2019: 47th Annual Conference

Salt Lake City, Utah | March 26-30 | The Grand America Hotel

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Proceedings

Special Events

Convocation
Distinguished Service Award
DIversity Forum

Sessions

Wednesday, March 27, 9:00–10:20am

  1. Catalogers' Judgements: Ethical Cataloging and Artists from Underrepresented Groups

    Video Presentation

    Moderator: Andrea Puccio
    Speakers: 
    Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Cataloging in the 21st Century + handout | Allison Colborne
    Representing Works by Women Artists: Compromise and Context in Migrated Digital Collections | Meredith Hale
    Improving Keyword Access and Enhancing Discoverability of Diverse Art Resources in Library Catalogs | Treshani Perera
    Zine Creators & the Use of Pseudonyms or “Hey don’t Expose me”: Case Study of Ethical Cataloging for Privacy Protection | Kelly Swickard
    (Trying to) Give Meaning to the Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera Digital Collection | Luiza Wainer  
  2. Insightful Ecology, Using the Arts to Incite Conversation: Art & Ecology in the Library
    Moderator: Debra A. Riley-Huff
    Speakers: 
    Insightful Ecology, Using the Arts to Incite Conversation: A Case Study in Library Instruction | Stephanie Beene and Amy Jankowski
    Art, Ecology, and Social Transformation | Subhankar Banerjee
    Paisley Rekdal   
  3. It's About Time: Open Educational Resources and the Arts
    Moderator: Ian McDermott, Emily Coxe
    Speakers:
    John Hilton III
    Shira Loev Eller
  4. SIG Lightning Round
    Moderator: Breanne Crumpton   
  5. Visual Literacy as a Pedagogical Tool: Photography and Beyond
    Moderator: Robert Gore
    Speakers: 
    Photography and Migration at Colby College + bibliography | Margaret Donelian Ericson
    Photo Literacy and Undergraduate Students | Robert Gore
    Visual Literacy as a Pedagogical Tool: Photography and Beyond | Bridget Nowlin
    Micki Harrington

Wednesday, March 27, 1:30–2:50pm 

  1. Assess Don't Assume: What Gets Considered When Choosing Print vs. Digital

    Video Presentation

    Moderator: Andi Back
    Speakers: 
    Printed & Digital Books: What we Know, How We Deal | Deborah Ultan
    Assessing “Screen Inferiority” | Alan Michelson
    In Plain Sight: Re-immersing Ourselves in the Print Reference Collection | Annalise Welte and Gwen Mayhew
    Active Collecting for Strength in the Twenty-first Century | Emily Winthrop
    Facsimile Finder for Libraries | Giovanni Scorcioni and Kiana Jones
  2. Expanded Practice: Implementing Alt Text and Net Art Preservation in Digital Collections
    Moderator: Molly Szymanski
    Speakers: 
    Amye McCarther
    Expanded Practice: Enhanced Usage of Alt Text in Digital Collections | Courtney Yevich Tkacz  
  3. First Year Insight: Disrupting Assumptions about Research in Art & Design
    Moderator: Linden How
    Speakers: 
    First-Year Insight: Disrupting Assumptions about Research in Art & Design | Siân Evans, Shannon Marie Robinson, and Mackenzie Salisbury   
  4. Social Justice Frameworks and Special Collections in Practice
    Moderator: Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez 
    Speakers: 
    Finding Marginalized Artists in the Public Domain | Cory Budden
    Ghosts in the Archive: Seeking evidence Beyond the Frame of Institutional History | Katherine Cowan
    Heidi Herr    
  5. You, Too, Can Write a Review: Demystifying the Library Resource Review Process
    Moderator: Melanie Emerson
    Speakers: 
    You, Too, Can Write a Review! + handout 1 + handout 2 | Melanie Emerson, Gabriella Karl-Johnson, Alexandra Provo, Amy Trendler, Terrie Wilson, Olivia Miller Piepmeier, Tara Spies Smith, and Andrew Wang

Wednesday, March 27, 4:10–5:30pm

  1. Getting Started with Collections as Data
    Moderator: Kelly Davis 
    Speakers: 
    Collections as Data + handout 1, handout 2, handout 3 | Stacy R. Williams, Cheryl Miller, Rebecca Menendez, and Andrzej Rutkowski
      
  2. In Process: Subverting and Dismantling Institutional Hegemony in Libraries
    Moderator: Michele Jennings 
    Speakers: 
    Amplifying Radical Voices: POP-UP STYLE | Samuel T. Barber
    Indigenization/Decolonization of Instruction, Spaces & Collections at the Musagetes Architecture Library | Evan Schilling
    Ashley Hosbach
    Kimberly Lesley
    Kevin Whiteneir    
  3. Inciting Learning by Doing: Bringing Active Learning into Your Classroom
    Moderator: Eva Sclippa
    Speakers: 
    Inciting Learning by Doing: Bringing Active Learning Into Your Classroom + handout | Eva Sclippa, Ginny Moran, Courtney Baron, Olivia Miller Piepmeier, Sara Quimby, Shannon Marie Robinson  
  4. Insight and Impact: Thriving as a Solo Art Information Professional
    Moderator: Amanda McKnight 
    Speakers: 
    Canva: A Tool for the Solo Librarian’s Outreach Toolbox | Abby Stambach
    Interdepartmental Collaborations and the Solo Librarian | Lauren Gottlieb-Miller   
    Amye McCarther
    John Burns
    Nilda Sanchez-Rodriguez
  5. Now You See it, Now You Don't: Accessing Design Work
    Moderator: Rebecca Price
    Speakers: 
    Rebecca Price
    Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez

Thursday, March 28, 9:50–10:50am

  1. Assessment in Art Libraries
    Moderator: Kathy Edwards 
    Speakers: 
    Are You Picking Up What They’re Putting Down? Inciting Change with Student Insights | Carla-Mae Crookendale
    Ask, Analyze, Assess: Insights into New Library Spaces at Ringling College of Art + Design | Claire Powell and Kristina Keogh
    Research Practices of Humanists: Implications for Library Design, Collections, and Services | Donald Juedes
  2. Caregivers in Sight: Normalizing Parenting and Caregiving at Your Library

    Video Presentation

    Moderators: Karyn Hinkle, Stephanie Fletcher
    Speakers: 
    Keynote: Caregivers in Sight | Kat Martinez
    Panel:Kate Joranson
    Sonja Staum Lehman
    Gwen Mayhew
    Ian McDermott   
  3. From Street Art in VR to Researching “Composita”: Collaborative Digital Approaches for the Win
    Moderator: Amy Hunsaker
    Speakers: 
    Reno Street Art in Virtual Reality | Amy Hunsaker and Laura Rocke
    Face Detection::Collaboration + handout | Debra Riley-Huff
  4. Museum Library Futures
    Moderator: Lauren Gottlieb-Miller
    Speakers: 
    Lauren Gottlieb-Miller
    Lee Ceperich
    Amy Furness
    Alison Huftalen
    Catherine Robertson  
  5. NDSR Art: Developing Cross-Institutional Digital Preservation Strategies for GLAM Assets
    Moderator: Karina Wratschko
    Speakers:
    Introduction | Kristen Regina 
    Digital Archiving Non-Traditional Art and Design Theses Work | Jennifer Ferretti and Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez 
    Capturing the Museum Experience: Saving Electronic Media in the Galleries | Alvin Dantes and Molly Szymanski
    Preservation and Access of Digital Audiovisual Assets at the Guggenheim | Tali Han and Jean Moylan 
    Something Old, Something New: Born-digital Artist’s Materials in the Archive and the Studio | Ben Fino-Radin and Rachel M. Ward 

Thursday, March 28th, 11:00am–12:00pm 

  1. Better to Receive?: Approaches to Building, Managing, and Promoting Artist Files Collections
    Moderator: Anne Evenhaugen
    Speakers: 
    Anne Evenhaugen
    Alexandra Reigle
    Keli Rylance
    Karen Stafford
    Anna Cohen Tomlinson  
  2. Building Support Systems for Collections-Based Scholarship
    Moderator: Juliet Vinegra 
    Speakers: 
    Building Support Systems for Collections-based Scholarship | Kristen Regina, Karina Wratschko, Juliet Vinegra, Jessica Breiman, and Alana Wolf-Johnson 
  3. Insights for the Future: Exploring Trends and Issues in Academic Art Libraries
    Moderators: Becca Pad
    Speakers: 
    State of Academic Art Libraries 2019 Report + handout | Andi Back, Caley Cannon, Ginny Moran, and Becca Pad
  4. Material Culture in Utah and the West: Insights from Decorative and Fine Arts Objects
    Moderators: Katie Monroe, Kathy Woodrell
    Speakers: 
    Leslie Anderson
    Adrienne Decker
    Richard Oman
  5. Multimodality on Display: Expanding the Methods of Exhibitions in Libraries and Museums
    Moderator: Stefanie Hilles 
    Speakers: 
    McGill@Expo67: Four Sites for Exploration | Jennifer Garland
    The Electronic Exhibition Space: A Catalyst for Engagement and Inquiry | Yuki Hibben
    Exhibitions as Data: Exploiting a New Modality | Jonathan Lill

Thursday, March 28, 1:30–2:50pm 

  1. Creative Insight: Using Art + Critical Design Practices for Libraries Future Thinking
    Moderator: Ashley Peterson
    Speakers: 
    Creative Insight: Using Art + Critical Design Practices for Libraries Future Thinking | Shannon Marie Robinson and Mackenzie Salisbury   
  2. Digital & Diverse Collections: Creation, Management, Development
    Moderator: Jean Moylan 
    Speakers: 
    Jean Moylan
    Deborah Ultan
    Christina Peter
    Tomas Rene   
  3. Off/Site: Lesson Planning Inspired by Archival, Studio, and Online Environments
    Moderator: Micki Harrington
    Speakers: 
    Micki Harrington
    Ika Jorum
    Kaitlyn Parker
    Claire Powell   
  4. Strategic Collision: Innovative Teaching with Artists' Books
    Moderator: Sarah Carter
    Speakers: 
    Strategic Collision: Innovative Teaching with Artists’ Books | Allie McCormack and Sha Towers
    Activating Book Art for Students Through World Art Themes and Examining the Art Library as a Site for Collecting, Preserving, and Curating Art     |     Kiana Jones
    Inciting Cross-Arts Engagement to Create New Design Thinking Insights | Sha Towers   
  5. Within Sight: Collaborations Across Institutional and Geographic Borders
    Moderator: Emily Coxe 
    Speakers:
    An International Collaboration: How Sharing Resources Resulted in a Unique Discovery | Elisa Hansen and Marie-Laetitia Lachévre
    Landscape, Land Art, & the American West | Todd Samuelson and Whitney Tassie
    Grassroots Consortial Collaboration Building: CSU Arts and Performing Arts Librarians Research Report Out | Laurel Bliss, Ann Roll, and Kai Alexis Smith

Thursday, March 28, 3:00–4:20pm 

  1. Career Development Panel
    Moderator: Michelle Wilson
    Speakers: 
    Michelle Wilson
    Carly Diab
    Suz Massen
    Heather Gendron 
  2. New Voices in the Profession
    Moderators: Meredith Hale, Olivia Miller Piepmeier
    Speakers: 
    Institutional Interoperability: The Andy Warhol Photography Collection at Stanford University as Case Study | Dianne Weinthal
    Fairy Tales and the Five-Year Plan: A Digital Exhibit of Fifty Rare Russian Children's Books Selected, Digitized, and Contextualized  | Kirsten Painter
    The Visitor Experience: Understanding Student’s Experience of the African Art Gallery at the Ackland Art Museum | Renee Bedard
    You Can’t Use What You Can’t Find: Promoting Discovery, Access, and Use of Public Art | Kristina Bush   
  3. Sightlines on Cultural Appropriation In Our Libraries and Communities

    Video Presentation

    Moderator: Katherine Cowan
    Speakers: 
    Share, See, Make: Perspectives on Cultural Appropriation Across An Art & Design School Community | Katherine Cowan
    The Cultural Exchange Market in Visual Literacy | Millicent Fullmer
    No Private Matter: Library Sightlines on Culture and Appropriation | Barbara Hackett Cox and Deborah Ultan
    How to Move Towards an Era of Reconciliation and De-Colonization: Art, Museums and the Academy | Liv Valmestad
    Racism Hidden in Beauty | Franci Taylor   
  4. Together in the Archive: Building Collaborative Relationships between Archivists and Librarians
    Moderator: Ashley Hinshaw
    Speakers: 
    Together in the Archives: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Archivists & Librarians | Courtenay McLeland, Jennifer Martinez Wormser, Kaitlyn Parker, Allie McCormack, and Stefanie Hilles

Friday, March 29, 2:00–3:20pm  

  1. Architecture Networks: Building Connections Between Collections
    Moderator: Aimee Lind
    Speakers: 
    Built to Last: Cataloging Architectural Heritage Information Using CONA and ULAN | Robin Johnson
    Built Works Registry: Global IDs for Architecture and the Built Environment | Margaret Smithglass
    Development of the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), 2002-2019 | Alan Michelson
    Arches Cultural Heritage Data Management Platform | Annabel Lee Enriquez   
  2. Find Yourself: Developing a Professional Identity in Art Librarianship
    Moderator: Vaughan Hennen
    Speakers: 
    “Giving in to the Stigma”: Why it’s not that Simple | Delia Tash
    New Job, Who Dis? On Addressing Ageism, Peer Isolation, and Other Fun Things in Your (Next) Job | Diane Dias De Fazio
    You’re Welcome: How We’re Inviting Folks into Arts Librarianship | Marianne Williams   
  3. Leadership Focus: Training and Certification
    Moderators: Laura Schwartz, Kim Collins, and Lauren MacDonald
    Speakers: 
    Leadership Focus: Training and Certification | Sylvia Roberts, Stephanie Grimm, and Courtney Baron
  4. The Spiral Jetty Partnership
    Moderator: Whitney Tassie
    The Spiral Jetty Partnership | Laura Ault, Bonnie Baxter, Kelly Kivland, and Whitney Tassie

Posters

Session Abstracts 

  1. Revitalizing Online Presence and Identity: Creating and Implementing a Six-Month Social Media Plan | Alex O’Keefe
  2. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Exploring New Possibilities for Art Information and Collaborations | Kristen Regina & Karina Wratschko
  3. Reading Pain: Artists’ Books and the Aesthetics of Women in Anguish | Amanda C. R. Clark & Sophia Du Val
  4. Hybrid Symbols of Identity and the Royal Chicano Air Force Poster Collection | Anna Harper & Summer Ventis
  5. DIY Feminism: Grrrl Zines in the Third Wave | Autumn Wetli
  6. Because it’s 2018: Supporting Multimodal Projects in the Library | Emily Thompson & Jenn Stewart
  7. Animating an Ongoing Partnership | Emily Thompson & Katie Hargrave
  8. Wikipedia as a Platform to Teach the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education | Courtney Baron
  9. Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch: A 19th century Utah artist's book? | Elizabeth Smart
  10. Roving Reference for Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | Heather Saunders
  11. Apparition or Icon? Integrating Critical Visual Literacy into Primary Source Instruction | Jillian Ewalt
  12. Meet the University of the Arts Zine Collection | Kathryn Coyle
  13. Extra-curricular Engagements: A case for provocative displays | Kathy Edwards
  14. Fairytales & the Five-Year Plan: An Online Exhibit of Rare Russian Children's Books at University of Washington Special Collections | Kirsten Painter
  15. Art in Sight: Art Acquisition, Exhibition, Promotion, and Advocacy in Academic Libraries | Laura Thompson
  16. Art E-book Usage Patterns at an Academic Library | Mary Anne Dyer
  17. Diary of an early career art librarian: Bullet journaling and the mediation of past, present, and future | Michele Jennings
  18. The Art Fund of The Belgrade City Library | Olivera Nastić
  19. Information Visualization and the Interpretive Frames Offered by Artists’ Books | Regina Pagani & Steven Braun
  20. UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art - Art Press Collection | Richard J.W. Zwiercan
  21. #PoetryatPUL: Digital Outreach with Visual Poetry Collections | Sarah Hamerman
  22. Preserving and Disseminating Student-Created Video Games in Academic and Research Libraries | Tallie Casucci & Anne Morrow
  23. Developing Workflows and Procedures for Artifact Photography and Cataloging at Brooklyn Historical Society | Tess Colwell & Anna Schwartz
  24. Demystifying the Thesis: Visualization Science Graduate Students at Texas A&M University | Tina Budzise-Weaver
  25. Getty's Art and Architecture Thesaurus® for the art libraries in Antwerp : a local collaboration going global | Ute Staes
  26. A Picture (Of Data) Is Worth a Thousand Words | William Blueher & Michael Cummings
  27. Thousands of Objects, Two Buildings, One Project: Merging Museum/Library Practices | Jessica Breiman & Alana Wolf Johnson
  28. Redefining Access to Visual Art | Annie Sollinger

Vendor Talks 

Moderator: Dan Lipcan

  1. Featured Vendor Talks 1
    Yale University Press
    Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir
    i2S- LIMB Gallery
  2. Featured Vendor Talks 2
    Shogakukan, Inc.
    Pre-Launch Presentation of Oplontis: Villa A (of Poppaea) at Torre Annunziata, Italy Vol. 2 The Decorations | ACLS Humanities E-Book 
  3. Featured Vendor Talks 3
    East View Information Services
    Quartex
    Activating Your Space to Increase Engagement and Attract New Audiences | Visionaire