Introducing ARLIS/NA: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, vol.1, no.1 (1972)Source: Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 16,No. 2 (Fall 1997), p. 24Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27948894 .

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AN ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE

Introducing ARLIS/NA ARLIS/NA Newsletter, volt noi (1972)

Dear Colleagues: This is to introduce you to a new organization, ARLIS

[Art Libraries Society]/NORTH AMERICA, an organiza tion which will truly represent art librarians and those in terested in art librarianship in this hemisphere. Up to this

point, no one single organization seems to have evolved which reflects the interests and goals of art librarians and

practitioners involved in art work in general. ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA has been founded to

serve as a forum for not only librarians who bear the title of "art librarian," but all those who bear the burden and

responsibility of furthering art librarianship. What ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA will provide is the link in the chain, the link of 'communication/ which has isolated

most people working in art libraries in this country. We need to discuss the problems and find solutions to them, and no annual meeting can do this for us. So we are pro viding a bimonthly newsletter which will focus on the nuts and bolts of art librarianship, serve as a forum for ideas and be the bulletin board for all of us.

In addition, we stress a strong regional chapter ap proach, so that you can meet in your local vicinity with art librarians and talk over problems in workshops and

meetings three or four times a year, before gathering at an annual conference. This link will provide a means of

sharing and developing ideas, which is so vital to our

professional well-being. ARLIS/NORTH AMERICAis an independent and free

society, which in the near future will have the opportunity to affiliate with other organizations, such as ARLIS in the

United Kingdom. This organization which was founded in 1969 will share with us their resources and their infor

mation. Hopefully, we shall publish in the near future a

Directory of Art Librarians in North America. In addition, we shall exchange newsletters with ARLIS in the United

Kingdom. We foresee one biannual publication of a hand book on art librarianship, such as the state of the art, on an international basis. But mainly, we wish to reflect the inter ests of all art librarians?those in public libraries, muse ums, galleries, art institutes, art academies, and universi ties and colleges. If you work in an art library, you are eli

gible for membership, for all of us have something to share, and we need communication to cooperate. The ARLIS/ NORTH AMERICA NEWSLETTER will help you share these ideas. It will provide a forum where we can discuss

and solve our common problems. Moreover, the promise of affiliation with ARLIS in

Great Britain will open up new doors of communication

sharing of exchange lists, discussions of similar problems such as the out-of-print problem, which would bring pres sure to bear on publishers of reprints to produce signifi cant, necessary titles rather than obscure titles at high costs. Union catalogs much like the ARLO project in Ohio would

help regional libraries to avoid duplication of purchases and to share resources, now that prices of books and art

materials have increased to such an extent. We could put pressure to bear on library schools to incorporate art bib

liographical courses which are relevant, and provide bet ter preparation for those students who are interested in

becoming art librarians. The word "cooperation" would be a byword of ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA, and all mem bers would glean the harvest of such a venture.

The first meeting of ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA will be held in New York on Tuesday, January 23,1973, at Co lumbia University, Butler Library, Room 504, at 10:00 a.m. The first Newsletter includes the Constitution. Election of officers will be held by mail ballot shortly after the first Annual Meeting of the Society. The only requisite for joining ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA is an active inter est in the organization, and a willingness to assure your selves that there is a regional chapter in your geographi cal area to allow you to join together and share in work

shops, discussion groups and meetings. If you decide to

join us, make sure your colleagues in your area also know about ARLIS/NORTH AMERICA, so they can also take

advantage of this organization. A membership application is included in this News

letter. Will you fill it out today? Join us, you'll like us !

Sincerely, CHARTER COMMITTEE

Members: Peter Anthony, University of Manitoba, Canada; Mary Ashe, San Francisco Public Library; Phyllis Cohen, Cooper Union; Andrea Dragon, Minneapolis In stitute of Arts; Wolfgang Freitag, Fogg Art Museum,

Harvard University; Judith A. Hoffberg, Brand Library, Glendale; John Larsen, School of Library Service, Colum bia University; Herbert Scherer, University of Minnesota; Jacqueline Sisson, Ohio State University; William Walker, NCFA/NPG Libraries, Smithsonian Institution.

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