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Art Documentation, December, 1982 205

Other items on the agenda included a discussion of the results of a

questionnaire on chapter meetings that had been sent out last Feb

ruary, and an announcement by Clayton Kirking that he will curate a show at the Phoenix Art Museum on artists' books. This may become a traveling show and will have the AR LIS name on it.

After the conclusion of the business meeting, attendees enjoyed lunch and a tour of the Museum of Northern Arizona, conducted by the Director's wife.

ARLIS/DC-MD-VA Sixteen AR LIS DC-MD-VA members met in Washington, D.C.

on August 27th at the Arts Pavilion, George Washington University, for a tour of the new facility. John Taormina, Slide Curator, was our host.

The tour began in the Slide Library, a teaching collection for the faculty and graduate students in art history, and, soon, studio arts. The slide curator is aided by four graduate assistants. The organization of the collection follows a general outline by period and is broken down by medium and then by artist, e.g., Western Arts, Painting, Artist, Work.

The remainder of the tour was spent inspecting the new building, due to open to students after Labor Day. The faculty and staff can be

justifiably proud of their new facility?it's a studio major's dream, complete with individual space for each discipline, large well-lighted studios, and the most up-to-date equipment. The art historian is not ignored: each seminar room is equipped with its own projec tion booth.

Refreshments followed a short business meeting.

ARLIS/New England The first ARLIS/New England meeting of 1982/83 took place at

Dartmouth College on October 2, 1982. On a beautiful crisp fall day some 45 members gathered first at Choate House for a delicious buffet lunch; the group then moved on to Baker Library where we heard Professor Lawrence Schmeckebier speak on Dartmouth's Jose demente Orozco murals. Professor Schmeckebier, an Orozco scholar who knew Orozco in the thirties, gave an informative and

delightfully anecdotal talk on the murals at Dartmouth, which depict elements of nationalism within the framework of the history of Amer ican civilization.

ARLIS/NE members then heard two excellent talks on library au tomation. The first speaker of the afternoon was Lennis Williams, Special Projects Librarian for the Aga Khan Project for Islamic Ar chitecture at MIT and Harvard University. Ms. Williams spoke about the project's efforts to produce an online system for visual retrieval of Islamic architecture materials gathered by the Aga Khan Program. The final goal is to have an online augmented subject system with user-friendly access; they expect to have some 10,000 slides indexed online and available on a videodisc. The second speaker of the after noon was Emily Fay en, Director of Automation at Dartmouth Col

lege Library, who spoke about Dartmouth's online catalog. The Dartmouth catalog, which has been developed using RS software, is

currently being revised, so ARLIS/NE members were only able to search a small sample of records. Nonetheless, the catalog, which contains some 400,000 records, promises to set a standard for online

catalogs in the future. Plans are underway to include serials informa tion as well as an online authority file; terminals will be all over the

campus as well as in the library. The meeting ended with a sherry reception at the Sherman Art

Library in Carpenter Hall; all the members who attended agreed that our first meeting was definitely a success.

ARLIS/Southern California The summer meeting of ARLIS/SC took place on August 20.

Members met in front of a local landmark, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers' replica of a Pennsylvania Dutch red barn. On hand to

greet the fifteen chapter members was Mr. Jake Zeitlin, who is some

thing of a local landmark himself, as he has been in the bookselling trade for fifty years. Mr. Zeitlin talked of the shop's specialty in books and catalogs of

Southern California artists, from Fresno to Laguna, and of his associ ations with art librarians and book collectors. First, he spoke of Lawr ence Clark Powell, UCLA's first great librarian, who had worked for Zeitlin at one time cataloging D.H. Lawrence manuscripts at $75.00 a month! Most importantly, he told us of his friendship with the late Dr. Elmer Belt. Zeitlin was instrumental in finding and securing the books having to do with Leonardo da Vinci that formed the basis of the great Belt Collection, now at UCLA. Kate Steinitz, librarian of the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana from 1945 to 1975, was men tioned with high regard. Those interested in further information on Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers can contact James Mink of Special Collections at the UCLA Research Library in regard to the Zeitlin Archives, and the UCLA Oral History Department.

Following a look around the shop and lunch at Le Cou Cou, chap ter members reconvened for the La Ci?nega Boulevard Art Walk.

Highlights of the tour included stops at the Los Angeles Art Associa tion Galleries, a non-profit organization devoted to exhibiting works of up and coming Southern California artists; the Stephen White Gal

lery of Photography; and the David Stuart Galleries, which specializes in African and Pre-Columbian art.

NEWS OF MEMBERS & FRIENDS Laurie Beyer has completed her MLS at Catholic University in

Washington and joined the professional staff of the Mt. Vernon Col

lege Library as Technical Services Librarian. Cecilia Chin has left her position as Associate Librarian at the Art

Institute of Chicago to become the Chief Librarian at the National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library in

Washington. Eloise McDonald has been appointed Architecture and Planning

Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. She was formerly Head of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Arkansas

Annette Melville has replaced Renata Shaw as Art Librarian at the Library of Congress.

David J. Patten, formerly Art Librarian at Oberlin College, has accepted the position of Index Editor at RILA, based at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. David's new duties will include overall responsibility for RILA's subject and name indexes.

Clive Phillpot was guest editor of the summer 1982 issue of Art Journal. Its theme was "Words and Wordworks," focusing on the current work of visual artists who work with words. Some of the contributors included Sol Le Witt, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Weiner, and Les Levine.

Sheryl Romeo is the new Slide Librarian at the American Institute of Architects headquarters in Washington.

Chia-Chun Shih has been appointed to the position of assistant

cataloger at the Kimbell Art Museum Library. A native of Taiwan, Chia-Chun received her library degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee.

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