Category Archives: Conferences
SIBMAS Conference — Announcement and Registration Information
The 31st Conference of the International Association of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Documentation Centres of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS), will take place 31 May-3 June 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. Freeze! Challenge the Hierarchy: Researcher, Artist, User! Let us freeze the situation as it is and take a sharp look at it. Professionals, amateurs, tourists, […]
Westward Ho! Tour of Portland Center Stage at the ASTR-TLA Annual Conference, November 6, 2015
We couldn’t have asked for a better day to get out and about in Portland. For once, the weather in the Pacific Northwest cooperated, giving us a mild fall day devoid of rain. Some of us walked from the Marriott, others took the street car or light rail, but a group of about twenty conference […]
TLA Plenary “Adventures in the Archives” – ASTR 2015
The TLA Plenary at the American Society for Theatre Research conference in November was a terrific success. In collaboration with the conference themes of advocacy and urgency, we opened our call for proposals by recalling the TNT series “The Librarians,” in which a group of scholars and historians become action heroes as they safeguard some […]
Inside the Museum of Performance + Design
(Left:Kirsten Tanaka shows off some of Museum of Performance + Design’s treasures. Photo by John Calhoun.) Before the ribbon was cut at the American Library Association’s 2015 conference on June 26, several Theatre Library Association members took the time to enjoy a tour of San Francisco’s Museum of Performance + Design (MP+D). Founded in […]
End of Summer
The end of summer is upon us. Best wishes to all of you in academic libraries for a terrific year ahead. To those of you not on the semester calendar, continued great work in the coming year. It has been a productive (and terrific!) year for TLA. The summer was filled with activity beginning with […]
MLA/TLA Program at the ALA Annual Conference: Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City
On Saturday, June 28, it was my pleasure to moderate the co-sponsored 2014 program of the Music Library Association and the Theatre Library Association at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Titled “Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City,” the program featured three speakers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: New Paradigms in Performance Documentation Working Session
TLA’s own Laurie Murphy of New York University convened one of the two final working sessions of the conference. New Paradigms in Performance Documentation consisted of a wonderful group of presentations, each focusing upon a unique performance documentation project. While the presentations were devoted to very diverse projects, together they provided insight into the common challenges […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Six Presentations in Sixty Minutes
Exhibition Papers at the SIBMAS-TLA Conference The Exhibition Papers, presented after lunch on Friday, were varied and informative. Chaired by Susan Cole of the Constellation Center, Cambridge, this session consisted of a “lightning round” of 10-minute presentations that introduced a number of projects and initiatives being undertaken by repositories around the world. Presentations included: […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Sizing Up Day Three
Keynote Marvin Taylor from the Fales Library at NYU evoked the work of theorists Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures) and Diana Taylor (The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas) ) to frame his discussion, focusing on aspects of NYU’s Downtown Collection which features work by […]
SIBMAS-TLA Conference: Nic Leonhardt Keynote
I knew when the morning began with Daft Punk’s “Technologic” we were in for an interesting session. Thursday marked the SIBMAS-TLA conference’s session dedicated to Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts, hosting an interesting array of case studies, projections, and vendor perspectives on what Digital Humanities means and where libraries lie in the discipline. Nic […]