Greetings colleagues,
By this time the following announcement is probably old news to many of
you. A valued colleague has retired.
Regards,
Peter Blank
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>SULAIR NEWS – May 2, 2007
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>TABLE OF CONTENTS:
> * Alex Ross Retires from Art and Architecture Library
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>8. Alex Ross Retires from Art and Architecture Library
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>After thirty-two years of service to Stanford, Alex Ross, Head Librarian
>of the Art and Architecture Library, has retired. Alex first came to
>Stanford in May 1975, from the Cleveland Museum of Art Library. Prior to
>Cleveland, Alex was the Assistant Art Librarian at Columbia University,
>where he received his B.A., M.A., and M.S. degrees.
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>Known among his Art Libraries Society of North America colleagues as an
>art librarian's art librarian and bibliographer without peer, Alex
>co-edited The Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 (Chicago: American
>Library Association, 2005), with Max Marmor, which was awarded ARLIS/NA's
>George Wittenborn Award, presented annually for outstanding publications
>in the visual arts and architecture that combine the highest standards of
>scholarship. It was also named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title of 2005."
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>After a short vacation in France, Alex will continue to reside in Palo
>Alto. A small reception was held in his honor this past week, where four
>new purchases, acquired in his honor, were on display. These included
>three journals from the Parisian avant-garde, Le Coq (Paris) no. 1-4, Mai
>1920 - Novembre 1920; Reverberes (Paris: Organe du club des Reverberes),
>no. 1-5, Avril 1938 - Juillet 1939; and Neon (Paris), no. 1-5, Janvier
>1948 - Mai 1949; and one German Expressionist book, Potsdamer Platz, oder
>die Nachte des Neuen Messias: Ekstatische Visionen (Munich: Georg Muller
>Verlag, 1920), with text by Curt Corrinth and lithographs by Paul Klee.
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>Alex's contributions to our library collections and the intellectual life
>of this great university are immense, his legacy considerable. He will
>continue to be greatly admired, his presence greatly missed.
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>--submitted by Peter Blank
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