. Three panelists will examine different aspects of these institutions and their development over time.

Session

Description: As libraries become more invested in the licensing of aggregated image databases, the roles of librarians and visual resources curators are blurring, requiring heightened collaboration and cooperation to manage them effectively. Areas of responsibility are also blurring, including collection development, reference, technical support, and instructional services. As image databases licensed by libraries are developed, we need to analyze the licensing processes, functionality requirements, service implications, and interoperability with other local content management and presentation systems. Fortunately, libraries and visual resource collections have a common mission: to bring together collections and users in a manner that supports teaching and research. This session will discuss various aspects of how libraries and image collections work together to choose image databases, to identify needed functionality, to train faculty and students in effective database use, and to explore how these databases fit into the ?big picture? of image management on a campus.

Session

Description: Just as library collections and the institutions that contain them have unique features, each library space has its own needs, character, and symbolism. What are the essential components, if any, of an appropriate, flexible, functional, and inviting library space? What are the effects of virtual collections on the physical aspects of the library? In this session, the panelists will explore the process of library design and how it can generate spaces that are agile, able to accommodate continual growth, capable of change, and friendly. Several major library building projects-from the past and present-including the Seattle Public Library designed by Rem Koolhaas and his firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, will inform the discussion.

Special Event

Description: Alison de Lima Greene, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Dr. Marcia Brennan, Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary art at Rice University, will present a two-part lecture focusing on James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 1961 to 1968.

Alison de Lima Greene will offer an introduction to the history of modernism in Houston, starting with the drive among Houston's art patrons to first construct a museum for the city, and then to create a museum dedicated to contemporary art. She will focus on the commissioning of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Cullinan Hall at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which was inaugurated in 1958, the first museum structure Mies realized during his lifetime. How this space reflected the ambitions for modernism found in America at mid-century, and how it became a stage for James Johnson Sweeney's collection and exhibition programs will also be considered.

Marcia Brennan will focus on the curatorial and artistic collaboration that took place between James Johnson Sweeney and the Swiss kinetic artist Jean Tinguely during the 1960s. The "Tinguely Sculptures" exhibition, which was held at the museum during the spring of 1965, exemplifies Sweeney?s unprecedented?and often quite spectacular?efforts and activities to bring advanced modern art to the city of Houston. In particular, this exhibition sheds important light on the ways in which patterns of self-creation and creative destruction informed both the production and reception of Sweeney?s and Tinguely?s enterprise, as well as of the larger experimental modernist program that Sweeney so publicly and prominently advanced during the sixties.

Meeting

Exhibits

Description: No ARLIS/NA conference would be complete without our exhibits. There's really nothing quite like seeing the real thing before buying where visual materials are concerned! The Houston conference will feature many of our regular exhibitors as well as some first timers, so make sure to plan enough time in your schedules to stop by the exhibit hall.

Special Event

Notes: For those of you who are artists, we encourage you to contribute a work or works to benefit ARLIS/NA. Complete guidelines and donor form are available on the web site. The deadline for submitting the donor form is February 1, 2005.

Description: While in Houston we invite you to participate in what we anticipate will be a singular event. Please join us in the Exhibit Hall for an exhibition and silent auction featuring the artwork of your colleagues. Each artist/member has chosen to donate a work of their own creation in support of The Society. Works will be on display in the Exhibit Hall prior to the auction, as well as online beginning March 25, 2005 (check back for a preview closer to the time of the conference).

Round Table Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Round Table Meeting

Meeting

Description: The Strategic Plan Task Force invites all interested members to attend this open forum which will focus on charting the future direction and priorities for ARLIS/NA. Findings from the Membership Survey and the Environmental Scan 2005 will be presented, in addition to the draft of the 2006-9 Strategic Plan.

Round Table Meeting

Meeting

Notes: Closed meeting.

Meeting

Notes: All individuals interested in the topic of providing better access to artists' files are encouraged to attend.

Session

Description: Art in Fiction has been a recognized genre since Victorian times. Recently, there has been an increase in interest and in published output. Furthermore, at every annual conference a significant number of ARLIS/NA members are interested enough to get together informally to share and discuss one aspect of this genre: Art in Mystery Fiction.

Session

Description: Relations between art museums and their libraries are much discussed by museum librarians in the United States. Museum librarians and the administrative and curatorial staff often disagree about the nature of the library, where it fits in among the programmatic activities of the museum, the user groups it is intended to serve, and its relationship with the outside world. Museum librarians in Europe share these concerns, and have a number of their own. The panelists, representing libraries in major European art museums, will discuss these and other issues, and share solutions for promoting cooperation among staff within their institutions and with other museums.

Session

Description: Panelists will present case studies on creating digital image collections that range in scope from content creation for a single course to digitizing an entire slide library. Presenters will provide insight into the nuts-and-bolts of their projects covering the scope of their projects, successes and problems that they encountered, and what they would do differently for the next project. Specifically, the case studies include: creating small online digital image collections, transitioning from analog to digital images in a medium sized visual resources collection, and managing a project to digitize an entire visual resources collection of over 200,000 images, many of which have become a part of ARTstor's offerings.

Special Event

Special Event

Notes: RSVPs to anne.reid@simmons.edu are appreciated, but not required.

Description: Simmons GSLIS Alumni are invited stop by the Lobby Bar to catch up with fellow alumni over drinks and appetizers!

Chapter Meeting

Description: Please relax with us over drinks as we discuss Chapter matters and otherwise. We extend a special welcome to our Mexican colleagues.

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Chapter Meeting

Special Event

Notes: Doors open and refreshments will be available at 7:30 pm; dancing begins at 8:00 pm.

Description: Have you always wanted to try the Texas two-step, but have yet to master the [insert state of choice] one-step? Were you under the impression that the electric slide was a tool for image librarians? Does the extent of your salsaing involve a bag of chips? If any of these apply to you, then throw on your boots and hats (or whatever is comfortable) and join us on the dance floor for a real Texas hoedown. There's no better place to learn the essentials of country & western and Latin dance than while in Houston. Our instructors from Westside Dance Studio will have us out on the floor and shakin' it for ARLIS/NA. Remember, this fundraiser benefits our society. So, sign up today, y'all! Please note: Doors open and refreshments will be available at 7:30 pm; dancing begins at 8:00 pm.

Registration

Special Event

Notes: This morning session is planned for those with or without prior Yoga or Qigong experience.

Description: Wake up your body and mind with a series of gentle stretches based on Yoga and related systems of exercise (Qigong). Practice includes both deep breathing and positions of physical ease.

Users Group Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Notes: The CPDG discussion will be open, but attendees may want to review this overview of the art cataloging issues during 2004/2005.

Discussion Group Meeting

Committee Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Users Group Meeting

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Exhibits

Description: No ARLIS/NA conference would be complete without our exhibits. There's really nothing quite like seeing the real thing before buying where visual materials are concerned! The Houston conference will feature many of our regular exhibitors as well as some first timers, so make sure to plan enough time in your schedules to stop by the exhibit hall.

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Description: What do library and information students need to know? How should they develop a career path for work in art libraries? As new librarians enter our profession, it is critical that we appreciate and channel the unique talents that new colleagues will bring to us. This session will present a panel of librarians ready to share their experience in a variety of settings as well as a faculty member in a school of information. Each participant will offer advice and practical information for students, recent graduates, experts who are changing fields, and professionals who are looking for what?s new in the profession.

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Description: Chicano art is being recognized and collected more aggressively than ever. There have been a number of noted exhibits that have sought to define this work and individual collectors are part of what fuels interest in this emerging genre of American art. This session will present major individual Chicano/a art collectors up close and personal. Presenters will discuss what motivates them to collect this work and why they think it is important.

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Description: There has been little published documentation on data content standards applicable to cultural objects. Unlike the library and archival communities, which have well-established rules for data content in the form of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), the cultural heritage community in the United States has never had published guidelines similar to AACR that meet the unique and often idiosyncratic descriptive requirements of one-of-a-kind cultural objects. Cataloguing Cultural Objects has been specifically designed for members of the communities engaged in describing and documenting works of art, cultural artifacts, and their visual surrogates. This session will discuss the contents of CCO, how it is used, and answer questions about using CCO.

Exhibits

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Description: This session will focus on some of the local decorative arts collections in Houston museums and historic houses such as Bayou Bend, the Wagner House, and McGregor House at Winedale. The presenters will also look at 19th century Texas furniture made by German immigrants, longhorn furniture, and decorative arts that were made locally along with contemporary furniture and decorative arts.

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Description: While a major portion of our time and resources are spent acquiring materials, resources, indexes and databases, and negotiating access to them, a chief element of our skill-set is our ability to organize information for local use. From the creation of library catalogs, indexes and thesauri to 21st century digital image databases, we have always had to decide whether to purchase content from vendors or produce it in-house. This session seeks to explore in-house content production and how it might lend itself to collaborative efforts with colleagues and sister institutions. In addition, it will provide a forum for a positive discussion and reevaluation of the importance of maintaining an opportunity for creativity within our profession.

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Description: The relationships between college and university art libraries, visual resources collections, and their associated campus museums have a surprisingly divergent history. While some institutions have cultivated cooperative and collaborative relationships, other similar institutions have struggled to make any sort of formal or informal connections. In this session, the borders between campus libraries, visual resources collections, and museums will be investigated. Presentations will provide some background into the disparate histories of particular campus libraries, visual resources collections, and their associated museums, demonstrate some model working relationships, and explore newly realized and evolving collaborations. Panelists will offer recommendations for initiating and establishing collaborations and developing long-term partnerships.

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Description: Have you ever wondered how you might make your faculty's transition from the analog to the digital world less painful and more satisfying? Those of us in the business of providing content are finding that we must now instruct our patrons ? the educators at our institutions ? how to use digital resources. This includes not only teaching educators how to effectively utilize digital imaging technologies but also how to find images and use sophisticated image management and presentation programs. The panelists will suggest strategies and outreach methods for how to teach instructors to use digital technologies in the classroom and to encourage use of digital images through the utilization of MDID, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and web pages. Teaching art history courses digitally including research, coordination with other departments, a project timeline, software implementation, the learning curve, and overall cost estimating will be addressed as well.

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Description: This panel will be made up of professionals from both sides of the collection management "fence" offering cutting-edge suggestions and insight into the process of partnering with vendors. The panelists will describe vendor/library collaborations that have been both innovative and successful in these times of shrinking collections budgets. Successful long-term relationships between vendors and librarians will also be analyzed for insight and examples of best practices when managing a collection. Examples of successful ventures will include relationships between university bookstores and libraries, partnerships building the architecture collections, vendor collaborations with museum librarians, and the perspective of vendors who are publishing content electronically.

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Description: This session will address issues surrounding academic library services and collections supporting offsite programs. Focusing on art and architecture programs, panelists will discuss distance education, library support for International Study Abroad Programs, and Inter-Institutional cooperation and support.

Committee Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Discussion Group Meeting

Plenary

Description: Dr. John H. Lienhard is author of the books The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture and Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins , both published by Oxford University Press. He also is the author and voice of the radio program The Engines of Our Ingenuity, heard on many NPR stations. Equally at home with scientific research and cultural history, Dr. Lienhard offers a unique perspective on the creative mind.

Special Event

Registration

Board Meeting

Tour

Notes: Bus will depart hotel at 9:00 a.m.

Description: The work of Mies van der Rohe formed a significant influence on Houston's modern architecture, beginning with Philip Johnson's house for John and Dominique de Menil of 1948. The group will visit the newly restored Menil House and then explore other notable examples of modern architecture. The tour will be led by architectural historian and author Stephen Fox (Houston Architectural Guide and Architecture of Philip Johnson). The group size is limited since the Menil House cannot accommodate larger groups.

Site designed and programmed by Sam Duncan, Amon Carter Museum.