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Dear colleagues-

Thank you all who responded to my inquiry.

I had no ulterior motives, I was simply curious.  It looks like there  
are many institutions, mostly smallish and medium-sized, where  
positions for art/architecture specialists include a variety of other  
disciplinary and service responsibilities.  Some positions include in  
their portfolios  "related" areas such as theater, music, classics.   
Other positions include-non related areas, as is true in my case. Many  
colleagues participate in all-library services such as reference, chat  
and email, and instruction.  We see this as an inevitable part of the  
progress of academic libraries, and some of us underline the positive  
inherent in being part of a larger environment, participating in  
broader activities which then feed to strengthen our own disciplinary  
services.

I learned from a few of you that you came into art/architecture the  
same way I did - from other areas.  When I was asked to head the  
Architecture and Fine Arts Library here over a decade ago, I suspected  
that research in architecture was different than research in Russian  
literature, but did not have any further information beyond this  
brilliant hunch.  And the first time an undergraduate asked me to help  
her find plans of a building I never heard of - well, I was rendered  
speechless. I believe this is called stump (or stomp) the librarian.

Now I need to purvey this into something more concrete, maybe a  
roundtable session at an ARLIS conference or maybe something else.   
This is all very good for ruminating further.
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Ruth Wallach, (213)740-6917, [log in to unmask]
Head, Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library &
Librarian for Comparative Literature, East European History, Gender  
Studies, and Russian Literature, USC Libraries.


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