This conversation has touched on the future of subject libraries and
subject librarians.
I humbly draw your attention to the Art Doc article I did in 2006:
"Indicators for the evolution of the academic architecture library" -- Art
Documentation vol. 25, issue 2 -- OR in the UNLV Institutional Repository
http://digitalcommons.library.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1075&context=lib_articles
One of the subheadings in the article is "The Subject Librarian in the
Library of the Future."
all the best, Jeanne
Jeanne Brown
--formerly Head of the UNLV Architecture Studies Library (ASL)
--for several years both Head of the ASL and UNLV Libraries Assessment
Librarian
--now Head of Assessment, UNLV Libraries
From: Ruth Wallach <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 10/27/2011 12:02 PM
Subject: [ARLIS-L] Art, design, and architecture librarians with
additional disciplinary responsibilities
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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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