December 2020


You are cordially invited to ARLIS/NA MOQ Virtu*l, our second biannual meeting of 2020, which will be held virtually on the morning of Friday, December 11, 2020. Let us start the day at 9:00 am with an informal catch-up over a hot beverage of choice before formal business begins! The business portion of the meeting[…]

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It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing, on August 24, 2017, of a highly esteemed colleague and cherished friend, Daphné Dufresne (1940-2017). Daphné was the Director of the Art library at the Université du Québec À  Montréal (UQÀM), from 1970 to 2004. A long standing member of ARLIS/NA, Daphné was one[…]

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Kathryn KollarLibrarianCanadian Centre of Architecture (1985-1997), Montreal Kathryn Kollar has been an extraordinary librarian at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Kollar began her career at the CCA in July 1985 as the Bibliographic Researcher – keep in mind that the new building of the CCA only opened four years later. In this position and[…]

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Renata GuttmanLibrarian Canadian Centre for Architecture (1989-2016), Montreal For nearly three decades, Renata worked tirelessly to ensure researchers from far and near could make the most of their time at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Her thorough knowledge of the CCA collection as well as of related collections in Montreal and around the world have[…]

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Melinda ReinhartSenior Librarian Emeritus, Visual Arts Librarian (1997-2017)Concordia University, Montréal Prior to her 20 years of practice as the Visual Arts Librarian at Concordia University, Melinda Reinhart held other librarian positions at Concordia University and at the Université du Québec à Montréal (and before this, she enjoyed a career as a TESL professor at McGill[…]

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