Art Libraries Society

ARLIS/UK & Ireland: the Art Libraries Society is the professional organisation for people involved in providing library and information services and documenting resources in the visual arts.                                                                                                            

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Travel and Study Fund 2016 now taking applications - deadline 01 September 2016

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Next event! 

Symposium - Matter and Meaning: Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive

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ARLIS/UK & Ireland launches new blog!

Our much beloved and long-running current awareness bulletin, the News-sheet, has gone digital! ARLIS/UK & Ireland is delighted to launch ARLISmatters, the art libraries and archives blog. Please pay a visit to https://arlismatters.wordpress.com/, where you’ll find regular posts on art library and archive matters; news, print and digital art and design resources, artists’ books, recent and upcoming events and exhibitions, ARLIS/UK & Ireland publications, job listings and professional profiles.

 

We need contributions, so please contact the editorial team on arlismatters@gmail.com if you have content you would like to add.

 

Also please do not forget to Follow in order to receive news and updates!

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We are pleased to announce that publications can now be purchased via PayPal

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2016 conference postponed

Join us for the next ARLIS Annual Conference

July 2017

Dublin

 

Message from ARLIS Chair - Conference 2016

Dear All,

I regret to inform everyone that due to extenuating circumstances it will be necessary to postpone the ARLIS Annual Conference from July this year to the following year. 

2016 is a special centenary year in Irish history and this is creating heavy demand on venues, accommodation around the city and affecting costs and availability to a greater degree than anticipated. Moreover, 2016 also sees a temporary but major change in the way ARLIS has to manage its income. Together, these circumstances make the investment in a major conference event inadvisable at this time.

I would like to emphasise that the decision to postpone the conference is due entirely to this unique and unfortunate organisational and financial circumstances. It is not part of a move to change the format and timing of our conferences, though I do think we need to look at this issue in the longer term.   

This decision has not been made lightly and I am breaking the news as early as possible to allow those affected to start re-planning their summers.

It is great shame not to be able to get together in Dublin this year, but I am certain that we can make a virtue out of necessity and use the extra time to make the 2017 event which will still be in Dublin even better.  I would like to encourage as many members as possible to come to the ARLIS/ UK and Ireland AGM to be held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on April 13 2016, and also to use the new ARLIS Matters blog to share ideas and news and meet fellow make new contacts and sustain existing ones!

Best wishes

David Pulford

 

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