Library volunteer opportunity at Stuart Hall Library, Iniva

Stuart Hall Library, Iniva:

Volunteers for Closed Week, 3-7 September 2012, unpaid

Stuart Hall Library, part of Iniva at Rivington Place, London is a special library focusing on international visual arts.

The Library is closing for a week in September to undertake essential housekeeping work, and the Library team are looking for volunteers to help.

This is an opportunity for:

- Those with an interest in libraries

- Pre-library school applicants to acquire basic library skills

- Library professionals to maintain their skills

You will gain valuable insights into how a special Library collection is managed and organised by working on tasks including:

- Shelf tidying

- Journals and zines processing

- Basic catalogue work

- Collection care

Professional Library qualifications are not essential, but knowledge of how to use a Library and searching catalogues is required. You will need to be available for at least three days between Monday 3 and Friday 7 September, 10.30-4.30.

Lunch and travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Please email Sonia Hope, Library Manager explaining why you would like to volunteer at the Stuart Hall Library.

shope@iniva.org

Closing date: Friday 10 August.

Informal meetings to be held week beginning 13 August.

http://www.iniva.org/library/

Careers in Art History day

Organised by the Association of Art Historians (AAH) Student Members Committee, the Careers in Art History day 'welcomes a wide range of speakers, who will offer informative presentations on career paths into the art world, including museums, auction houses, art education, academia, libraries and archives.'

The event will be held on 27 October 2012 at The Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Booking can be completed online through the events page of the AAH website.
http://www.aah.org.uk/events

Getty Research Portal

The Getty Research Institute is launching the Getty Research Portal which will provide access to digitized texts in the field of art and architectural history and will be free to access online. It is due to be launched on 31st May 2012.

See this article from artdaily.org for more information:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55320

Landscape libraries

Interesting project based at the National Library of Wales around artist Kyffin Williams, combining art librarianship, art history and all kinds of mad digital stuff ...

http://landscapelibrariesdigitalpaint.wordpress.com/

An Introduction to Art & Design Reference Resources

A big thank you to everybody to spoke at and helped out at our event on Monday 5th December; 'An Introduction to Art & Design Reference Resources'. The event went well and we hope the delegates who attended found it an interesting and enjoyable day.

Here's a few pictures taken of the 'Enquiry Referral work: specialist sources and practical session' held in the lovely National Art Library at the V&A Museum, and of the talk given by Andrew Callen of Salford University on 'Supporting students with Dyslexia in art and design enquiry

work'.