There's some Library Journal coverage on the proposed closure:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678916.html?nid=2673&source=title&rid=540725846
There's also a Facebook page with a petition to support keeping the
library open.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=132785048409&ref=nf Over 1,600
people have signed it so far.
Heather Gendron
Art Librarian
Sloane Art Library
UNC Chapel Hill
102 Hanes Art Center
CB#3405
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
Phone: 919.962.1061
Email: [log in to unmask]
jwoo wrote:
> Anyone have the skinny on what's going on at UCLA?
> ===================================
> Forwarded letter:
>
> August 19, 2009
> Gary Strong
>
> University Librarian
>
> University of California, Los Angeles
>
> Dear Mr. Strong:
>
> This letter is intended to express our outrage and dismay at the
> impending closure of the Arts Library, an entity that is unique on the
> West Coast in its offerings and resources. As instructors—at UCLA and
> beyond—in the arts, architecture, art history, film, television,
> theater and the humanities we all see the UCLA Arts Library as an
> indispensable resource to fulfill our pedagogical mission. As creators
> and researchers we all see the UCLA Arts Library as a critical part of
> our respective practices. Furthermore, a dedicated arts collection is
> a staple of all great universities public and private. On all of these
> levels it is unconscionable that this library, one that services the
> myriad needs of hundreds of faculty and thousands of students in some
> of our nation’s best departments in the arts and humanities could even
> be considered for closure.
>
> Those who did not see the closure of the Arts Library buried in your
> blog entry of August 4, 2009 found out about it though word of mouth,
> Facebook, email and water cooler rumors. The lack of any effort on the
> part of library management to consult arts and humanities faculty
> about these plans points to a lack of transparency in the library’s
> operations that we find most troubling. This lack of transparency is
> further underscored by library management’s failure to consult with
> the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly
> Communication on this critical issue.
>
> If the Arts Library closes, it is impossible to see how YRL and SRLF,
> facilities that are already bursting at the seams, can accommodate an
> additional 180,000+ objects. Given that in YRL’s renovations
> accommodations are being made for meeting spaces—including a café
> “with seating area and service counter”—it is even more difficult to
> imagine how the Arts Library’s collections can possibly be brought
> into this building. We are deeply concerned that once the Arts Library
> closes its doors that its collections—some of which are singular to
> this library—will be dispersed and rendered inaccessible. We are
> equally concerned that the library’s excellent staff will disappear
> with its collections.
>
> We understand the seriousness of the budget situation; we understand
> that over 85% of the library’s operating budget comes from 19900
> funds; we understand that library management, like the rest of the
> university, has had to make enormously difficult and painful decisions
> regarding reductions. We do not understand library management’s
> failure to apprise the Senate Library Committee—on which you sit—of
> its plans before a decision was reached; we do not understand library
> management’s failure to consult arts and humanities faculty as a means
> of discussing the repercussions of this closure or to come up with
> more tenable solutions to this crisis; we do not understand library
> management’s failure to communicate its decision (or the process in
> its making) directly to the UCLA community. Such secrecy and opacity
> gives the impression that the Arts Library closure was to be presented
> at the beginning of the school year as a fait accompli. This is simply
> not acceptable.
>
> We protest the closure of the Arts Library. We demand that you hold an
> open meeting on this serious issue for interested faculty and students
> at the beginning of fall quarter. At the end of the day, we are deeply
> invested in the Arts Library, and we look forward to coming up with a
> solution that will keep this vital institution in operation.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven D. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Art History,
> Chair, UCLA Graduate Council
>
> Eyal Amiran, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative
> Literature, UC Irvine
>
> Andrew Apter, Professor, Departments of History and Anthropology,
> Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center
>
> George Baker, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Janet Bergstrom, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, Department of
> Film, TV and Digital Media
>
> Charlene Villaseñor Black, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Peter J. Bloom, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media
> Studies, UC Santa Barbara
>
> Jennifer Bolande, Professor, Area Head, New Genres, Department of Art
>
> Robert L. Brown, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC
> Irvine
>
> Emily Carmen, Visiting Professor, Antioch University and Otis College
> of Art and Design
>
> Dee Caruso, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film, TV and
> Digital Media
>
> Sandra Caruso, Adjunct Associate Professor, Theater Department
>
> Sue-Ellen Case, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Program in Theater and
> Performance Studies, Theater Department
>
> Kathlyn M. Cooney, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern
> Languages and Cultures
>
> Dana Cuff, Director cityLAB, Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban
> Design
>
> Susan Downey, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Lauri Firstenberg, Visiting Faculty, Roski School of Fine Arts,
> University of Southern California, Founder, Director and Curator, LA ART
>
> Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
>
> Andrea Fraser, Professor, Department of Art
>
> Gyula Gazdag, Professor, Production/Directing Program, Department of
> Film, TV and Digital Media
>
> David Gere, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures and
> Director, Art | Global Health Center at UCLA
>
> Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Jonathan M. Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies,
> Pomona College
>
> Lyn Hejinian, Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley
>
> Roger Herman, Professor, Department of Art
>
> Karin Higa, Senior Curator of Art, Japanese American National Museum
>
> Thomas S. Hines, Professor Emeritus, Departments of History and
> Architecture and Urban Design
>
> Jennifer Holt, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media
> Studies, UC Santa Barbara
>
> Neil Peter Jampolis, Distinguished Professor, Theater Department
>
> Burglind Jungmann, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Shannon Kelley, Head of Public Programs, UCLA Film & Television Archive
>
> Mary Kelly, Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Department of Art
>
> Cecelia F. Klein, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Barbara Kruger, Professor, Department of Art
>
> Miwon Kwon, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Juliet Koss, Associate Professor, Art History Department, Scripps College
>
> Ross Lipman, Film Restorationist, UCLA Film & Television Archive
>
> Willem Henri Lucas, Professor and Chair, UCLA Design | Media Arts
>
> Steve Mamber, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media
>
> Denise Mann, Head, UCLA Producers Program, Associate Professor,
> Department of Film, TV and Digital Media
>
> Lyle Massey, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC Irvine
>
> Rebeca Mendez, Professor, UCLA Design | Media Arts
>
> Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Donald McCallum, Professor, Department of Art History
>
> Sarah P. Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and
> Material Culture, Department of Classics and Cotsen Institute of
> Archaeology
>
> Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
>
> Chon Noriega, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media,
> Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
>
> Janet O’Shea, Associate Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
>
> Frances Pohl, Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College
> (UCLA, Ph.D. 1985)
>
> Lionel Popkin, Assistant Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
>
> Rebecca Prime, Critical Studies, Department of Film, TV, and Digital
> Media
>
> Alex Purves, Assistant Professor, Classics
>
> Nancy Richardson, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media
>
> Allen F. Roberts, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
>
> Mary Nooter Roberts, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
>
> Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theater Department
>
> Michele Schreiber, Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies,
> Emory University
>
> Jenny Sharpe, Professor, Department of English
>
> Lytle Shaw, Assistant Professor, Department of English, New York
> University
>
> Eric Smoodin, Professor, Program in Film Studies, UC Davis (UCLA,
> Ph.D. 1984)
>
> Andrew Stewart, Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies,
> Departments of History of Art and Classics, UC Berkeley
>
> Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Professor, Theater Department
>
> Nancy J. Troy, Professor, Department of Art History, University of
> Southern California
>
> Dell Upton, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History
>
> Victoria Vesna, Professor, UCLA Design | Media Arts
>
> Edit Villarreal, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Chair, MFA
> Playwriting Program
>
> James Welling, Professor, Department of Art
>
> Joanna Woods-Marsden, Professor, Department of Art History
>
>
> cc: Chancellor Gene Block
>
> Executive Vice-Chancellor Scott Waugh
>
> Vice-Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
>
> Dean Teri Schwartz
>
> Dean Tim Stowell
>
> Dean Chris Waterman
>
> Professor Shane Butler, Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Library
> and Scholarly Communication
>
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