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WEBINAR:  More Than Just Art: Discover Artstor’s Fashion and Costume Collections

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Excuse cross-posting: The ARLIS/NA Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines

Greetings FTC SIG members!

The following important message was sent on the ARLIS/NA list.  The ARLIS/NA Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines needs to be updated and right now is the time to help.

PLEASE review the fashion information competencies (pp. 19, 29, & 36) sections and make suggestions for updates and improvements!!!

Things to think about:  What information resources must your fashion design students be familiar with in order to succeed in their studies and professions?  Their assignments?  Trend forecasting databases?  Trade journals?  Social media tools?  Is there anything in the current document that isn’t relevant?

Please respond ASAP.   Many libraries are required to demonstrate teaching effectiveness with general and subject-specific Student Learning Outcomes; this competencies list provides outcomes for us all.

Thank you!

Sandra

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Hello ARLIS/NA,

The Research & Information Services Section (RISS) is considering revising and updating the 2006 ARLIS/NA Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines. Provided that the Information Competencies were created ten years ago, how might they be updated to reflect the current research environments?

A small working group of authors of the report and RISS members are exploring answers to this question. We welcome your feedback on how you are using this professional document.

https://goo.gl/forms/VmmuoXEZrKmblgBi2

This informal survey will only take a few minutes to complete and your comments will greatly assist us.

Many thanks,
Amanda Meeks, RISS Moderator

Alyssa Vincent, RISS Vice Moderator

Jane Carlin

Alan Michelson

Shannon Marie Robinson

 

Shannon Marie Robinson
Liaison Librarian, Media Arts & Design, Drexel University
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Article of Interest – Fashion’s Attics: Italian Fashion Archives

Pucci scarves from the sixties and seventies pour out of a doorway within a nineteenth-century fresco in the Palazzo Pucci, in Florence. “It’s a happy brand,” Laudomia Pucci, the family archivist, says.  Photograph by Lorenzo Vitturi.

Wallace-Wells, Benjamin et al. “Fashion’s Attics”.  The New Yorker. N.p., 2017. Web. 14 Mar. 2017.  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/fashions-attics

“In Italy, the state is weak and the family is strong, so it’s logical that, when it comes to preserving their histories, fashion houses—often second- or third-generation family operations—do it themselves. What to do with bolts of nineteen-fifties tweed so heavy that to wear it in a modern office would court heatstroke? Or fragile sandals made of straw, from the Fascist period, when leather was needed for soldiers’ boots? All’archivio!“

NOLA/ARLIS 2017: Extraordinary Textile Art by Chris Roberts-Antieau at Antieau Gallery

Greetings ARLISians!  If you’re at the ARLIS/NA 2017 Conference in NOLA, please make time to stop by the Antieau Gallery in the French Quarter to view the haunting textile art by Chris Roberts-Antieau.  A combination of intricate embroidery and fabric appliqué, these pieces really must be seen in person to be fully appreciated.  My snapshots don’t come close to doing them justice.

 

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