This pre-conference event to the third annual joint conference of ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) and VRA (Visual Resources Association) will bring together members of the professional and public communities to learn about digital humanities (DH) and share knowledge of tools, applications, and other DH projects.
What is THATCamp?
THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” It is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. This allows for a more informal, collaborative atmosphere compared to a typical conference setting.
Who should come?
All are welcome! The organizers of the THATCamp are an enthusiastic working group of both ARLIS/NA and VRA members, but this event is open to the public. Non-ARLIS/NA and VRA members are encouraged to attend!
How to register?:
Attendance is limited to 75 participants to ensure a lively and engaged atmosphere. Apply now to let us know why you want to attend and what ideas you want to share. Registration is free and open from October 12th – November 13th. Register here.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out early in 2016 with plenty of time for attendees to make plans to attend, propose sessions, and discuss interests prior to March 8th.
What to expect and other information:
The unconference format allows for a variety of crowdsourced sessions and topics, and the schedule of the event is not decided until after the accepted attendees propose sessions (here) leading up to the event. As a group, we will vote on the content the morning of March 8th. Those who propose events are expected to lead and moderate the self-proposed sessions if they are voted into the schedule.
With a maximum of 75 participants, the THATCamp will be intimate, informal, and executed by the attendees themselves. We hope that sessions will create dialog about DH and cultural heritage, as well as demonstrations and showcases of current DH tools and projects from the attendees.
This is a great opportunity to practice presentation skills in an informal environment and talk about topics that didn’t make it into the conference program. Register today!
We hope to have some other fun things planned that day so stay tuned by checking the blog and following #arlisnavra2016 and #thatcamp.
For more information about THATCamps, visit the About page and the THATCamp 101 page.
If you have any questions, please email Sarah Seymore, ude.nogerou@eromyess.
We hope to see you in Seattle!
This tour will spend two hours exploring the streets in and around Pioneer Square, Seattle's oldest central business district. It will explore the physical reshaping of the area, its economic history, and its venerable architectural monuments. Construction in the Pioneer Square area began in the 1850s, but its character as an isolated lumber/fishing hamlet did not really change until the 1880s. A serious fire in 1889, created a drastic shift in building characteristics; much of the current building stock dates from this post-fire period from 1889-1895. As the main shopping and financial centers of the city moved north during the 1910s and 1920s, Pioneer Square continued functioning as a rough-around-the-edges industrial/entertainment focus for Seattle. The area began to struggle before World War II, and its decline continued into the 1960s, when urban renewal proposals threatened its survival. The historic preservation movement was spearheaded by architects, gallery owners and other creative types in the 1960s and 1970s, with the result that the neighborhood boomed again by the 1980s and 1990s. Lately, a cyclic economic lull has again set in, as residents and businesses struggle with the high costs of doing business and living in a very popular city.
Maximum Participants: 15
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking, standing, navigating city streets.
Transportation: Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 2:30 PM departure.
Join Carrie Dedon, from SAM's Modern & Contemporary Art Department, on this thought-provoking exploration of the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park.
The award-winning Olympic Sculpture Park is downtown Seattle's largest green space. As a former industrial site, the sculpture park's nine acres have undergone extensive restoration, achieving a range of environmental goals, including: brownfield redevelopment, creation of a Chinook salmon habitat and a pocket beach, extensive use of native plantings, and the capture and use of on-site rainwater.
The lead designers on the project, Weiss/Manfredi Architects, created a distinct 2,200-foot Z-shaped path that zigzags from the park's pavilion to the water's edge, providing stunning views of the Olympic Mountain Range. The park includes a sculpture collection that features major works by influential artists from the past half-century up to the present day, including: Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, David Smith, Louise Nevelson, and, the newest monumental work, Echo, by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa.
Maximum Participants: 20
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking (slight incline), standing, maneuvering city streets, getting on and off monorail.
Transportation: Public bus and walking. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 2:30 PM departure.ARLIS/NA Ohio Valley Chapter meeting.
Working meeting of the Digital Cicognara Library charter partners. Observers are welcome. The DCL is an international initiative to recreate in digital form the remarkable private book collection of Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834). Held by the Vatican since 1824 and enumerated in a famous 1821 Catalogo ragionato, the Fondo Cicognara contains some five thousand early imprints that comprise the foundational literature of art and archaeology. When complete, the DCL will consist of the text of the Catalogo integrated with sophisticated digital editions of every title in the corpus, including black-and-white facsimiles of the original volumes in the Vatican; one or more high-resolution, color facsimiles of unique copies from partner libraries; thorough bibliographic information; and searchable, full-text transcriptions of the books. For more information see the project website http://www.cicognara.org/
NEW START TIME: 8:00am
In Kent, just south of Seattle, experience two iconic examples of earth art. The Herbert Bayer Earthwork and the Robert Morris Earthwork are more than just visually interesting: these places demonstrate important, artistic solutions to complicated land-use issues such as flood control and reclamation. Ronda Billerbeck, Cultural Programs Manager, City of Kent, will introduce us to Bayer's work, which, in 2008, became the City's first landmark. Cath Brunner, Director of Public Art, 4Culture, will introduce us to the Morris work, part of 4Culture's public art collection and a site that attracts international visitors.
Following this, we'll head back up north to Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood and meet Richard Haag, internationally recognized and honored landscape architect, who will give us a tour of his award-winning creation: Gas Works Parks. Gas Works Park is one of the first post-industrial landscapes to be transformed into a public space. Designed by Haag in the 1970s, it is the site of a former coal gasification plant. Today, the site of approximately 20 acres offers shoreline access to Lake Union and a kite hill alongside preserved industrial towers and buildings which have been converted to picnic shelters and play spaces for children. Haag won the American Society of Landscape Architects “President's Award of Design Excellence” for this project. We are thrilled that Mr. Haag is graciously giving us this tour. It is an opportunity not to be missed!
Maximum Participants: 26
Fee: $30
Accessibility: Walking, standing.
Transportation: Coach. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 8:00 AM departure.
Seattle is shaped like an hourglass, with its business district at the narrowest, central part. Visitors notice two things immediately about the city: it is flanked on both sides by water (salty Puget Sound on the west; fresh Lake Washington on the east) and studded with hills yielding a variety of views. A glacial retreat 10-15,000 years ago blessed the region with numerous mountains, lakes, estuaries and basins. Moistened by ample rain, this landscape grew lush and sprouted the forests that attracted 19th-century settlers seeking to capitalize on nature's bounty. This tour will explore the hills, valleys, and shorelines of the city that sprang up around Henry Yesler's modest lumber export mill, and has experienced economic peaks and valleys since 1851.
By 1900, Seattle had big-city aspirations and, with an eye to Boston's Emerald Necklace, city leaders engaged the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to design a park system that took advantage of this majestic setting. Thirty-seven Olmsted designs were implemented; this excursion will visit four of them and travel along additional boulevards of their design. Parks and roads en route include the Puget Sound shoreline in West Seattle, old-growth forest of Schmitz Park, and verdant Seward Park with its spectacular views of Lake Washington. Turning north, the tour will explore Ravenna Park centered on a creek and conclude at the urban oasis of Green Lake Park. Criss-crossing the city, tour attendees will see not only the steep hills shaped by nature but also the commercially advantageous shipping canals and channels dug by man. Several stops will enable all to leave the coach and immerse themselves in these parks, to smell the salt air, feel the ferns, and savor the views.
Maximum Participants: 26
Fee: $30
Accessibility: Walking, navigating unpaved areas of city parks
Transportation: Coach from the Westin to park destinations around Seattle; return to Westin by coach. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 8:30 AM departure.
Attire: Wear comfortable walking shoes to enjoy the parks and beach. Bring a rain jacket.
Instructors:
Marie Elia, Processing Archivist, University at Buffalo
Molly Schoen, Visual Resources Curator, Fashion Institute of Technology
Marsha Taichman, Visual Resources and Public Services Librarian, Cornell University
After the whirlwind of activities and projects in the face of finishing graduate school, many emerging professionals are left wondering, what next? Those with established careers who are looking to either expand their services, stay on top of changes in technology, or switch positions may also be asking the same question. This workshop, hosted by Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students (VREPS), seeks to provide anyone looking to expand their skillsets with the resources and confidence they need to continue to grow as a professional in the fields of art libraries and visual resources. With a format consisting of presentations, live demonstrations, open discussions, and brainstorming sessions, the workshop will encourage all participants to take the next steps to building their careers, which in turn will add to the richness of our professions.
Subjects to be covered include:
- Networking
- Finding internship / volunteer / job opportunities
- Continuing education / staying on top of current technologies
- Considerations towards another degree or certificate
- Strategies for professional development
- Writing better applications
- Getting involved with professional organizations
Maximum Participants: 50Organizer:
Susan Jane Williams, Independent Cataloging and Consulting Services
Speakers:
Greg Reser, Metadata Librarian, UC San Diego (Embedded Metadata and the Info Panel tool)
Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg Research Architecture - Visual Resources, University of Heidelberg (CSV to Core 4 XML Transform tool)
Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC Research (Core 4 XML to RDF Transform tool)
Three free desktop tools (or transforms) have been developed recently. They provide means to embed metadata into images and export them to CSV, transform flat CSV data into VRA Core 4 XML, and transform VRA Core 4 XML into RDF. The three developers will demonstrate each tool, and guide the participants through the use of the tools. A step-by-step sequence will take the users from embedding metadata in images and then CSV (comma separated values) export (alternatively participants can start with their own metadata CSV or Excel file) to VRA Core 4 XML and then to RDF. At each stage there will be discussion of workflows and what data is needed to form validating XML and useful RDF. Users may bring their own local data samples (say 50-500 records) saved in CSV (or Excel) for discussion.
Maximum Participants: 20
Orginizer:
Ryan Brubacher, Senior Instruction+Research Support Specialist, Occidental College
Speakers:
Meghan Musolff, Special Projects Librarian for Library IT, University of Michigan
Jesse Henderson, Digital Services Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
As positions shift, and responsibilities flex, many librarians, archivists and visual resources professionals find themselves working on project-based teams, or in an environment that asks them to manage multiple projects at once for different stakeholders and with different timelines. Taking on this work is rewarding and can expand your role, increasing your value to an institution. But, it can be a new, tricky, and occasionally frustrating way of working. This workshop will address the fundamentals of project management, project management buzzwords, and strategies for success. Lectures and discussion will cover personal and project time management, working across teams and with different personalities, tracking and assessing progress, being flexible (agile), and reporting. Discussion will highlight examples relevant to libraries, archives and museums of different sizes and scope. Workshop facilitators will provide project planning templates, productivity tips and tricks, and other helpful resources. Endorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
This tour is an excursion for lovers of book arts. The group will travel from downtown Seattle's waterfront by Washington State Ferry across Puget Sound to scenic Bainbridge Island. This scenic ferry ride lasts about 35 minutes and you will have spectacular views of the city and Mt. Rainier (if the sun is out!). The day begins at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, a recently opened museum supporting local art and one that has a unique and special artists' book room and gallery. Attendees will meet with museum founder and artists' book advocate and collector, Cynthia Sears. Her collection is phenomenal and the group will have the chance to talk with her as well as examine books.
The group will then travel via pre-arranged transportation to her private home and studio on Bainbridge Island to enjoy a catered lunch and meet personally with six or seven prominent book artists of the region. Each artist will have items on display and will provide a lightning round talk concerning their work. In addition, the private home has permanent exhibits on display.
Upon return to the ferry, participants have the opportunity to enjoy the town of Winslow which is home to many unique art galleries, including Bainbridge Arts and Crafts. Learn more about Arts and Crafts on Bainbridge Island. Ferries run about every 35 minutes back to Seattle, so you will have a unique opportunity to enjoy the Island and its many fine galleries, boutiques and restaurants.
Note: This tour blends walking and private transportation. Led by Jane Carlin, Director of the Collins Library, University of Puget Sound and Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts Librarian, University of Washington attendees will meet at the Westin and walk through Pike Place Market and along the Seattle Waterfront to reach the ferry terminal where they will sail as walk-on passengers. On Bainbridge, the museum is a 0.2 mile walk from the ferry terminal. A shuttle will transport attendees between BIMA and the private home, and then from the private home to the Bainbridge ferry terminal where they will walk on the ferry for the return sailing.
Maximum Participants: 15
Fee: $65
Accessibility: Walking one mile in Seattle; walking 0.2 mile on Bainbridge Island.
Transportation: Walking to Seattle's Colman Dock ferry terminal via Pike Place Market, and between the Bainbridge Ferry Terminal and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Minibus between museum and residence. Walk or taxi (not included) back to Westin from Colman Dock.Amongst the many treasures held by The Seattle Public Library's Special Collections are the publications Camera Work and The North American Indian. Join Seattle Public Library Special Collections Librarians and Cornish College of the Arts Librarian and photo history instructor Bridget Nowlin in viewing selections of these pivotal works by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Curtis published at the beginning of the 20th century. The library is fortunate enough to have sets of both series and is pleased to share them with members of the public.
Located only a half mile from The Westin, this visit will (re)introduce you to these pivotal works that served to bring Modern art to the fore, in the case of Camera Work; and showcased several tribes from across the country, in the case of The North American Indian; both in extraordinary fashion.
Maximum Participants: 20
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking, standing, maneuvering city streets; for those who take the bus, boarding accessible buses.
Transportation: Walk (bus optional). Meet your tour wrangler at 10:30 AM in the Westin lobby.
The Auction Catalogs SIG meets to discuss all matters relating to the acquisition, cataloging, archiving and providing access to print, digitized, and born-digital auction catalogs and related materials that document auction sales.
The Graphic Novels SIG meeting will begin with 2 fifteen minute presentations followed by questions and discussion of other agenda items.
Presentations:
Topic: User Needs for Art Library Comic Collections
Presenter: Andrew Wang, Student and Library Assistant, Indiana University
Duration: 15 minutes
Although comic collections have become more prevalent in academic libraries, little research has been conducted on the needs of their users in art libraries. This presentation will summarize a series of interviews conducted in 2015. The information provided by two studio professors from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and two members of the art history department from Indiana University will shed light on this specific user group's research needs and behavior. This will inform librarians to reassess and, hopefully, better utilize their own library's collections.
Topic: Graphic Novel/Comic Collections and the Opportunities They Present for Unique Collection Development, Collaboration, Outreach, and Events
Presenter: Tara Spies Smith, Research Instruction and Outreach Librarian and Subject Area Librarian for Art & Design Librarian, Anthropology, Communication Studies, and Journalism & Mass Communications, Alkek Library, Texas State University.
Duration: 15 minutes
Creating an isolated graphic novel collection can create opportunities for collaboration and outreach to faculty, students, and others. This presentation will cover how a graphic novel collection in a university library serving 37,979 students provides many opportunities for increased usage, promotion of the library, exhibits, and events.
Speakers:
Johanna Bauman, Pratt Institute
Jodi Hoover, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jenni Rodda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Based on VRA's 2014 previous session, Moving Images, Moving Targets: Video and Film as Visual Resources, the session speakers are extending it to a 60 minute SIG for the ARLIS/NA and VRA community built around the Natural Connection theme.
The discussion will entail an overflow from their previous session which included, an understanding of terms, tools, and workflow necessary to create and manage A/V files, and preparing, archiving, and preserving a variety of formats, including CDs, DVDs, VHS, and 16mm film.
In this SIG meeting attendees will first hear the previous session speakers in lightening talk format--a quick synthesis of what transpired since their last session, other speakers from the audience if they wish to participate, which will then be followed by group collaboration.
Johanna Bauman, Pratt Institute--Will discuss her knowledge regarding Pratt's 16mm preservation, approach to the collection and how it's being utilized within its fine art, history of art and film curricula.
Jodi Hoover, University of Maryland, Baltimore County--She will describe how she manages a circulating and streaming video collection as well as the challenges of providing access to media collections using discovery platforms.
Jenni Rodda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University--Will discuss how she collects, manages, and produces lecture videos and other content related to the IFA
Tour Pike Place Market and learn about its historical significance. This walk will be led by members of the preservation and advocacy group Friends of the Market, including architectural historian Mimi Sheridan.
Established in 1907, the Market is the longest continually run farmer's market in the U.S. and an iconic piece of Seattle, both past and present. Proposed by Seattle City Councilman Thomas Revelle as a solution to the increased demand for produce and goods from the city's nearby farms, he referred to its dedication as “...one of the greatest days in the history of Seattle.”
Prospering in the 1920s and 1930s, the Market was slated for demolition by the 1960s. Architect Victor Steinbrueck rallied citizens to “Save the Market,” resulting in a 1971 voter approved 17-acre historic district and establishment of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority. Also established in 1971, the original Starbucks cafe at 1912 Pike Place is still in operation.
The future of the Market will be positively affected by the ongoing renovation project of Seattle's downtown waterfront. Learn about the forthcoming Pike Place Market - Waterfront Entrance designed by the Miller Hull Partnership: http://www.millerhull.com/html/inprogress/pikeplace.htm
More information about Pike Place Market: http://www.pikeplacemarket.org
This tour will break at 1:30 PM for those attending afternoon conference sessions at the Westin. The overall tour is likely to run longer and attendees are welcome to stay longer at the Market with our guides.
Maximum Participants: 20
Fee: $15
Accessibility: Walking, standing, maneuvering city streets and busy public areas. Possible cobblestone streets and steep city blocks within the Market.
Transportation: Walking (five blocks to the Market); meet your guide around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 12:30 PM departure.
Organizers:
Kim Collins, Siân Evans, Trudy Jacoby, Heather Slania
Instructors:
Siân Evans, Heather Slania
Presenters:
William Blueher, Melanie Emerson, Siân Evans, and Mikayla Lynch
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons have become a popular way of improving the resource as well as a great way to help new Wikipedians learn to edit. This “train the trainers” workshop targets librarians and visual resources professionals who are new to Wikipedia but would like to learn how to edit Wikipedia pages and run Wikipedia edit-a-thons around local holdings or subjects of their interest. More experienced users are also encouraged to attend to share their experiences, learn more about different projects, and help new Wikipedians learn how to make edits.
Participants will receive an introduction to how Wikipedia works including best practices, policies, and guidelines. Then participants will hear three case studies that will exemplify why they should care about Wikipedia. Following the panel there will be a two hour basic and intermediate edit training session. Finally, participants will end the day learning about the nuts and bolts of running an Edit-a-thon. We hope to schedule pop-up Edit-a-thons throughout the conference with resource guides from various SIGs to flex your newly gained editing skills.
Case studies:
William Blueher will discuss Thomas J. Watson Library's on-going GLAM-Wiki project. A team of librarians and interns have added citations to over 2,000 Wikipedia articles, and as a result Wikipedia now drives over 50% of traffic to Watson's Digital Collections.
Mikayla Lynch will speak about her role as head of the Guggenheim Wikipedia Initiative which is an inter-departmental, cross-institutional effort that involves contributions from nearly all of their museum departments. The Guggenheim's project is unique in that rather than having a Wikipedian-in-Residence, they've trained six staff members across several departments as editors and essentially built an internal team of Wikipedians.
Siân Evans and Melanie Emerson, Head of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss the success of the Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon series, which has been widely recognized as holding the most successful international edit-a-thons in Wikipedia history.
Connecting the Past to the Present: Promoting Cultural Understanding through Collections and Exhibitions
In order to fully comprehend the present we must appreciate the past. A global society demands that we move beyond our cultural biases and be open to the views and perspectives of others. Collections and exhibitions that challenge and provoke can encourage dialogue and promote diversity and inclusion. The past is riddled with controversial ideas and painful events. These records and remnants of a painful past live on in libraries, archives and museums for us to learn from. Librarians, archivists and curators play an important role in the development of cultural understanding and awareness. In this session speakers will discuss controversial collections and exhibitions at their institutions and explore some of the challenges encountered in their display and promotion. These include an exhibit on the impact of war on art-making at Ohio University; Japanese American history digital materials, many of which focus on the WWII incarceration, in California State University Archives and Special Collections; and the Mazinbiige Indigenous graphic novel collection held at the University of Manitoba. The speakers will share strategies and best practices for meeting the challenges of safeguarding and providing access to these collections and exhibitions while acknowledging divergent perspectives. Together speakers and participants will explore how to achieve a balance between intellectual freedom/freedom of expression and the need to respect the views of historically marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Organized by the ARLIS/NA Diversity Committee.
Moderator
Megan Williams, NYARC Kress Fellow for Public Services, Frick Art Reference Library
Speakers
Maureen Burns, Consultant, IMAGinED
Camille Callison, Indigenous Services Librarian and Liaison Librarian for Anthropology, Native Studies and Social Work, University of Manitoba
Mary Kandiuk, Visual Arts, Design & Theatre Librarian, York University
Gary Ginther, Fine Arts Librarian, Frederick & Kazuko Harris Arts Collection, Ohio University
Greg Williams, Director of Archives and Special Collections, CSU Dominguez HillsNatural Connections between Museum Libraries, Education, and Visual Literacy
Both the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are fortunate to have dedicated education libraries open to the public. Anna Elam, the Seattle Art Museum’s Wyckoff Teacher Resource Center (TRC) Librarian Educator, will lead a discussion to explore connections between museum libraries and museum education for successful, engaging programming. The session will begin with two educators at SAM giving short descriptions (15 minutes) of how they work with the TRC: Anna Allegro, Manager of School & Educator Programs, will explore using TRC books and education objects in docent-led tours and books, audio/visual resources, and the Outreach Suitcase program in educator trainings; and Lindsay Huse Kestin, Museum Educator for Teen, Family, and Multigenerational Programs, will outline how TRC resources support summer camps and art-activity spaces. Anna Elam will summarize with suggestions for foraging relationships with education staff (10 minutes). Leah High, Public Services Librarian at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will introduce picture books as tools librarians, educators, and families can use for developing visual literacy and art appreciation (15 minutes). The moderator will guide attendees in a brainstorming activity outlining potential collaboration points and program ideas for their institution using strategies outlined in the session (10 minutes). We will end with questions from the audience for all session presenters (15 minutes). Session attendees will leave with concrete strategies for successful programs.
SpeakerAnna Elam, Ann P. Wyckoff Teacher Resource Center Librarian/Educator, Seattle Art Museum
Anna Allegro, Manager for School & Educator Programs, Seattle Art Museum
Lindsay Huse Kestin, Museum Educator for Teen, Family, and Multigenerational Programs, Seattle Art Museum
Leah High, Public Services Librarian at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Terra Fluxus: Surveying the Digital Information Landscape of Environmental Design
This session will be recorded
Librarians and archivists play vital roles in stewarding our environment and its record. Informing and documenting its greatest changes in the digital age compels us to traverse an untamed landscape. Increasingly sophisticated information systems and services enrich the evidence base for highly sustainable design practice, but complicate its evermore iterative process. As students, practitioners, and scholars tell the story of an increasingly precious planet, so must we seek to sustain its most wild and fragile forms of documentation. This session will highlight the lessons learned by panelists from leading institutions of environmental design, its history, and its future. They will survey a new landscape of resources, their challenges, and plans to protect them for future generations alongside legacy resources. They will share new models for providing the visual and geographic reference materials upon which the design research process depends, including new competencies and portfolios among professional library staff. They will benchmark best preservation practices for their composite products, including illustrative and construction documents, in both corporate and academic research environments. Each will share case studies that illustrate their respective experience providing these services to design students, practitioners, and/or scholars.
Moderator
Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist, Internet Archive
Speakers
Valerie Collins, National Digital Stewardship Resident, American Institute of Architects
Carole Ann Fabian, Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Aliza Leventhal, Corporate Librarian/Archivist, Sasaki Associates
Ann Baird Whiteside, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Resources, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Connecting the Dots: Using Geolocation Data To Support Interactivity and Data Visualization
Geohumanities is an emerging field that applies geospatial methods and approaches to a variety of humanities-oriented projects and initiatives. This panel highlights several projects that incorporate maps and/or mapping to help approach a research area and/or develop research support for an academic community. The highlighted projects include an interactive global map contributed to by undergraduate architecture students’ engaged in exploring cross-disciplinary research methods as part of a foundational design course, two interactive map projects that have been designed as finding aids for art historical resources, a map that focuses on the history of Los Angeles art museums revealing questions about the role of place in the creation and sharing of art, and a mapping project that employs one item from an archive to make connections to related archival materials.Moderator
Elizabeth Schaub, Director, School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
Speakers and Presentations
Evolving the Hometown Map Project: Moving From Static to DynamicEndorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
Artstor’s effort to completely revise and modernize its platform is underway. Please join us for a focus group discussion about what’s important to you (and your users) when searching for and using visual resources
Presenters:
Mary Finer, Product Strategist
Meg O’Hearn, User Relations Manager, Support & Outreach Lead
Please join Pam Bailey of Member Services and Dennis Massie of Research for an hour-long update on OCLC products, services, and activities. Indicate what you want to hear about by taking this brief survey. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Looking for a way to get more involved in VRA? Come hear what the Development Committee is working on and help make a difference in your organization. All are welcome.
All attendees participating or interested in web archiving are invited to join this first meeting of the ARLIS Web Archiving SIG in order to share ideas, concerns, and questions about web archiving at their institutions, and to hear updates on collaborative projects and tools.
The ARLIS/NA Diversity Committee develops and oversee strategies for advancing diversity in art information fields. This meeting is open to all ARLIS/NA members.
Super Market: Curated & Crafted (Onsite Silent Auction)
Open for viewing and bidding Thursday and Friday during the Exhibit Hall; final bids due Friday, 2PM.
Come bid on the items you've been anticipating all week! The annual silent auction will take place concurrently with the Exhibitors Hall for your browsing convenience. Generously given by ARLIS/NA and VRA members, chapters, and vendors, fabulous donations of handcrafted items, books, art, and more will be on display Thursday & Friday.
Bid throughout the event, before the 2:00pm close on Friday, March 11. Include your contact information on the bidding form so we may notify you of winning bids. Pick up and payment can be completed during the final hour of the exhibit hall (March 11, 2-3:30pm); an option for shipping following the conference will also be available.
ARLIS/NA and VRA in funding travel awards, membership, professional development, and other special endeavors.
If you have any questions, please contact the Silent Auction Coordinator Dayna Holz: holz.dayna at gmail dot com
The ARLIS/NA Professional Development Committee investigates, develops, and promotes professional development resources and opportunities for ARLIS/NA members. Meeting will include the PDC Subcommittees. This meeting is open to all ARLIS/NA members.
You can list me as the contact person: Alice Whiteside, awhitesi@risd.edu
The ARLIS/NA Public policy committee monitors governmental activities affecting art libraries and visual resources collections and drafts position statements on legislative issues consistent with ARLIS/NA's interests for review and action by the Executive Board.
Please join the ILL SIG to compare notes, touch base and discuss the various issues pertaining to resource sharing, such as strengthening and increasing resource sharing amongst art libraries and streamlining workflows.
Agenda
Charge: To develop, advocate and promote standard descriptive practices in visual resources collections that will facilitate the management, organization, and exchange of information.
Welcome and Introductions
Updates - DSC Working Groups & Representatives / Liaisons
New Business
Next Meeting
June 2016
The Intellectual Property Rights Committee is seeking new members! The committee charge is to study and monitor intellectual property and copyright issues; and to develop and promote the Association's position on intellectual property rights issues and educate the membership on these issues. Please contact IPR Co-Chairs Molly Tighe (MTighe1@chatham.edu) and Bridget Madden (bridgetm@uchicago.edu) with any questions.
Join emerging professionals and students at this meeting to discuss the educational issues, employment opportunities, and emerging trends in image management that are important to you, as well as to learn how to become more involved with VRA. All are welcome!
Building strong partnerships and programming in an international context, seeking out opportunities for dialogue and collaboration beyond our borders, and providing a forum for resource sharing are important strategic objectives of ARLIS/NA. Through the generosity of the Getty Foundation, 20 Latin American and Eastern European art information professionals from 12 countries are participating in the ARLIS/NA + VRA 3rd Joint Conference. Five of our international colleagues from as far apart as Brazil and Russia will share their professional perspectives, experiences, and challenges.
Jose Flores Ramos will explore the role of film in architectural research and education. Svetlana Kostanyan will present a case study of a collaborative digital platform, highlighting new technology to create and integrate digital resources for museum libraries. Magdalena Mazik will describe education projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow aimed at redefining art books. Olivera Nastić will report on the activities of the Art Documentation Department at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Alpina Rosa will describe the educational and outreach efforts of the Library of the Federal Justice Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
Moderator
Christina Peter, Head of Acquisitions, Frick Art Reference Library, New York
Speakers
Jose Flores Ramos, Director of the Architecture Library, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
The World as it Appears: Memory, Film, City and Perception: Considerations for Architectural Education by an Architect and Librarian
Svetlana Kostanyan, Head of the Museum Library, State Kremlin Museums, Moscow, Russia
The Intermuseum Library in a Distributed Digital Environment
Magdalena Mazik, Library Manager, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Art Books in New Functions
Olivera Nastić, Librarian, Art Documentation Department, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
The Art Documentation Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Alpina Rosa, Director of the Library, Federal Court Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Strategies of Outreach at the Library of the Federal Court Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro
Do It, Make It: Current Initiatives and Advice on Creating a Makerspace in Academic Libraries and Visual Resources Centers
Makerspaces are DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries, they may have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, among other things. Our confirmed speakers, who have varied experiences with makerspaces, include the following individuals: Megan Lotts is the Art Librarian at Rutgers. Lotts has extensive experience working with makerspaces, including hosting pop-up makerspaces and creating the Art Library Lego Playing Station that engages with design students. Cynthia Frank is the Architecture Librarian and Director of the Visual Resources Collection at the University of Maryland. Frank helps manage a library makerspace, and will discuss the set-up, training, and use of the makerspace as well as highlighting a student project using 3D printers for a History of Western Architecture class. Morgan Pershing is the Adult Services Librarian, Santa Clara City Library. Pershing created a low-cost creative art making space for adults in a public library. Chris Strasbaugh is the Director of Visual Resources at Vanderbilt University. This presentation was a collaborative project that came through a partnership with Sara Sterkenburg, the Cataloging & Exhibition Services Librarian at Vanderbilt University. The intial project was a general overview to create awareness of Makerspaces in the Nashville area. The presentation goes further in discussing the role of 3D scanning and low-cost materials in a making center on campus.
Moderator
Marsha Taichman, Visual Resources Librarian, Cornell University
Speakers
Megan Lotts, Art Librarian, Rutgers University
Cynthia Frank, Architecture Librarian and Director of Visual Resources Collection, University of Maryland
Morgan Pershing, Adult Services Librarian, Santa Clara City Library
Chris Strasbaugh, Director of Visual Resources and Sara Sterkenburg,Cataloging & Exhibition Services Librarian, Vanderbilt University
Endorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
E-mania! — the present and future of electronic art book publishing
This session will be recorded
The art book publishing world has started to plunge its feet into electronic publishing with a variety of results. Some art e-book publishers have made beautiful e-book applications for tablets, replete with audio, video, and more, but these publication apps are ephemeral: over time these publications will be rendered un-viewable as their hardware becomes obsolete. Others publishers have created highly functional flat files, better for our preservation requirements but lacking all of the multi-media potential that newer more interactive technologies offer. Most publishers have simply scanned existing print publications, sometimes with all images included, sometimes with images redacted because of copyright restrictions. Other constraints on access to e-book content concern evolving sales and distribution models for library ownership, licensing, and archiving. Another complicating factor is the lack of available descriptive and technical metadata to support access to e-books regardless of format. For example, some institutions have digitized published materials for free access, but have yet to make their metadata available to libraries to help disseminate their new digital publications. And finally, few publishers or institutions have grappled with issues of longevity with these digital products and associated media files. We hope to gather e-book experts to encourage a natural connection between creators, consumers and stewards of these materials. We plan to invite people from multiple sectors of our community engaged in publishing, producing and acquiring art e-publications. Publishers in the field of electronic art book publishing and librarians who are grappling with access and longevity will present their thoughts on what exists and how we as producers and consumers can together create the best possible result for our research community.
Moderator
Carole Ann Fabian, Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Speakers
Paula Gabbard, Fine Arts Librarian, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
David Grosz, President, Artifex
Tina Lee, Exhibitions and Publications Manager, Seattle Art Museum
Murtha Baca, Head, Digital Art History Access, Getty Scholars Workspace
Emily Pugh, Digital Humanities Specialist, Getty Research Institute
Come join Artstor for lunch while we apprise you all on the updates to our collections and platforms! Artstor is a non-profit digital library that provides more than 2 million images of cultural objects and architectural works covering a wide range of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural documentation from prehistory to the present. Artstor collections enable a wide range of users to teach and study with images in an online environment optimized for exploring visual content. This meeting will provide updates on Artstor’s strategy for building collections, planned developments for the Digital Library, and Artstor’s community initiatives
Presenters:
Ian McDermott, Collection Development Manager
Megan Marler, Director, Strategic Services
Siân Evans, Sr. Implementation Manager & Acting Assistant Director, Strategic Services
Funded largely by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the expansion of U.S. Interstate 5 through Seattle's urban core involved the moving or demolition of 4,500 existing buildings between 1960 and 1967. I-5 cut a path along the Downtown's eastern periphery, creating a two-to-three-block-wide gouge that separated it from the Beacon Hill, First Hill and Capitol Hill neighborhoods. In 1966, the noted California landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin, published his book, Freeways, in which he wrote both of the highway's artistic elements, seen particularly in their structural supports, and its destructive capacities. In most cases, Halprin realized that the auto's intrusion through urban areas brought serious challenges to pedestrian activities and public health. As part of Seattle’s Forward Thrust initiative in 1969, when funds for a broad array of public amenities were approved by city voters, money was allocated to build a lid over 5.5 acres above I-5. Due to his recent theorizing on freeways, Halprin was hired to build a natural oasis on top of the urban wound. He devised his Freeway Park <http://tclf.org/content/freeway-park-past-present-and-future> to have three sections or plazas, each of which had a distinct character suggested by the movement of water within each. The park's hardscape had the characteristic "brutalist" vocabulary that Halprin preferred in the 1970s, with planters constructed of board-formed concrete. Planters and berms had a vaguely natural look, akin to rock facings, but were shunned by many as cold and gloomy. Opened on July 4, 1976, the park has undergone many changes necessitated by the 1980s construction of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center nearby, vandalism and homeless encampments. Today, the park retains most of its original character, and ranks as one of Halprin's greatest and most under-utilized works. This tour will consider the reasons for its fame and notoriety, critical acclaim and public underuse.
Maximum Participants: 20
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking one mile, standing, navigating city streets
Transportation: Walk to and from Freeway Park. Meet your guide around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 12:30 PM departure.
Working meeting of the Ivies Plus Art and Architecture Group’s Latin American contemporary art collecting collaborative. For members of the IV+AAG only.
Connect with your fellow Shared Shelf users and hear how your peers are using Shared Shelf in innovative ways. This meeting will highlight new developments and features in Shared Shelf. Shared Shelf is a web-based media management software service developed by Artstor that provides support for managing and actively using images, videos, audio files, and documents like PowerPoints, Excel, Word, and PDFs — cataloging, editing, storing, and sharing them. Shared Shelf also enables seamless integration of media collections with the Artstor Digital Library for local use as well as the ability to publish to open access environments including Shared Shelf Commons, Omeka, and the Digital Public Library of America.
Presenters:
JJ Bauer, Visual Resources Curator and Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeannine Keefer, Ph.D., Visual Resources Librarian, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond
Mark Pompelia, Visual + Material Resource Librarian, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design
Megan Marler, Director, Strategic Services
Siân Evans, Sr. Implementation Manager & Acting Assistant Director, Strategic Services
The Solo Art Information Professionals Special Interest Group acts as a platform for discussion for ARLIS/NA members who are solo professionals. Solo art information professionals are librarians or visual resource curators who have no professional peers within their immediate department. They often serve as the head of the library or visual collection and may have support staff such as assistants, interns, or volunteers. They are found in all types of organizations including special libraries, art and architecture school libraries, museum libraries, branch libraries, and independent art agencies. For solo professionals, ARLIS/NA provides a crucial means to connect with the wider community. This special interest group enables solo professionals to discuss the issues, challenges, and opportunities unique to their positions.
Connecting Social Justice to the Workplace: Issues of Diversity in Our Professional Lives
The issues of diversity, inclusion, and addressing a wide spectrum of social identities are urgently important on campuses and in cultural institutions across the country. This session aims to provide attendees with a better understanding of the issues of diversity and inclusion and how they impact our unique workplaces, and with a tangible set of tools and resources for continuing education and making positive changes in their home institutions. Wednesday’s session, “Connecting the Past to the Present: Promoting Cultural Understanding through Collections and Exhibitions,” will address similar issues, while this session will take a broader view, focusing on presenting and discussing the principles of diversity and inclusion and how they manifest themselves in our daily professional lives. These two sessions should complement each other well.
Moderator:
Lesley Chapman, Visual Resources Curator, Colgate University
Speakers:
Processing for Social Justice: Community-based Archives & the Memory of The Miracle Bookmobile
Kelly Besser, Project Archivist, UCLA Special Collections
This presentation will discuss the challenges and rewards of engaging in social justice through community-based archives, and The Miracle Bookmobile’s activation as a queer memory project. The Miracle is a community-based bookmobile which has redistributed thousands of zines, books, and comics over the last decade at community events and spaces in Los Angeles and Oakland. By collecting and redistributing free literature, The Miracle reclaims public space, nurtures an anti-capital gifting culture, and makes radical queer and feminist literature accessible to communities across the Golden State.
LIS Microaggressions Project: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Librarians
Simone Fujita, Liaison Librarian and Outreach Coordinator, James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults toward individuals from marginalized communities. In libraries, this can occur among library employees or between library employees and patrons. In this presentation, Simone Fujita, art librarian and Zine Project Manager for the LIS Microaggressions Project, will discuss the ways in which the LIS Microaggressions blog and zine create spaces for those working in libraries, archives and information fields to share their experiences with microaggressions within the profession.
"TILE: Fostering Inclusive Practices in the Classroom at Johns Hopkins University”
Macie Hall, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University
When professors foster inclusivity in the classroom, they not only help students learn about some of the issues surrounding diverse populations, but also help give students the voice to be more conversant about diverse issues in their fields and the world. Most important, however, is the engagement of students who otherwise may feel marginalized when their own unique experiences remain invisible. The Toolkit for Inclusive Learning Environments (TILE) was created at Johns Hopkins University to spark conversation and share best practices for fostering diversity and inclusion in the classroom, and includes not only best practices but a repository of specific examples that all faculty are welcome to use.
Irlanda Jacinto, University Archivist, University of Wyoming
Irlanda’s presentation will focus on her experience as the first woman of color to serve as University Archivist at the University of Wyoming. She will discuss barriers and mental health issues she faced during her first seven months in Laramie, Wyoming; with the intent of contextualizing them to broader issues affecting diversity in information professions.
"Developing Intergroup Relations and Intercultural Competency”
Darlene Nichols, Foundations and Grants Librarian, University of Michigan
Strong intergroup relations and intercultural competency are critical to support honest inclusion in the academy. Library workers who interact with people from a wide range of intersecting identities benefit from understanding the history and current conditions of various social identity groups in the United States. We also need to understand our own cultures and what elements of our culture that we assume are “normal” are really cultural constructions that may not apply to everyone. Understanding of self and others can only help us to improve our communications and services to each person who enters our facilities.
Endorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
RDF and LOD in Use Today
This session will be recorded
Previous sessions have dealt with RDF (Resource Description Framework) and LOD (Linked Open Data) as introductions and overviews of the topic; while it is still early days in terms of adoption, this session will highlight actual applications of RDF and LOD in use now. (4 speakers, 15-20 min each plus Q&A) Julia Simic, moderator and presenter Julia will talk about her work in migrating data from CONTENTdm to Hydra (converting to RDF,) including creating URIs for local terms not covered in other controlled vocabularies. Jeff Mixter will talk about research applications currently in development at OCLC. Rob Sanderson will talk about his work with IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) which provides interoperability in the use of images and image viewers by a set of common APIs including using LOD links to retrieve image details (rather than using proprietary zooming software). Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas will talk about their Linked Open Data Project, a 2012 study which resulted in practical implementation and data transformation guidelines, workflows and tools, including visualization tools.
ModeratorRob Sanderson, Technical Collaboration Facilitator, Stanford University Libraries
Cory Lampert, Head, Digital Collections, UNLV Libraries
Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC Research
Julia Simic, Metadata and Digital Production Librarian, Digital Scholarship Center, University of Oregon Libraries
Silvia Southwick, Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV Libraries
Super Market: Curated & Crafted (Onsite Silent Auction)
Open for viewing and bidding Thursday and Friday during the Exhibit Hall; final bids due Friday, 2PM.
Come bid on the items you've been anticipating all week! The annual silent auction will take place concurrently with the Exhibitors Hall for your browsing convenience. Generously given by ARLIS/NA and VRA members, chapters, and vendors, fabulous donations of handcrafted items, books, art, and more will be on display Thursday & Friday.
Bid throughout the event, before the 2:00pm close on Friday, March 11. Include your contact information on the bidding form so we may notify you of winning bids. Pick up and payment can be completed during the final hour of the exhibit hall (March 11, 2-3:30pm); an option for shipping following the conference will also be available.
ARLIS/NA and VRA in funding travel awards, membership, professional development, and other special endeavors.
If you have any questions, please contact the Silent Auction Coordinator Dayna Holz: holz.dayna at gmail dot com
All are welcome to this joint meeting of the Cataloging Section and the Cataloging Problems Discussion Group. Janis L. Young, Policy and Standards Division, Library of Congress, will give an informal talk on cataloging developments at the Library of Congress with a focus on LCGFT and LCDGT followed by a Q&A on the art genre/form project with Sherman Clarke. Results of the recent email survey will also be presented.
The Space Planning SIG seeks to bring together members concerned with ideas, experiences, and creative solutions to issues surrounding library space planning. Discussion topics will include updates from members on such issues as redesigns of spaces, programming within spaces, and assessment efforts relating to library spaces.
Open to all interested joint conference attendees, the VRA Publications Special Interest Group Meeting will be an open format discussion about the VRA's publication program, opportunities to publish through the VRA, the issues associated with professional writing, and how/why to publish for career advancement. Attendees are asked to bring additional topics for discussion or to e-mail them to the moderators prior to the conference: john.trendler@ scrippscollege.edu or moaburns@gmail.com.
Libraries are serving an increasingly diverse community of users. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) from 2007-2018, enrollment of Hispanic/Latinos in institutions of higher learning will increase by 38% and projections include 32% for American Indian/ Alaska natives, 29% for Asian/ Pacific Islanders and 26% for African Americans or Blacks. In the National Endowment for the Arts 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, about 26% of non-Hispanic whites, 15% of Hispanics, 12 % of African Americans, and 23% of adults in other racial/ethnic categories (largely Asian Americans and Native Americans) visited an art museum or gallery in that year.
A Diversity Forum will assist in better preparing the membership to: discuss and learn more about diversity and inclusion issues that they may encounter within the profession and the workplace; the Academic College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries guidelines; the forthcoming diversity section of the ARLIS/NA Strategic Plan, and facilitate making natural connections between them. This Diversity Forum concept is not new. In March 2003, at the Baltimore conference, the former chairs, along with ARLIS/NA President Allen Townsend and Past-President Daniel Starr, organized a Diversity Forum to discuss diversity issues. There was another Diversity Forum in 2008. It has been 8 years since there was a Diversity Forum at the annual conference. The joint conference is the perfect venue to discuss commonalities we encounter between Visual Resources and Art Librarianship.
Participants will learn about current issues facing librarianship within the context of diversity and further how art librarianship fit into it. Participants should be prepared to actively engage in group learning experiences and will take away tips on how to move forward with diversity and inclusion issues in the workplace and ARLIS/NA.
Moderator:
Kai Alexis Smith, Librarian-in-Residence, University of Notre Dame
Engaging Technologies: Change the way visual and print resources are used and discovered through media-rich software and technologies.
Beyond the surface of emerging technologies lies our material in both digital and print format. This joint session will highlight, excite and explore the way VR and ARLIS professionals, in collaboration with faculty and other university departments, engage in digital education technologies through digital pedagogical projects and adaptable software. This session explores digital content and engaging technologies in three areas: learning and collection visualization, content discovery and portals, and technology instruction. Our panel will highlight compelling, interactive and innovative projects and collections proven fruitful and opening new ways digital content is used in the classroom and beyond. Attendees will become inspired to develop their own initiatives and partnerships for engaging digital scholarship through the following presentations:
Endorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
Experience firsthand one of the premier collections of Book Arts and Rare Books with Curator Sandra Kroupa, as she shares highlights from this collection of modern and historical items. With holdings in “over 21,000 historical and modern pieces encompassing all aspects of the physical book,” the Book Arts and Rare Book collections at the University of Washington are amongst the highlights of Seattle.
Sandra Kroupa has worked with this collection for 47 1/2 years and has an encyclopedic knowledge of artists, their creations, and of this collection she has built. Join us for a fascinating foray into the collection at the UW.
Maximum Participants: 30
Fee: $25
Accessibility: Walking, standing.
Transportation: Coach. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 6:30 PM departure.
Sponsored by Brian Wineke and The Getty Foundation
Donors to ARLIS/NA, the VRA Foundation, and International guests are invited to attend a cocktail reception at the Rainier Club. Founded in 1888, this historic private club has welcomed luminaries from Mark Twain to President William Jefferson Clinton. The Club’s building is on the register of National Historic Places and houses a significant collection of Northwest paintings and glass. Tours will be available during the evening.
Attendance is by invitation only. If you would like to attend, you may donate to ARLIS/NA’s Society Circle or the VRAF at the $100 level or higher.
Donations to the ARLIS/NA Society Circle can be targeted toward four existing funds - the Conference Speakers Fund, the Internship Fund, the Alternative Voices Speakers Fund, the Travel Grant Fund, or can be unrestricted and used wherever the need is greatest.
Donations to the VRA Foundation may be designated for the Legacy Lectures which support invited speakers at VRA conferences, the Grants Program, or may be unrestricted and used wherever the need is greatest.
I. Introductions
II. Call for New Business Items
III. Administrative Changes
1. Co-Chair Position
2. Advisory Group Turn Over
IV. User Support Updates
1. Mapping – Xiaoli
2. Website – Johanna
3. Survey Update – Susan Jane
IV. Core Development and Maintenance Updates
1. RDF Working Group – Jeff/Trish
V. New Business
1. Collaboration with CCO Task Force and DSC
2. Goals for the coming year
An informal “Dutch treat” social outing that provides an opportunity to get to know each other, discuss conference sessions and form new professional relationships. All are welcome!
Oliver’s Lounge at the Mayflower Park Hotel, 405 Olive Way http://www.mayflowerpark.com/olivers-lounge/
Co-Coordinators: Joan M. Benedetti and Margaret Webster
The first meeting of the brand new Retired Members SIG will be a lively discussion of retirement and ways to stay involved organically in ARLIS/NA. Are we "dinosaurs"? Can participation in ARLIS/NA keep us current? What will we continue to care about? What can the ARLIS/NA organization do to reach out to us? What do we have post-retirement to offer our colleagues? How can we contribute to ARLIS/NA? Of course the answers to these questions will be different for each of us.
The meeting's agenda will include time to briefly introduce ourselves to each other and to talk about possible projects that could be sponsored by us. Eric Wolf, Chair, ARLIS/NA Documentation Committee, will speak about how we can help the Documentation Committee to "better understand the history of both ARLIS as an organization and the profession itself.” Do we want to plan something special for the 2017 New Orleans conference? Should it be something retirement-related or something that might appeal to a wider range of ARLIS/NA members? And what can we do in between conferences?
Our inaugural meeting is scheduled for 7 – 8 am, but we may stay for further discussion until 8:30. Come to meet and greet long-time and new friends; stay to help us figure out our ARLIS/NA future!
Explore a rapidly growing part of Seattle with its forest of yellow building cranes, throngs of Amazon employees, distinctive urban design elements, and the calm of Lake Union.
This tour will begin with a ride on the South Lake Union Streetcar to Lake Union, passing through the newest buildings in Seattle and through the Denny Regrade where Denny Hill was removed in the early 1900s. This has been an area of great change over the past 100 years.
Once at Lake Union Park, you will disembark and be able to enjoy the morning over Lake Union at the site of the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and the Center for Wooden Boats. From this vantage point, you will be able to see Gas Works Park across the water and the world-renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to the East.
From there, the walk continues south towards the Cascade P-Patch and the flagship location of REI, where you will find the company's famed forest and waterfall. The return route will pass by Cornish College of the Arts, the visual and performing arts college of Seattle.
Total walking distance is approximately 1.75 - 2 miles.
Maximum Participants: 15
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking, standing, maneuvering city streets, getting on and off streetcar.
Transportation: streetcar and extensive walking. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 7:30 AM departure.
Session organized by the Association of Architecture School Librarians and cross-listed with the 2016 AASL Annual Conference
Building New Models: Library as Learning Lab
Changes in academia are providing an opportunity to rethink the role of the librarian and the library. Each of these speakers present an instance in which they re-imagined how the library or the librarians can best engage with their community – through re-envisioning the library model, expanding the notion of architectural collections, and partnering in the design process.
Moderator
Jessica Aberle, Graduate Academic Assitant, Architecture & Planning Library, University of Texas at Austin
Speakers
Using building South Bend in the classroom: Collaboration with local civicentities to build a course centered on documenting the built environment of our city
Viveca Robichaud, Special Collections Librarian, University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries
Design - model - build: Interdisciplinary partnership with real-world impact
Luke Leither, Assistant Head, Katherine W. Dumke Fine Arts & Architecture Library, University of Utah
Erin Carraher, Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Utah
Greg Hatch, Head of Creativity and Innovation Services, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Not just a room of stuff: Architectural material collections 101
Karen Munro, Head of Portland Library & Learning Commons, University of Oregon
Conversion of the architecture library to a professional model: What works and what doesn’t
Cindy Frank, Architecture Librarian, University of Maryland
Super Market: Curated & Crafted (Onsite Silent Auction)
Open for viewing and bidding Thursday and Friday during the Exhibit Hall; final bids due Friday, 2PM.
Come bid on the items you've been anticipating all week! The annual silent auction will take place concurrently with the Exhibitors Hall for your browsing convenience. Generously given by ARLIS/NA and VRA members, chapters, and vendors, fabulous donations of handcrafted items, books, art, and more will be on display Thursday & Friday.
Bid throughout the event, before the 2:00pm close on Friday, March 11. Include your contact information on the bidding form so we may notify you of winning bids. Pick up and payment can be completed during the final hour of the exhibit hall (March 11, 2-3:30pm); an option for shipping following the conference will also be available.
ARLIS/NA and VRA in funding travel awards, membership, professional development, and other special endeavors.
If you have any questions, please contact the Silent Auction Coordinator Dayna Holz: holz.dayna at gmail dot com
Working meeting of the Getty Research Portal Advisory Group. The Getty Research Portal (portal.getty.edu) is a free online search platform which provides global access to digitized art history texts by aggregating metadata from contributing institutions. The Portal, a collaborative initiative of the Getty Research Institute founded in 2012 with a number of international art libraries, is a multilingual and multicultural union catalog that affords researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. With a growing number of participating institutions (15 currently), the Portal now provides access to more than 80,000 digitized titles. The Advisory Group convenes representatives from participating institutions periodically to consult on the Portal and any parties interested in becoming potential contributors are welcome to join. Observers are also welcome.
Greetings LGBTQ SIG Members and Friends,
Please join us for a very interesting session on Friday March 11th from 11:30 to 1:00pm.
Our guest speakers include :
Anne Jenner, Pacific Northwest Curator and Cass Hartnett, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Librarian from the University of Washington Libraries will share information about their LGBTQ collections.
Susan Rees and Cheri Allen will discuss the history of the Michael C. Weidemann LGBT Library at Gay City, and the process of building a community library from the ground up; including developing Literary Arts programming and personalized catalog software .
Jared L. Mills, manager of Reader Services and the Arts & Humanities departments at the Seattle Public Library will explain being the creator of "Books on Bikes" - the first full service pedal-powered library that has been replicated around the world. He will also discuss organizing the outrageous nationally recognized "Banned! Books in Drag" program .
Hope you can attend!
Edward
Session organized by the Association of Architecture School Librarians and cross-listed with the 2016 AASL Annual Conference
Engaging the School: Making Scholarship Visible
Raising awareness of the work undertaken in design-related disciplines and their associated libraries is important for gauging impact throughout the research continuum. The speakers in this session present efforts to increase the visibility of work – in the library, in the classroom, through scholarship – and in the connections between all of these communities through evidence, meaning, and measures.
Moderator
Beth Dodd, Head Librarian & Curator, Architecture & Planning Library, University of Texas at Austin
Speakers
Daylighting to sunsetting: The lifecycle of a re-imagined bibliography
Sarah Dickinson, Research Support Services Librarian, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Johanna Kasubowski, Design Resources Librarian, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Design/Build: Embedded librarians create connections from first year to master’s reports in the APDesign curriculum
Ellen Urton, Undergraduate & Community Services Librarian, Kansas State University
Thomas M. Bell, Faculty/Graduate Services Librarian, Kansas State University
Balancing the irregularities of citation metrics in tenure and promotion of faculty in art, architecture, and design related disciplines
Maya Gervits, Director of the Littman Library, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rose Orcutt, Architecture and Planning Librarian, University of Buffalo
The “Kepler system:” Ten years of digital outcome assessment in architecture, art, and design schools
Burcak Ozludil-Altin, Assistant to the Dean in the College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology (presenting for John Cays, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, NJIT)
Information professionals find themselves managing and preserving an ever- expanding array of digital media, including audio and video. This session will explore a number of resources, new tools, and strategies for accessing and managing oral histories, licensed streaming products, and video files complete with the need to address the associated metadata and long-term preservation issues. Two of the speakers focus their work on Japanese American history, making historical and newly developed archival materials—documents, photographs, oral histories, transcripts, and videos—on a timely topic that has enormous potential for scholarly interpretation, accessible, searchable, understandable, and safely preserved for research and public access. The Penn State librarians are tackling how academic libraries are licensing streaming resources to provide video in support of teaching and learning, reviewing the technical complexities of delivery, difficulties of discovery and usability, and the administrative challenges of new business and service models. Utilizing a new cloud-computing platform with dynamic metadata capabilities and pluggable support for new technologies is the topic of the University of Minnesota information professionals who are trying to ensure that storage, categorization, and preservation is not a hindrance to academic innovation. All of the presentations show how digital resources and repositories can be user-centric and feed new research and technological experimentation in teaching and learning through functional content delivery, metadata enhancement, and contextualization.
Moderator
Maureen Burns, Consultant, IMAGinED
Speakers
Summer Espinoza, Digital Collections Manager, Go For Broke National Education Center
Geoff Froh, Deputy Director, Densho
Amanda Maple, Music Librarian and Acting Head Arts and Humanities Library
Colin McFadden, Innovation Fellow, University of Minnesota
Rebecca Moss, Assistant Director for Projects and Services, University of Minnesota
Henry Pisciotta, Arts and Architecture Librarian and Assistant Head, The Pennsylvania State University
New Voices in the Profession
Returning for its tenth year, New Voices in the Profession provides professionals new to art librarianship or visual resources the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework, such as a master's thesis, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. New professionals are defined as either students in MLIS or Master's programs leading to a career in art librarianship or visual resources, or those within five years of Master's level study. For many, this is their first professional speaking engagement.
This panel began at the ARLIS/NA 2006 Annual Conference in Banff and has since received wide attention and praise. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers give the conference attendees a glimpse of academic interests and current discourses of the newest ARLIS/NA members. The New Voices session is organized by the Professional Development Committee, ArLiSNAP, VREPS, the Gerd Muehsam Award Committee, and the Sotheby's Institute of Art Research Award Committee.
Moderator:
Karen Stafford, Catalog/Reference Librarian, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago
Caley Cannon, Art Librarian, Brand Library & Art Center
Speakers:
Visual Literacy Meets Information Literacy: Academic Libraries Address the New Challenges of the 21st Century
Judith Schwartz, Assistant Professor, Reference/Resource Sharing Librarian, Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York
Thinking Outside the Book: Experimenting with Creative Tool and Object Librarianship at the Banff Centre
Marianne Williams, Library Practicum, Banff Centre
In Search of Art: A Log Analysis of the Ackland Art Museum's Collection Search System
Meredith Hale, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2016 Gerd Muehsam Award Winner
Experiments with the Getty's Provenance Data
Tiffany Naiman, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Department of Musicology, Sally Marquez, Marketing and Development Associate at the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Stephanie Gorman, Writer and Creative at Circus Marketing, and Raphael Sasayama, Graduate Student, UCLA Department of Information Studies
In this 1.5-hour tour, we shall focus on the Main Library within the Seattle Public Library system, designed by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in early 2000s. At the time of its design and construction, a larger debate about the privatization of public space had been raging since the Reagan Era. Seattle voters in 1996 passed the Libraries for All bond issue that laid out an unprecedented amount for the construction of a new main library and the building or renovation of all branch libraries. In the city, these spaces were viewed as common public realms, highly valued and worthy of being expanded and, to an extent, glorified. Seattle undertook a wide-ranging public works campaign during the 1990-2010 period, when not only libraries but other public edifices, such as the city hall, police and fire stations were also systematically reshaped. The Seattle Public Library Main Building became one of the most highly publicized of the mid-2000s, and stands out as a strong public statement, indicating that citizens of this city valued public buildings and libraries, in particular, as common meeting places for all strata of society.
More history on the building: http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/3151/
Maximum Participants: 15
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking, standing, navigating city streets.
Transportation: : Light rail from the Westin to the Seattle Public Library. Walking in the vicinity of the library and return to the Westin by foot, weather permitting. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 12:30 PM departure.
Final Bidding for Super Market: Curated & Crafted (Onsite Silent Auction)
Viewing and bidding continues, with FINAL bids due at 2PM.
Join the excitement and place your final bids during the closing hour of the silent auction. Prepare for thrills as minutes tick by anticipating the 2PM bell! Will your latest offer on that desired item be the winning one?
Remember, travel awards for future conference are supported with our bids! Include your contact information on the bidding form so we may notify you of winning bids. Pick up and payment can be completed after 2PM and before 3:30PM, during the final hour of the exhibit hall; an option for shipping following the conference will also be available.
A joint meeting of the ARLIS Archaeology and Classics SIG with the ArchaeoCore interest/user group. All are welcome.
Joint ARLIS/NA Northwest and VRA Pacific Rim chapters meeting. Non-members encouraged and welcome.
Session organized by the Association of Architecture School Librarians and cross-listed with the 2016 AASL Annual Conference
Lightning Round: Co-constructing and documenting place
Partnerships enable engagement within and beyond the academic community. In these lightning talks speakers will discuss connections to places, transforming spaces, and collaboratively building exhibits, models, and digital communities.
Exchange/Interchange: A City, a College, a Library
Dan McClure, Director of Library Services, Pacific Northwest College of Art
No Budget? No problem: Transforming a library through new partnerships and existing materials
Stacy Brinkman, Art & Architecture Librarian, Miami University
Collection Connection: A Library and Gallery Collaborate to Find a New Home for Art
Yuki Hibben, Assistant Head of Special Collections and Archives, Curator of Books and Art, Virginia Commonwealth University
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention and the Georgia Tech Regional Archive
Cathy Carpenter, Head of the Architecture Library, Georgia Institute of Technology
Supporting a Traveling Studio in Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Cindy Derrenbacker, Architecture Librarian, Laurentian University
Still Looking for You: Collaboration Between Faculty, Libraries, and Students
Jessica Aberle, Graduate Research Assistant, Architecture and Planning Library, University of Texas at Austin; Master’s Candidate, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
Discovering NYARC's Web Archives
Lily Pregill will discuss the description and access strategies used to facilitate discovery of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) web archive collections. She will present NYARC's metadata application profile and demonstrate the integration of Archive-It results into the consortium's new discovery platform called NYARC Discovery.
Resistance to Armpit: The Clark's Venice Biennale Web Collection Four Years On
Penny Baker will discuss the Clark's Venice Biennale on the Web Collection that grew out of its existing print and ephemera collections. She will focus on the challenges for managing collection scope, permissions, quality assurance, distribution of metadata through OAI-PMH harvesting, and collection stewardship.
Presidents’ Session: Conference Capstone
ARLIS/NA's and VRA's third joint conference is an occasion to consider our professions, including our commonalities and differences, what lies beyond the horizon, and how we as organizations can most effectively meet the current and future needs of our members. The digital revolution has brought the work of our members closer than ever, as evidenced by our joint conference content. Join the conversation as we engage our speakers and attendees in discussion about the digital realm, core competencies, opportunities beyond our organizations, and collaborative possibilities that ARLIS/NA and VRA can explore as we rise to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Moderators
Elaine Paul, Director of Visual Resources, University of Colorado Boulder
Kristen Regina, Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Speakers
George Coulbourne, Chief of Internship and Fellowships National and International Outreach, Office of Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress
Jen Green, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Dartmouth College Library
Louisa Kwasigroch, Director of Development & Outreach, Council on Library and Information Resources + Digital Library Federation
Max Marmor, President, Samuel H. Kress FoundationThe Uktena monster is a mythical cosmic creature of darkness from the Mississippian period in Native North America. Many catalogers find the prospect of subject indexing so daunting that they don’t know where to start, so they don’t. As image collections move into centralized repositories and become accessible to users from multiple disciplines, adding more descriptive content to their metadata can bring the images to the light of day for more people, making them more valuable resources. This hybrid panel and interactive Special Interest Group discussion will begin with three presentations on new approaches to subject cataloging for images and comparisons of image descriptions from different sources. A free-ranging discussion about establishing best practices for effectively adding subject descriptions to image records will follow the presentations, considering work flow and setting parameters for inclusion and exhaustivity. We will invite attendees to participate in a group subject cataloging exercise with images and sample descriptive terms and audience suggestions. We will provide handouts with references to the current VRAF publication Cataloging Cultural Objects and its recommendations for creating subject and concept authorities and other current materials on subject cataloging for images and create a contact list for continuing the discussion.
Images have become ubiquitous in public discourse, yet the cataloging records in our databases tend to include sparse if any subject descriptions. Subject cataloging makes natural connections possible between traditional users of visual images and a potential broader audience.Endorsed by the Education Committee (VRA)
Sarah Bergmann is a design thinker working across ecology, design, planning and culture. She is the founder of the Pollinator Pathway, a living essay in landscape that responds to humanity’s influence as an ecosystem. She is the winner of the Betty Bowen Award and the Stranger Genius Award, and her work has been praised by NPR, Popular Science, KUOW and GOOD. The Pollinator Pathway has been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park, and Bergmann lectures frequently to design and culture audiences, including at the University of Washington, the Henry Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, Stanford University and TEDx.
The Pollinator Pathway is a long-term project founded by Sarah Bergmann in 2008 that reframes our relationship to the planet. Based in design thinking and crossing ecology, planning and culture, the project is a physical response to the global transformation of landscape in the Age of Humankind. Its vision is to connect fragmented landscapes between cities, farms and wilderness via projects that, in cities, combine ecological design and underutilized space.
Our Convocation Reception is at the Seattle Public Library and takes place immediately after the Convocation concludes at the Westin.
Getting there from the Westin: Exit the Grand Ballroom via the North Tower escalators to reach the Westin's lobby level. There, volunteers will direct attendees to the hotel's valet entrance where charter coaches will transport the group to the Seattle Public Library.
These coaches will also make return trips at the end of the evening.
Session organized by the Association of Architecture School Librarians and cross-listed with the 2016 AASL Annual Conference
Lightning Round: Evolving Architectural Collections and Connections
Join us for a tour of the Henry Art Gallery, the contemporary art museum on the University of Washington's campus.
The Henry is internationally recognized for bold and challenging exhibitions, for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art and culture, and for being the first to premiere new works by established and emerging artists. Through individual experiences with art, they inspire visitors to upend their expectations and discover surprising connections.
We will view the work of Paul McCarthy as well as James Turrell's Skyspace Light Reign, built in 2003 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the museum. The Henry Skyspace is the first to combine two key aspects of Turrell's work in one installation: the Skyspace itself and an exterior architectural illumination.
Maximum Participants: 15
Fee: $15
Accessibility: Walking, standing, getting on and off coach.
Transportation: Coach. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 10:30 AM departure.
Our tour will survey the architectural history of the University of Washington Campus. The University of Washington was founded in 1861 on a site now occupied by the Fairmont Olympic Hotel downtown, but was relocated to its current site to provide additional space in the early 1890s. State funds in the 1890s through about 1909 were meager, and the number of completed buildings few. In 1909, the Regents of the UW agreed to allow the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) to stage its fair on largely vacant university land. The construction of the AYPE made an indelible imprint on the campus, leaving behind an organizational framework still relevant today. The first large building spurt came between 1917 and the mid-1930s. The main quadrangles were planned and built at this time, setting the collegiate Gothic tone for the campus. Building diminished during the Depression and war-time era, only to resume with a second immense surge in the 1950-1970 period. Contextualism held sway during the 1980s and 1990s while the period after 2000 has been a third building explosion centered in the sciences. During this 120-year span, the campus has grown from one of ethnic/gender exclusivity and siloed departments to one of multi-culturalism and interdisciplinarity, with disparate groups blending and synthesizing academic and social interests.
Maximum Participants: 10
Fee: $10
Accessibility: Walking, standing, navigating city streets.
Transportation: Coach to and from the Westin and the University of Washington. Walking around the campus. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 10:30 AM departure.
This tour will introduce you to a variety of architectural highlights in the south Capitol Hill neighborhood bordering the Central District, one of Seattle's most populated areas undergoing a high-level of transformation.
Take a walk through Cal Anderson Park in the heart of Capitol Hill. Seattle's oldest Olmsted-designed park underwent a well-received renovation in 2005. This 7-acre park houses play areas for children, a wading pool, sports field, and now lidded reservoir among welcoming promenades. Water remains a defining element clearly stated by the reflecting pool and sculptural water feature.
From Cal Anderson walk over to The Bullitt Center, an ultra-green high performance building. You will be hosted by Deborah Sigler of the University of Washington's Center for Integrated Design housed within the Bullitt.
Round out this tour with a visit to the Chapel of St. Ignatius on the urban campus of Seattle University. Originally conceived as “seven different 'bottles of light' in a stone box” this is a famous architectural work of Steven Holl.
Recent article about the changing face of the neighborhood: http://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/culture-clash-on-capitol-hill/
Maximum Participants: 14
Fee: $20
Accessibility: Walking (some inclines), standing, maneuvering city streets, getting on and off public transit.
Transportation: Mini coach to Capitol Hill; public transit back to Westin. Walking (a combined distance of at least 1 mi.). Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 1:30 PM departure.
On this tour, we will begin by visiting the Frye Art Museum, founded in 1952 by Seattle philanthropists Charles and Emma Frye. The Fryes gifted their collection of European art to the people of Seattle, in the belief that access to exceptional and contemporary creative artwork should always be free, and for all. We will tour Cris Bruch's exhibition Others Who Were Here, as well as tour the Frye's Founding Collection in an exhibition titled Frye Salon.
We will then re-board the coach for a short drive to the Asian Art Museum located in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. After seeing the museum's collections, we will explore Volunteer Park.
While at AAM, housed within the 1933 Art Moderne building designed by Carl F. Gould, we will tour the exhibitions Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art as well as Ai Weiwei: Colored Vases. There will also be an opportunity to view the continually rotating permanent collection on view. We will also have the opportunity to tour the McCaw Foundation Library for Asian Art and the Ann P. Wyckoff Teacher Resource Center.
In the historic Olmsted Volunteer Park, we will view the sculpture Black Sun by Isamu Noguchi, as we walk amongst the park's beautiful landscaping surrounding the reservoir built in 1901. Participants will have the opportunity to visit the nearby Conservatory which features flowering plants from all areas of the world, or walk up the 107 steps in the 1906 Water Tower to the observation deck with its 360° views.
Maximum Participants: 12
Fee: $25
Accessibility: Walking, standing, maneuvering city streets, getting on and off a coach.
Transportation: Mini-coach. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 1:30 PM departure.
Join us for an exciting tour of one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods: the Chinatown/International District (known to locals simply as the ID). The ID promotes itself as a welcoming place for immigrants and those looking to make a better life for themselves. Nowhere else can you find so many different cultures coming together to form one neighborhood. In 1979, the neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience will be our host for a tour of the Governor Gary Locke Library & Community Heritage Center, and a walking tour of the Chinatown/International District neighborhood. The Historic Hotel Tour allows visitors to follow the footsteps of Asian Pacific American pioneers. During our visit to the Locke Library, we'll learn about the role the library plays in the community and hear about their innovative oral history program. Finally, through our walking tour of the historic ID neighborhood, we'll learn about the facts, myths and legends of the area, and learn more about the diverse contributions of Asian cultures to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Maximum Participants: 20
Fee: $35
Accessibility: Walking (slight incline), standing, maneuvering city streets, getting on and off light rail.
Transportation:Light rail. Meet your tour wrangler around the North Tower escalators on the Westin's Lobby Level before the 1:30 PM departure.