This case study offers a small liberal arts college perspective in its discussion of a series of successful collaborations between an academic art museum and library. The decade of art-driven collaborations described here reveal important synergies between museum and library professionals’ work and goals, with implications for best practices in more intentional and effective approaches to art education on college campuses. The authors chose to focus on the breadth, depth, and impact of these collaborations at the local level, specifically as they relate to the discovery and access of book collections, creation and curation of digital projects and online collections, curriculum integration and faculty engagement, and exhibitions with public programming. The authors’ intent in sharing these experiences is two-fold: first, to offer a possible model for other institutions and practitioners, and second, to broaden the literature for and about collaborations among galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM).
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GLAM professionals face practical and ethical challenges when tasked with the preservation and maintenance of intangible Indigenous artworks. Indigenous knowledge is often communicated in the form of embodied performance: it is transmitted through ceremonies, rituals, oral tradition, and lived experience. In approaching such material through a postcustodial lens, and invoking the Records Continuum Model (RCM), practitioners must appreciate the human body as a form of archive. By examining contemporary North American Indigenous artists’ interventions on the colonial archive, GLAM professionals may be better positioned to understand the embodied archive, complex spectral indigeneity, and the challenges of institutionalizing these dense conceptual materials. This article examines the work of Jordan Abel and Rebecca Belmore, two contemporary Indigenous artists, and considers how their performance practices serve as instructive, revisionist, and revolutionary articulations of archival bodies. [This article is a revision of the paper that won the 2022 Gerd Muehsam Award. The award recognizes excellence in a paper written by a graduate student on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual resources curatorship.]
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E. Mathews, Lori Salmon, Cathryn Copper, Karina Wratschko
Since its founding in 1972, the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has helped art information professionals develop, promote, and improve library and information resources and services. For the society’s fiftieth anniversary, a group of members who previously served on the Strategic Directions Committee reflect on the society’s initiatives—past and present—that highlight the values of collectivity, inclusion, and transparency. The authors make recommendations as possible ways for ARLIS/NA to continue building on its history over the next fifty years, particularly that of documentation, so that members can better draw on the society’s history.
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Strategies for acquisitions in art and special collections libraries require multiple modes and methods. Over the past decade, art book fairs have emerged as an exciting and worthwhile venue for collecting artists’ books and other special collections materials such as zines, posters, and ephemera. Art book fairs occur internationally, and the attendance of librarians at these events continues to rise with the overall popularity of the fairs. Despite this growth, there is a lack of professional literature in the field that documents and examines how and why art librarians utilize art book fairs for collection development, especially for acquiring artists’ books. In response, the author distributed an online survey in the fall of 2020 and conducted a literature review to further this research. This article considers the inception of art book fairs and presents the findings of the online survey and literature review. To conclude, the author reflects on the useful qualities of art book fairs for collection development and community building.
{"title":"Acquiring Artists’ Books at Art Book Fairs: Dynamic Collection Development Practices","authors":"Joseph Vincennie","doi":"10.1086/725520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725520","url":null,"abstract":"Strategies for acquisitions in art and special collections libraries require multiple modes and methods. Over the past decade, art book fairs have emerged as an exciting and worthwhile venue for collecting artists’ books and other special collections materials such as zines, posters, and ephemera. Art book fairs occur internationally, and the attendance of librarians at these events continues to rise with the overall popularity of the fairs. Despite this growth, there is a lack of professional literature in the field that documents and examines how and why art librarians utilize art book fairs for collection development, especially for acquiring artists’ books. In response, the author distributed an online survey in the fall of 2020 and conducted a literature review to further this research. This article considers the inception of art book fairs and presents the findings of the online survey and literature review. To conclude, the author reflects on the useful qualities of art book fairs for collection development and community building.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"8 1","pages":"257 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89201207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines the structure and content of collection development policies from twenty-five American art museum libraries. The compilation of the data set, iterative development of principal components, and systematic comparison across policies, generates salient statistical information without being evaluative. Results suggest that the specialized nature of art museum libraries guides their collection development policies and that increasing access to policies can benefit both direct stakeholders and the professional community at large. Acknowledging that the data collection and assessment took place prior to the coronavirus pandemic and the United States’ most recent reckoning with racial justice, professionals at the selected institutions were invited to share policy adjustments, new initiatives, and updated practices. The article concludes with a summary of these responses, considering if and how the collecting practices and/or policies of art museum libraries changed as a result of the events of 2020.
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This case study explores the challenges of defining a data set to analyze changes in Wikipedia’s gender gap for articles about visual art. Wikipedia and Wikidata each group content in data structures that produce overlapping and incomplete visual art datasets and include non-visual art data. To circumvent potentially biased editorial decisions about what to include or exclude, this case study describes the process of using a topic model algorithm that identifies a dataset by analyzing the words in each article and grouping the articles into topics.
{"title":"Clowns in the Visual Artists:","authors":"Michael Mandiberg, Danara Sarıoğlu","doi":"10.1086/719999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719999","url":null,"abstract":"This case study explores the challenges of defining a data set to analyze changes in Wikipedia’s gender gap for articles about visual art. Wikipedia and Wikidata each group content in data structures that produce overlapping and incomplete visual art datasets and include non-visual art data. To circumvent potentially biased editorial decisions about what to include or exclude, this case study describes the process of using a topic model algorithm that identifies a dataset by analyzing the words in each article and grouping the articles into topics.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"241 1","pages":"19 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73342915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since the late twentieth century, the speed of technological innovation has led to renewed interest in cultivating mindfulness and attention, including a multitude of “slow” movements. This article examines the practice of slow looking, a means of gathering information through sustained observation and deeper inquiry. Slow-looking activities span institutional settings, including K-12 and higher education, libraries and archives, and museums and galleries. In this article, the authors connect several slow-looking exercises developed over eighteen years, examining how they empower learners to become critically discerning and reflective across contexts.
{"title":"Focusing on Slow Looking:","authors":"Stephanie Beene, Dana Statton Thompson","doi":"10.1086/719405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719405","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late twentieth century, the speed of technological innovation has led to renewed interest in cultivating mindfulness and attention, including a multitude of “slow” movements. This article examines the practice of slow looking, a means of gathering information through sustained observation and deeper inquiry. Slow-looking activities span institutional settings, including K-12 and higher education, libraries and archives, and museums and galleries. In this article, the authors connect several slow-looking exercises developed over eighteen years, examining how they empower learners to become critically discerning and reflective across contexts.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"17 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82902612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Exhibitions have been an important aspect of librarianship throughout history. Without an understanding of their past, the current efforts and impacts of exhibitions are undervalued. Through a literature review that focuses on the history of exhibitions with roots in Europe and related contemporary issues in the United States, the authors argue that exhibitions are part of a library’s identity. They also make recommendations for how to document library exhibitions for the future, including following library exhibition best practices, forging institutional collaborations, and expanding librarian professional development opportunities.
{"title":"A History of Library Exhibitions and Their Development","authors":"Carol Ng-He, Elizabeth Meinke","doi":"10.1086/719378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719378","url":null,"abstract":"Exhibitions have been an important aspect of librarianship throughout history. Without an understanding of their past, the current efforts and impacts of exhibitions are undervalued. Through a literature review that focuses on the history of exhibitions with roots in Europe and related contemporary issues in the United States, the authors argue that exhibitions are part of a library’s identity. They also make recommendations for how to document library exhibitions for the future, including following library exhibition best practices, forging institutional collaborations, and expanding librarian professional development opportunities.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"135 1","pages":"120 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74878477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The author describes three consecutive years of embedded librarianship with an interior design course in which students were asked to reimagine a selected space within Florida State University’s main university library as their final project. The narrative traces the evolution of this embedded partnership from its last in-person, pre-pandemic semester in 2019, through the fully remote 2020–2021 academic year, and back to in-person instruction in fall 2021. Besides discussing the agility and resiliency of this partnership, takeaways are offered for readers interested in strengthening similar embedded collaborations.
{"title":"Embedded Librarianship in the Library:","authors":"Leah Reilly Sherman","doi":"10.1086/719650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719650","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes three consecutive years of embedded librarianship with an interior design course in which students were asked to reimagine a selected space within Florida State University’s main university library as their final project. The narrative traces the evolution of this embedded partnership from its last in-person, pre-pandemic semester in 2019, through the fully remote 2020–2021 academic year, and back to in-person instruction in fall 2021. Besides discussing the agility and resiliency of this partnership, takeaways are offered for readers interested in strengthening similar embedded collaborations.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"63 1","pages":"137 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74139006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since its invention, photography has revolutionized the documentation of art. The author investigates how technological advancements of photography between 1880 and 1930 transformed Bernard Berenson’s methodology in connoisseurship and art historical research in general. The paper analyzes Berenson’s writings and examines the origin and development of different sections of the photograph archive that the American art historian created. Key findings include the organization of photography campaigns, the partnership with other art historians and photographers, and the acquisition of black-and-white photographic prints made with newly developed techniques before the advent of color photography. [This article expands on a paper presented at the Technological Revolutions and Art History Symposium held online in November 2020.]
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