Aug. 7, 2014, 4pm-5:30pm, Brooklyn Museum Library Reading Room

Overview of NYARC and Its Programs. Lily Pregill, NYARC Coordinator & Systems Manager for the New York Art Resources Consortium.

NYARC Digital Projects. Stephen Bury will provide a brief overview of all the NYARC digital projects. In particular Dr. Bury will speak about the Frick's Photoarchive digitization and image analysis projects.

Making the Black Hole Gray Project. Sumitra Duncan will provide a brief history and update on current work undertaken for the Mellon funded NYARC project “Making the Black Hole Gray: Implementing the Web Archiving of Specialist Art Resources.” Ms. Duncan will also review what NYARC has done so far with cataloging online catalogues raisonnés and eBooks and collaboration with other digital vendors (JSTOR, Artifex, etc.).

M-LEAD 2 Grant Program. Kim Loconto will provide a brief history of the M-LEAD program and talk about M-LEAD 2 and NYARC and the work being accomplished by the interns from Pratt Institute.