Current Working Groups
- RISS Pathfinder Working Group:
Purpose & Goals: To develop and maintain an online repository of art and art history research guides.
Membership: Volunteers drawn from RISS membership
- RISS Blog Working Group:
Purpose & Goals: Maintain an active blog that pertains to issues relevant to reference
and information services.
and information services.
Membership: RISS volunteers
Past Working Groups
- RISS Workshops Working Group:
Purpose & Goals: To facilitate professional growth of ARLIS/NA members and conference attedndees in collection development and public service (esp. reference & instruction) in specific subject areas.
Membership: Six members drawn from RISS for two year terms.
- Artists' File Working Group:
Jon Evans, Roberta Geier
Purpose & Goals: To provide better access to artist' files; explore the development of a directory of institutional holdings; promote best practices for artists' files.
- Free Web Resources Working Group:
Hannah Bennett, Laura Graveline
Purpose & Goals: To create a guide to free internet resources concerned with Art History and the Fine Arts.
Online publication: Free Art Resources on the Web
- G.K. Hall Library Catalog Inventory Project:
Peter Blank
Purpose & Goals: To identify to what extent libraries covered by G.K. Hall catalogs have subsequently converted that catalog information into their online catalogs.
