ARLIS/NA Publication Press
Release
It is my great pleasure, on behalf of the ARLIS/NA
Publications Committee, to announce the publication of a new title in the
Occasional Papers Series. This title represents the most ambitious
Society publication to date and is the first title co-published with the
Scarecrow Press. A full press release is available on the ARLIS/NA
Website at:
http://www.arlisna.org/news/press/artmuspub.pdf ---
Kraig Binkowski, ARLIS/NA Professional Resources Editor.
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Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship
Co-Published with the Scarecrow Press
Occasional Papers of the Art Libraries Society of North America, no.
16
336 p., 90 illustrations.
Cloth: 0-8108-5918-1, 978-0-8108-5918-0: $75.00
Paper: 0-8108-5921-1, 978-0-8108-5921-0: $45.00
Available: April 2007
Order online at
www.scarecrowpress.com
Edited by Joan M. Benedetti
Foreword by Michael Brand
Introduction by Ann B. Abid
“I realize how great a debt I
owe to the art librarians who built those
collections, cataloged them,
and made them accessible to me and my
colleagues over the
years.”
Michael Brand, Director, The J. Paul Getty Museum
The first publication of its kind, Art Museum Libraries and
Librarianship looks at every facet of art museum librarianship.
Topics range from the day-to-day activities of museum librarians to major
capital projects and management challenges common to this highly
specialized and under-examined field.
The editor, Joan Benedetti, has compiled 61 essays from over 40
practicing art museum librarians to illuminate the multivalent field of
art museum librarianship in all its diverse settings. The book,
co-published with the Scarecrow Press, is organized into sixteen
chapters, each including 3-5 essays. These chapters address the topics of
leadership, reader services, automation, security, cataloging, space
planning, collection development, visual resources, ephemera, special
collections, archives, fundraising, public relations, volunteers and
interns, professional development, and solo librarianship.
Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship concludes with a collection
of brief
institutional profiles, which include statistical and descriptive
information on fifteen diverse art museum libraries in the U.S., Canada,
and Europe; appendixes that describe academic programs offering dual
degrees in librarianship and art, list international professional
associations for art museum librarians, and provide sample policies and
procedures in use today in art museum libraries; a bibliography; and an
index.
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About the Authors
Joan M. Benedetti was a Librarian-Cataloger at the L.A. County Museum
of Art Research Library until she retired in 2002. Before that, she was
the Museum Librarian (a solo position) at the Craft and Folk Art Museum
(CAFAM) for 21 years, also serving as Director of CAFAM's Center for the
Study of Art and Culture, 1989-1994. She has been an active member of the
Art Libraries Society of North America.
Michael Brand has been director of the J. Paul Getty Museum since
December 2005, after having served as director of the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts in Richmond since 2000.
Ann B. Abid was the head librarian at the Cleveland Museum of Art
from 1985 until her retirement in 2004. Before that she worked for 22
years at the St. Louis Art Museum. She has been an active member of
ARLIS/NA, serving as president in 1988.
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Contributors to the Publication
The contributors to this enormous undertaking include the essay and
thumbnail sketch writers, editors and compilers, as well as manuscript
and proof readers. This list comprises a veritable "who's who"
of art museum librarianship and echoes the ambitious and inclusive vision
of the book's creator, Joan Benedetti.
Compilers of Bibliography: Sandra Wiles, Librarian, Phoenix
Museum of Art and Joan M. Benedetti
Editor Emeritus: Paul Glassman, Director, Public Services,
Pratt Institute Libraries
Essay Writers:
Jacqueline Allen, Director, Mayer Libraries/Imaging Services, Dallas
Museum of Art
Amy Ballmer, Reference Librarian, Art Institute of Chicago
Kraig A. Binkowski, Head Librarian, Yale Center for British Art (formerly
Head Librarian, Delaware Art Museum)
Peter Blank, [formerly], Head, Reader Services, Art Institute of
Chicago
Regan Brumagen, Education and Outreach Librarian, Corning Museum of
Glass
Lynda Bunting, Librarian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Margaret Culbertson, Director, Hirsch Library, MFA Houston
Gillian Currie, Acquisitions Librarian, National Gallery of
Australia
Jonathan W. Evans, Reference Librarian, MFA Houston
Jane Ferger, Visual Resources Librarian, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Stacey Flatt, Project Archivist, Museum of Modern Art (formerly,
Archivist, National Museum of Women in the Arts)
Margaret Crocker Ford, Technical Services Librarian, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston
Jonathan Franklin, Head of Collections and Database Management, Library,
National Gallery of Canada
Billie Hackney, Head of Monograph Cataloging, Getty Research
Institute
John Hagood, Reference Librarian, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.
V. Heidi Hass, Head of the Reference Collection, The Morgan Library &
Museum
Milan R. Hughston, Chief of Library & Museum Archives, Museum of
Modern Art
Dennis Kreps, Librarian, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts
Deirdre E. Lawrence, Principal Librarian/Coordinator of Research
Services, Brooklyn Museum
Roger Lawson, Admin. Librarian, National Gallery of Art
Janice Lea Lurie, Head Librarian, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Amy Marshall, Special Collections Archivist, Art Gallery of Ontario
Karen McKenzie, Chief Librarian, Art Gallery of Ontario
Lilah J. Mittelstaedt, Reference Librarian, Philadelphia Museum of
Art
Aprille C. Nace, Public Services Team Leader, Corning Museum of
Glass
Maria Oldal, Head of Cataloging and Database Maintenance, The Morgan
Library & Museum
Martha Escobar Palacios, Chief Librarian & Archivist, Museo Franz
Mayer, Mexico City
Sara Jane Pearman, Image Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art
Kristen Regina, Librarian, Hillwood Museum & Gardens, Washington,
D.C.
Barbara Rominski, Head Librarian, S.F. Museum of Modern Art
Carol Rusk, Librarian, Whitney Museum of American Art
Linda Seckelson, Head, Reader Services, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cheryl Siegel, Librarian/Archivist, Vancouver Art Gallery
Deborah Barlow Smedstad, Head Librarian, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Daniel A. Starr, Manager, Bibliographic Operations, Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Linda Tompkins-Baldwin, Library Director, Baltimore Museum of Art
Allen Townsend, Librarian, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth
Cheryl H. Toyama, Cataloger, Japanese American National Museum, L.A.
Michele J. Turner, [formerly], Librarian, Currier Museum of Art,
Manchester, New Hampshire
Sharon Wasserman, Director, Library & Research Center, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey Weidman, Senior Librarian, Public Services & Collection
Development, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Artis Wick, Assistant Librarian, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, Florida
Contributors of “Thumbnail Sketches”:
Hannah Bennett, Public Services Librarian, Yale University Art
Gallery
Amy Ballmer, Reference Librarian, Art Institute of Chicago
Alexis Curry, Head Librarian, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Claudio Di Benedetto, PhD., Director, Biblioteca degli Uffizi
Suzanne Freeman, Head Fine Arts Librarian, Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts
Mary Graham, Head Librarian, Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona
Elspeth Hector, Head of Libraries & Archive, The National Gallery,
London
Eumie Imm-Stroukoff, Librarian, Archivist, and Ass’t Director, Research
Center, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Shelly Kilroy, Librarian, Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture
Park
Ree Mobley, Librarian/Archivist/Image Rights, Museum of International
Folk Art
Aprille C. Nace, Public Services Team Leader, Corning Museum of
Glass
Michiel Nijhoff, Head of Library, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Ann Shea, Librarian, California African American Museum
Judy Silverman, Acting Head Librarian, and Renata Guttman, Head of Reader
Services,Canadian Centre for Architecture
Carol Terry, Director of Library Services, Rhode Island School of Design
Museum
Contributors of Sample Documents:
Heather Brodhead, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Regan Brumagen, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Lynda Bunting, Librarian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Gillian Currie, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Alexis Curry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Billie Hackney, Getty Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
William Peniston, Mgr., Library and Archives, The Newark Museum
Kristen Regina, Librarian, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington,
D.C.
Barbara Rominski, Head Librarian, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Cheryl Siegel, Vancouver Art Gallery
Joy Wright, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Reader/advisors:
Ann Abid, Head Librarian (ret.), Cleveland Museum of Art
Patricia Barnett, Andrew W. Mellon Librarian, Frick Art Reference
Library
Kathryn L. Corcoran, Dir., Library, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art
Institute, Utica, N.Y.
Leigh Gates, Visual Resources Librarian, Art Institute of Chicago
James Mitchell, [formerly] Librarian, Museum of American Folk Art,
N.Y.
Stephanie Moye, Serials Librarian, Smithsonian American Art
Museum/NPG
Lindy J. Narver, Volunteer Cataloger, Laguna Art Museum
Trudi Olivetti, Cataloger, National Gallery of Art
William Peniston, Mgr., Library and Archives, The Newark Museum
Tricia Rose, University of California, San Diego
Susan Von Salis, Curator of Archives, Harvard U. Art Museums, Cambridge,
Mass.
Layna White, Head, Collections Information and Access, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
Linda Zoeckler, [formerly] Head, Art Reference Library, Huntington
Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino,
California
Kraig Binkowski
Head Librarian
Reference Library and Photograph Archive
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
P.O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
Phone: 203.432.2846
Fax: 203.432.9613
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http://www.yale.edu/ycba