Wednesday, 10 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 2 afternoon

During lunch (where I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of sandwiches that didn't have cheese and tomato in them - two ingredients I have to avoid and which are very difficult to avoid), I visited the bookshop and James Turrell's Skyspace.
After lunch, some delegates went to the AGM and others toured some of the exhibitions. As a chapter president, I went to the AGM. The afternoon session resumed with Peta Jane Blessing. Tim Jones was next discussing audio aids for collection viewing. Duncan McColl of AIATSIS introduced us to their art collections and their beta online platforms. You'll notice a lot of typos in these tweets - getting towards the end of conference and I was getting tired. Duncan was the last speaker for the day (not a great spot, but he did a great job). Although these tweets give only a brief flavour of the papers (some briefer than others), all of the papers will go online at the ARLIS/ANZ website, along with the slides and audio recordings of the presentations. As for the delegates, some left that evening and some the next day. I was one of the ones who left the next day.
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ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 2 morning

Day 2 of the conference took place at the National Gallery of Australia, as Simon Underschultz noted below: I think everyone needed a coffee/tea to get started - in the foreground of the picture above, you can see Jin Whittington of the Art Gallery of South Australia talking to Alan Yu of M Plus Contemporary (Hong Kong), and the lady with her back to the photo is Megan Lotts of Rutgers University Libraries - a truly international group of librarians. Katie was followed by Helen Ennis, who gave keynote address on artists' personal archives and unofficial documents. Following morning tea, Caroline McBride of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki discussed art archives. In the afternoon session, Tim Jones of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū also spoke and I loved that they both commenced with traditional greetings in te reo Māori. Personally, I love it and feel that Australia could learn from New Zealand and how they have embraced indigenous culture. Although we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land and include an indigenous elder welcoming everyone to country, I feel we could - and should - be doing much more to incorporate indigenous culture, knowledge and understanding into everyday activities. It might help us to close the gap faster and more effectively if we did. Simon Underschultz was up next, showing off some of the highlights of the NGA's collection. Anne followed this tweet with one correcting the spelling of Morten's surname. Eric Riddler was next, except that he metamorphosed into Stephen Miller because he had lost his voice. And then it was my turn too mispell someone's name. And on the high note of Eric's presentation, we broke for lunch.
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Sunday, 7 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ Conference Day 1 afternoon

Anni Turnbull kicked off the afternoon session, discussing how the State Library of New South Wales uses archival materials for web stories. Romany Manuell followed Anni to discuss how Monash Uni Library is seeking to improve diversity in its collections. Our next speaker, David Greenhalgh, wasn't able to attend, but made a film about the Kenneth Tyler Archives at the National Gallery of Australia, which was played and will hopefully be made available online. Up next was Jane Black, from the Australian National Botanic Garden, highlighting some of the library's collection and archives. I was the last speaker of the day with a virtual tour of the Adelaide Central School of Art Library. Day 1 finished with the conference dinner at Muse at East Hotel - Muse is a book shop as well as a restaurant, so appropriate for librarians.
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ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 1 morning

Day 1 took place at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Margaret Shaw, librarian at the NPG, welcomed us to the conference. She introduced the NPG's director, Angus Trumbull, who outlined plans for a much bigger library at the NPG. I enjoyed Jude's welcome to country and her wish that the songlines would see us safely home again. She was followed by our keynote speaker, Stuart Kells. I had won Stuart's book, Shakespeare's Library, in an ALIA Facebook competition but hadn't bought it with me, so at the book signing, I bought his book, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders. After morning tea, the first speaker was Megan Lotts of Rutgers University Library. As Romany Manuell said, we gotta get a badge-maker. Megan has also produced two libguides on button-making and their exhibition spaces. Megan has published a number of papers on library outreach, partnership and makerspaces. Search Google Scholar for her papers (she has a profile there too). Julie Lê of the Costume Institute at the Met, New York, followed Megan to talk about using Instagram to promote a collection. Despite being overshadowed by their Gala, the account has been incredibly successful. After Julie, Dr Lucy Hawthorne of MONA spoke about MoKnow, an internal resource-sharing website, created in Google Sites (but soon to be migrated from there).
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Saturday, 6 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 0.5


 Arrived in Canberra on the Wednesday afternoon after a straightforward trip. Bumped into Jim Whittington (Art Gallery od South Australia) at the hotel.We had a cup of tea together before heading down to the Nayional Portrait Gallery for the opening drinks. During drinks, I discovered that Stuart Kells, our keynote speaker  and I had been on the same flight from Melbourne when he recognised me from the flight and came over and introduced himself. I was also treated to a tour of the NPG's library by Libby Coates. It's smaller than my library wirh a smaller collection. Apologies that I neglected to take any pics.


Curator Chris Chapman with Jin Whittington (Art Gallery of South Australia) and Margaret Shaw (National Portrait Gallery).

After drinks, Jin and I joined fellow art librarians and archivists from New South Wales, Hong Kong, Christchurch and Auckland for dinner at Ovolo Nishi. Delicious food, served as shared plates, and plenty of it. The restaurant was very accommodating of our large group.

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