Saturday, March 31, 2001

Enrollment Limit: 35 people

Location:

The Resource & Research Center, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, 919 South Grand Avenue (5-6 blocks southeast of the Wilshire Grand Hotel). Use Century Parking Lot under FIDM building. Parking free on Saturdays.

Workshop Moderators:

Barbara Q. Prior, Head, The Clarence Ward Art Library, Oberlin College
Miranda Haddock, Visual Resources Librarian, Western Michigan University

Sponsors:

Academic Library Division; Reference & Information Services Section (RISS)

This workshop is wheelchair accessible

Welcome to L.A., "movie capital of the world," and a great place to learn about film and artists' videos! Have you ever wished film courses had been available in library school or elsewhere? Do you struggle trying to purchase the new "time art" (artists' videos, CD-ROMs, multimedia, etc.) for your collection? Have you ever wondered if there are basic resources in costume or set design you are not familiar with or are not using to their full potential? Continuing the success of the previous "They Never Covered This in Library School" series at ARLIS/NA conferences, this workshop will cover both print and electronic resources needed to research films, time arts, and their creation. The development of both the feature film industry and the new time art will be described, the strengths and weaknesses of specific tools discussed, and collection development strategies laid out. Preservation, storage, and space planning issues for these media will also be addressed.

Speakers:

• Linda Harris Mehr, Library Director, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "Everything You Want to Know about Motion Pictures–Don’t Be Afraid to Ask: Resources at the Margaret Herrick Library"
• Anne G. Schlosser, Director, Research Library, Warner Bros. Studios
• Miranda Haddock, Visual Resources Librarian, Western Michigan University, "The Clothes Make the Movie: Periodical Resources for Costume Research"
• Sara Shatford Layne (former costume designer), Head, Cataloging Division, Science & Engineering Library, UCLA, "Costume Design: A Brief History, Some Principles, and Research Needs"
• Linda Tadic, Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Getty Research Institute, "Care of Audiovisual Materials in Mixed Collections"
• Darlene Tong, Head of Information, Research & Instruction, San Francisco State University, "Beyond Celluloid: Artist-Generated Time Arts Media–How to Research It"
• Henrietta Zielinski, Bibliographer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Beyond Celluloid: Artist-Generated Time Arts Media–How to Buy It"

Related Event:

Session 5, "Managing Moving Image Collections in Art Libraries, Sunday, 12:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.