[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

ART Nov. Meeting: Brooklyn: Public Archives, Private Collectors



Please join the Archives Roundtable of Metropolitan New York.  ALL WELCOME


NOVEMBER 2000 MEETING NOTICE

Public Archives, Private Collectors and Book Production: Unique Challenges


Private collector and amateur historian BRIAN MERLIS speaks about amassing his collection of Brooklyn memorabilia which includes more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera, 5,000 negatives and several thousand prints of his native borough.  Mr. Merlis was born in Brooklyn and spent part of his childhood in the Flatlands section.  He has compiled six books of historic photographs including Brooklyn: The Way It Was (1995), Brooklyn's Park Slope: A Photographic Retrospective (1999) and most recently Brooklyn's Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton: A Photographic Journey (2000).

In addition to book production, Mr. Merlis will explain how he started collecting to include the acquisition of items, trading and selling, advertising and replevin. 

A graduate of Brooklyn College, Mr. Merlis is a vocal music teacher at Springfield Gardens High School in Queens and runs Brooklyn Collectibles, buying and selling photographs, ephemera and objects.

JUDITH WALSH, Division Chief of the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection, will speak about the challenges and issues of archival integrity arising from working with private collectors and researchers, and the policies resulting from reference requests that include copywork agreement forms, reproduction and usage fees.

JOY HOLLAND, Assistant Division Chief at the Brooklyn Collection, speaks about Brian Merlis' collecting activities and about the materials BPL has acquired from him, which include maps, a collection of Brooklyn-related sheet music, theater programs, and other memorabilia.


Date:           Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Place:  NARA Regional Office 

Time:           Social: 5:30-6:15 Program: 6:15-7:30

Directions:     201 Varick Street.  The NARA Regional Office is four blocks north of the Holland Tunnel, on the 12th floor.  Please use the entrance on Houston Street.  There are two entrances next to one another.  The first entrance (as one approaches from Varick) is the entrance to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.  The entrance to NARA is next door.
	
Fee:            ART Members $3.  Non-members $5.

RSVP:   By Nov. 13, 2000 to John Celardo.  Email preferred to: john.celardo@newyork.nara.gov or telephone at (212) 337-1300.  Please remember hosting a meeting represents a financial and meeting space commitment on the part of our hosts.  Please be reasonably sure you can attend before responding. 

A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List!

To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.muohio.edu
      In body of message:  SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname
                    *or*:  UNSUB ARCHIVES
To post a message, send e-mail to archives@listserv.muohio.edu

Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

Problems?  Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt@lib.muohio.edu>