Greetings colleagues,
By this time the following announcement is probably old news to many of
you. A valued colleague has retired.
Regards,
Peter Blank
SULAIR NEWS – May 2, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Alex Ross Retires from Art and Architecture Library
8. Alex Ross Retires from Art and Architecture Library
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.
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."
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.
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.
--submitted by Peter Blank
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