Dear ARLIS Colleagues

 

Tufts University is acquiring the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and the W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library at the SMFA will become a branch of the Tisch Library at Tufts University on July 1, 2016. The SMFA Library will be leaving the Fenway Libraries Online network at that time. Our library will also be leaving the Museum of Fine Arts Libraries but will maintain programmatic relationships with the William Morris Hunt Library, the Department of Contemporary Art, and other curatorial departments within the MFA. Lauren Kimball-Brown, Ashley Peterson, and I will continue to serve patrons at the SMFA Library and will remain onsite at our current location at 230 The Fenway.

 

There are many opportunities for the SMFA Library as we join the Tisch Library, chief among them: increased services, resources, and collections, plus sixty university library colleagues. We have been working with Laura Wood, Library Director, Dorothy Meaney, Associate Director, and all of the Department Heads at the Tisch Library for the past eight months to ensure a smooth transition and we are excited to formally join their ranks in a few days time.

 

Our new email addresses (and remaining telephone numbers) for SMFA Library Staff are:

 

Darin Murphy – [log in to unmask]           ph. 617 369 3651

Ashley Peterson – [log in to unmask]              ph. 617 369 3653

Lauren Kimball-Brown – [log in to unmask] (please note, there is an underscore between Kimball and Brown) ph. 617 369 3971

 

I will send out more information after the formal transition date.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments.

 

Best regards,

 

Darin Murphy

 

(soon to be) Head of the W.Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

 

Director of SMFA Library Services and Visual Resources

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[log in to unmask]     617 369 3651

 

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