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Ray Anne, I think this is a wonderful subject. I collect heavily in the contemporary art area and though I collect for a studio base (we don't have a degreed art history program here-but a heavy emphasis on critical and cultural theory) I think many of the issues of collecting may be similar. Just a few ideas to think about for such a session as regards collecting for currency: --Collecting exhibition catalogs (can be close in currency to journals) --Collecting major publications for things such as national and international contemporary biennials/triennials (e.g. Documenta, Bienale di Venezia) --Approval plans with reputable distributors of exhibition catalogs and small press items such as Worldwide Books -Access to current journal literature (more and more accessible as full-text on the web - though admitedly sans pictures often) -Contacts outside publishing including artists, attendance at artists conferences, artists, art historians, art faculty in your institution and region. I would love also to see a session with catalogers explaining the sturm und drang of cataloging contemporary works when cross-disciplinary works are becoming more and more prevalent - and where you can't very easily put things into sculpture painting printmaking and drawing anymore. I'm having a harder and harder time trying to explain to my students, patrons etc. the reasoning behind how new media are cataloged! Mo --On Friday, March 01, 2002 4:41 PM -0500 Ray Anne Lockard <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Ray Anne Lockard, Head Librarian > Frick Fine Arts Library > University of Pittsburgh > Pittsburgh, PA 15260 > Voice: 412-648-2411 > Fax: 412-648-7568 > E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > > "A book should be a ball of light in one's hands." > Ezra Pound > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: > [log in to unmask] Mo Dawley Art and Drama Librarian Carnegie Mellon University [log in to unmask] 412-268-6625 (fax)412-268-7148 http://www.library.cmu.edu/bySubject/Art http://www.library.cmu.edu/bySubject/Drama http://www.greenarts.org __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]