Hello, all, I’m very excited to be an incoming Member-at-Large of the Visual Materials Section! I’m currently the Arts Archivist at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University, where I work with a large variety of visual materials. Here, I have the opportunity to not only process arts archives, but also to teach with them and create exhibitions. We have great graphic design collections; my favorite new acquisition is the papers of graphic designer, public artist

Hi! My name is Jacob Wolf, and I am super excited to be joining the Visual Materials Section steering committee as a Member-at-Large. I currently work for the Getty Research Institute as a Special Collections Archivist, where I am processing the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archive with a team of archivists in Chicago. Currently, I am working on multi-format photo files, helping manage agents and subjects in ArchivesSpace, and I am continuing research on the television s

This is the first of a three-part series by Aliza Leventhal and Julia Larson on enhancing archivists’ visual and technical literacy in handling complex digital objects. Deconstructing CAD: Layers, Xrefs, and You. Screenshot of MicroStation. Image courtesy: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop (TGH) collection, (2021-13), Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California. Physical materials in a design archive are inh