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Tuesday 13 November 2012

Slide collections as archives


Archive Interventions is an Art History and Visual Studies PhD project and blog at the University of Manchester, looking at slide collections as valuable archives.

This coincides with an increasing interest across the Art Libraries Society UK membership list in the value of archiving slide collections and not disposing of them as apparently obsolete. 

It will be interesting to track this project and see what can be learned from it.

Thanks to the ACADI list for raising awareness of this project:


Wednesday 7 November 2012

Rijksmuseum releases 125,000 collection images online


Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has released 125,000 collection images online, with their re-use actively encouraged by the Museum.

More information can be found at artdaily.org here:

Link to the Rijksmuseum here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio

Thanks to ACADI for this news.

Monday 5 November 2012

News from ARLIS/UK & Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee


 
FRBR for art librarians:

FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is the conceptual basis for RDA (Resource Description and Access). With the Library of Congress and the British Library working
towards full RDA implementation by 31 March 2013 and the hybrid environment of AACR2 and RDA already with us, it is essential to understand the thinking behind RDA. So if your WEMI (Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item) is wobbly or your entities and their relationships are a bit muddled this is the event for you.

Organised by ARLIS Cataloguing and Classification Committee, we are very pleased to announce that the halfday workshop will be led by Anne Welsh, lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), with examples drawn from art documentation.

The event will take place from 1.00pm – 5.00pm on Tuesday 18 December 2012 at the University of East London, Docklands Campus, with an opportunity for networking with fellow attendees after the event over a glass of wine or soft drink.

For booking information, contact:

Deborah Lee
Senior cataloguer
Book Library
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 0RN

Telephone: 020 7848 2905
Email: deborah.lee@courtauld.ac.uk