The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship

Put together by an international team of contributors, this essential handbook examines methods of innovative librarianship in academic and art-school libraries throughout the world. With a focus on the intersection of 'best practice¿ and best opportunities, this book brings together the philosophies and realities of the most creative librarians working in the field of art librarianship today and serves as a field guide to academic art libraries in the twenty-first century.

Amanda Gluibizzi is Assistant Professor and Fine Arts Librarian, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, USA. Paul Glassman is Associate Professor and Director of the Library at Felician College, New Jersey, USA.

Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Roles and responsibilities	p. 1
Governance and administration of the art and design library	p. 3
Surveying trends in art librarianship: evolving roles	p. 19
Liaison for the visual arts: responding to the needs of diverse demands	p. 29
Accreditation and visual arts libraries	p. 39
Materials and collection management	p. 49
Teaching by the book: art history pedagogy and special collections	p. 51
Currency and continuity: collection management, renewal and de-accession	p. 61
Swimming with the tides of technology in an art and design library: from AMICO to Delicious to YouTube	p. 75
Beyond the monograph? Transformations in scholarly communication and their impact on art librarianship	p. 91
Cataloguing and classification for art and design school libraries: challenges and considerations	p. 113
Teaching and learning	p. 131
Visual literacy for highly literate viewers	p. 133
Embedding information literacy into a studio art course	p. 145
Incorporating image databases into teaching and learning	p. 159
Cultural differences and information literacy competencies	p. 173
Touch, see, find: serving multiple literacies in the art and design library	p. 183
The art of evidence: a method for instructing students in art history research	p. 197
Learning spaces, promotion and sustainability	p. 213
Why is that column in the middle of the room? Success in creating classrooms for library instruction	p. 215
Beyond the ivied walls: outreach to the art community	p. 229
Contemplation, conservation, and community: challenges of the small art library space	p. 245
The academic art library in the age of interdisciplinary discourse	p. 265
Creative space	p. 277
The making of the 21st-century art library: cultivating vision, collaboration and support	p. 295
Appendix: Library profiles	p. 305
Index	p. 325
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