Dear George,
There are three essays in the recently published Art Museum Libraries
and Librarianship that deal with collecting ephemera. The chapter is
titled: "The Invisible Made Visible: Collecting Ephemera in the Art
Museum Library" and the essays by Margaret Crocker Ford, Barbara
Rominski, and Sharon Wasserman are very informative. There was also a
panel devoted to ephemeral collections at the 2006 National Museum
Publishing Seminar in which I participated. I don't think these
papers are published but I would be happy to share mine with you.
There seems to be quite a bit more on the subject coming from the UK
- perhaps the John Johnson collection and the Ephemera Society make
the topic germane for British librarians. Finally, the Artist Files
Working Group of ARLIS/NA is working on an ambitious project that
would provide guidance and resources for making one form of collected
ephemera available to users. The 2005 and 2006 meeting minutes for
this group are available at:
http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/2005/proceedings/dg_artistfiles.pdf
and
http://www.arlisna.org/news/conferences/2006/proceedings/wg_artistfiles.pdf
Best wishes,
Kraig
Kraig Binkowski
Head Librarian
Reference Library and Photograph Archive
Yale Center for British Art
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At 11:41 PM 9/9/2007, you wrote:
>Hello: I am an MLIS student at the University of Oklahoma who is exploring
>possible thesis topics.
>
>I have recently become interested in ephemera and grey/gray literature in
>fine arts libraries. I have searched both the ARLIS archives as well as
>Dissertation Abstracts and haven't found a lot of discussion on this topic.
> There is some literature in the journals, however.
>
>I did find a posting by one Ruth Wallach asking in 2004 if anyone was
>interested in hosting a panel on grey literature. Does anyone know if such
>a panel was ever conducted?
>
>Additionally I would be curious to know if this is a topic that affects many
>of you. Do you find that your institutions house ephemera and/or grey
>literature of various kinds? Is this a non-topic because art libraries
>already have systematic ways of dealing with these two classes of
>information and no further inquiry is needed? Or do you feel, rather, that
>there is a lot of ephemera and/or grey literature in fine arts libraries
>that has not been effectively managed?
>
>I have intentionally held off offering any definitions of either "ephemera"
>or "grey literature" because I'd rather see what kind of responses are
>prompted by my questions without any such definitions at this time.
>
>Thank you!
>
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