Returning for its eleventh year, New Voices in the Profession provides professionals new to art librarianship the opportunity to present topics from exceptional coursework, such as a master's thesis, or topics with which they are engaged early in their professional life. New professionals are defined as either students in MLIS or Master's programs leading to a career in art librarianship, or those within five years of Master's level study. For many, this is their first professional speaking engagement. This panel began at the ARLIS/NA 2006 Annual Conference in Banff and has since received wide attention and praise. Topics presented reveal new ideas as well as different ways of thinking about established concepts. Speakers give the conference attendees a glimpse of academic interests and current discourses of the newest ARLIS/NA members. The New Voices session is organized by the Professional Development Committee, ArLiSNAP, the Gerd Muehsam Award Committee, and the Sotheby's Institute of Art Research Award Committee.
Angelique Roy, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Alumnus, “Mass Exodus: Capturing and Preserving Tacit Knowledge in the Art Library—and why this matters for us as new voices in the profession”
Nicole Lovenjak, Librarian/Archivist, University of Dayton for The Dayton Art Institute (2016 DAI Library Study), “Respecting the Past, Planning for the Future: A Report on the First Phase of the Dayton Art Institute’s Library Study and Collection Assessment”
Jade Finlinson, MLIS Candidate, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, 2017 Gerd Muehsam Award Winner, "Exploring Community Memory and Multiple Understandings of Landscape: Activating UCLA's Dept. of Geography Air Photo Archives"
S.E. Hackney, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, and Lily Brewer, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017 Sotheby’s Institute of Art Research Award Winners, "Historical 'Big Data': Visualizations of Algernon Graves' Art Sales in the Early 20th Century and Today"
This session will be recorded and made accessible after the conference in the ARLIS/NA Learning Portal.
