ARLIS/NA 34th Annual Conference Early Bird Registration Deadline

Posted on behalf of Marilyn Nasserden. This conference will cover art & architecture libraries, visual resource/image centres, and some planning issues:

TRANSCONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVES: ARLIS/NA IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
ARLIS/NA 34th Annual Conference
May 5-9, 2006
Early Bird Registration deadline is Friday, March 31, 2006!

You can save a significant amount if you register now so don’t delay.

Members $175 – will increase to $215 April 1st
Non-Members $250 – will increase to $315 April 1st
Students, Retirees & Guests $95 – will increase to $110 April 1st

Register online at http://www.arliscanada.ca/banff2006/registration

The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) will meet at the historic Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park, May 5-9 – only the 4th time the Society will have held its annual conference in Canada. This conference will be of interest to art and architecture library, visual resource/image centres, museum, and archives professionals as well as anyone working on digitization projects. Please visit the Web site http://www.arliscanada.ca/banff2006 for information about program, sessions, tours, special events, online registration and travel to Banff. This is the first time ever that ARLIS/NA has met in a small, natural setting instead of a large urban centre. Please join us and experience the conference in a unique venue, a chateau-style hotel designated as a National Historic Site, in a national park that is a World Heritage Site, at the best time of the year: springtime in the Rockies!


Marilyn Nasserden
Program Co-Chair
ARLIS/NA 2006 Banff
Feel free to contact me at: (403) 220-3795 or Marilyn.Nasserden@ucalgary.ca

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Key collections include:

* The Image Gallery: a large (initially about 200,000) and continually expanding pool of images intended to offer the value usually associated with an academic slide library. The Image Gallery also embraces an Art History Survey Collection of about 4,000 images of key monuments, defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts.
* The Illustrated Bartsch: about 57,000 images of Old Master European prints (engravings, etchings, woodcuts, etc.) from the 15th to the 19th Century, embodying the work of hundreds of printmakers derived from one of the great art reference publications of the past quarter century,
* The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection: about 4,500 images of canonic works of American art and architecture, selected by a scholarly advisory committee and a staple of teaching in American studies for forty years.
* The Huntington Archive of Asian Art: about 12,000 images of Asian art, curated by the art historians John and Susan Huntington and derived largely from the photo archive they have created at Ohio State University.
* The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive: high-quality digital images of the Buddhist cave grottoes in Dunhuang, China and associated objects now physically located in collections worldwide.
* The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection: about 8,000 images of approximately 6,200 design objects and drawings from the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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ARLIS/NA 2006 Banff Conference Registration is Now Open

This conference is held by the Art Libraries Society of North America, however, there are sessions on Architecture, Industrial Design and sessions with environmental focus. Some EVDS faculty will be speaking at the sessions.

For more information, see www.arliscanada.ca/banff2006

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