The following are members of the 2019 Executive Board:
Stephanie Kays, Chair
Caitlin McGurk, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Kiana Jones, Secretary/Treasurer
Marsha Miles, Web Editor
Stefanie Hilles, Past Chair
Thank you to Chris Mannix and Kate Joranson, our Nominating Committee, for organizing the election.
Purpose or Function of Position: Provides administrative, programmatic and operational leadership and direction for the Joseph F. Morbito Architecture Library. Manages daily operations and functions of the Architecture Library, oversees the Materials Collection, and supports the teaching and research programs of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. This is a 12 month, full time, non-tenure track faculty position. It reports to the Assistant Dean.
Thanks again to Stephanie Kays and Caitlin McGurk for hosting a wonderful meeting! Thanks also to Marsha McDevitt-Stredney and Edith Serkownek for sharing photos!
It’s that time of year again to register for the ARLIS Ohio Valley Fall Meeting! You can register online or print out the registration document and send it in with a check enclosed.
*Registration Deadline is October 5th
*New events this year:
SILENT AUCTION: We will be hosting our first silent auction this year! Interested in donating to the silent auction? Please fill out the donation form by September 27, 2018
LIGHTNING ROUND PRESENTATIONS: During the business meeting lunch hour this year, we will be holding a lightning round of presentations! Please consider this a call for presentations, and get back to us before October 5th with a 3 minute presentation proposal. These are meant to be casual, with slides or without, and could simply be an update of what you’re doing at your library.
See the Fall Meeting page for more details.
Thank you all and looking forward to seeing you at the Fall Meeting!
Join the ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley chapter Thursday evening for a tour at Columbus College of Art & Design Packard Library and dinner at Schokko Cafe at the Columbus Museum of Art. Friday will include the meeting and events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.
Dates: Thursday and Friday, October 11 & 12, 2018
Location: Columbus, Ohio at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
*NEW event* We will be hosting our first silent auction this year! Interested in donating to the silent auction? Please fill out the donation form by September 27, 2018: https://goo.gl/forms/UqhX0yUkaijtva4V2
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Here are some Ohio Valley photos from the annual conference (thanks, Stefanie!):[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”23″ gal_title=”ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Spring Meeting 2018″]
Opening for a paid internship in Toledo Museum of Art Library & Archives, with a focus on Archives.
http://www.toledomuseum.org/about/jobs-volunteer/employment/ (Please see descriptions under Internships)
There is also a Collections Research internship available with our Registrar which may be of interest to students of art history and/or museum studies as well. Please share widely!
We are pleased to announce Stefanie Hilles, Arts and Humanities Librarian at Miami University, as the recipient of the ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Spring Travel Award. Congratulations, Stefanie!
Cheers,
Alison Huftalen, Head Librarian, Toledo Museum of Art
Heather Saunders, Director of Ingalls Library, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Travel Awards Committee
This is your last chance to apply for the Spring Travel Award. Deadline has been extended to 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Jan. 12).
Please do consider applying as the award can offset any costs of your trip to ARLIS/NA.
ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley is accepting applications for our Spring 2018 Travel Award. If you are an art librarian or library student living in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, or western Pennsylvania, you can apply for a $250 grant to help defray the costs of attending the 2018 ARLIS/NA 46th Conference, February 25 – March 1, 2018, in New York, N.Y. Interested ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley chapter members should follow the application procedures below and send as PDF attachments to Alison Huftalen (ahuftalen@toledomuseum.org) and Heather Saunders (hsaunders@clevelandart.org) by January 11, 2018. The winner will be notified no later than January 12, 2018.
Not a member? Visit the ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Chapter blog at http://ohiovalley.arlisna.org/membership-2/ to join! Our professional membership costs $25 per year and our student membership is free with proof of ARLIS/NA membership. Memberships span the calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
TRAVEL AWARD APPLICATION:
2018 ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Travel Award Committee:
Alison Huftalen, Toledo Museum of Art
Phone: 419-255-8000 x7386
ahuftalen@toledomuseum.org
Heather Saunders, Cleveland Museum of Art
Phone: 216-707-2538
hsaunders@clevelandart.org
The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce that registration is now live for Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy, to be held on March 2, 2018. This workshop will be hosted by University of Kentucky Libraries in Lexington, KY, and is open to cultural heritage professionals, the information, museum, and educational communities, and anyone interested in visual culture. Learning to Look, Looking to Learn is one of four workshops being offered in the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional Workshop Program. The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and educational institutions.
As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The afternoon session will focus on ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff, students and faculty. The question of what it means to teach from collections within a range of professional perspectives—including from information, museum, and education contexts—will also be explored.
Learning to Look, Looking to Learn will be taught by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She has contributed to publications including The Caring Museum: New Models of Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum, “Looking to Learn, Learning to Teach” in the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, and Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. Jessica received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. She previously instructed Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy at the University of California Berkeley and at Colorado College.
To register for Learning to Look, Looking to Learn and to learn more about the workshop, visit http://www.vrafoundation.com/visual-literacy-KY. The fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director, bwhitlow@wustl.edu. For questions about the venue, please contact Crystal Heis, cnheis00@uky.edu or Karyn Hinkle, karyn.hinkle@uky.edu.