Dear Colleagues,
After almost 14 years at the Spencer Art Reference Library, Jeffrey Weidman, Senior Librarian for Collection Development, is retiring tomorrow, 12/30/2011. His retirement from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art caps a professional career as a librarian spanning almost 28 years, beginning in 1983 as the Art Librarian of the Ward Art Library, Oberlin College, 1983-1997. Jeffrey graduated a year earlier in 1982 from Indiana University with both an MLS and a PhD in Art History, his dissertation on the American artist/physician, was entitled, William Rimmer: a Critical Catalogue Raisonné.
Many of you know of Jeffrey’s work in the more than 240 book reviews in ARLIS/NA and in CHOICE, the review publication from the ACRL. Other recent projects included the chapter on auction catalogs in Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti (2009), and the online project of Web Resources for American Art (Association of Historians of American Art (2009). Many of you have been active correspondents over the years.
Please join me in wishing Jeffrey all good wishes in the new year and a happy retirement!
3 Cheers! - Marilyn
Marilyn Carbonell
Head, Library Services
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Kansas City, MO 64111
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