October 23, 2009 Minutes

Minutes for the Fall Meeting of the Art Libraries Society of North America -
Northern California Chapter
Academy of Sciences, Friday, October 23, 2009

Attendees: Howard Brainen, Abby Bridge, Jim Burch, Genie Candau, Leia Casey, Kate Connell, Lisa Conrad, Edith Crowe, Heather Cummins, Rhea Dev, Anna Fishaut, Liz Ginno, Lillian Hetherington, Dayna Holz, Mia Jaeggli, Stephanie Janney, Mary Poupart, Louisa Roberts, Barbara Rominski, Debra Sampson, Jay Towne Smith, Darlene Tong, Lisa Velarde, Julian Woodruff

Chair Lisa Velarde called to order the fall meeting of the ARLIS/NA-Northern California Chapter at 9:30am. The spring meeting’s minutes were approved by vote and seconded. All current officers were introduced. Lisa Conrad was announced as elected Vice-Chair elect and Vice Chair for 2010. Congratulations, Lisa!

Louisa Roberts, Secretary/Treasurer, submitted her report. The chapter gained one new member, S. Elizabeth Marshak, since the May 1st meeting. Membership renewal season is upon us! Please renew online at http://arlisnc.blogspot.com. To pay by check, print out a membership form online and mail with payment to: Louisa Roberts, 710 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901.

The total cost of the May meeting’s refreshments at the Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, was $106.40, putting the chapter’s balance at $2,173.85. Refreshments for the October meeting are estimated at $180. Admission costs of $305.40 are expected to be paid by members. $20 in membership fees were collected before this meeting. There have been no new donations to the Ann Gilbert Travel Award or to the chapter for unrestricted use. The chapter’s bank balance, estimating expenses from the October meeting, is approximately $2013.85.

At 10:30am, Barbara Rominski shared the report from ARLIS/NA Executive Board.
Barbara is liaison between the Executive Board and the Communications & Publications Committee. They had their midyear meeting in New York; it was very productive. A budget was approved for next year, as well as nominations for the executive board. The nominations are open to the ARLIS/NA membership to nominate others. A two-year commitment requires conference attendance, generally where the president lives. ARLIS/NA will give a small stipend with the position to help with travel costs. Barbara finishes her term with the board in April. She noted that [it has] “been a really great experience serving [with colleagues] and giving back to the profession.”

ARLIS/NA is a non-profit and struggling financially. One financial concern is the very expensive hotel contract, which was negotiated years ago, for the ARLIS/NA conference in Boston next year; the association is trying to renegotiate for the April 23-26, 2010 event. Seaport Hotel rates are currently $229/night. The conference is across the street at the Boston World Trade Center, and only 3 miles from Logan Airport. The Program will be somewhat different than in years past. This year people submitted their paper ideas; ARLIS picked the best papers and grouped them into sessions so that the sessions will be stronger and better. As a result, sessions will be longer than last year. Sessions will be grouped in 2 and 3 paper sessions. There will be food at the conference, including membership and leadership breakfasts. The conference is shorter, too, only 4 days long.
Art Documentation is fully peer reviewed with the fall issue; up from partially peer reviewed.

The ARLIS/NA website now has “Lunch time chats” with full transcripts available. Chats are through Meebo.

Two new online discussion groups, called The Transitions, have been created for people who are in transition from one job to another, have been laid off, or forced into early retirement because of the economy. One group is a private Google group
and one is a public group on LinkedIn, the online professional networking site. For more information and to join, see this archived post on ARLIS-L http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0909&L=ARLIS-L&P=R5317&I=-3

ARLIS/NA has two book review editors and a new Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ARLISNA .

Finally, the association’s new management firm, TEI, is now hosting the ARLIS/NA website.

At 10:45am, Mia Jaeggli, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, shared her Digital Exhibition Presentation. Mia provided a tour of the website, following her presentation about it in the May 2009 meeting. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/exhibitions/
The Environmental Design (ENVI) archive and library worked together to create exhibits that rotate every few months. Exhibitions have been digitized and put online. Mia’s project was to find a software program that could accomplish that.
The homepage features a poster from the current exhibit, College of Environmental Design 50th year celebration; the image from the featured exhibit changes every time page is loaded. The site uses Dublin Core metadata.

All images are first collected in the archive of images; see: browse by images or tags. Some future exhibits will be “born digital” so they will never be in the display cases. Mia showed the back end of the open source program she uses, Omeka. The program was designed specifically for libraries to manage image archives and collections. Images can be made public or private; uploading images is easy. In Omeka, Cascading Style Sheets can be changed easily. The entire website can be made non-viewable, or with individual pages viewable if desired. Users can contribute, with limitations set by administrators. Omeka is very “unique and easy to use.”
Following Mia’s presentation, many chapter members had questions.

Question: What was your process for selecting Omeka?
Mia tried Drupal first, but found it to be “too time consuming.” Next she tried Packaderm, but documentation was not clear, and the open source was not readily available without paid account. Omeka fit quite well because it was simple; this is something “I could do” and it was stable enough to go forward with.

Question: Were all images were from exhibits?
“Yes, all images are from the ENVI archives. After the exhibit was taken down, a photographer photographed everything, and provided a disc with images in different sizes. Omeka will create images in raw, with resizes in full and thumb.”
Question: Are you taking this on the road to the ARLIS/NA national conference?
“I have though about it and considering Society of American Archivist first.”

Question: How long did this take you?
In order to receive credit from San Jose State, SLIS program, Mia had to complete a 135 hour requirement for credit, which came down to14 hours per weeks for 3 months.

Question: What tech support is available?
“Who’s going to support it is a good question. I had to work with the ENVI web administrators and they had to figure out how to put it on the server. I had to agree to do the upgrades; get permission in advance. You have to lay out the framework before taking on the technical stuff.”
Q: Is there a difference between born digital between and made digital?
No distinction.

At 11 began group discussion of current projects/issues (reference, management, funding, professional, development, etc). A chance to learn about what each of us is working on and share ideas, solutions. Modeled on the discussion groups at ARLIS/NA conferences.

At 10:50am, Lisa Velarde announced that the 2011 ARLIS conference is going to be a joint conference with VRA in Minneapolis.

Next, each chapter member summarized what they were working on at present or any recent professional changes.
Lisa V. is not working in an art library this year. Instead, she is working at two different academic libraries: Menlo College (MC) and College of San Mateo (CSM). One project at CSM is creating library guides (pathfinders) and developing an ESL collection. At MC, she will be working on new online tutorials for information literacy, as well as teaching workshops at both places and providing reference.
Anna F. works at Stanford as Assistant Librarian and where she’s a curator for an exhibition in the library. For this show, she’s showcasing fashion material, which is “a little out of the box for Stanford” because they have a design program that’s not focused on that medium. “We have some good holdings, and a lot of the undergrads are excited about it.” For example, they have old costume books from the 18th century, and a paper dress from a Korean artist.
Mary P., a student at SJSU, has 5 more classes left. She is also busy with VRA, Society of American Archivists, and ARLIS/NA.
Lisa C. graduated this year from SJSU. Her “current project is a job search.” She’s recently had two library consulting projects for an architecture firm; also this summer she cataloged and developed a database for an artist, Michael Light.
Deborah S. is library director of the Academy of Art. She’s been busy working on budget. The “biggest thing is the academy is growing, trying to provide resources for students,” and she is addressing facilities issues (tech and space).
Stephanie graduated last year, and is working for Chevron in a photography archive. She enjoys working on fine art for herself and is looking to pursue more of that.
Heather C., Academy of Art University, just published a blog using Wordpress to host images and text for faculty. She is also offering instructional workshops on Luna for students. http://elmo.academyart.edu/vrblog/
Dayna, an art librarian at Berkeley Public Library, is dealing with appraising stuff in storage that “may or may not belong in a public library, including an amazing poster collection.” She is also looking at periodicals in storage.
Kate, City College of San Francisco (CCSF), noted that her library is “suffering from cuts, so she’s been protesting a lot, and launching a new website”.
Rhea D. is a busy volunteer at SFMOMA.
Lillian works under Heather C. at the Academy of Art University. Currently, she is cataloging digitized images. She also takes care of the magazine archive, and is in charge of the MFAs that they circulate.
Darlene, of San Francisco State University, noted that almost the entire library moved last November and now resides in “two huge tents (26,000 sq ft)”; there is a 24-hour space, (16,000 sq ft next door, also where offices are located). She is trying to figure out “how to load 1 million items into an automated system in 84 days.” Many of the books are surrounded by construction! This year SFSU library had a $400,000 budget cuts; next year it will be a cut of $600,000 for the collection. The situation is “disheartening”. The new library will not be opened until 2012. Looking for opinions on OCLC Cameo (SFSU canceled subscription).
Jim B. retired “centuries ago” from ENVI. He is now doing occasional volunteer work at Friends of Berkeley Public Library.
Genie C. retired from SFMOMA, and is on the board of Berkeley Art Center (BAC). In February, BAC acquired a new director, Susan Tan.
Jay Smith, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), head cataloger, noted that SFPL has not really suffered financially. He catalogs art materials, working on special collections such as rare books that don’t exist in online catalogs.
Julian W., Crocker Art Museum, is busy dealing with earthquake concerns regarding old bookcases in the new library, and trying to “get control of 35’ boxes of ephemera sitting in file drawers…going to start putting it in electronic system.”
Abby B., SFMOMA cataloger, is focused on artist periodicals cataloging, and working part-time at SFPL, Potrero branch. The new building will be opening in February. Exhibition space is available.
Barbara, head of SFMOMA research library and archive, noted that the museum is approaching its 75th anniversary in 2010. There are to going be lots of exhibits, many of which have archival materials. Don and Doris Fisher have built up a trust that will be overseen by the museum; funding will contribute to the new building.
Edith, retired from San Jose State University, is working on a Mythopoeic Society She indexed its periodicals, and is starting to put them into an Excel spreadsheet, which is going to be published. http://www.mythsoc.org/
Liz, CSU East Bay, stated that “one good thing going on this year” is she gets to work with the art department to get student contests going for painting on the walls in the library.
Howard, Two Cat Digital, is outgoing VRA/NC chair; he is happy to have Heather Cummins and Karen Kessel take the post. Business has been slow at Two Cat, but that has left him more time for landscape photography. Two Cat continues to have some interesting projects, such as scanning for the Society of Architecture Historians (Mellon funded).
Leia is due to graduate from SJSU at the end of next summer. She works part-time at Berkeley Public Library in the Art Department. She has been working with a donation of thousands of slides from an art history professor. She currently has a cataloging internship at the Asian Art Museum.
Mia, ENVI tech services work leader, is in her final two semesters of library school at SJSU. She has two pet projects: one staff development chair of a UC Berkeley committee, where she is trying to put together more concrete programs for staff development careers. “Because of the budget cuts, we’ve been losing a lot of people. [We’re] trying to keep younger and mid-career staff included so that they know they’re important and we care about where they’re headed.”
Louisa completed her MSLIS degree from Drexel University in March and is still looking for professional librarian work. She currently is the Collection Development and Cataloging Intern for the California State Library, Braille and Talking Books library. She also volunteers for the Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley; she recently completed a research guide on the History of Asian Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_asian.html

After lunch, the chapter toured the museum independently and rejoined as a group for a tour of the Academy Research Library and Naturalist Center. Thank you to Larry Currie, Danielle Castronovo, and the other librarians for the wonderful tours!

Chapter Bylaws

Society Mission

The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) was founded in 1972 by a group of art librarians attending the America Library Association annual conference in Chicago. This group realized that to fulfill the need among art librarians for better communication and cooperation, and to provide a forum for ideas, projects, and programs, an entirely new and separate organization was required. Inspired by the model of the Art Libraries Society established in 1969 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, ARLIS/NA was created.
The nearly 1500 members include architecture and art librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, and others interested in visual arts. The Northern California chapter is one of 18 regional chapters.

Chapter Bylaws

Approved June 24, 1988; Revised December 28, 1988; Revised September 21, 1999: Revised May 18, 2007

Article I. Name

The name of the organization shall be ARLIS/NA Northern California Chapter, hereafter referred to as "the Chapter".

Article II. Purposes

A. The organization shall promote the purposes of Art Libraries Society of North America, hereinafter referred to as The Society, within the Northern California area.

B. The organization is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, in order to advance the cause of librarianship and to promote the development, good management, and enlightened use of all art libraries and visual resources collections. In the furtherance of such purpose, the organization is authorized:

1. To promote the continuing professional education of its members and the general knowledge of the public by sponsoring conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops, and other exchanges of information and materials concerning all aspects of art librarianship and visual resources curatorship;
2. To stimulate greater use of art libraries and visual resources collections by sponsoring, supporting, or publishing resources directories, bibliographies, inventories, periodical journals, occasional papers, reports, and related materials concerning the organization and retrieval of art information;
3. To foster excellence in art librarianship and the visual arts by establishing standards for art libraries and visual resources collections, by promoting improvements in the academic education, of art librarians and visual resources curators, by sponsoring awards for outstanding achievement, and by other means to that end;
4. To engage in any activities conducive to furthering the organizations purposes, providing that such activities may be lawfully carried on by an organization exempt from federal income tax under sections 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (of the corresponding provision of any future United States internal revenue law).

Article III. Charitable Activity Restrictions

A. No part of the net income of the organization shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to its directors, officers, or other private persons, except that the organization shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services actually rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes and objectives of this organization. No substantial part of the activities of the organization shall be carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the organization shall not participate in or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.

B. Notwithstanding any other provisions set forth in these Articles of Incorporation (or constitution), at any time during which it is deemed a private foundation, the organization:

1. shall not engage in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws;
2. shall distribute its income for each taxable year at such time and in such manner as not to become subject to the tax on undistributed income imposed by Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws;
3. shall not own any excess business holdings that would subject it to tax under section 4943 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws;
4. shall not make any investments in such manner as to subject the organization to the tax imposed by Section 4944 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent tax laws;
5. shall not make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4945(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles (or constitution) the organization shall not conduct or carry on any activities not permitted to be conducted or carry on by an organization exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or corresponding provisions of any subsequent tax laws, or any an organization contributions to which are to be deductible under section 170(c)(2) of such code or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws.

Article IV. Membership

A. Eligibility

1. Membership is open to all members of the Society.
2. Society and Chapter bylaws require that Chapter members join ARLIS/NA

B. Dues

1. Dues shall be determined by the Executive Committee and shall be ratified by member vote.
2. Dues shall be paid to the Secretary/Treasurer.
3. The membership year shall be from January 1 through December 31. All dues received after October 1st will be applied to the following year.
4. The Chapter shall have the right to impose additional fees upon the membership for specified projects subject to the approval of membership.

B. Privileges

1. All Local Chapter members are eligible to vote.
2. All Local Chapter members are eligible to hold elected office.
3. All Local Chapter members shall be entitled to receive announcements of meetings of the Chapter and other notices of general interest to the membership.

Article V. Officers

A. The elected officers of the Chapter shall be:

1. the Chairperson;
2. the Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson-Elect;
3. and the Secretary/Treasurer.

B. Nominating Committee:

1. The Chairperson shall appoint a Nominating Committee of at least two persons.
2. The Nominating Committee shall submit a slate of qualified candidates to be voted upon by the membership.

C. Qualifications. Any Local Chapter member may hold office and must file in writing an acceptance of the nomination with the Nominating Committee.

D. Elections. Officers shall be selected by a plurality of ballots cast by the voting members (See Article IV for definition of member).

E. Terms of Office:

1. for the Chairperson shall be one calendar year;
2. the Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson-Elect shall be one calendar year;
3. and the Secretary/Treasurer shall be two calendar years.

F. Duties of Officers

1. The Chairperson shall: a. act as executive officer of the Chapter; b. assist the Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson-Elect in the planning of the activities of the Chapter; c. draft and send to ARLIS/NA the annual report.
2. Vice-Chairperson/Chairperson-Elect shall: a. act as executive officer in the event the Chairperson is unable to serve; b. act as the program chairperson;
3. Secretary/Treasurer shall be responsible for: a. the announcements of meetings; b. the keeping of minutes of the meetings of the Chapter; c. the handling of all financial accounts of the Chapter; d. sending reports of meetings of the Chapter to the Western Regional Representative within thirty (30) days of the meeting.

G. The above elected officers shall form the Executive Committee.

Article VII. Meetings

A. Meetings of the Chapter shall be called by the elected officers.

B. An annual business meeting shall be held in the fall of the year for the purpose of electing officers.

C. There will be a fall and spring meeting with additional meetings called by the officers as deemed appropriate.

D. Announcements of meetings shall be sent to the membership at least thirty (30) days in advance of the meeting. Announcements shall also be sent to the Western Regional Representative at this time.

Article VIII. Special Committees

Special project committees shall be voted on by the membership of the Chapter or by written petition submitted to the Executive Committee by no fewer than five personal members.

Article IX. Affiliation

Affiliation with other organizations in the Northern California area shall be at the discretion of the Executive Board of the Society and shall be in accordance with guidelines supplied by the Executive Board.

Article X. Amendments

A. Amendments to these Bylaws may be proposed by any voting member and shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Committee.
B. The text of a proposed amendment shall be distributed to the voting membership at least two (2) weeks prior to a business meeting.
C. Approval of a two-thirds majority of those members voting attending the business meeting and the approval of the Executive Board of the Society shall be necessary to amend the bylaws.

Article XI. Dissolution

Upon the dissolution of the organization or the winding up of its affairs, the assets of the organization shall be distributed exclusively for charitable or educational purposes or to organizations which are then exempt from federal tax under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal revenue Code of 1986 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws and to which contribution are then deductible under Section 170 (c)(2) of such code or corresponding provisions of any subsequent federal tax laws. Organizations having proposals similar to those of this organization shall be preferred.

Members List

Irene Poon Andersen, Art Dept., San Francisco State University
Ann Armstrong, Student, San Jose State Univ. SLIS
Mary Ashe, Retired, San Francisco Public Library
Greg Borman, SLIS student, San Jose State University
Nensi Brailo, California College of the Arts
Howard Brainen, Two Cat Digital, Image Management Services
Abby Bridge, SF Museum of Modern Art
James R. Burch, Retired, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley
Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley
Eugenie Candau, Retired, SF Museum of Modern Art
Ruth E. Carsch, Consulting Librarian/Information Specialist
Leia Casey, Berkeley Public Library
Kate Connell, City College of San Francisco
Lisa Conrad, SLIS student, San Jose State University
Edith Crowe, Retired, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose State University
Heather Cummins, Visual Resources Specialist, Academy of Art University Library
Abby Dansiger, Cataloger, Academy of Art University
Dasha Dekleva, San Jose State Univ. alumna
David Eifler, Reference and Instruction, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley
Anna Fishaut, Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library
Kara Flanigon, Berkeley Public Library
Elizabeth A. Ginno, Cal State University, East Bay
Jeff Gunderson, Anne Bremer Memorial Library, SF Art Institute
Nina Hagiwara, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University
Katherine Henderson, Retired
Lillian Hetherington, Academy of Art University Library
Dayna Holz, Berkeley Public Library
Giovanna R. Jackson, California State University, Chico
Mia Jaeggli, Environmental Design Library, UCB and student, San Jose State
Stephanie Janney, Student, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mary Marsh, City College of San Francisco
S. Elizabeth Marshak
Carrie McDade, student, San Jose State Univ.
Bonnie McLeskey,
J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books & musical Autographs
Mary Poupart
Louisa Roberts, alumna, Drexel University, and intern, UCB Env. Des. Lib.
Barbara Rominski, SF Museum of Modern Art
Andrea Segall, Retired, Berkeley Public Library
Jay Towne Smith, San Francisco Public Library
Linda Smith, Menlo College
John Stucky, C. Laan Chun Library Center, Asian Art Museum
Kay Teel, Catalog Dept., Meyer Library, Stanford University
Darlene Tong, J. Paul Leonard LIbrary, San Francisco State University
Lisa Velarde, former Asst. Dir./Ref & Instr. Librarian, Acad. of Art Univ.
Linda Watson, San Francisco Public Library, Art & Music Center
Kathryn Wayne, Art History/Classics Library, UC Berkeley
Judith Wehlau, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

Chapter Officers

2009

Lisa Velarde, Chair - Lisa is a former Assistant Director/Reference & Instruction Librarian at the Academy of Art University in SF. She'll be working part-time at the College of San Mateo Library in the fall.
Anna Fishaut, Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect - Anna is Assistant Librarian at Stanford University's Art & Architecture Library. She received her MA in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MLS from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Louisa Roberts, Secretary/Treasurer - Louisa Roberts completed her MLIS from Drexel University in March '09. She's just begun an internship at UCB Environmental Design Library and is currently on the lookout for her dream job in a museum or art history library.

For contact info. click here.

2008

Instructions for Joining Listservs

Here are instructions for joining discussion lists related to art librarianship.

ARLIS-CA, the Listserv for the Northern & Southern California Chapters:

• Please note: As of Wed., Feb. 18, 2009, the listserv has migrated to new software. Please see the new ARLIS-CA Listserv Info. Page. Previous subscribers should be automatically migrated and need not establish a password unless they want to adjust settings or view list subscribers (go to the subscriber's section of the new info. page and follow the instructions). New subscribers and those needing more information should go to the ARLIS-CA Listserv Info. Page .
  
• To POST a message to the list, you must first be a list subscriber. Send your post to arlis-ca@lists.csueastbay.edu. Specify in the subject line whether the message pertains to the NC chapter or to all CA members.

ARLIS-L, the Society-wide Listserv covering the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico

• To subscribe to the listserv for ARLIS/NA, leave the subject line blank and send the message SUBSCRIBE ARLIS-L your full name (e.g.: SUBSCRIBE ARLIS-L Jane Doe) to: listserv@lsv.uky.edu
• More information about this list is available here: ARLIS-L

VRA-NC, the Visual Resources Assoc. Northern California Chapter Listserv

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• VRA-L - National Listserv
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Announcing the Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect 2010

Lisa Conrad was elected as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect for 2010/2011. Congratulations, Lisa!

Lisa Conrad's statement: click here

Lisa's resume: click here

Fall Meeting, October 23rd, Academy of Sciences

The fall meeting of our chapter was held at the California Academy of Sciences on October 23rd in San Francisco. In addition to chapter business and discussion, we visited special collections and explored the beautiful new museum.

The agenda included a presentation on a web-based platform for digital exhibitions developed by chapter member Mia Jaeggli. We also had an informal group discussion where each of the attendees introduced themselves and described their current projects. The group was then treated to tours of the collections in the Naturalist Center and in the Research Collection by librarian Larry Currie and archivist Danielle Castronovo, as well as other gracious librarian hosts.

The full minutes of the meeting will be posted soon.