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Title: Association of Architecture School Librarians AASL 28th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 330412006


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Association of Architecture School Librarians
(AASL) 28th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City,
3/30-4/1/2006
  • (or, Spencers and Pats excellent adventure as
    Paula Wolfes representatives)

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SLC Hilton our home away from home
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Our home room
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View from our window
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Another window, further up
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Hiltons Trofi dining room, our first meeting
with the librarians.
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The Granite Room, central meeting room for the
AASL conference.
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Familiar faces begin to emerge
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John Schlinke of Roger Williams U. (RI),
conference organizer, with Michael Mothu of ACSA
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The Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ACSA) Conference is always held
concurrently with the AASL meeting
  • 550 to join the ACSA
  • 150 to attend the conference
  • Relations are strained between ACSA and AASL the
    former demands substantial funds to make
    conferences self-supporting the latter regards
    policies as penny wise, pound foolish
  • Ignacio San Martin, Laura Hollengreen, and Jason
    Vollen were UA presenters at the ACSA conference.
  • Conference theme was Getting Real Design Ethos
    Now
  • Keynote speaker Shigeru Ban of Tokyo, Japan

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My first foray into the password-protected
portion of the ACSA web page
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Our second presentation Jane McMaster of OSU on
the new Knowlton Architecture library space
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The Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State
University
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Another view of the school
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Interior Space library is on the top two floors.
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As can be seen here, the library is surrounded by
glass.
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Library floor plan much longer and skinnier than
they would have liked.
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Library interior Special Collections and
glass-covered stacks are on the top floor.
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Roof garden adjacent to the library top floor a
theme that will repeat itself during our tour of
the SLC Public Library.
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The library is famous for its collection of
designer furniture.
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On our way to our first tour look both ways
before crossing intersections!
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If not at an intersection, use these flags to
keep motorists from killing you.
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Artspaces Pierpont warehouse renovation
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Artspace
  • Artspace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community
    development organization founded in 1980 and
    working to revitalize neighborhoods by creating
    mixed-use projects that incorporate affordable
    housing, cultural amenities, and commercial
    spaces.
  • Artspace projects are catalysts for revitalizing
    the neighborhood and spurring further
    development. Artspace projects contribute to the
    arts and culture of the community by providing
    affordable artist studios and galleries. The
    projects also create synergy between the artists,
    nonprofit agencies and residents living and
    working in Salt Lake City.

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The Art Access Gallery in the Artspace Pierpont
complex
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Exhibit seen Quinn Jacobsons wet-plate
collodion photography. The process was
abandoned, and, in a lot of ways, I feel that the
people who I photograph are abandoned as well.
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The tour continues to an old warehouse renovation
where railroad cars used to park inside.
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Skylights have been cut in the railroad car space.
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Soon the space will be ready for occupancy.
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The professionals (and two paraprofessionals)
gather for a group photo by another Artspace
apartment renovation.
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After dinner, another tour commences to the
massive LDS conference center of some 21,000
seats.
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Part of the tour includes a rehearsal of the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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We were there!
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Day 2 The State of Instruction in Architecture
School Libraries, Jeanne Brown of UNLV
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The State of Instruction in Architecture
  • Handouts from Jeanne Browns lecture
  • UNLV Survey
  • Background and discussion topics
  • Research Log Project
  • Rationale for a research log
  • Goals of research in the academic setting
  • Categories of the log
  • Information needed or topic being researched
  • Date of searching activity
  • Tool or source used to find/research
  • Type of search conducted and search terms used
  • Results (and explanation if relevant) along with
    appropriate citations
  • Evaluation of the findings or of the search
    process
  • Tips in developing the research and information
    log
  • Criteria upon which the log will be evaluated
  • Sample research log
  • Information competencies for architecture
    students
  • Core competencies for students in all design
    disciplinesbasic skills (just the first 2 yrs.)

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The State of Instruction in Architecture (cont.)
  • UNLV Survey sent to the AASL list 3/6/2006
    indicators
  • Involvement with Information Literacy
  • of 21 responses only six have instruction on
    information literacy
  • Number of libraries with online tutorials only
    four provided URLs, and those are guides for the
    most part
  • http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Guides.html
  • http//www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/guides.html
  • http//www.library.gatech.edu/architect/tutorial.h
    tml
  • http//www.library.unlv.edu/arch/instr/
  • Level of student most consistently involved in
    library instruction
  • First year
  • Graduate

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The State of Instruction in Architecture (cont.)
  • Sample web tutorial/guide from UNLV

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Relevance to UA Library MAT staff
  • Architecture libraries with front-end reference
    staff handle undergraduate-level questions and
    pass along graduate-level questions to the
    librarian
  • Current training of MAT staff at Fine Arts seems
    to be only a little beyond the freshman level for
    architecture

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Collection Development Roundtable, hosted
byBarbara Opar, Syracuse University
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Collection Development Topics
  • Collection in general
  • New directions, new areas being researched
  • Areas in which interest has lagged
  • Formats
  • New online tools/subscriptions, incl. Material
    ConneXion, image collections
  • Materials labs
  • Collection Management
  • Deselectionwhat
  • Multiple copies collected/retained
  • Established practices for ref. works, esp.
    technical sources
  • Old editions of ref. tools whats kept (e.g. old
    building codes)
  • Redundancy of formats, e.g. JSTOR journals

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Collection Development Topics (cont.)
  • Assessment
  • OCLC collections analysis
  • Projects
  • Digitizinglocal collections, slidesany
    experience?
  • Funding
  • Has the budget gone up, down, or remained stable?
  • How much has inflation impacted
  • Approval plansvendorsadvantages/disadvantages
  • Policies
  • Circulation, incl. journals (esp. pre-1930 vols.)
  • Retention of student theses/dissertations
  • Marketing
  • Databases, image collections

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Architecture Libraries and Schools of
Architecture Real Collaboration for Student
Success (free afternoon redux of the morning
AASL/ACSA joint session)
  • Librarian Shannon Van Kirk (now of California
    Polytechnic State U. was at Miami) and Architect
    Ben Jacks (Miami University) discuss their
    literacy project collaboration

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Shannon Van Kirk and Ben Jacks
  • Information Literacy is now a job description,
    using ACRL information literacy competency
    standards
  • Definition of Information Literacy
  • The set of skills and experiences that enable
    life-long learning
  • Information Literacy, especially the art of
    polemic writing, seems to be the weakest area of
    an architecture students training
  • Twelve week course
  • Week 1 Framing Topic
  • Week 2 Epistemology
  • Week 3 Previous Research
  • Week 4-5 Research Methodologies, Thesis Writing
  • Week 6-7 Narrative Literature Review
  • Week 8 Thesis Draft due
  • Week 9-11 Practice Presentation
  • Week 12 Thesis Development
  • Peer Review Technique read to peers who evaluate
  • Transition to scholar experience research
    scholarship

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Heather Ball of Virginia Tech development of a
web-accessible research packet for the
study-abroad program at CESA (Center for European
Studies in Architecture)
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VT Study-abroad packet, cont. Sample page using
Luna Insight
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VT Study-abroad packet, cont.
  • A packet for the study-abroad program is prepared
    ahead of the architecture students trip
  • Packets include images, plans, journals and
    monographs from a variety of sites pertaining to
    the area visited. Each image is fully cited.
  • Students can access from the VT webpage via a
    secure login from anywhere in the world

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Tara Carlisle of UT Austin describes the
Materials Resource Center at the University of
Texas
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Materials Resource Center at UT Austin (cont.)
  • Over 20,000 material samples
  • Each material is barcoded and cataloged using LC
    classification for materials
  • Probably the most comprehensive materials
    collection in the country
  • Materials not available for ILL (not even to the
    Materials Access Team)!
  • Publicly-accessible web catalog at
  • http//web.austin.utexas.edu/Matlab

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Materials Resource Center at UT Austin (cont.)
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Janine Henri of UT Austin (who seems to know
everything about everybody) discusses the
commercial database, Material ConneXion
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Material ConneXion (cont.)
  • Available via individual subscription (150/yr.)
    or at an institutional rate (for UA, about
    4.5K/yr.)
  • Two-week free trial
  • Recommended to Paula Wolfe, who will explore
    joint funding from Architecture and Engineering
    departments

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Tour of the Salt Lake City Public Library
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Shadowy librarians gather for the tour
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SLC Public Library Fun Facts
  • Designed by world-renown Israeli architect Moshe
    Safdie
  • Incorporates many Middle-Eastern themes
  • Does not use AC, but a form of evaporative
    cooling during the summer, and a clerestory
    collector above the childrens reading room for
    partial solar heating during the winter

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The Clerestory above the Childrens Collection
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Sunshade detail in Childrens Collection
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Child study nook based on Superman fortress
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Ascending.
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Skylight based on the Eye of Osiris Up on the
rooftop for the librarians.
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Cat- Walk On The Way Down
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Spencers expensive steak house in SLC
Hilton.Pats Hamburger stand near Grande and
Speedway, Tucson
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