Welcome to Indianapolis
Get ready to stART your Engines at the Circle City Convergence!
The Art Libraries Society of North America 37th Annual Conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN, Thursday, April 16 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Our venue will be the comfortable, and very convenient, Downtown Marriott.
In Indianapolis, we will continue and build on many of the innovative features of the Denver conference. In addition to a full slate of activities at our hotel, we will take advantage of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail to highlight community, technology, public art, and urban revitalization.
Our Convocation will be Friday, April 17th at the conference Hotel with speaker Max Anderson, Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Following that, we will all adjourn to the nearby Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art for our Welcome Party. The Eiteljorg Museum is a showcase for Native American art and heritage located on Indy's beautiful White River Parkway. The Museum galleries and the shop will stay open for us until 10:00 p.m.
The stunning new incarnation of the Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the setting for our Circle City Celebration on Sunday, April 19th. The first floor galleries, special exhibition, and shop will be will be open for us to enjoy from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University, will be our opening Plenary speaker on Saturday, April 18th. Central Indiana Community Foundation and Indianapolis Foundation President Brian Payne, the urban visionary who helped create the 7.5 mile Indianapolis Cultural Trail greenway, will be our closing plenary speaker on Monday, April 20th.
Sessions will be offered that are guaranteed to get your Web 2.0 engines humming, your resources streamlined, your social networking moving in the fast lane, and your services working like an Indy 500 pit crew.
Workshops will take advantage of the close proximity of so many cultural and academic venues, including a focus on Book Arts and Artists Books and new technology.
Tours will emphasize Indy's unique conjunction of art, sport, and history and culture, and will highlight some very special near-by attractions: Columbus, IN --a mecca for modern architecture with over 70 buildings by major 20th and 21st century architects; and Bloomington, IN -- with the Kinsey Institute, the Lilly Library, the Benton Murals, and the I.M. Pei designed Indiana University Art Museum and Fine Arts Library.
Indianapolis will surprise and delight you. So join us as we Segway down the Parkway, circle the Monument, and rev up to stART our Engines at IndyCon 2009.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Soehner
President, ARLIS/NA
Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA-Midstates Chapter,
website hosted by Indiana University
last update: April 15, 2009