News: Sheryl Wilhite Garcia Receives RLG Travel Award

Sheryl Wilhite Garcia received the RLG Travel Award for a first-time conference attendee from North America. She reports:

I was very happy to receive the award, which allowed me to meet and speak with colleagues from Art Libraries and Visual Resources Collections. I kept fairly busy with meetings and sessions. I attended the Technology Committee, Membership, and VRD meetings and the following sessions: Plenary session on Pittsburgh Art and Architecture; The History of Subject Indexing of Visual Materials; The Visual Resources Professional in the 21st Century; The Construct of Indexing: Thought Processes in Subject Analysis; Still Codeless After All These Years: The History and Possible Future of Subject Cataloging in the Field of Art; Lost in the Fogg: Finding One's Way Around in a Sea of Slides; and Library Support for Distance Education: New Concepts, New Technologies, New Challenges. I took the Fallingwater Tour and a walking tour of the downtown area. I also enjoyed the exhibits, the Convocation, and the various receptions. Several times, I had dinner with different colleagues, and enjoyed some good conversations about policies, dealing with faculty, filing schemes, etc. I also laughed harder than I had for months at the antics of these otherwise serious librarians during the more relaxed moments at dinner--I really appreciated de-stressing and unwinding with new friends! I came home invigorated and ready to try out some new ideas in the Library.