IFLA AND ART LIBRARIESSource: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 6 (OCTOBER 1973), p. 32Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27945211 .

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the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. The project took two and one-half years to

complete. The 348-page directory is available for $10.

Luraine Tansey, Slide Consultant, is the author of Slide Collection Index Application, University of California at Santa Cruz, which gives procedures and potentials of computer indexing slides with samples of each type of file record. It should be available free from your local IBM firm, having been published by International Business Machines.

Mrs. Tansey also organized a program for Slide Curators at the International Congress of Art History in Granada, which was held in September.

Robert H. Daw, Fine Arts Librarian at the Topeka Public

Library, has recently written a catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Gallery of Fine Arts at the Library. The title of the catalog is: By Candlelight; Candleholders and Related Lighting Fixtures from ca. 1200 B.C. through the Nineteenth Century. Besides the many captioned illustra

tions, Mr. Daw has provided a most detailed bibliography. Two ARLIS/NA members have been involved in a very

important publication. William C. Bunce, Chief, Kohler Art

Library, University of Wisconsin, has translated A Guide

Through the Exhibition of Degenerate Art, which includes an exact facsimile of the original illustrated catalogue in the

library of the publisher, the Silver Fox Press, another Society member. This is a very important catalog documenting the nature of art during the Nazi era. Contact Silver Fox Press, Cross Highway, Redding CT 06875, for further information.

ARLIS/NA ARCHIVES This is a call to the membership to send in copies of their

guides and orientation booklets, which each library publishes. ARLIS/NA is planning to have an archival collection of these guides to art libraries in the U.S. and Canada. The col

lection, moreover, will be a lending collection upon request, to members only. Please send them in right away!

In addition, ARLIS/NA requests that if any art librarians have created bibliographies on specific topics, that a copy be sent to ARLIS/NA for preservation and for archival purposes.

We think this will be a service to our membership. This, too, will be on loan, when a checklist has been compiled.

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE

James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938. A catalog prepared as a supplement for teachers and students to an exhibit mounted at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian

Institution, June 15, 1970 to June 1, 1971 on the accom

plishments of a Black American. 50 cents. 112T

Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States. A Library of Congress

publication, this volume contains photographs of the earliest examples of printing from within the present bound aries of each State in the Union. $4.25. 63U

Checklist of the Permanent Collection. This is the first check list of the permanent collection of the National Portrait

Gallery to be published. It includes listings of all portraits acquired by the Gallery through June 30, 1972. $1.25 64U

Historic Preservation Plan, Savannah, Georgia. Presents the

findings of a study to preserve a significant portion of the "Old Savannah Area", while considering new construction to be blended in a harmonious manner. 35 cents. 102U

All these documents may be ordered from Public Documents Distribution Center in either Pueblo, Colo. 81009, or from the same Center in Philadelphia.

IFLA AND ART LIBRARIES

Mrs. M. N. Balke, Chief Librarian of the National Gallery of

Canada, had the good fortune to be present at the Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations in Grenoble at the end of August, when art libraries finally achieved official recognition. The IFLA Council accepted a

resolution, first put forward by Mme. Viaux of the Biblio

th?que in Paris, that a subsection for art libraries be estab lished under the Special Libraries Section.

Mme. Viaux has informed ARLIS/NA of her endeavors, and has told us that the 1974 Congress will be held in

Washington, D.C. in November of that year. It is believed that because of the expense of the transatlantic voyage and of Washington accomodations, and the fact that the time for the Congress is right in the middle of both the university and the art exhibiting year, the representation of art librarians from Europe will be small, and it will be up to interested associations in North America to carry forward the lobbying for the Art-Subsection and provide the active representation to enable it to be established.

At the urging of Mrs. Balke, ARLIS/NA has applied for

membership in IFLA. She believes that the Art Libraries Subsection, when actively established, will give ARLIS contacts beyond the U.K. and provide an officially recog nized international forum for art librarianship. We would

hope that our membership will actively participate in the 1974 Congress, which will be held in the United States for the first time.

In addition, Mrs. Balke reports that many other subjects dealt with by IFLA at Grenoble were also of direct interest to art libraries: the meeting of the working group established

by IFLA and the International Association of Law Librarians to consider copyright, where the right of libraries to repro duce illustrative material, now under attack, was discussed, as well as the use and abuse of computer tapes; the Library Buildings Committee meeting where it was stressed that different standards must be established for art and other libraries whose collections include audio-visual materials; the

difficulty of Special Libraries in adhering to the theme of the 1973 Congress, "Standardization necessary for Universal

Bibliographical Control." The theme of the 1974 meeting will be "National and International Library Planning."

ARLIS/NA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

A group for ARLIS/NA members with special interests in

cataloging, classification systems, subject heading lists and

thesauruses, indexing, and the compilation of categorized bibliographies is in the process of being formed.

ARLIS/NA members who are interested in forming such a group and who are interested in various forms of informa tion storage and retrieval systems?automated or not?are

requested to contact David J. Patten, Secretary, ARLIS/NA, c/o Art Index, H.W. Wilson Company, 950 University Ave., Bronx, New York 10452.

ARLIS/NA VISUAL RESOURCES SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP All ARLIS/NA members who are interested in visual resources, which includes multimedia, videotape, slides and

photographs, should contact Peter S. Kaufman, Slide Curator, Dept. of Art History, 325 Foster Hall, Buffalo, New York

14214, at SUNY at Buffalo. A meeting is planned at Detroit to plan activities and programs, especially the questionnaire on visual resources that would accompany the ARLIS/NA

questionnaire on art libraries for the Directory.

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