The document discusses several collaborations between art libraries and cultural institutions to share resources and improve access to collections. It describes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library's implementation of the open-source integrated library system Koha over several years, including challenges, upgrades, and benefits. It also outlines the FLO Image Sharing Initiative between several Boston-area arts institutions to catalog and provide access to visual resources collections.

1. Defying Domains Collectively Documenting Art Library Resources By Collaboration, Innovation, Cooperation and Transformation

3. Susan Chute Supervising Librarian, Circulating Art and Picture Collections New York Public Library Selecting pictures to digitize , processing pictures hidden away for decades , and learning how our enthusiastic public uses 12,000 subject folders of pictures – well, it’s simply bewitching.

5. Francine Snyder Manager of the Library and Archives Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives Giving new life to special collections through renewed access and continued preservation. Streamlining workflows and procedures so we spend more time with the actual stuff and aren’t bogged down. Brainstorming ideas and tools for online access and promotion. Striking fear in the heart of my department with six small words, "So…I was thinking last night…" Francine displays teeth x-rays of Hilla Rebay, first curator of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, later to be called the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

6. Open Source Reality: Guggenheim Museum Library’s implementation of Koha, an open source ILS Francine Snyder Manager of Library and Archives Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

7. The Challenge 35,000+ volumes, no OPAC, limited budget, and… pro-open source IT staff. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Library circa 1970

14. One Year Later: The Launch http://srgmopac.liblime.com URL no longer valid as of January 2009 . Sent: Tuesday, March 18,2008 7:16 PM To: All Staff Subject: Library Catalog Launch Party. Tuesday, March 25, 4 pm. Cookies will be served. The Library presents the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives Online Catalog. A launch party with informal tutorials will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 4:00 pm at the Library, 345 Hudson Street. <snip>

18. Four months later: The Current OPAC Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:39 AM To: All Staff Subject: Library catalog upgrade The Library is happy to announce that the library catalog has been upgraded. The catalog can be found at: http://srgm.kohalibrary.com/ In addition to all the features of the previous catalog, the new catalog contains approximately 3,000 additional bibliographic records, refined searching, additional user features, and improved diacritic functions. <snip>

21. Open Source Reality: Guggenheim Museum Library’s implementation of Koha, an open source ILS Questions

22. Lily Pregill NYARC Project Coordinator & Systems Manager New York Art Resources Consortium Working closely with the Arcade libraries has given me a unique perspective on the different cultures of the three museum libraries. I particularly love problem solving and finding workarounds to system limitations.

23. Collaboration and the Building of Arcade Lily Pregill, ARLIS Boston 2010

24. Lily Pregill, ARLIS Boston 2010

25. Lily Pregill, ARLIS Boston 2010

26. Lily Pregill, ARLIS Boston 2010 Database Snapshots Voyager (2002); 143,444 bibs; MARC-8 Voyager (1996); 291,561 bibs; UTF-8 Millennium (1996); 335,602 bibs; MARC-8

27. Lily Pregill, ARLIS Boston 2010 Beth Kushner Assistant Librarian, Cataloging Brooklyn Museum Mark Bresnan Head, Bibliographic Records Frick Art Reference Library Danny Fermon Associate Librarian, Cataloging MoMA Technical Contacts Committee

28. No Data Left Behind: Collaboration and the Building of Arcade Questions

29. Caitlin Pereira Assistant Director for Visual Resources Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MASSART) Exercising both halves of my brain when managing images . Photo editing for the right half and cataloging for the left.

30. Jen Green Art Librarian. Lamson Library and Learning Commons Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire Right now I am most enjoying working with students and curating library exhibitions . This is me welcoming an audience to the opening of an exhibit I curated , working with members of the Student Exhibition Committee and the Student group Poets and Writer s. The exhibit, titled &quot; ART AND POETRY ,&quot; is the 3rd annual exhibition featuring student artwork and art-inspired poetry.

31. Chris Ford Former Visual Resources Curator Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

32. FLO Image Sharing Initiative Chris Ford, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Jen Green, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH Caitlin Pereira, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

40. FLO Image Sharing Initiative Questions