>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We (BMA) have discovered over the years that dust jackets
>are indeed worthy of keeping for research and exhibition purposes.
>This point was recently underscored when we were asked to include a number of
>dust jackets in the current BMA exhibit entitled
>"Vital Forms: American art and design in the Atomic
>Age 1940-1960". Several dust jackets and periodical
>covers are included in the exhibition and accompanying
>catalog.
>
>Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum of Art
>
>--- Shannon Van Kirk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > All,
> > A colleague and I have been thinking about our
> > growing digital collection
> > of book jackets (we make them available to enhance
> > our New Books list). As
> > he said, "I hope I'm not opening a new line of
> > attack for Nicholson Baker,
> > but does anyone know of a library that
> > systematically collects dust jackets
> > and maintains the collection?"
> >
> > In my experience, most libraries seem to use them
> > for projects or displays,
> > or simply dispose of them. Certainly it would be a
> > complex project to
> > collect, preserve, catalog and index dust jackets,
> > and any library's
> > collection would be only a sampling of publishers'
> > production.
> >
> > On the other hand, there are several collections,
> > exhibition catalogs, and
> > books devoted
> > to individual collectors, designers, publishers, and
> > genres (science
> > fiction or romance jacket art, for example), and it
> > looks (from WorldCat
> > records) as though a few libraries have tried at one
> > time or another to
> > develop collections.
> >
> > As long as I'm posting this question to the list, I
> > might as well try to
> > turn it into a discussion. Should libraries try to
> > collect dust jackets?
> > Why? How? Has your library thought about/done this?
> >
> > Thanks for any leads and comments,
> > --shannon
> > ********** ********** **********
> > Shannon Van Kirk
> > Head, Art & Architecture Library
> > 7B Wertz Art & Architecture Library
> > Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
> > [log in to unmask]
> > tel.: (513) 529-6650
> > FAX: (513) 529-4159
> >
> >
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