to:            UC Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections

from:      Leslie Abrams, Art Bibliographers Group Chair 2006-7

date:       August 15, 2007

University of California Art Bibliographers Group

Annual Report 2006-7

 

Membership changes

 

Leslie Abrams (UCSD) assumed role as Chair, effective Fall 2006.

 

Activities during 2006-7

 

·         Early California Art and Architecture Journals Digitization Project update – Under the leadership of Elizabeth Byrne (UCB), an updated project proposal was shared with the group and discussed during our meeting at the ARLIS/NA Atlanta conference. Suggestions were provided from the group for further developing the proposal.

 

·         Dan Goldstein (UCD) led the effort to add the National Palace Museum Image Database http://www.culturalcafe.com/gallery_main.htm via insight which was supported by the UC Art Group.

 

·         Individuals in the group participated in discussions leading to the recommendation that UC license ARTstor http://www.artstor.org/info , including using ARTstor as a platform for shared image collections.

 

·         Members of the Group met during the ARLIS/NA Annual conference in Atlanta in May 2007.

 

Ongoing activities

 

Resource Liaisons

Members of the group serving as resource liaisons this past year include:

• Dan Goldstein (UCD) - Project MUSE
• Krista Ivy (UCR) - Art Bibliographies Modern (Tier 2)
• Susan Jurist (UCSD) - Bibliography of the History of Art; Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
• Susan Koskinen (UCB) - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Susan Moon (UCSB) - Art Index Retrospective, Art Full Text
• Vicki Bloom (UCR) Grove Art Online (Tier 2). 
• The following resources do not have liaisons: Design and Applied Arts Index (Tier 2), Index to Christian Art (Tier 2); SCIPIO.
• ARTstor: establishing a set of liaisons for each campus for ARTstor is still in process, but the following UC Art Bibliographer Group members served in 2007:

Kathryn Wayne (UCB), Robert Gore (UCLA), Dan Goldstein (UCD)

 

 

Goals and objectives for 2007-8

 

1.      Complete JSCSC Survey, identifying new or expanding access to existing licensed resources of high priority to the arts.

 

2.      Do a call for resource liaisons for unclaimed titles: DAAI (Tier 3), Index to Christian Art (Tier 2); SCIPIO.

 

3.      Plan a fall 2007 meeting for the Art Bibliographer Group at one of the UC campuses.