Final Fund Raising ReportAuthor(s): Sherman ClarkeSource: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1 (DECEMBER 1977), pp. 4-5Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27945953 .

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The Society needs a Newsletter editor who will be responsible for the next four issues of the Newsletter. At present it appears that an editor would be responsible for collecting and editing copy for the Newsletter: advertising, printing, proofreading, etc. will not be part of the editor's responsibility. If anyone is interested, please contact me soon. At present the position is unsalaried. The remaining issues in volume 6 are February, April, July-August, and October. The February issue consists chiefly of conference reports.

All personal members should be aware of the special election being held at the conference to elect a Chairman for the coming year. Proxy ballots were provided for those of you not attending the conference. The special nomina ting committee (Raissa Fomerand, Daphne Roloff, and Jane Collins) deserve recognition for the fine job they did in short order. The slate of candidates: Mary Marlin Jones, Michael Kolakowski and Kathy Ratzenberger.

At the conference two sessions will be devoted to Society business and it is hoped that the membership will take its responsibility to inform the Board of its feelings very seriously. The Board has many important decisions for which it would like advice from the membership. Members are encouraged to come prepared with questions, and suggestions.

A special supplement to the Newsletter contains the agenda for the Membership Meeting I, Monday, January 23, 1978. Also the preliminary budget has been reprinted for your convenience; the Board will be revising the figures to take into account the costs of relocation, etc.; however, it is most important that your priorities be considered.

One final note is that although we are obviously in momentary confusion with the problem of settling these problems, the Society is in no real danger of collapse, and that the Board is as usual willing to answer any questions you have relating to the operations, goals, plans, budget, constitution, conference, Newsletter or any other service of the Society.

Your patience with us will be rewarded, I am certain. The year will be rewarding and our best year yet.

It has been my pleasure to serve you this year. The list of things undone is a little overwhelming, but I am confident that I gave you the best I could. I expect to continue in a very active role during my tenure as Past Chairman, acquainting the new Board members with procedures and matters pending. Whatever success I have had has been because of your hard work, and because I have had the privilege of chairing one of the most dedicated, enthusiastic, hard-working Boards yet. Thank you for giving me a chance to serve you.

POSITION AVAILABLE: Reference Librarian/Visual Arts Specialist. General reference, library instruction, and col lection development in the visual arts. Responsible for selec tion, acquisiton, and organization of non-text materials in the visual arts. Requirements: Master's degree from an ALA accredited library school; Master's degree in art history; knowledge of French, German or Italian. Salary range: $11,000?13,000, depending on experience and qualifica tions. Position available January 1978. Send resume with names of 3 references by December 31, 1977 to: Paula Hane, Search Committee, The Library, SUNY-Purchase, Purchase, N.Y. 10577. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Final Fund Raising Report 10 November 1977

Donations.$1230.00 Loans without interest. 900.00 Loans with interest. 475.00

Total ? $2605.00

Geographic Breakdown

New England.$ 660.00 East. 665.00

Midwest. 635.00 West. 345.00

Canada. 300.00

In addition a number of early renewals were received. The Board extends deep thanks to all of you who responded to our plea.

Sherman Clarke Treasurer, ARLIS/NA

POSITION AVAILABLE: Cataloger for book collection of large museum library. Responsibilities: original and copy cataloging and classification using AACR, Dewey, and LCSH as adapted to fit specialized needs; filing and catalog editing. Qualifications: B.A. in art history, M.L.S. from ALA accredited school; working knowledge of two or more lan guages including Spanish, Italian, or German. Two years cataloging experience. Available immediately. Salary: nego tiable. Apply by February 1, 1978 to: Ann Rice, Associate Director, Personnel Department, The Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Avenue at Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. An equal opportunity employer M/F.

POSITION AVAILABLE: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Art Curator. $13,700?$15,525. 12 month position for person with extensive administrative experience in a history of art slide and photograph collection. Reading knowledge of at least 2 foreign languages desirable. MA in History of Art, or MLS plus BA in Art History. Duties include supervising slide collection, training staff, administering the budget, and acquiring slides and photographs. University of Michi gan, Office of Professional and Administrative Staff Serv ices, 1020 "B" LS & A Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. A non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer.

POSITION AVAILABLE: Summer Internship. The National Gallery of Art is offering once again a summer

internship in its Library. The position, effective from June 19 to September 1, 1978, is at the Civil Service GS-5 level ($383.20 gross pay biweekly).

The intern will be responsible for the organization and de velopment of one of the following special library collections: Vinciana, 17th and 18th century European auction catalogs, history of German painting, early 20th century Italian ex hibition catalogs and museum handbooks, Western European and American exhibition catalogs. The work will include: bibliographic checking, preliminary cataloging, annotating bibliographies and preparing want lists for acquisition.

The candidate must be a U.S. citizen and have received a B.S. degree with an overall grade-point average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 system at the time of application. The appli cant must have completed a minimum of 15 hours in the history of art at the undergraduate or graduate level. A read ing knowledge of French, Italian and/or German is essential.

The deadline for application is April 15, 1978. For addi tional information write or telephone: Summer Employment Coordiantor, Personnel Office, National Gallery of Art, 6th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20565. Telephone: (202) 737-4215, ex. 311.

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POSITION AVAILABLE: Librarian ? Art School. Im mediate opening. Position to be filled no later than March 1. MLS or equivalent professional experience required, and three or more years professional library experience in a pro fessional art school or in a museum or university art library, including experience working with students and faculty, supervisory experience, and thorough acquaintance with the whole field and bibliographic resources of visual and related arts. Responsibilities include budget management and plan ning, solicitation of acquisitions, initial preparation of fund

raising proposals, selection of materials, working with

faculty library policy and budget committee, and policy development and supervision of staff, as well as facilitating the use and growth of the library as an educational resource for the whole school. Salary: $13,650. Four weeks vacation. Send letter of application and resume by January 31,1978 to Ann Rice, Associate Director of Personnel, Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Avenue at Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. An equal opportunity affirmative action

employer.

CISSIG NEWS FIRST AN APOLOGY. As editor of the "CISSIG News column," I wish to express my apologies to the ARLIS/NA membership for the omission of this column in the last issue of the Newsletter. Due to circumstances beyond my control, the column was not published in spite of special efforts upon my part to submit the manuscript for the column in advance of the specified deadlines. It is greatly regretted if any of the information given below may appear dated as a result of the delay in its publication.

WHAT TO CALL THE WORK OF ART? Results of the "CAC Questionnaire on LC Subject Headings for Individual Works of Art" are as follows: Retaining the present LC practice of distinguishing between movable and permanently located works of art in choice of entry; yes: 3; no: 30. Entering all works of art by known artists (excluding architecture) whether the work of art is permanent or not; yes: 32; no: 0. If entered under artists' name, use: Artist?Name of work: 18; Artist? Individual works?Name of work: 16. For anonymous works of art, enter under name of city if permanently located and directly under name if movable (this is current LC practice): 10; enter always directly under name: 18.

The following alternative forms of entry were suggested: "Anonymous?Name of work?Period?Place"; for

generic names, enter under the site for collection; enter under place for all works; and "City?Anonymous works?Name of work."

The language chosen for the name of the work of art should always be English: 6; the artist's vernacular, if known ? otherwise English: 15; the choice should depend on how the work is best known: 9. Comments included the following: use the vernacular, but add the English in parentheses; prefer the English unless the foreign language names appear in more of the standard reference sources; no standard can be applied to all works; always make cross references from an English language title when using a vernacular title; and when determining how a work is best known, use reference sources in the language of the artist. Reference tools suggested for verifying the form of a name of a work of art are as follows: Encyclopedia of World Art, Pelican History of Art, RILA, Benezit, Thieme-Becker, local guide books, catalogues raisonnes, art survey books, etc.

Many persons responding to the questionnaire emphasized that a single, consistent approach was needed in the forming of headings for works of art, especially since very few works are really permanent but

are often subject to being moved from one locality to another. The resulting CAC position papers appear in the center section of the Newsletter. Additional copies are available for $2.00 from ARLIS/NA, 1222 East 52nd Street, Chicago, IL 60615.

HELPING UNEARTH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

LC Cataloging Service Bulletin, number 122, Summer, 1977, pages 18?20, gives a number of most helpful guidelines on the assigning of a combination of subject headings to works discussing the archaeology of particular places. The general rule given states that a combination of the following types of headings should be used as needed: (1) placename (usually the country except in those instances where first-order political sub-divisions are to be used) with the subdivision, "Antiquities" (which may be further divided by such qualifiers as "Buddhist," "Celtic," "Roman," etc., e.g., "Antiquities, Celtic"); (2) names of peoples, cultures, or periods with local subdivisions if divisible by place, adding "Antiquities" in those cases where peoples are still extant, e.g., "Mayas? on an aspect of a culture, e.g., pottery, burial practices,

agriculture, etc., and (4) "Excavation (archaelogy)" divided by place, if the publication discusses excavations carried out, techniques of excavating used, artifacts uncovered, etc. See the issue of the Cataloging Service Bulletin for a more detailed discussion of the types of headings to be used and for a list of examples.

WHAT'S NEW AT LC FROM DC June and September meeting reports from the ARLIS/DC-Maryland-Virginia Chapter Cataloging Interest Group bring news of a number of new policies being followed in LC subject cataloging and of discussion on a number of art-related cataloging procedures.

One of the most important of the news items is that a new subdivision pattern has been approved for "Christian art and symbolism" which is now to be divided by period, e.g., "Christian art and symbolism?Renaissance, 1450

1600." The new pattern will also be applied to headings not divided by period up to this point in time. The new

period divisions are to be used in addition to such sub divisions as "Prints?19th century" and headings for subjects usually classified in NK that are first subdivided by "History" and then by century, e.g., "Glassware?

History?20th century."

Century divisions have been established but have not as yet been printed for all of the following headings with none of the subdivisions using the term, "Modern:" Pottery, Prints, Water color painting, Landscape painting, Drawing, and Portraits.

"Portraits" is to be retained by LC in the plural form and will continue to be used for general works on all types of portraiture, e.g., sculpture, painting, prints, etc. While not divided chronologically as yet, "Portraits," when divided, will use subdivisions like those for "Portrait painting" in addition to stylistic modifiers already used, e.g., "Portraits, Renaissance."

Other new developments at LC are as follows:

Subdivisions to be used under names of artists are soon to be set up.

"Painting, Abstract" is now an established heading.

A heading for artists' books or livres d'artiste is to be established soon.

Rather than setting up a heading parallel to "Blind, Literature for the," the heading, "Blind?Education? Art," has been established.

"Naval prints" is an established LC heading, but

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