9:00-10:00 Coffee and orientation to the SVA Library

10:00-11:30 Small group discussions

11:30-12:30 Large group discussion

12:30-2:00 Lunch on one’s own (list provided)

2:00-3:30 Choice of tour: SVA undergraduate and graduate studios

Tour and orientation to the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

Time to visit on campus exhibitions

For more information, please contact Amanda Bowen.

You are invited to attend the spring meeting of our two regional organizations.  The meeting will offer an opportunity to look forward to chapter activities for the coming year as well as revisiting topics and initiatives that arose at the national conference in Minneapolis.  After the meeting, you’ll have time to explore Harvard libraries and museums.

We will begin the day at the William Morris Hunt Memorial Library and break off for lunch and art in the afternoon.

Agenda:

11:00 am
Chapter business meeting
Meet and greet at the William Morris Hunt Memorial Library, the main library for the Museum of Fine Arts.
Round table: “What’s new at your library?”

12:00pm
Tour of the MFA Library with Deborah Barlow Smedstad, Head Librarian.

12:45pm
Lunch in the area
(There are a variety of restaurants nearby.)

1:45pm
Afternoon group tour option:

• Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Afternoon on your own in the Fenway:

• Museum of Fine Arts
• School of the Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions, 230 The Fenway.
• William Kentridge: Ambivalent Affinities exhibition at the Mass College of Art and Design Bakalar Gallery, 621 Huntington Ave.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway.

Optional evening event:
Meet up later for drinks with colleagues and a visit to the SOWA first Fridays open studios at 450 Harrison Ave.

RSVP:
Please RSVP for the meeting to: Deb Verhoff by Monday, November 29th.

Meeting Location:
The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library is located on the second floor of Horticultural Hall, which is located across Massachusetts Avenue from Symphony Hall.

Horticultural Hall
2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Transportation:
No on-site parking garage is available for library users. It is advised that you park at a subway location and take public transportation. MBTA Subway Green Line E Symphony Station or Orange Line Massachusetts Avenue Station. The closest bus routes are #1 Mass. Ave line or #39 Huntington Ave.

The MFA has limited parking available in their garages; these are nearby on the subway line.

PURPOSE: The original purpose of the Freitag Award was to support travel to the annual ARLIS/NA conference. Since 1995, the scope of the award has been expanded to aid and encourage the professional development of chapter members by supporting research and publishing projects, continuing education, or other objectives pertaining to art librarianship, as well as travel to conferences.

QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must be a member of ARLIS/New England for one full year. The applicant cannot have received full funding from other sources for the same project or objective. Award winners will report to the chapter upon completion of the project or objective, either in writing to the president, or at one of the chapter meetings.

AWARD: Chapter members have generously contributed to the Freitag Award fund over the years and donations are always welcome. A total of $1000 in award funding will be distributed to one or more applicants during the calendar year. Applications received during the month of January will receive first priority. Additional awards will be granted if funds remain.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applicants should send a brief letter describing their project and financial need to the President by February 1, 2012. Later applications will be considered as well.

Please send to:

Amanda Bowen (abowen@fas.harvard.edu)

Two awards of $300.00 may be granted to a members of ARLIS/NE to help to defray the expense of attending the ARLIS/NA annual conference.

PURPOSE: To support the professional development of ARLIS/NE members.

ELIGIBILITY: Current ARLISNA & ARLISNE member. Applicant must be unable to receive full institutional funding toward ARLIS conference travel. Preference will be given to first time attendees and those who are participating in the conference as speakers, moderators, session recorders, or serving as a committee member.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE & DEADLINE:

Please send a letter of application describing your eligibility for the travel award. Include an estimate of conference expenses and description of all travel funding expected from your institution by February 1, 2012. Please include a current resume with your application.

Please send to:

Amanda Bowen[abowen@fas.harvard.edu]

Check out the conference blog for local fun and an insider’s peak at the conference.
http://arlisnaboston.wordpress.com