ARLIS/UK & Ireland will hold its first virtual Annual Conference from Wednesday 21 – Friday 23 July 2021 via Zoom. This year’s conference is entitled ‘Reframing Art Libraries: From Challenge to Opportunity’
ARLIS/UK & Ireland is the Art Libraries Society, the professional organisation for people involved in providing library and information services and documenting resources in the visual arts. Founded in 1969, the Society is an educational charity with over 700 members worldwide, including librarians, archivists, libraries, publishers and specialist library suppliers.
ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference 2021
In the past decade, the importance of museums, libraries and archives within the UK and Ireland and beyond has been highlighted and debated as a result of rapid social, political and technological change.
The experiences of 2020 have highlighted longstanding issues of inequality. We have experienced enormous, dramatic and global changes in our social and political climate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the worldwide Climate Emergency.
The conference will host discussions on themes that include:
• Critical approaches to art and design librarianship
• Open access/digital approaches and initiatives in the art and design library
• Art and design publishing and libraries in the 2020s
• Future approaches to art librarianship
ARLIS 2021 seeks to address and discuss ways in which art, design and architecture libraries and archives are responding to these challenges in a creative and innovative way, the nature of critical librarianship in this climate, and the future for art librarianship in the light of these developments.
Please register to reserve your place on the Conference website.
Attendance is free but places are limited
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