Hi Rebecca.
Interesting question. Just a cursory search of the internet demonstrates
that there are many different models or representations of arts
librarianship when you look at how the various subjects (art,
architecture, film, design, theater, dance, music, etc.) are combined in
institutional settings.
I collect and provide instruction in Theater / Dance, and Art, Music, and
Media Arts.
I'm an ARLIS member, with primarily a music background, but I've been an
"interdisciplinary" librarian in spirit for most of my
career. I oversee an Art and Music branch library, but I have been
asked to take on expanded collection and instruction responsibilities for
Theater/Dance/Media in the past few years for the main library.
Here are some related associations:
Theater Library Association: Listserve
http://tla.library.unt.edu/listserv.html
ACRL Arts Section:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/arts/
Dance Section (with Discussion Group)
http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/dldg-l.html
Also a Performing Arts Section, Film Section
Also:
UCLA has an Arts Library, which includes Theater and
Art/Architection/Design/Film/Television
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/collections/collect.htm
UC Santa Barbara has an Arts Library, covering art and music
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/arts/
I'm sure you'll get input on many others.
Best regards,
Margaret D. Ericson
Librarian
Bixler Art and Music Library
Colby College
Waterville, ME 04901
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06:19 PM 5/5/2003 -0400, Rebecca Kranz wrote:
Dear
Colleagues,
If there is anyone out
there who is a selector for theater materials and/or whose domain in
the
library includes
performing arts (as well as fine arts and/or architecture), please
contact me
off list. I am
seeking insights from other reference/instructional librarians who have
studio art/art history/architecture backgrounds, but
also cover performing
arts (specifically theater and dance). Also, does anyone
know
of a list serv for
performing arts librarians?
It just occurred to me
that this might be a good topic for a "what you weren't taught in
library school session," at the annual conference, in other words,
how to go about selecting and instructing in the areas of music and/or
the performing arts as a "traditional" art/architecture
librarian.
Thank you in
advance,
Rebecca
Kranz
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