Thanks for forwarding this links Heather. I hope everyone takes the time to read these documents and support the efforts to save the UCLA Arts Library!

Leslie


Leslie Abrams, MSLS
Head, UCSD Arts Library
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UCSD Arts Library renovation Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artslibrary/



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From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Gendron
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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
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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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