Dear Kathy,
Sharing on behalf of my colleague, Gwendolyn Owens, McGill Visual Arts Collection:
Like Columbia, McGill has professionals in place who report to the Library but manage a campus-wide collection that essentially follows museum procedures for a collection of value. We have an acquisitions committee,
a collections management policy, deaccessioning procedures, and a team with graduate level training in the field. I would encourage our colleagues at Clemson to set up the program in concert with the CU Public Art Collection and the Lee Gallery. Our experience
at McGill has been that collections set up in specific units across the campus are not well managed in the long-term as staff changes and budget issues for a unit whose primary role is not about art has meant that collections get put in closets or basements.
No one means any harm to the art, but over time (and we need to think long, long term) there are issues. For this reason at McGill, the Visual Arts Collection now manages all the collections that were previously managed by units across campus.
Gwendolyn Owens | Director, Visual Arts Collection / Directeur, Collection d’arts visuel | Université McGill University |
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Jennifer Garland
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Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library
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Date: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:52 PM
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Does your university library have an art display program or policy?
Hi Kathy and all:
As some of you know, here at Columbia University Libraries, the art collection (stewarded by my department of Art Properties) is based in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. While the primary mission is stewarding the art and cultural
heritage collections for educational programming, curricular integration, research & study, and exhibitions, we also do manage the on-campus loan program. This has been in effect for decades, although we do update policies and procedures as needed.
It would be too challenging to coordinate a single answer via email about everything, so perhaps if someone wants to organize or coordinate a conference call, a group of us could call in and I could explain things to a group at one time,
and I'm sure others would have questions or other experiences they want to share.
Best,
Roberto C. Ferrari, Ph.D.
Curator of Art Properties
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC0301
New York, NY 10027
PH: 212-854-8907
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:27 PM Kathy Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Suddenly I am the Art Coordinator for the main library here at Clemson.
As I begin to pull that program and a team together, I would very much appreciate hearing from those of you who have art displayed in your main libraries: policy or procedure documents, most especially.
What are the art sources you tap? Who vets artworks? What security/insurance provisions did your organization think through (and reject J).
Many thanks,
Kathy
Kathy Edwards
Associate Librarian
Research, Instruction & Collection Development
Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library
2-112 Lee Hall / 864.656.4289
ORCID: 0000-0002-0501-7448
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