ARLIS/TXMX - ARLIS/NA Annual Conference Meeting Reports

A Trip Through Denver Parks and Neighborhoods

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:08:38 -0400

A Trip Through Denver Parks and Neighborhoods
Friday, May 2, 2008

Guide Carolyn Etter, a former co-manager of the Denver Parks and Recreation Department, was an expert guide for this trip.

Let me first explain “co-manager.” Mrs. Etter had experience in non-profit and charitable managing. Her husband, Don Etter, had just retired from law practice. While reading the Denver Post once morning she said to her husband, “Wouldn’t it be fun for us to co-manager the Parks and Recreation Department?” A few phone calls later the newly elected Mayor Frederico Pena, later head of the Department of Transportation in the Clinton administration, made a dual appointment of this couple to head the department. They were among the highest executives in the country to have this arrangement.

News: Sheryl Wilhite Garcia Receives RLG Travel Award

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:25:01 -0400

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.

2000 ARLIS/NA Annual Conference Reports

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:44:08 -0400

The Technology Committee

The Technology Committee set as the following goals for the upcoming year:

Provide web site access to technology vendors and product information for products purchased in current calendar year using a form for members to complete data online. This will allow ARLIS/NA members to post vendor names and reviews for various products to a website which others can access for latest information on hardware and software when contemplating a purchase.
Provide web site access to documents and images of interest to membership. Examples might be filing schemes and other operational and technical concerns.