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Editorial. Focuses on the role of professional conferences in the American visual arts. Fixtures of modern professional life; Pressure to public academic papers; Acceptance of a conference topic or paper; Representation of the visual arts at the American Studies Association.

Presents news briefs concerning the preservation of library materials in the U.S. as of April 1989. Highlights of the Paper Preservation Symposium of the Technical Association for the Pulp and Paper Industry; Appropriation received by the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Program; Exploration of the role of mid-sized libraries in the nationwide brittle book preservation program.

This section offers updates on several conferences held in the U.S. on February 1983 which focused on art documentation. Conservators met in May and in September 1982 in the U.S. and addressed a number of areas of concern. The Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from May 26 to 30, 1982 and contained a wealth of information for those interested in book and paper conservation. The 1982 Congress of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, the parent of AIC, was held in Washington, D.C. from September 3 to 9, 1982. Over 700 delegates from around the world attended. Its theme was Science and Technology in the Service of Conservation, and papers focused on the collaboration between conservators and scientists. The Society of American Archivists met in Boston, Massachusetts from October 19 to 22, 2005. Its theme was Only One Among Many: Cooperation and Coordination among Allied Disciplines and Professions.

The article provides information on the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Conference held in the U.S. in August 1985. Information on the speakers and the papers presented during the conference is provided. Key note speaker Philip Pacey's paper addressed the efforts toward the goal of universal availability of art publications. Other activities include a visit to the Library of the School of the Art Institute and an open house at the library of the Harrington Institute of Interior Design.

The article presents history of science-related news briefs on topics including the History of Science Society Annual Meeting which was held in 2018, Science History Institute Haas Postdoctoral Fellow Ingrid Ockert's receipt of the 2018 2018 HSS/NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History. It states that historian Owen Hyman's won the Ronald Rainger Prize for his essay "Anxieties of the Plastic Age: Cotton Culture, White Supremacy, and Tenant Forestry in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 1935–1953."

Examines the internationalist concerns of African American women from the participation of black clubwomen in international women's conferences and their independent travels abroad. Highlights of the International Congress of Women held in Chicago, Illinois in 1893; Information on the first African American clubwoman known to have attended an International Congress abroad; Observation on African American women in the international peace movement.

The article describes the papers presented at the conference 'Regulation of Medical Innovation and Pharmaceutical Markets' held at the University of Chicago, Illinois on April 20-21, 2001. The conference brought together leading economic experts on the U.S. pharmaceutical industry to discuss policy issues facing the industry. The policy focus of the conference was motivated by the fact that medical innovation and pharmaceutical markets have been subject to substantial public intervention in terms both of regulation and of fiscal subsidies and taxes. Put together, these papers illustrate the large and important set of policy questions that continue to face the regulation of this industry.

The papers presented at the April 1975 conference on economic analysis of political behavior in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are discussed. All of the papers focused on various aspects of the relationship between law and economics. The three papers given at session 1 were all exercises in public choice, and dealt with bureaucracy. The papers in session 2 leaned towards behaviorist political science. The third session consisted of one paper about the legal system. These papers may provide an entry in the traditional political science literature for public choice students with economic backgrounds. In sum, the conference probably performed more of a role in developing interdisciplinary work than individual papers taken individually would imply.

The article reports on several developments in the Archives of American Art regional center in West Coast, U.S. as of March 1996. San Francisco artist Jerome Caja's papers, which includes correspondence, photographs and printed materials, were donated to the Archives by his executor Anna van der Meulen. The Archives have also acquired the papers of Cleo, a long-time nude model for many artists, which included her autobiography, her photographs and photos of works where she modeled. Moreover, the Archives' West Coast regional center sponsored the symposium "With New Eyes: Towards an Asian American Art History on the West Coast" held at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, along with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and San Francisco State University.

The article presents new briefs on art documentation in the U.S. as of December 1, 1987. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars has announced the opening of competition for the 1988-89 Fulbright grants in research and university lecturing abroad for periods ranging from three months to a full academic year. A calendar of meetings and workshops of various art libraries is also presented. The American Library Association and Forest Press has established an award to honor contributions made to international librarianship.

The article offers news briefs about library preservation in the U.S. as of December 1984. Carla Montori of the Yale University Preservation Department has participated in the Library Preservation: Implementing Programs conference sponsored by the Resources & Technical Services Division of the American Library Association with cooperation of the Library of Congress. Ellen McCrady was hired as preservation librarian at Brigham Young University Library. A grant was presented by Steelcase Inc. to Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio Foundation.

Presents news briefs concerning library material preservation in the U.S. as of December 1, 1988. Sponsorship by the Library of Congress Commission on Preservation and Access of a conference on the preservation of printed materials containing both text and image; Awarding of a grant to Columbia University Libraries to support its Preservation Administration Internships; Grant provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the conservation education program of the University of Iowa Libraries.

Focuses on a symposium on the life and writings of the late Afro-American political activist Eric Eustace Williams at the 87th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life History held in Orlando, Florida in October 2002. Career background of Williams; Examples of literary works presented at the symposium; Information on the Eric Williams Memorial Collection.

Provides information on the 101st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America which was held in Dallas, Texas from December 27 to 30, 2000. Awardees at the event; Officers who were elected to the Institute's Governing Board; Abstracts of the research papers at the meeting.

Information about papers discussed at a symposium sponsored by the Klingenstein Center at Columbia's Teachers College dealing on privatization and school choice is presented. The principle objective was to understand the place of independent schools in the context of American education and to deepen the sense of social responsibility among educators. The gathering started with discussion of Horace Mann's writing on democratic education.

This article focuses on the debate on "The Two Art Histories," organized by Charles Haxthausen, director of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, during the Clark Conference held from April 9-10, 1999. His goal was to explore the underlying institutional factors that help these extremes to exist, where and how the two art histories might favorably intersect and whether comparable issues are at play across the national borders of Great Britain, Germany and the U.S.

The article offers information on the new acquired papers of Southeast painter Jervis McEntee and sculptor Seymour Lipton and the symposium "Cult, Culture and Consumers: Collecting the Work of Self-Taught Artists in 20th Century America," on October 26, 1990 sponsored by The Archives of American Art and the National Museum of American Art. It mentions that McEntee papers donated by William Gaffken adds to the Archives substantial material about McEntee while papers of Lipton is donated by the artist's heirs. It also states that presentations are given by Avis Berman, art critic and writer, Susan L.F. Isaacs, doctoral candidate in folklore and folklife and Kinshasha Cornwill, executive director of Studio Museum in Harlem at the symposium.

The article reports on the 1987 conferences and meetings of several library associations in the U.S. The Libraries Institute met with vendors of laser disk systems to discuss its application for libraries and information centers. The Museum Documentation Association in its recent annual conference discussed issues of interest to providers of art information. Papers delivered at the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions Section of Art Libraries meeting are listed.

The article offers news briefs related to preservation programs for libraries and archives in the U.S. as of March 1986. The Northeast Document Conservation Center hosted an invitational Conference on Cooperative Preservation Programs for Libraries and Archives in Massachusetts from October 24 to 25. The Mexican Emergency Art Rescue Committee has been established to assess the damage caused by earthquakes to artistic heritage of Mexico. Eastman Kodak has published "Conservation of Photographs."

The article presents updates related to the cataloging and indexing systems special interest group of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)as of 1985. A number of sessions were sponsored by the group during the annual conference of ARLIS/NA held in Los Angeles, California. Members are encourage to submit their papers for a workshop/seminar on authorities. Karen Muller is resigning from the society.

Presents the proceeding of a session on artists' records at the tenth annual Art Libraries Society/NA Conference. Speakers invited; Aim of the literature on ephemera; Examples of the dynamic interaction between filmmakers and art librarians discussed by David Sutherland and Jane Block.

Presents updates on issues and events concerning photographic documentation in the U.S. as of October 1982. Use of Kodak's Eastman Color Negative II Film 5247 for still photography; Highlights of the international symposium on the stability and preservation of photographic images sponsored by the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers; Reprint of a commentary article on the organization of a Visual Resources group that was originally printed in the spring 1982 issue of the "International Bulletin for the Photographic Documentation of the Visual Arts."

Presents news briefs concerning the preservation of library materials in the U.S. as of February 1982. Highlights of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in October 1981; Schedule of the upcoming seminar of the Guild Book Workers Standards Committee; Grant received by the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

The article provides information on the topics discussed at the Society of American Archivists Conference held in Austin, Texas from October 28 to November 1, 1985. It includes the impact of automation on the archival profession and the authority files in an archival context, the museum types and changes within museum archives and professional relationships between trustees, staff and public.

Presents updates concerning the field of art documentation, as of December 1983. Details of a program of sessions conducted by the Visual Documentation Group of the Comité International d'Histoire de I'Art at the International Congrees of Art Historia in Vienna, Austria; Initiation of a photo catalog project by the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; Launch of a photography service by Eastman Kodak.

The author cites her responsibilities as the Advisory Group liaison of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Machine-Readable Cataloging in the U.S. She attended a meeting during the 1990 Annual Conference of the American Library Association (ALA) in Chicago, Illinois. The liaison's responsibility is to share the data with the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee. Meetings results summary and reporting to the ARLIS/NA executive board were her post-ALA conference responsibilities.

This article presents updates on the Art Libraries Society of North America as of 1990. Names of the committee and planning coordinators of the society's 18th annual conference in New York are listed. The strategic planning of the group is discussed. Information on the 1991 conference in Kansas City are presented.

Highlights the events during congresses concerning art documentation in the U.S. as of 1988. Annual meeting of the Southeastern College Art Conference hosted by the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago, Illinois.

The article provides updates on the programs of American Society of Naturalists. Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists 2007 joint meeting will be held in New Zealand. The Young Investigators' Prizes honors outstanding and promising work by investigators who received their doctorates in the three years preceding the application deadline.

Presents information on the annual meetings for 2002 of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Mammalogists.

The article presents an essay that investigates in the rise and fall of the agricultural innovations philosophy developed by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC) in the 1930s as a force of environmentalism in the U.S. It also concentrates on three aspects of the NCRLC after the evolution of its development, its growth around 1940, and its social process after the war including ideology, development of agricultural technologies, and orientation toward Catholic nature spirituality.

This article presents the text of the opening plenary session speech given by Fred Heath at the annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America in Houston, Texas in April 2005. Heath described research universities according to a 1994 definition of the Carnegie Foundation. The theme of the conference is highlighted. He also discussed the impact of technology on higher education in the U.S.

Highlights the April 2003 symposium in Chicago, Illinois, held by the editorial board of the journal "Critical Inquiry." Formulation of plans for the journal; Outlook for the interdisciplinary fields of criticism and theory that the journal addresses; Sessions on theory, politics and technology; Concern about the fate of literature, art and the aesthetic.

In October of 2001 the author participated in an enlightening conference at Colgate University called “ Laying Claim: (Re) Considering Artists of African Descent in the Americas,” which was organized by Mary Ann Calo and Helen Shannon. The conference and the virtual conversation that followed helped him to rethink an essay he wrote in 1994 and to consider further the resistance by many scholars in the field to the application of contemporary critical theory to African American art.He found it interesting and exciting that you utilized critical theory in your approach to African American art. It seems that many African American art historians write off discourses such as psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, queer theory, and social theory as irrelevant to black life. The author is disturbed by the focus placedon Harlem Renaissance works, while there is a tendency to negateor marginalize contemporaneous black art production.

The article covers issues related to art in the United States as of June 1984. Videodisc Publishing has completed a laser videodisc of the National Gallery of Art. The periodical "Art & Antiques" is under new management and welcomes contributions in the field of non-contemporary fine arts, decorative arts and architecture. The proceedings of the 1983 conference "Architecture and the Emerging Third Millenium" organized by the West Central Region Chapter of the American Council of Schools of Architecture has been published.

Presents updates on women artists documentation in the U.S. as of October 1983. Purpose of the bibliography publications being issued by the Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large for the University of Wisconsin System; Information on the column Highlighting Women: A Profile on Library Services and Collections, which appeared in the January 1983-March 1983 issue of "Women Library Worker" Journal; Theme of the Women's Caucus for Art 1984 National Conference on February 25, 1984.

Presents updates on visual resources (VR) in the U.S. as of December 1982. Formation of the Visual Resources Association; Information on the Art Libraries Society of North America conference; Call for nominations and volunteers for VR Moderator.

Attempts to identify the amateur from the professional politicians among a group of United States national party activists who were delegates to the 1972 Republican National Convention. Correlation between activist style and variables of annual family income, education, occupation, age, sex and race; Relationship between socialization experiences and family background; Factors that influenced the initial recruitment of politicians into Republican party organizations.

Presents updates concerning the chapters of the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) in the U.S. as of April 1988. Details of meetings conducted by the chapters; Organizational changes made by the chapters; Acquisition of some software by ARLIS/Southern California.

Presents an update on the activities of various chapters of the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) in the U.S. as of June 1982. Highlights of a spring meeting of the Arizona chapter of ARLIS on April 17, 1982; Information on a business meeting of the Delaware Valley Chapter at the Athenaeum; Main topic of discussion of the spring conference of ARLIS/Ohio at the University of Akron.

This section offers updates from the round table groups affiliated with the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) as of June 1991. Due to its decision not to sponsor a session during the 1991 conference of ARLIS/NA, the discussion of the Film and Video Round Table focused on the selection of a new coordinator for the group and planning a proposal for the 1992 conference. Following discussions at the conference, the committee of the Indigenous Art and Culture Round Table submitted a proposal for the session entitled "Access & Privacy: Ethics in Library, Archival and Visual Resource Collections," which was presented during the convention.

Announces events organized by associations in the field of natural science in the U.S. Location of the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists; Participants of the second annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge; Topics to be addressed at the 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists.

This section presents conference and meeting reports held by some art documentation and library associations in the U.S. in 1986. At the midwinter meeting of the ACRL Art Section of the American Library Association, the group worked on new activities and directions. The group also created three new committees. Meanwhile, business meeting of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) was held in New York City from February 13 to 14. The topic of VRA publications recurred throughout the meeting.

The article covers issues related to architecture in the U.S. The annual meeting of the Association of Architectural Librarians was held at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. on October 20-22, 1984. Art in public places was discussed at a symposium at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania in October 1984. The Museum of Modern Art in New York plans a series of exhibitions of the work of significant contemporary architects.

Provides information on the financial statement of the Art Libraries Society of North America annual Conference for the second quarter of the 1983 fiscal year. Comparison of the total income in March 31, 1982 and march 31, 1983; List of expenses and the corresponding budget spent; Total revenue obtained for the period January 1983 to March 1983.

The article reports on the annual business meeting conducted by Visual Resource SIG group in the U.S. in 1987. Visual Resources 1987 Moderator Eileen Fry called for every members of the group to submit articles to the journal "Art Documentation." The series of events that transpired during the past year are presented. Issues about visual resources that were suggested for the 1988 conference program are enumerated.

The article highlights the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference held from August 26-30, 1986 in the U.S. "SAA at 50: Past Accomplishments, Future Challenges" is the theme of the conference. Participation of women and minorities in the profession, the administration of national archival programs and the relationship between archivists and genealogists are some of the issues addressed in the convention. Among the guest speakers of the event include Harriet Ostroff, David Bearman and Jackie Dooley.

The article focuses on the development of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) since its inception in 1966. The Art Documentation/Update Advisory Board had worked to establish guidelines and set standards for publications and continuing education. The Society had encountered financial difficulties in 1985. Included in the events organized by the ARLIS/NA are the Los Angeles Conference chaired by Joan Benedetti and the Art Pre-Conference Session of the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Illinois.

The article presents a calendar of events in the field of architecture in the U.S. in 1985 and 1986. Mary Ison plans a session on architectural records for the April 1986 meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. An exhibition entitled "High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design" is being planned by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from September 1985 through January 5, 1986. Architecture and Allied Arts SIG moderators Kathe Chipman and Virginia Kerr are working on a program on preservation for the 1985 conference in New York.

The article offers news briefs related to women artists in the U.S. as of March 1984. The Women's Pavilion is being developed by nonprofit company Women in the Mainstream Inc. for the Louisiana World Exposition to be held in New Orleans from May 12 to November 11. A conference with the theme "Steering Our Course: Feminist Education in the 80's," organized by the National Women's Studies Association will be held at Rutgers from June 24 to 28. A conference titled "Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives," organized by the Southwest Institute for Research on Women will be held at the Arizona Heritage Center from January 12 to 15.