Re. this thread, I wanted to share this process which our Rare Books
guys are using - it has really helped given the number of presentations
they give,
Margaret Landesman
University of Utah

-----Original Message-----
From: Madelyn Garrett 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:18 PM
To: Margaret Landesman
Subject: RE: [ARLIS-L] Academic Art Library Artists' Book Collections

Margaret:
We use ProCite to record all of the "extra" information we have on a
particular artist's book (on all our books, for that matter). This
allows us to keyword search, if an instructor is focusing on one type of
book, printing method, etc. etc. We also write detailed labels for each
book, also entered into Procite, which then can generate detailed
"checklists" of books, which we produce for each book presentation and
hand out to each student. Since each call number is also included, we
have found that students appear the next day in our reference room,
wanting to "revisit" particular books. It has worked well. We would like
to take it to the next step, where the public has access to our
databases, to make searches easier.

Madelyn D. Garrett
Head, Rare Books Division
and Book Arts Program
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Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City UT 84112-0860
801.585.6168  801.585.3976 fax 

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Landesman
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:21 AM
To: Madelyn Garrett
Subject: FW: [ARLIS-L] Academic Art Library Artists' Book Collections


 
This one is from UNC

Do we know about UCA's Artists book project - cited at end?? mml
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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Patricia Thompson
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Academic Art Library Artists' Book Collections

Tom-

We have a small but growing artists books collection (see list on our
website) which is heavily used due to the fact that at we have a studio
faculty member, Beth Grabowski, who uses the collection. This year we
even had a First Year Seminar (freshman seminar) on artist books.  We
keep them in our work area, behind the ref/circ desk, on open shelves,
shelved by size--most class in N7433.4. We don't currently have an
artists books catalog location but after we complete our migration to
Millennium I may do that.  We just have a book dummy in the stacks.  On
occasion I have transferred books from the main library or our own
stacks, sometimes reclassing them (e.g. Humument.)  In earlier years,
often the artists books were bound, but when I arrived I stopped that
and had them placed in protective enclosures by Preservation.

I noticed excessive handling by students during the classes and
separation of the unmarked books from enclosures so asked the faculty
member to have the students move from book to book (which are placed on
binder's board or paper on a table) instead of passing them. They are
allowed to handle the books--this is a teaching collection--but not pass
them around.  We do not require gloves, which can actually cause more
damage.  This procedure seems to work well, but some more fragile book
structures suffer damage, unavoidably. But again, this is a teaching
collection and we do not buy expensive books  The Rare Books Collection
acquires livres d'artistes, etc. but we do not...

At present we are exhausting space for this non-circulating collection
which is not integrated into our own packed "special collection" which I
am gradually transferring to Rare Books, sadly.  And I'm not sure what
I'll do next. The ever-present space problem.

I have a SILS student working on a project to create a database of these
books as LC cataloging is inadequate. she has taken some photos which we
may mount on our website.  She and I will be going to UVA in June to
meet with Johanna Drucker and other librarians to talk about UVA's
artists books online project.

Patricia T. Thompson
Art Librarian
Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB 3405 Hanes Art Center
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3405 Tel. 919-962-2397 Fax 919-962-0722 e-mail
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