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

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.

66 works from the Fine Arts Library collection will be exhibited at Projectspace B431 - a gallery within the Elam School of Fine Arts. For two weeks visitors will be able to view and handle the wide variety of books. Many were produced by Elam students in the course of their degree programme.

Details on the Library's blog:

http://blogs.library.auckland.ac.nz/nicai/archive/2011/03/28/Artists-Books-Exhibition.aspx

The latest ARLIS/ANZ conference was wonderful. The papers were stimulating- great to hear what colleagues are doing around Australia and across the Tasman.
I have a attached a couple of photos- one from the Tiwi trip and another from the final night harbour cruise which some of us late departures went on.
Many thanks and congratulations to the organising team.