Missing your CalArchNet colleagues? Looking for a reason to get creative and add some flair to your quarantine uniform? Join us for happy hour via Zoom, dressed as the building of your choice a la the 1931 Beaux-Arts Ball in NYC...or, perhaps more realistically, a scaled-down jaunty hat version of a building that we can admire on our small screens. Costumes and beverages not required but strongly encouraged.
6:00 PM PT
Charles E. Young Research Library
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Sunday, February 23rd. 2020 (TOUR)
1:30-3pm
Tour of the Mutual Housing Association Office (Jones, Smith, & Contini, 1947) in Crestwood Hills
Due to parking restrictions in the neighborhood, our group will need to arrive in no more than 5 cars.
"The MHA Site Office, the first structure built in Crestwood Hills for the post-war cooperative housing effort formerly known as Mutual Housing Association, springs from a concrete masonry abutment to cantilever on steel beams over a wooded canyon. Architects A. Quincy Jones, Whitney R. Smith, and structural engineer Edgardo Contini, a joint venture, created nine basic floor plans with bravado characteristic of the immediate post-war period. On 800 acres, eventually eighty of the original MHA designs were constructed. Today only thirty remain with nineteen declared cultural/historic monuments with the City of Los Angeles, including the MHA Site Office." -https://mhasiteoffice.org/
Monday, February 24th, 2020 (MEETING, max 20 attendees- Registration now closed)
Parking is available at UCLA for a $13 fee or you can park for free at the Getty and join a carpool over to UCLA.
9:30-10
Meet in the Young Research Library Presentation Room for coffee & pastries
YRL Room 11348: https://www.library.ucla.edu/destination/library-conference-center/presentation-room
10-10:30
Welcome from our hosts Genie Guerard (Curator, Manuscripts Librarian, UCLA), and Janine Henri (Architecture and Design Librarian, UCLA)
Introductions
10:30-11
CalArchNet Updates from Aimee Lind (Reference Specialist for Architecture Collections, Getty Research Library/ CalArchNet Chair)
Round Robin: what’s the latest from your institution?
11-12:30
Business Meeting
Laura Schroffel (Special Collections Archivist, Getty Research Library): Update on SAA Born Digital Design Records
Discussion of standardizing policies and procedures when providing digital files for study and/or publication. If your institution already has a written policy that you are comfortable sharing, bring it along.
Welcome from Athena Jackson (Director of Library Special Collections, UCLA)
Other agenda items TBD
12:30 – 2
Lunch on your own
2-3:30
Center for Primary Research & Training (CFPRT) Presentations
Welcome and introduction from Courtney Dean (Head, CFPRT)
Amy Zhou (Masters of Urban & Regional Planning Candidate, CFPRT Scholar): Processing the papers of Architect Robert Kennard
Grace Diliberto (MLIS Candidate, CFPRT Scholar): Processing the papers of Architect Davida Rochlin
Q&A
3:15-3:30
Break
3:30-4:30
Architecture & Design Collection Highlights, UCLA Special Collections in the Smith and Booth Rooms (Genie Guerard, Simon Elliott and Octavio Olvera)
IMPERIAL WESTERN BEER COMPANY @ UNION STATION
800 N ALAMEDA ST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012.
In lieu of an official autumn meeting, join your CalArchNet colleagues at an informal meet-up at the gorgeous, recently restored Imperial Western in Union Station. Happy Hour is 4-7 on weekdays and that includes not only drink specials but also $1 oysters. Union Station is by its very nature convenient to most/all public transit in the greater Los Angeles area (and beyond)! I've set the start time as 5:30 but feel free to arrive/depart whenever works for you. You are more then welcome (encouraged, in fact!) to bring friends/colleagues who share a passion for architectural archives.
Founded in 2016, CalArchNet (pronounced Cal-Ark-Net) is comprised of library, archive, and museum professionals who collect, organize, describe, preserve, promote, interpret, exhibit, and facilitate access to records about the built environment in California. CalArchNet provides a twice-yearly forum so this group of professionals may:
Learn more about California architecture
Understand the ways California architecture records are used
Share information and expertise
Seek advice
Build a community committed to standard practices that improve operations and services
Bring greater visibility to collections and programs
Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley.
Maps and Parking Information
Parking & Public Transit Information
Sunday, May 5th, 2019- Walking Tour Agenda
**Bring comfortable shoes. We are walking about 4 miles total**
Route for the day via Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/1znYPz3TtVWuVfjg7
9:30 Meet at Environmental Design Archives (2nd floor, Room 280, Wurster Hall)
9:30 to 10:00 Walk to Westen Havens House
10:00-11:00 Tour of the Havens House
11:00-1:00 Lunch at Cafe Think or on your own
1:30- 2:00 Walk from Wurster Hall to Greenwood Common
2:00 - 3:30 Tour of Greenwood Common by Waverly Lowell
3:30 - 4:00 Walk to Thorsen house
4:00 - 5:00 Tour of Thorsen house
Monday, May 6th- EDA Tour and Discussion
305 Wurster Hall, Library and Instruction Room
9:00-9:30 Coffee & pastries
9:30-4:00 Tour of the Environmental Design Archives, updates, and discussion sessions.
Ways for self-supporting institutions to generate revenue
experiences with publishers/royalties/contracts
Digitization policies and fee schedules
Architecture Networks panel at ARLIS conference
Building for Tomorrow update
Born digital
Developing an institutional archive (SCI-Arc)
EDA's Sea Ranch Virtual Collection
Architectural theory/fundamentals reading lists/libguides
California architectural photography project
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Raod
San Marino, CA 91108
AGENDA
• 9:00 – 10:20 – General business & discussion of born-digital materials (Roger’s classroom)
• 10:30 – 11:00 – Visit to imaging lab to see oversize studio with vacuum table (Munger Research Center, Imaging Lab)
• 11:00 – 11:30 – Tour of Architects of a Golden Age with Curator Erin Chase (Library West Hall)
• 11:30 – 1:00 – Lunch on your own/walking tour of Huntington architecture
• 1:00 – 1:20 –Tour of Greene and Greene gallery (Meet at Erburu Gallery north entrance of Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art)
• 1:30-1:50 – Show and tell – Selections from the Library’s Myron Hunt collections (Library Oversize Reading Room)
• 2:00 – 2:30 – Coffee break (Roger’s classroom and Red Car Café)
• 2:30 – 4:00 – Wrap up/closing shop talk – digitization projects (Roger’s classroom)
• 4:30 – 6:00 – Refreshments & light snacks at Caltech Athenaeum’s Rathskeller (Corner of Hill and California - 2551 S Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106 – the Rathskeller is downstairs)
Schedule
Cal Poly
Thursday, March 29th
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Special Collections and Archives is located in the Robert E. Kennedy Library (Building 35) on the 4th floor in room 409. Take an elevator at the back of the library, past the Atrium. When you exit, you will see our department on your left.
Note: Because the library closes at 5 p.m. on Thursday, following the reception, Special Collections and Archives staff will escort CalArchNet participants out of the building.
· View selections from the collections
· Building the Cal Poly Campus with exhibit curator, Laura Sorvetti
· Light reception
Hearst Castle
Friday, March 30th
8:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Participants must arrive at the Hearst Castle Visitor Center on their own or via carpool. A tour bus to Hearst Castle leaves promptly from the Visitor Center at 9:00 a.m. There will be no late arrivals, so please be punctual and plan to arrive 15-30 minutes early. There are at least two exhibits in the Visitor Center that will provide additional context for the estate and its history.
Travel times from most lodging locations:
· San Simeon is located approx. 6 minutes from the Visitor Center (.8 miles)
· Cambria is located approx. 15 minutes from the Visitor Center (10.5 miles)
· San Luis Obispo is located approx. 50 minutes from the Visitor Center (42.2 miles)
· Santa Barbara is located approx. 2 ½ hours from the Visitor Center (137 miles)
Our hosts will be Mary Levkoff (Director) and Victoria Kastner (Historian). The group will be return to the Visitor Center no later than 12:10 p.m.
Lunch
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Centrally Grown
7432 Exotic Garden Drive
Cambria, CA 93428
The restaurant is located about 10 minutes south of the Visitor Center (6.4 miles). Our bill for a table of 21 people will be on single check, so please bring cash. Thank you!
Map from the Visitor Center: https://goo.gl/maps/aaeJnXJD8AR2.
Lunch menu: http://centrallygrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lunch-new-.pdf
Afternoon Session
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Monday Club
1815 Monterey St.
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Map from Centrally Grown: https://goo.gl/maps/j4YDCGkQcXF2 (36.6 miles)
Please park on Andrews St., just west of the clubhouse.
· Discussion session (we will discuss the website, but welcome topics!)
· Faculty presentations (Dr. Jennifer Shields and Dr. Don Choi) and view drawings of William F. Cody’s Shamel House and Mark Mills’ Copper Spine House
· View Monday Club collections
Architectural Walking Tour
4:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Lead by City of San Luis Obispo Cultural Heritage Committee Chair, James Papp. With exception of the Monday Club, the Kundert Medical Clinic, and the Dallidet Adobe, the tour will focus mostly on exteriors.
· The Monday Club – Julia Morgan (1934)
· Veterans’ Memorial Building (1951)
· Mill St., Johnson St. and Palm St. residences
· The Fremont Theatre – S. Charles Lee (1942)
· San Luis Obispo County Courthouse – A. R. Walker and P. A. Eisen (1940)
· Kundert Medical Clinic – Frank Lloyd Wright (1958)
· Return to The Monday Club
Schedule
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee/Light Refreshments on Patio
9:30 – 11:00 Welcome/Introductions/Review Activities/Presentations
Historical and Class One Research – Melissa Riche, Architectural Historian/Writer/Preservationist
Historic Site Preservation Board, City of Palm Springs – Dick Burkett, Vice-Chair
Q&A
11:00 – 11:15 Break
1:15 – 12:30 CalArchNet Discussion Session
Discovery Project Update (ATurner, ALind, FLopez)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch – On Your Own
1:30 - 2:15 Open Discussion:
SAH session/panel planning (ALind/JHenri)
Core architectural journal titles list (ALind)
Security: do you have written policies related to the topic of privacy and security and providing access to drawings?
Krisel Map (ALind)
General discussion: communication between librarians, archivists, curators within our institutions; tips, best practices? How can we help each other?
Cal Poly SLO meeting planning (JHolada)
2:15 – 2:45 Lorraine Boccardo Archive Study Center Show & Tell Including Break
2:45 – 4:00 pm Exhibition Overview & Gallery Tour - Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture – Daniell Cornell, formerly The Donna & Cargill MacMillan Jr., Director of Art
Schedule
9-10 – Coffee & Continental Breakfast
10-12 – Meeting
Welcome from Aimee Lind & Jessica Holada
Review of last meeting and current status of statewide initiative we’ve been pursuing since November
Discussion: Suggested topic #1: discoverability/registry options—SNAC, OAC, Calisphere/DPLA, ArchiveGrid, reviving COPAR?
Discussion: Suggested topic #2: digitization opportunities and challenges.
12-1 – Lunch on Your Own
1-2 – Meeting
Discussion: Suggested topic #3: rights issues. Have we seen/will we be seeing more Build New requests?
Wrap-Up: What would make this group valuable to you? How can we encourage involvement? Tours/Programming? Next meeting? User Needs Forum? Name change? SAA Roundtable Rep?
2-3:30 – Tour of Vaults, Digital Services, Conservation Lab; Special Collections Show & Tell
3:30-4 Exhibition Tour of Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music
4-5 Reception
ACCESS
Are there opportunities to create a one-stop-shop for California architecture? OAC finding aids tagged so they co-locate our collections? Image links from finding aids to local DAMS? Participate in CDL/DPLA effort? Create a portal? Other? Pros and cons?
RIGHTS
What are the legal absolutes? Can we digitize? What file size? Can someone build from drawings?
Defining “published”
Is there wiggle room for interpretation?
Can we come up with standards as a group?
Do you own the rights to all, some, few of your collections?
How do rights affect your willingness to allow photography and digitization?
What resources are people relying upon to make decisions?
Schedule
10-10:30 – Coffee/Bagels, Purpose of Gathering, Introductions
10:30-11:00 – Tour of Irving Gill Exhibit
11:00-12:30 – Roundtable
12:30-1:30 – Lunch
1:30-3:00 – Continue Discussion, Next Steps, ADC Storage and Image Database
Meeting Opener – A Pie in the Sky Question What technology would solve all of your problems?
Survey Topics and Questions that Emerged
ACCESS
What do our users want/need in terms of digitization?
How can we work collaboratively to identify workflows and policies, as well as vendors and affordable technology that can ease this process?
Are there opportunities to create a one-stop-shop for California architecture? OAC finding aids tagged so they co-locate our collections? Image links from finding aids to local DAMS? Participate in CDL/DPLA effort? Create a portal? Other? Pros and cons?
How is digitization handled at your institution?
What new tech or tech-in-development should we be watching?
PROCESSING/CATALOGING
How much metadata is enough for findability?
What are some strategies you’ve found that help address the impact of MPLP?
How do we find the right balance?
RIGHTS
What are the legal absolutes? Can we digitize? What file size? Can someone build from drawings?
Is there wiggle room for interpretation?
Can we come up with standards as a group?
Do you own the rights to all, some, few of your collections?
How do rights affect your willingness to allow photography and digitization?
What resources are people relying upon to make decisions?
FUNDING
Creative funding strategies?
Collaborative opportunities?
How are different institutions doing more with less?
PRACTICES AND POLICIES
What is the best way we can share collecting policies, access policies, handling policies, reproduction/digitization policies, best practices, professional development opportunities?
NEXT STEPS
Next meeting? Getty on 4/26/17 the day before SCA? (An architecture exhibit will be on display.) Roundtable at SCA after luncheon on 4/29?
Frequency of meetings?
How official do we want to be?
Can we revive COPAR and/or incorporate some of its goals into our mission?
How do we facilitate remote dialog and information exchange? Listserv? Wiki? Google drive? Directory? Slack? Is there an existing forum we can use?
What are our next steps/action items?