Location: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose
Speakers: Anne Simonson, Professor of Art History, SJSU School of Art
and Design; Judy Reynolds, SJSU Language & Literature Librarian;
Andrea Creswell, CSU Systemwide Visual Resources Curator and Stacy
Mueller, Visual Resources Curator, SJSU School of Art and Design; Mary
Rubin, Senior Project Manager, San Jose Public Art Program
Tour: King Library, with emphasis on public art by Mel Chin
Attendees: Carrie McDade, Abby Bridge, Linda Smith, Elizabeth Byrne, Maryly Snow, Nensi Brailo, Regina Kammer, Carl Schmitz, Ida DaRoza, Jane Glasby, Mary Marsh, Kate Connell, Lisa Velarde, Kay Teel, Janice Woo, Stacy Mueller, Andrea Creswell, Liz Ginno, Barbara Rominski, Kathryn Wayne, Andrea Segall, Laura Tatum (vice-chair/recorder), John Stucky (chair).
Refreshments were served in King Library Lecture Hall.
The group was welcomed to King Library by Jo Bell Whitlatch, Associate Dean of Library Services, San Jose State University Library.
John called the meeting to order and began by reading the Secretary/Treasurer’s report from Sue Koskinen, who was not able to attend the meeting. Sue reported that we have 57 registered members for 2004 and that each member would receive a directory (directories were distributed during the meeting, and will be mailed to those paid members that were unable to attend). If your listing is wrong or if there is a problem, please email Sue at skoskine@library.berkeley.edu. The directories also include VRA members. Sue is going to compare Liz Ginno’s listserv membership list to the list of paid ARLIS/NC members to make sure that all paid members are on the listserv. All officers emphasized that members must add themselves to the listserv – that they are not automatically added to the listserv when they pay their dues. This may change in the future, but for now, each individual member must add him or herself.
Other news from the secretary/treasurer’s report:
- Dues will
be collected at the Fall meeting. These dues will apply from January
through December, 2005. Dues are $15 for regular members and $5 for
student members.
- We received an official thank-you letter from ARLIS/NA for our $250
chapter donation to the national ARLIS conference welcome party. Sue
notes that we have been making this donation for several years now.
- Sue is working on an “ARLIS/NC Welcome Letter” which will be sent via
email to all new members when they join our chapter. The letter will
outline the benefits of membership, the purpose of the chapter, how to
subscribe to the listserv, our relationship to the national
organization, and our general meeting schedule.
- The ARLIS/NC website address is
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~skoskine/ARLISNC.HTML. Please check it
frequently for updates, meeting schedules, etc. If you would like to
add something to the website, contact Sue at the email address above.
- The position of Secretary/Treasurer will be open this fall. Please
consider volunteering for this office. We will elect a new
Secretary/Treasurer at the fall meeting.
After reading and discussing this report, John officially welcomed everyone and new members were invited to introduce themselves.
The first item on the agenda was a discussion about the place and
time of the fall meeting of ARLIS/NC. Many potential meeting places
were suggested, including:
- Skywalker Ranch (though it is unlikely that a group of our size would be allowed in)
- CCA-San Francisco combined with a visit to the SF Center for the Book
- Academy of Art College
- Carolands
- Filoli and Runnymeade
- Sacramento: Crocker Art Museum, State Archives
- Mechanics Institute Library in SF
Laura will look in to these and other locations [perhaps COPIA, in
Napa?]. If you are interested in having your institution host the
meeting, or have other ideas about potential meeting places, please
contact Laura at ltatum@berkeley.edu. It was determined that early
November would be the best time for a fall meeting, and the general
consensus is that Friday is the best day on which to have a meeting.
The next item on the agenda was a discussion about the continuing relationship between VRA and ARLIS/NC. Some members of both organizations said that they liked the idea of only having to attend one joint meeting. Others felt that meetings that focused on VRA issues were not as valuable to them as ones that focused on ARLIS issues. Many people felt that it is good to keep in touch with what VRA is doing, since our professions overlap in many ways, but that the meetings themselves ought to be kept separate. It was mentioned that VRA has a financial stake in printing a joint directory of members, and it was generally agreed that a joint directory is beneficial to both organizations. It was also agreed that we should continue to invite VRA members to attend our meetings.
Next on the agenda was a discussion about hosting a joint meeting with our colleagues in ARLIS/SC. At the national conference in New York in April 2004, ARLIS/NC and SC held a joint meeting where the prospect of a larger joint meeting in California was discussed. The last joint meeting was held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 1999 and lasted 2 ½ days. The Bay Area was the unanimous choice of location for this meeting, to be held sometime in 2005. A number of potential venues for the meeting and/or tours were brought up, including the Asian Art Museum, SFMoMA, the new DeYoung Museum, SFPL, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and tours of the U.C. Berkeley campus and museum. Many ideas for the meeting were suggested, including inviting the Western Regional Representative; suggestions for hotels and transportation issues; guest lecturers; a cocktail party; a theme for the meeting (art and architecture museums); and planning days of tours versus “open houses” instead of organized tours. Liz Ginno offered the suggestion that in order to keep the meeting manageable, we need to set a cap on the number of attendees.
Many of the members present had attended the Western Regional meeting in Portland last year and described their experiences there. The idea was floated that this meeting could potentially become a Western Regional meeting. However, Kay Teel mentioned that board approval is required for a regional meeting. We have only $1700 in our budget and have missed the deadline to apply for supplemental funding from ARLIS/NA (though John and Laura will apply for said funding of $500 anyway, before the Board meets in July). [We have also learned recently that ARLIS/SC applied for supplemental funding for a different event.] It was agreed that hosting a Western Regional meeting is too ambitious a goal at this time.
A great deal of energy surrounded this discussion and many excellent meeting ideas were generated. Barbara Rominski mentioned that SFMoMA can host up to 50 people in one of their meeting spaces, so this might be a logical place for the group to convene. We are very much open to other suggestions and plan to continue discussing the joint meeting when ARLIS/NC next meets again in November. If any members have suggestions before then – for speakers, for venues, for tours, etc. – please email them to any of the chapter officers.
The business meeting was adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
Speakers:
Ann Simonson, Professor of Art History at the SJSU School of Art and Design, spoke about the Art History Information Competence Project, designed by Professor Simonson, Judy Reynolds, head of the LEAP program, and Edith Crowe, SJSU Art and Humanities Librarian. The link to the project website is:
http://library.sjsu.edu/staff/ecrowe/infocomp_art.htm
Andrea Creswell, CSU Systemwide Visual Resources Curator and Stacy Mueller, Visual Resources Curator, SJSU School of Art and Design spoke about the IMAGE project at CSU. A link to their WorldArt Web Kiosk is:
http://worldart.sjsu.edu
After lunch, we had a presentation by Mary Rubin, Senior Project
Manager, San Jose Public Art Program about the Mel Chin Public Art
Project in the King Library, Recolecciones. Some links to the project
and information about the San Jose Public Art Program:
http://www.sjlibrary.org/mlkart/
http://www.sanjoseculture.org/pub_art/
Minutes submitted by Laura Tatum, ARLIS/NC vice-chair, June 22, 2004.