Annual Conference 2013
Rising to the challenge
Bristol 10th-12th July 2013

Please visit the 2013 conference blog for further details.
Past Conferences
2012 From Beijing to Bloomsbury: Art Librarianship in an Olympic Year
London
2011 Weaving New Futures: collaboration and reinvention in the digital age
Leeds
2010 ARLIS: the next generation
Edinburgh
2009 Tradition and Transformation: roles in a changing world
Cambridge
2008 Community : Creativity : Culture : Co-operation ´Come together right now´
Liverpool
2007 Beautiful and Useful? Supporting the Arts and Crafts in the 21st Century
Cheltenham
2006 The Baltic and Beyond
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2005 Rough Diamonds: polishing partnerships with creative industries
Birmingham
2004 Through the Looking Glass: meeting the skills challenge
Oxford
2003 Creative partnerships
Brighton
2002 Gateways to the Changing Landscape of Art Information: pre-IFLA conference
Glasgow
2001 I Spy With My Little Eye: new ways of seeing art librarianship
London
2000 The Changing Agenda for Art Libraries
Cambridge
1999 Taking Stock: collection development into the 21st Century
Warwick
1998 Art, architecture and Design: sources, practice, libraries
Bristol & Bath
1997 Art Libraries in the Cyber-Age
Canterbury
1996 Libraries and the Reproduced Image from Print to Digitisation
Edinburgh
1995 Conserving the Culture: the challenge to art, architecture and design librarians
Dublin
1994 Solid Silver: art librarians working together
London
1993 The New Art Librarianship: strategies towards 2001 in art, architecture and design
Manchester
1992 The Art Book: from Vasari to videodisc (IFLA section of Art Libraries, 4th European conference)
Oxford
1991 Information for the Designer
Norwich
1990 Managing Change: into the 1990s
Bradford
1989 Seeing the Way Forward: librarianship and the visual image
Glasgow
1988 The State of the Art
Cambridge
1987 Art Libraries for the People (IFLA pre-conference)
Brighton
1986 Co-operation in Art, Architecture and Design Libraries
York
1985 Practice and Management in Art, Architecture and Design Libraries
Bristol
1984 Acquisitions in Art and Design Libraries
Oxford
1983 Information Technology
Brighton
1982 Materials and Methods of Design History
Durham
1981 Resources for the Study of Provincial Art and Architecture
Liverpool
1980 The Book as Art
Gloucester
1979 Art and Architecture in Scotland
Edinburgh
1978 Seminar on User Education
Leeds
1976 International Conference on Periodicals
London & Brighton
1974 Art Library Resources
Birmingham
1972 Education for Art Librarianship
Aberystwyth
