In December 2012 the ACT Chapter was given an interesting tour of the recently updated Treasures Gallery at the National Library of Australia, followed by drinks and nibbles on the terrace overlooking Lake Burley Griffin. Here are some photos of the fun.

For the last eighteen months I have been interviewing and photographing Art Librarians with their Very Interesting Collections in repositories all over the world, and writing about it at www.artlibrarycrawl.com

It is an ongoing experiential project that has spanned 3 continents and a range of visual arts library manifestations.
I have been given tours of and introduced to the famous and the favourite works in collections as varied as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, the National Art Library in London, and the MONA Library in Tasmania.
Bibliophilic data artists in Upper Austria have shown me their private collections, as have artist run spaces in Sydney and commercial galleries in Venice Beach and New York.
I also attended the joint ARLIS/NA [North America] and Visual Resources Association 2011 conference in snowy Minneapolis.

The opportunity to meet with these collections and their keepers, to discover similarities and differences in practice and custom has been pretty amazing.

You should try it.

Going travelling?
Have an urge to investigate the special collections and unique practice of art libraries in far flung corners of the world? Love a chat with a fellow professional?

You should do so for the ArtLibraryCrawl.
Email me at for more details.

Dear Members and Friends

You are invited to join us at the CANBERRA MUSEUM + GALLERY (CMAG) for a tour of ‘LOOK: the art of Australian children’s book illustration today’, and ‘MIRROR – Jeannie Baker’.

http://www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au/cmag/index.html

The tour of both exhibitions will be conducted by Mark Bayly Assistant Director, Exhibitions and Collections and Sophie Chessell, Assistant Director, Education, Community Programs and Visitor Services.

Where:

CANBERRA MUSEUM + GALLERY · NOLAN COLLECTION

Cnr. London Circuit and Civic Square. Canberra City

When:

Wed 16 May, 4.00pm

There should be plentiful parking nearby at that time of day.

So that we can get an idea of numbers would you please RSVP to by 11th May?

Regards

Vicki Marsh
Cataloguing/Reference Librarian

GPO Box 1150, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
T 61 2 6240 6535 F 61 2 6273 2155

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Dear All,

The ARLIS/ANZ ACT Chapter 2011 AGM and planning meeting will be held Thursday, 3rd November, 1.30pm - 3 pm at the National Gallery of Australia, Gandel Hall.

Come along and help us plan our events for 2012.

Lunch will be provided so please RSVP to vicki.marsh@nga.gov.au by Wednesday 26th October and include any dietary requirements.

Vicki Marsh
Cataloguing/Reference Librarian
National Gallery of Australia
GPO Box 1150, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
T 61 2 6240 6535 F 61 2 6273 2155

E W nga.gov.au

Dear members and friends,

You are invited to join us for a lunchtime tour of the National Gallery of Australia exhibition

Fred Williams : Infinite Horizons http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/WILLIAMS/Default.cfm?MNUID=6
conducted by the curator Deborah Hart.

Please meet in the NGA foyer at 12:30pm, Tuesday 18th October, 2011.

As this is a ticketed show we will need to be certain about numbers, so please RSVP to Vicki Marsh by 14th October 2011.


Vicki Marsh
Cataloguing/Reference Librarian


GPO Box 1150, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
T 61 2 6240 6535 F 61 2 6273 2155
E W nga.gov.au

Last Tuesday, 28th June, a group of librarians from the QLD chapter enjoyed a tour of the newly refurbished Library at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Kelvin Grove.

A few of our QLD chapter members work here, supporting the Creative Industries Faculty http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/about/what-are-the-creative-industries/

The refurbished Library has more open spaces (including an outdoor area), display spaces, meeting rooms and a GamesLab. You can read a slightly more detailed description here: http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=35026

Dear all
You may have noticed that the website has recently been updated since the handover of the ARLIS/ANZ executive to the Victorian Chapter earlier this year.

There are further things to do e.g. some members may be getting emails that their fees are due although they have paid already. Please contact the treasurer if this happens.

So far we have:

-updated the details of the ARLIS/ANZ executive

-moved the elist to a new temporary server at Monash University. We are investigating using another elist product, possibly Google, as the Monash list does not allow archiving.

-added another method of paying membership fees - you can contact the secretary to get bank account details if you wish to use internet banking

-added the minutes of the 2010 AGM

-removed some older posts etc from the home page

Watch this space for information and calls for your thoughts about next year's conference.

Cheers
George

The next social event for Arlis Victoria members (and friends) will be at:
MUMA : Monash University Museum of Art
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/

Friday 27 May at 3 pm

Geraldine Barlow (Senior curator and collection manager) will give us a tour of the new museum and a talk on the current exhibitions:
Danius Kesminas - 3 projects
Midori Mitamura
Slowness (MUMU collection)

Refreshments provided.

MUMA is located at the Monash Caulfield Campus, on the ground floor of F building, Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East.

Travel directions and campus map
http://www.monash.edu.au/campuses/caulfield/

Please rsvp to Judy Nolan by Wednesday 25 May.

We produced two stop motion animations to allow the two large format books to be viewed without frequent handling.
These animations were a great addition to the show - they played in the foyer outside Projectspace.

http://blogs.library.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/archive/2011/04/07/Artists-book-exhibition-Stop-Motion.aspx

You can view these animations - send us your feedback.
We plan to add these to the catalogue record for the artists' books with a view to documenting a range of books to assist with the request process / and the retrieval process.

Dear members and friends,

You are invited to join us for a lunchtime tour of the National Gallery of Australia exhibition Varilaku http://www.nga.gov.au/varilaku/ conducted by the curator Crispin Howarth.

Please meet in the NGA foyer at 12:15pm, Thursday 5th May 2011.

So that we can get an idea of numbers please RSVP to Vicki Marsh by 20th April 2011.

Vicki Marsh
Cataloguing/Reference Librarian
National Gallery of Australia
GPO Box 1150, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
T 61 2 6240 6535 F 61 2 6273 2155
E W www.nga.gov.au