Thursday 26th July 10:35-12:05, Lecture Hall

Moderator: Amanda Russell (Plymouth University)

What’s so special about Special Collections? Managing and promoting ‘rare’ materials in architecture libraries

Eleanor Gawne (Architectural Association)

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Facilitating the development of creativity using special collections and archives

Lesley Ruthven (Goldsmiths, University of London)

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Uses of archives as creative activity: what does it mean for us?

Ann Chow (The National Archives)

Thursday 26th July 10:35-12:05, no.32 Back Room

Moderator: Gustavo Grandal Montero (University of the Arts London)

From slide collection to feminist net-work: digitising the Women's Art Library as deviant performance Althea Greenan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

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Information icebergs: re-structuring legacy metadata for the 21st century

Kelly Davis (Getty Provenance Index)

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“The following | sing | I | a | book” : A Humument as “work in progress … Gesamtkunstwerk”  and the definition of Work in library cataloguing

Anne Welsh (University College London)

Thursday 26th July 13:05-14:35, Lecture Hall

Moderator: Hayley Webb (Sotheby's Institute of Art)

Artists’ books as catalysts of social change

Jane Carlin (University of Puget Sound, Washington)

Art and Activism in the Archive: creative thinking and radical acts in the making of Glasgow Women's Library

Adele Patrick (Glasgow Women's Library)

Thursday 26th July 13:05-14:35, no.32 Back Room

Moderator: Deborah Lee (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Are you looking at our books? Building a picture of art and design student engagement with library collections at the University of Huddersfield

Laura Williams (University of Huddersfield)

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Standing alone: librarians delivering standalone academic support workshops 

Alexandra Duncan, Julia Flood & May Warren (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)

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Friday 27th July 10:25-11:55, Lecture Hall

Moderator: Carla Marchesan (The Prince's Foundation)

Materials collections teaching tactile literacy

Rebecca Price (University of Michigan)

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Archive(ist)

John Paul Dowling (National College of Art & Design, Dublin)

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Altering artists' books instruction: using learning objectives to inspire active learning

Sara DeWaay (University of Oregon Libraries)

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Friday 27th July 10:25-11:55, no.32 Back Room

Moderator: Alexandra Duncan (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)

Art and health: challenging the norm

Melanie Grant & Solomon Szekir-Papasavva (Wellcome Collection)

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Para•text and PaperWork: the relationship between independent publishing and the art library

Laura Elliott (Goldsmiths, University of London) & Jessa Mockridge (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London & Goldsmiths, University of London)

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Not for you: the ethical implications of archiving self-publishing

Kirsty Fife (National Science and Media Museum)

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Friday 27th July 12:55-14:25, Lecture Hall

Moderator: Gustavo Grandal Montero (University of the Arts London)

The Library examined: a workshop collaboration with OOMK and Thick/er Black Lines

Laurence Byrne, Leila Kassir (Senate House Library) & Hudda Khaireh (Thick/er Black Lines)

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On the Desert Island

Stephanie Moran (Iniva, Stuart Hall Library) & Ting Ting Cheng (artist)

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The ARIAH-RIHA Professional Exchange Fellowship: first-hand perceptions of London art libraries in the early 21st Century

Kraig Binkowski (Yale Center for British Art)

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Friday 27th July 12:55-14:25, no.32 Back Room

Moderator: Laura Williams (University of Huddersfield)

Museum libraries and library history: joining the research conversation at the National Gallery

Jonathan Franklin (The National Gallery, London)

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Re-imagining fashion herstories/histories: decolonising fashion history in the Royal College of Art Library

Tanveer Ahmed (Royal College of Art & The Open University) & Cathy Johns (Royal College of Art)

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