Saturday, October 22, 2016

Spring 2016 Meeting Minutes


The meeting minutes for the Spring 2016 chapter meeting at UC Berkeley's Doe Library can be accessed here.

Thanks again to everyone who attended!

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Fall Meeting to Take Place in San Francisco on November 1


Please join the ARLIS/NA Northern California Chapter  
for our fall meeting in San Francisco 
on Tuesday, November 1 from 10:00am  - 4:00pm.


Morning session 10:00am-12:00pm
North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, Downtown San Francisco
678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

10:00-11:00am Archivist Jaime Henderson will share treasures from the Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing
11:00am-12:00pm ARLIS/NA Northern California Chapter business meeting

Parking and Public Transportation options 

Lunch 12:00-2:00
Lunch on your own + time to view California Historical Society’s current exhibition in the gallery Native Portraits: Contemporary Tintypes by Ed Drew and pop into local galleries

Afternoon session 2:00-4:00pm
American Bookbinders Museum, 355 Clementina St San Francisco, CA 94103

Librarian/Archivist Elspeth Olson will share some favorite items from the library’s collection. In addition, there will be time to explore the new exhibition Books and Mud: The Drowned Libraries of Florence 


Or RSVP directly to Vice Chair Christina Moretta.


We have some upcoming (optional and informal) SOCIAL EVENTS of interest:

  • Thursday, October 27 at 6pm. Come mingle with a few chapter members at the Metropolitan Club. We'll be attending San Francisco Heritage's lecture: Bliss & Faville: Architecture and the Profession in Early 20th Century San Francisco
  • Thursday, November 17, 6-8pm. Happy Hour Book Club: Sally Mann's Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs. Location TBD but in San Francisco.
  • Wednesday, 6-7:30pm. Mills College Library Director and Special Collections Curator, Janice Braun, offered to lead a tour of the Patti Smith: Root Connection: 20 Years of The Patti Smith Collection and Shinichi Iova-Koga: The 96th Ritual (for Anna Halprin) at Mills College Art Museum RSVP to Mary by October 21 to determine best date.