Hi Luke, Timely question. We haven’t yet, but our University Archivist and I recently had a conversation about collecting those types of materials, plus commercial gallery solo invitations, etc., in some way. Some university libraries, I believe, collect them in vertical files. Our city is small but has an active art community with nationally and internationally recognized commercial galleries and artist-run centres, in addition to well-established public galleries, representing historic, established, and up’n-coming artists. Quite often, we realize, these are only records of local art activities especially for less known local artists, short of obtaining gallery documents and artists’ papers, which we may also consider in the future. Our discussion was partly prompted by the recent transfer of various materials from our university art gallery’s staff working library in downtown to the main library on campus proper. We still haven’t finalized how to house (Archive? Special collections?) or how to handle cataloguing records. Tad

 

 

 

 

 

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Tad Suzuki MTS MA MLS Information Services Librarian Fine Arts, Hispanic & Italian Studies McPherson Library, William C. Mearns Centre for Learning  PO Box 1800 STN CSC, Victoria, BC  V8W 3H5 Canada 250-721-8213 [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

 

 

All,

 

The Marriott Library has recently had a large donation of art-related books from a retired art historian.  In our processing efforts we have come across several large pamphlets/booklets/foldouts from galleries across the US.  The pamphlets generally have images of art that were included in the advertised shows with very little additional text.

 

Have others come across objects like this and considered adding them to your collections?  I’d be interested to hear if people decided to add these items or not, and why they made their decision.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Luke Leither

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