Dear Colleagues,
I have been fortunate in working WITH a new faculty member in developing
a collection in contemporary art in a collection that had never
purchsaed in that area. This past year, we have done some good things
and will continue to do so in the coming years.
I would like to propose a session for Baltimore on the special
challenges and opportunities for collecting in this area of art
history. I think it would be a good session that could be sponsored by
Academic Libraries Division as well as the New Art Round Table. Just
two of the challenges are gathering material when contemporary artists
are not published until later in their careers AND the forms that
contemporary art takes continually morph into new media. And then there
is the global perspective of contemporary art to consider.
When I put together proposals, I like to approach the subject from four
different perspectives. I may well have a faculty member who is
interested in speaking to us. I would like to have a vendor and or
publisher participate in such a session. Do any of you - my colleagues
- have any ideas for such a session? Would you find such a session
useful to you?
Thanks, Ray Anne
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Ray Anne Lockard, Head Librarian
Frick Fine Arts Library
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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"A book should be a ball of light in one's hands."
Ezra Pound
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