   
Section of Art Libraries
Amsterdam 1998
IFLA Conference 16-21 August
The Section of Art Libraries will be meeting as follows. Exact times are not yet available. Some general IFLA activities are also included.
Friday, 14 August
Special Libraries Coordinating Board (for elected officers only)
Saturday, 15 August
12.00-15.00: Main Convention Center
Art Libraries Standing Committee meeting I
Afternoon
Regional Caucuses
Evening
IFLA Officers reception
Sunday, 16 August
Monday, 17 August
09.00-13.00: Amsterdam Historical Museum
Art Libraries Standing Committee meeting II
12.00-13.00: National Reports
Afternoon
Opening session followed by Plenary Session
Evening
Opening party
Tuesday, 18 August
09.00-12.00: Main Convention Center
Art Libraries Section Open Session
Afternoon
Visits to the Royal Library and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague
Evening
Cultural evening
Wednesday, 19 August
All day
City walk and library visits in Amsterdam, organised by ARLIS/Netherlands for art librarians. The day will begin at 9.30 with a morning reception at the Stedelijk Museum. Followed by visits to the libraries of the Stedelijk Museum, the Vincent van Gogh Museum, the Institute for Art History of the University of Amsterdam, Artis, and the Amsterdam Historical Museum. A special lunch buffet on party ships sailing down the Amsterdam canals will be sponsored by Erasmus Booksellers. The day will end with a reception and exhibition at the Amsterdam Historical Museum. Places are limited and you will need to register for this day. A registration form appears elsewhere in this Newletter.
Thursday, 20 August
All day: Rijksmuseum
Art Libraries Section Workshop
Afternoon
Visit to the Rijksmuseum library
Evening
Library receptions at venues in and outside Amsterdam
Friday, 21 August
Saturday, 22 August
Registration
The cost of registration for the IFLA conference is 750 Dutch guilders before 1 May and 850 Dutch guilders after that. Registration forms can be obtained from
Congres secreteriat Congrex Holland
P.O. Box 302
1000 AH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 20 50 40 225
E-mail: ifla@congrex.nl
Information about the IFLA Amsterdam conference can be found on the general IFLA net website at:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm
Conference hotel
If you are going to attend the IFLA conference register early. The Gay Olympics preceed this conference and the International Radiologists Convention follow this conference so rooms will be at premium. Whilst normal practice is ‘first come, first served’ the conference organisers recommend that you should mark your conference registration form at the first line at the Name preferred hotel entry with: ‘Art Librarian’. At the second line please mark the name of hotel you prefer.
We made reservations in three different hotels in different price categories in the vicinity of the Rijksmuseum.
- Golden Tulip Barbizon Centre 360 - 390 Dutch guilders
- Museum Hotel 160 - 230 Dutch guilders (only 15 rooms available)
- Holland Hotel 130 - 170 Dutch guilders (only 15 rooms available)
The conference organisers recommend that if we wish to stay together we should register as soon as possible because the rooms cannot be held specially.
Open Session Programme
To be held at the main conference center, RAI, on the morning of Tuesday 18 August.
Theme: Bridging cultures
- Dutch influence on Japanese painting
Setsuko Nakamura, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo and Takeshi Mizutani, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte, Florence: The Role of its Library in an International Context
Gert Jan van der Sman, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia
dell'Arte, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence
- The Library of the Institut Néerlandais/Fondation Custodia in Paris and a comparison with the Libraries, especially the art sections, of other cultural centres in Paris
Anneke Kerhof, Institut Neerlandais, Paris
Workshop Programme
To be held at the Rijksmuseum, on Thursday 20 August, followed by an introduction to the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Interactive Multimedia System and a visit to the library.
Theme: Art libraries at crossroads
- Digital Image Libraries: Technological Advancement and Social Impact in the Teaching of Art and Architectural History
Angela Giral, Avery Library, Columbia University, New York
- The Cultural and Professional Pressures of Censorship in Art Libraries of the Soviet Union
Olga Sinitsyna, All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow
- The Librarian and the Libraries of Art Face the Challenge of the Internet: New Posibilities in the Presence of Technological Innovation
Alicia Garcia Medina, Instituto Patrimonio Historico Espanol, Madrid
- The Language of Things: How Research Materials Tell a Story
Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
- Museum Libraries in the Netherlands: from Hidden Treasures to Treasured Information Centers
Michiel Nijhoff, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- Kaleidoscopic Classifications: Redefining Information in a World Cultural Context
Barbara Mathe, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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