INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
No TL;DR found
Abstract
A special IFLA conference on the use of and access to icon ographie collections took place in Geneva, Switzerland, March 13-15, 1985. In more ways than one this was a pioneer effort, both for its focus on a very specific aspect of art documentation and for its obvious appeal to European (particularly francophone) art librarians, documentation specialists, art historians, curators and researchers who participated in its proceedings. Organized under the auspices of the Art Libraries Section of IFLA through the enthusiastic offices of Huguette Rouit of the Biblioth?que de l'Ecole du Louvre and Jean-Pierre Dubouloz, head of the Biblioth?que d'art et d'arch?ologie in Geneva, the conference attracted over 130 professionals, more than triple the number originally expected. Irena Murray, on leave in Paris from McGill University, Montreal, and Carol Terry, The Art Institute of Chicago, were in attendance as representatives of ARLIS/NA. It was a marathon event with close to fifty papers, only a few given in languages other than French. Under broad themes, cor responding to the respective days of the conference, the speak ers addressed the principal issues preoccupying both managers and users of iconographie collections. Of particular significance were the many presentations on the use of computers in this field. The first morning was devoted to the teaching of iconography, skillfully introduced by Fran?ois Gamier of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Orl?ans, and author of the