Annual Meeting: Session Reports

Collecting Early Texas Art panel discussion at the Hall of State Fair Park, Friday, October 26, 2007

This year, thanks to the efforts of Gwen Dixie, the ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico chapter hosted a panel discussion titled Collecting Early Texas Art. Gwen managed to get four of the most preeminent names in early Texas art collecting to talk to us about their areas of interest and expertise. Personally I do not know anyone who could refuse Gwen (myself included), but I also suspect that each of the panelists were there because they know her and love and respect her as much as we do.

The ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter meeting began Friday, October 20 with a presentation from Thomson-Gale representative LuAnn Harrison, who presented a few of their databases including Eighteenth-century Collections Online, Sabin America, 1500-1926, and Corbis Images for Education. Our chapter was interested in ways that these databases would be beneficial to the patrons we serve.