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Thanks for forwarding this links Heather. I hope everyone takes the time to read these documents and support the efforts to save the UCLA Arts Library! Leslie Leslie Abrams, MSLS Head, UCSD Arts Library [log in to unmask] Telephone: 858-534-3221 Geisel Library, 0175Q 9500 Gilman Drive University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 UCSD Arts Library renovation Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artslibrary/ -----Original Message----- From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Gendron Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:07 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] UCLA Arts Library There's some Library Journal coverage on the proposed closure: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6678916.html?nid=2673&source=title&rid=540725846 There's also a Facebook page with a petition to support keeping the library open. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=132785048409&ref=nf Over 1,600 people have signed it so far. Heather Gendron Art Librarian Sloane Art Library UNC Chapel Hill 102 Hanes Art Center CB#3405 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405 Phone: 919.962.1061 Email: [log in to unmask] jwoo wrote: > Anyone have the skinny on what's going on at UCLA? > =================================== > Forwarded letter: > > August 19, 2009 > Gary Strong > > University Librarian > > University of California, Los Angeles > > Dear Mr. Strong: > > This letter is intended to express our outrage and dismay at the > impending closure of the Arts Library, an entity that is unique on the > West Coast in its offerings and resources. As instructors-at UCLA and > beyond-in the arts, architecture, art history, film, television, > theater and the humanities we all see the UCLA Arts Library as an > indispensable resource to fulfill our pedagogical mission. As creators > and researchers we all see the UCLA Arts Library as a critical part of > our respective practices. Furthermore, a dedicated arts collection is > a staple of all great universities public and private. On all of these > levels it is unconscionable that this library, one that services the > myriad needs of hundreds of faculty and thousands of students in some > of our nation's best departments in the arts and humanities could even > be considered for closure. > > Those who did not see the closure of the Arts Library buried in your > blog entry of August 4, 2009 found out about it though word of mouth, > Facebook, email and water cooler rumors. The lack of any effort on the > part of library management to consult arts and humanities faculty > about these plans points to a lack of transparency in the library's > operations that we find most troubling. This lack of transparency is > further underscored by library management's failure to consult with > the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly > Communication on this critical issue. > > If the Arts Library closes, it is impossible to see how YRL and SRLF, > facilities that are already bursting at the seams, can accommodate an > additional 180,000+ objects. Given that in YRL's renovations > accommodations are being made for meeting spaces-including a café > "with seating area and service counter"-it is even more difficult to > imagine how the Arts Library's collections can possibly be brought > into this building. We are deeply concerned that once the Arts Library > closes its doors that its collections-some of which are singular to > this library-will be dispersed and rendered inaccessible. We are > equally concerned that the library's excellent staff will disappear > with its collections. > > We understand the seriousness of the budget situation; we understand > that over 85% of the library's operating budget comes from 19900 > funds; we understand that library management, like the rest of the > university, has had to make enormously difficult and painful decisions > regarding reductions. We do not understand library management's > failure to apprise the Senate Library Committee-on which you sit-of > its plans before a decision was reached; we do not understand library > management's failure to consult arts and humanities faculty as a means > of discussing the repercussions of this closure or to come up with > more tenable solutions to this crisis; we do not understand library > management's failure to communicate its decision (or the process in > its making) directly to the UCLA community. Such secrecy and opacity > gives the impression that the Arts Library closure was to be presented > at the beginning of the school year as a fait accompli. This is simply > not acceptable. > > We protest the closure of the Arts Library. We demand that you hold an > open meeting on this serious issue for interested faculty and students > at the beginning of fall quarter. At the end of the day, we are deeply > invested in the Arts Library, and we look forward to coming up with a > solution that will keep this vital institution in operation. > > Sincerely, > > Steven D. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, > Chair, UCLA Graduate Council > > Eyal Amiran, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative > Literature, UC Irvine > > Andrew Apter, Professor, Departments of History and Anthropology, > Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center > > George Baker, Associate Professor, Department of Art History > > Janet Bergstrom, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, Department of > Film, TV and Digital Media > > Charlene Villaseñor Black, Associate Professor, Department of Art History > > Peter J. Bloom, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media > Studies, UC Santa Barbara > > Jennifer Bolande, Professor, Area Head, New Genres, Department of Art > > Robert L. Brown, Professor, Department of Art History > > Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC > Irvine > > Emily Carmen, Visiting Professor, Antioch University and Otis College > of Art and Design > > Dee Caruso, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film, TV and > Digital Media > > Sandra Caruso, Adjunct Associate Professor, Theater Department > > Sue-Ellen Case, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Program in Theater and > Performance Studies, Theater Department > > Kathlyn M. Cooney, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern > Languages and Cultures > > Dana Cuff, Director cityLAB, Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban > Design > > Susan Downey, Professor, Department of Art History > > Lauri Firstenberg, Visiting Faculty, Roski School of Fine Arts, > University of Southern California, Founder, Director and Curator, LA ART > > Susan Leigh Foster, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures > > Andrea Fraser, Professor, Department of Art > > Gyula Gazdag, Professor, Production/Directing Program, Department of > Film, TV and Digital Media > > David Gere, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures and > Director, Art | Global Health Center at UCLA > > Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Professor, Department of Art History > > Jonathan M. Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, > Pomona College > > Lyn Hejinian, Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley > > Roger Herman, Professor, Department of Art > > Karin Higa, Senior Curator of Art, Japanese American National Museum > > Thomas S. Hines, Professor Emeritus, Departments of History and > Architecture and Urban Design > > Jennifer Holt, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media > Studies, UC Santa Barbara > > Neil Peter Jampolis, Distinguished Professor, Theater Department > > Burglind Jungmann, Professor, Department of Art History > > Shannon Kelley, Head of Public Programs, UCLA Film & Television Archive > > Mary Kelly, Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Department of Art > > Cecelia F. Klein, Professor, Department of Art History > > Barbara Kruger, Professor, Department of Art > > Miwon Kwon, Professor, Department of Art History > > Juliet Koss, Associate Professor, Art History Department, Scripps College > > Ross Lipman, Film Restorationist, UCLA Film & Television Archive > > Willem Henri Lucas, Professor and Chair, UCLA Design | Media Arts > > Steve Mamber, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media > > Denise Mann, Head, UCLA Producers Program, Associate Professor, > Department of Film, TV and Digital Media > > Lyle Massey, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC Irvine > > Rebeca Mendez, Professor, UCLA Design | Media Arts > > Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor, Department of Art History > > Donald McCallum, Professor, Department of Art History > > Sarah P. Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and > Material Culture, Department of Classics and Cotsen Institute of > Archaeology > > Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature > > Chon Noriega, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media, > Director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center > > Janet O'Shea, Associate Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures > > Frances Pohl, Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College > (UCLA, Ph.D. 1985) > > Lionel Popkin, Assistant Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures > > Rebecca Prime, Critical Studies, Department of Film, TV, and Digital > Media > > Alex Purves, Assistant Professor, Classics > > Nancy Richardson, Professor, Department of Film, TV and Digital Media > > Allen F. Roberts, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures > > Mary Nooter Roberts, Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures > > Jean-Louis Rodrigue, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theater Department > > Michele Schreiber, Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies, > Emory University > > Jenny Sharpe, Professor, Department of English > > Lytle Shaw, Assistant Professor, Department of English, New York > University > > Eric Smoodin, Professor, Program in Film Studies, UC Davis (UCLA, > Ph.D. 1984) > > Andrew Stewart, Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, > Departments of History of Art and Classics, UC Berkeley > > Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Professor, Theater Department > > Nancy J. Troy, Professor, Department of Art History, University of > Southern California > > Dell Upton, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History > > Victoria Vesna, Professor, UCLA Design | Media Arts > > Edit Villarreal, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Chair, MFA > Playwriting Program > > James Welling, Professor, Department of Art > > Joanna Woods-Marsden, Professor, Department of Art History > > > cc: Chancellor Gene Block > > Executive Vice-Chancellor Scott Waugh > > Vice-Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan > > Dean Teri Schwartz > > Dean Tim Stowell > > Dean Chris Waterman > > Professor Shane Butler, Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Library > and Scholarly Communication > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: > http://www.arlisna.org/join.html > Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]