artlibraries.net –Virtual Catalogue for Art History and the Future of Art Bibliography

4th General artlibraries.net meeting
Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, October 28-30, 2010

Thursday, 28 October 2010
Thematic Session: The Future of Art Bibliography (FAB) initiative
10:00h
Welcome
Drª Teresa Patrício Gouveia, Trustee to the board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Dr. José Afonso Furtado, Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Art Library.
10:15 h
Introduction: The ‘crisis’ of art bibliography
Jan Simane, Chief librarian, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Chair IFLA Art Libraries Section
10:45 h
The ‘Future of Art Bibliography (FAB)’ initiative : introduction and summary
Kathleen Salomon, Assistant Director, Getty Research Institute
11:15 h – 11:30 h
Coffee Break
11:30 h
Meta catalogues and search engines : artlibraries.net and the state of the art
Rüdiger Hoyer, Chief Librarian, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
12:00 h
Let a thousand flowers bloom: integrating proprietary and open access content
Carole Ann Fabian, Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
12:00-12:30 h
Discussion
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch (offered by the Gulbenkian Foundation)

14:00 – 15:30 h
Presentation of two prototypes for a “unified discovery experience” for the history of art:
a) OCLC proposal : aggregating discipline-based information in the OCLC environment
Jim Michalko, Vice President, OCLC Research, San Mateo, CA
b) Hybrid proposal : search engine based upon Solr/Lucene technology
Joseph Shubitowski, Head. Library Informations Systems, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
15.30-15:45 h
Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00 h
Discussion
17:00 h
Guided visit to the Calouste Gulbenkian Art Library (http://www.biblarte.gulbenkian.pt)

Friday, 29 October 2010, 10:00 h – 16:00 h
10:00 h – 11:15 h
Keynotes:
Understanding KVK, the technical base of artlibraries.net
Uwe Dierolf, Head of IT, Library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Et in Arcadia ego? A Consortial Adventure in the Transitory Landscape of Art Information
Deborah Kempe, Chief of Collections Management & Access, The Frick Collection, Frick Art
Reference Library / Lily Pregill, NYARC Project Coordinator & Systems Manager, The Frick
Collection, Frick Art Reference Library
11:15 – 11:30 h
Coffee break
11:30 – 16:00 h
Reports from the board, with discussion of each topic:
Presentation of new committee volunteers
Report on committee meetings
Possible technical developments (e.g.: improved presentation of hitlits, possibility of special icon for
electronic resources, artlibraries.net and mobile phones, artlibraries.net and Google Scholar)
Statistics
Financial situation (e.g: income through advertising and connection of commercial targets; possibility
of lowering maintenance costs)
Public relations
Presentation of new target systems and of current requests or interests for participation (e.g.:
Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Harvard Fine Arts Library, BIMUS Madrid, Bibliothèque du Musée du
Quai Branly, additional Scandinavian libraries)
artlibraries.net and the IFLA Art Libraries Section

(Lunch, offered by the Gulbenkian Foundation, from 13:00 to 14:00 h)
16:00 h
Guided visit to the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
(http://www.museu.gulbenkian.pt/main.asp?lang=en)
20.00 h
Dinner in a Fado Restaurant (requires inscription on site; price depending on the number of
participants)

Saturday, 30 October 2010
Library visits and excursions (optional)


To register, please send an e-mail to Paulo Leitão
pjleitao@gulbenkian.pt