Utilizing a range of digital tools, The Phillips Collection Library and Archives is embarking on an initiative to expand access to our exhibitions, permanent collection, and institutional history. Our tour will offer a brief overview of the Library and Archives physical collections before exploring one of our newest digital assets: a virtual gallery of imPRESSED: Emerging Artists in Ink, an exhibition of student artwork inspired by the special exhibition Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line. The student exhibition’s digital twin, created with Matterport and Treedis, is incorporated with student narratives, photographs, lesson plans, and interactive elements to further showcase the young artists’ exploration into their own artistic processes. Intended to live in perpetuity, virtual galleries of community exhibitions at The Phillips Collection present a new avenue for the Library and Archives to collect and highlight the stories of non-traditional and emerging artists.
Join us for a guided tour of the Pratt Institute Libraries. Pratt's Brooklyn Campus Library is located in Clinton Hill, in a landmark building with interiors by the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, and the Pratt Manhattan Center (PMC) Library is in a loft building on the border of Chelsea and Greenwich Village. Collections and services are focused on visual arts, architecture, design, creative writing, library science, and allied fields. The Libraries house more than 200,000 volumes of print materials, including periodicals, artists' books, zines, and the Institute archives, as well as a large circulating media and equipment collection. This prerecorded tour will introduce visitors to library spaces, collections, and workers with particular focus on unique collections.
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) was founded in Montreal in 1979 with the mission of making architecture a public concern. In 1989, we opened our current building, which features three galleries with rotating exhibitions, a bookstore, an auditorium, and a study room. Although use of the space has changed over the years, the study room now hosts both local and international researchers who wish to explore our collection. One of the unique things about the CCA is the ability for researchers to consult books, archives, prints, drawings, and photographs in one location—our study room. Here, we encourage scholarly discourse and create literal togetherness through the design of our space; our collections, such as Montreal architecture, are designed to engage local populations, while other unique collections (like many of our archives) bring together international scholars. Digitized archival items support architectural researchers near and far, and we are breaking down (literal) barriers to access by opening the study room’s front door and encouraging museum visitors to explore and connect with a curated portion of our Collection as an extension of their visit. The CCA’s study room is an essential part of the institution that, alongside our initiatives, enables research and researchers of all interests and levels. A tour of this space will highlight its thoughtful conception, including the lack of barriers between archival consultation tables, which enables and encourages scholarly conversation. CCA staff are also users of this space, encouraging further exchange. The tour will also share behind-the-scenes information about our management of the CCA Collection, including a peek into our storage vaults.
This recorded virtual tour will highlight a variety of themed collection tours and class visits originally developed for members of our university and broader community. The tour will showcase the Jean Charlot Collection's strengths, classes, student projects, and engaged groups.
Art Archivist Librarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
Malia oversees the Jean Charlot Collection, a large collection of artist papers, plus the Archive of Hawaii Artists & Architects at University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. Previously, she worked in the Library's Preservation Department, and has served as Collections Manager for the... Read More →
In every community one finds common quirks, ways and words. Ours is no exception. Nestled in the heart of Tuscany, library supplier Casalini Libri opens its doors to invite you on a light-hearted, linguistic tour of our premises, where the people that make up our community will share our unique characteristics through a selection of words, terms that over the years have taken on a definition within our walls that is wholly and quintessentially Casalini. From the instantly recognisable and emblematic red brick tower that represents us, to the stunning local setting and bustling internal operations, this tour will illustrate our work to protect and promote the richness and variety of scholarly and cultural publishing realities across Europe – with a splash of local colour!
Join the Fleet Library team for a whirlwind tour of their spaces in the RI Hospital Trust Building, a beaux-arts banking hall completed in 1917 by New York City architecture firm, York & Sawyer, and adapted into a library by Office dA, Boston, in 2006. Starting with an overview of the magnificent first floor reading room, we then journey through Technical Services into the library’s specialized areas. Visit our pioneering materials library and well-loved picture collection in the Visual & Material Resource Center. Join Special Collections and RISD Archives for highlights from our artists’ books, rare books, and archival materials documenting RISD’s history. Throughout, attendees will enjoy exclusive peeks into areas not often included on tours, such as processing facilities, storage areas, and hidden bank vaults. We look forward to opening our doors to colleagues who might not be able to visit this space in person, and will offer a 30-minute Q&A after the tour.
The Cool and Collected tour will offer an exclusive experiential look at the remarkably engineered and designed University of Minnesota Andersen Library caverns that hold various archival and special collections. The two-story high caverns were excavated from the limestone bluffs of the Mississippi River, and extend the length of two football fields. They contain more than 1.5 million volumes of books, manuscripts, illustrations and artifacts. After a twenty-minute tour of the cavern, attendees will get a "hands-on" look at selections of local artists' books and zines from The Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Books, Media, and Artist's Archives. Viewers will understand the careful considerations that went into the construction of the University of Minnesota Caverns and how our institution preserves important materials for posterity. Attendees will learn about the superbly active artists' book and zine communities in the Twin Cities and be able to identify some of the local greats found at the UMN's collection.
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Los Angeles is home to the Getty Library, an integral component of the GRI that serves the program’s mission to cultivate advanced knowledge of art and its varied histories through its numerous library services, programs, and collecting areas. For ARLIS’s 2025 virtual conference, GRI library and archives staff will provide a tour of the Getty Library that will highlight a selection of materials from the library’s extensive collections of over 1.5 million books and periodicals and over 15 miles of archives and special collections; the processing, cataloging, collection development, and reference activities that ensure these materials are accessible for researchers; as well as the physical spaces of the library, including architectural features of the building designed by architect Richard Meier.
The tour will spotlight work done by library and archives staff from a variety of departments, touching on the Getty Library’s various collection development areas; the logistics of circulation and interlibrary loan requests; the archival processing activities for both special collections and institutional archives; and cataloging work for the vast array of published materials in the Getty Library.
Information on Getty Library programs and initiatives will also be included, such as the annual library research grants that support the work of emerging and experienced art historians, and library and archival collections acquired in support of the Getty’s African American Art History Initiative, including the Whitney and Lee Kaplan Collection and the Johnson Publishing Company Archive.
