Thursday, September 14, 2006

Multiple Positions Available at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Click on the position title for more information.

Librarian 06MP-6279
GS-1410-09
AA/PG Branch Library
Salary $44,856 - $58,318 per year
Promotion potential to GS-11
CLOSING DATE: October 3, 2006

Library Technician (OA) 06MP-6287
GS-1411-07
Book Conservation Lab
Salary: $36,671 - $47,669 per year
CLOSING DATE: October 11, 2006

Librarian (Reference) 06MP-6284
GS-1410-09
Reader Services Strategic Plan Division
Salary $44,856 - $58,318 per year
Promotion potential to GS-11
CLOSING DATE: November 13, 2006

Librarian (Catalog) 06MP-6275
GS-1410-09
Cataloging Services Department
Salary $44,856 - $58,318 per year
Promotion potential to GS-11
CLOSING DATE: November 1, 2006

Friday, September 08, 2006

»SAVE THE DATE--Friday, October 20.

ARLIS-DMV/VRA-Mid-Atlantic joint meeting at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

In addition to business meetings and opportunity to catch up with our colleagues, we will enjoy a tour of the USNA Museum and Campus, and hear about several image digitization projects at the University of Maryland and the National Gallery of Art. If you are thinking about using ARTstor or beginning your own digital image project, come hear what your colleagues have accomplished and what they learned in the process.

More details will follow soon!

Please contact Cameron Caswell or Emily Rafferty with any questions.

Join ARLIS/DC-MD-VA for a winter event at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 3:00 pm.

NMWA Curator of Book Arts, Krystyna Wasserman will give us a tour of the exhibition The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists?Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (on view October 27, 2006 ?February 4, 2007). The exhibition will feature 105 unique and limited edition artists?books created by 83 artists from 12 countries and 25 states. It will include works from 1970 to the present collected by NMWA since the museum’s founding. Some of the artists whose works will be included are Carol Barton, Mirella Bentivoglio, Julie Chen, Susan King, Audrey Niffenegger, Meret Oppenheim, Claire Van Vliet, and Kara Walker. For more information about the exhibition, please see: http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=150

After the tour, attendees will have the opportunity to do some holiday shopping at NMWA’s Celebrate the Season event. We’ll also gather for drinks afterward at a restaurant near NMWA (TBD).