In the Can't Believe It department: Huge thanks to Epson America for donating an Epson 10000XL Photo Scanner to the library from their Focused Giving Program! WOW! Digitization projects, here we come!!
Online catalog update: Our converted records have been imported again . . . for the THIRD time and hopefully this time will be the charm. Bar code labels had to be returned so a slight delay on getting the labeling started as well. Looking to launch to staff at the February staff meeting, so let's keep our fingers crossed!
Recommended Readings:
- Our own Charles Mo in Fiberarts, the Jan/Feb issue, on caring for a wearable art collection. There's a copy in the Jones library of the article and the magazine itself is at MMCD!
- Ken Shulman's Once Bitten Twice Denied article in Art & Antiques December issue about the de-authentication of a Warhol silkscreen.
- Review of Jiha Moon exhibition in the latest ArtForum
- Great article on Randy Shull in the December issue of American Craft.
- Museums and Libraries Engaging America's Youth: Final Report of A Study of IMLS Youth Programs, 1998-2003. Access the PDF at http://www.imls.gov/pdf/YouthReport.pdf
In the Great Gifts! department: The library has been extremely fortunate this past year with gifts we have received from generous donors. Nelson Grice donated 91 titles in 2007 on American Indian art and culture; artists Hugh Slonem, Lucinda Bunnen and Philip Moulthrop each donated books on their own works; and Frances Parrack donated 32 books on quilting along with back issues of Quilter's Newsletter to name but a few. Friends of the Mint not only donated a book to honor their outgoing president but also funds for the purchase of a book in honor of Jon Stuhlman. Plus we received exhibition catalogs from almost 30 art museums around the country as part of the exchange program! And these are just a few of the wonderful donors and donations that aided the library in 2007. Many, many thanks to all!
And in the Last but Not Least department: Early in 2007, the library received the gift of the personal papers and sketches of an interior designer named Jessica Rummell. She taught interior design at Parsons in Paris in the 1920s and then moved to New York and had her own interior design business there for years. Although the sketches were marvelous - she would go to auctions, see something she liked, run home and sketch it and then take the sketch to her client to see if they would be interested! - we realized that this was not the place for this type of archive. Fortunately, Parsons School of Design is! The head of their library and archive is not only willing but delighted to receive Miss Rummell's papers as she is former faculty! Now her work will not only have a home, but a home where students can access all her fabuous sketches and research! A very happy ending.
