Applications Due: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 The ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter is pleased to announce our first annual Student Award, generously funded by Eric Wolf, Head Librarian at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. This award covers both the ARLIS/NA student membership dues of $50 along with the local chapter dues of $10 for one year, […]
Author: artlibgal
Bye bye #42 and Hello #43
So it’s one month since ARLIS/NA #42 and my life is back to normal. For me that means work and summer classes, and pondering the issues of arts librarianship. Washington DC invigorated and affirmed me, and yet, also challenged me with the realization that I have ALOT to learn. And since I have a small role on […]
Pre-conference Jitters
It’s just under six weeks until ARLIS/NA Conference 2014 http://www.arlisna.org/washingtondc2014/index.php in Washington, DC, and I am eagerly looking forward to attending my first, of what I hope will be, many ARLIS/NA conferences to come. That being said, I am also a mess of nervous anticipation. I have logged in to the Conference SCHED no less than a […]
Books of the Heart
Pictured above are the current contents of the Crouch Fine Arts Library’s display at Baylor University Library in Waco, Texas. For the month of February 2014, a small but eclectic group of selections from the Baylor Artist Book Collection pertaining to *LOVE* in its varied manifestations engages viewers with themes as diverse as the playful […]
Are you Library Management Material?
Although it might seem to many of us, while students, that library management is something to consider years from now, if ever, it might be worth a second thought during your MLIS program. If you have been in library school any length of time, you are bound to have picked up on something like “a […]
Sunday Soliloquies no. 2: A haunting tragedy
Detroit Public Library, Mark Twain Branch, Detroit, Michigan This image to me, is by far the scariest thing I have seen this Halloween season. The demise of the Detroit Public Library, Mark Twain Branch is not new news. More upsetting images can be found on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bpdphotography/sets/72157626713779604/ It closed for renovations in 1996 and […]
Sunday Soliloquies #1
I hope “Soliloquy” is a misnomer for a discussion blog, but it does alliterate well with “Sunday”, right? By this point in Fall semester 2013, I hope those of us in graduate school have gotten into somewhat of a routine and are conquering the wonderful world of art librarianship one assignment, presentation, group project and […]