SCOPA Forum Update: Library Instruction in London/Thomas Arne

[Eric Friede <eric.friede@YALE.EDU>]

To all library staff,

The previously announced forum to be held in the Sterling Lecture Hall on
Monday, June 2nd, from 2:00 to 3:00 now has a second section. The second
section will be a report by Todd Gilman of his SCOPA grant-funded
work.

First Todd will share his experience consulting with London-based
instruction librarians about their information literacy assessment and
improvement initiatives. Next he will discuss his work on 18th-century
England's leading native-born composer, Thomas Augustine Arne, whose life
and works he has been researching mainly in England for the past five
years. This portion of the presentation will consist of a multi-media
introduction to Arne and his music.

Please everyone, come and enjoy two presentations for the price of one.
And since the price is free the deal can't be beat.

All staff are encouraged to attend.

For SCOPA,
Eric Friede
Divinity Library

FYI, this is the full information for the previously announced topic:
Creating a Resource for Information on
Contemporary Book Artists: Digitization of Ephemera in the Arts of the
Book Collection.

The project was a collaboration between Jae Rossman, Jennifer Weintraub
and Karen Reardon.

The Arts of the Book Collection (AOB) has several filing cabinets filled
with materials that have been collected over many years on various
contemporary artists and presses, such as postcards, keepsakes, and
exhibition announcements. This material would be valuable to historians,
practicing artists, curators, collectors, and others if only it was
easily accessible. The project tested the feasibility of organizing and
creating an online resource that would make the ephemera collection more
easily available to Yale and the larger book arts community. The project
also provided the collaborators with information on the feasibility of
making other types of materials in the AOB Collection available
online.

Come hear more about the project and see their results. And come to learn
valuable information that you can apply to your own digitization
projects.