Art Librarians Illuminate
a Cloudy Vancouver
The venerable Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, hosted some 480 art librarians and curators March 25–31 for the 27th annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America. The meeting offered nearly continuous and always illuminating plenary sessions and panel discussions on such topics as the history of Canadian art libraries, finding art information on the Internet, art and book censorship, and the pros and cons of Vancouver's new Coliseum-like public library.
ARLIS/NA is only the North American component of the global ARLIS network of visual-resources librarians. At one international session, panelists from Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, Russia, and France summarized the challenges to art librarianship in their home institutions.
Vancouver's signature cloud-and-drizzle ambience prevailed until March 31, when the sun emerged just in time for walking tours of architecture and galleries in Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle.
Posted April 5, 1999.
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