{"title":"Using Learning Outcomes to Create Activities for Artists’ Books Instruction","authors":"Sara DeWaay","doi":"10.1086/697274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697274","url":null,"abstract":"The author provides ideas for combining active learning principles with artists’ books instruction in libraries by defining specific and measurable learning outcomes using the ABCD method. This results in active pedagogy by fostering the creation of activities that teach students a deeper understanding of artists’ books. The article describes three activities used at the University of Oregon, with the goal of bringing artists’ books pedagogy in line with learner-focused library instruction and starting a conversation with other librarians who teach with artists’ books.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"42 1","pages":"90 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90759865","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}
{"title":"Collecting, Organizing, and Teaching the Ephemera of Art Biennials","authors":"Alex Watkins, Jane Thaler","doi":"10.1086/697279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697279","url":null,"abstract":"Art fairs and biennials have become an essential part of the story of contemporary art and architecture. Ephemeral handouts, pamphlets, and posters—a hallmark of these gatherings—have the potential to help students and researchers understand these events if preserved for future use. However, libraries and archives that want to collect ephemeral material from biennials face several challenges, including the difficulty of collecting these materials remotely, developing appropriate methods to best organize this type of material, and determining the best way to present these materials to students and scholars. This article describes a case study at the University of Colorado Boulder of creating an archival collection of ephemera from biennials.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"302 1","pages":"71 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89043499","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}
L. Klic, J. Nelson, M. Cristina Pattuelli, A. Provo
{"title":"Florentine Renaissance Drawings: A Linked Catalog for the Semantic Web","authors":"L. Klic, J. Nelson, M. Cristina Pattuelli, A. Provo","doi":"10.1086/697276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697276","url":null,"abstract":"The Drawings of the Florentine Painters by Bernard Berenson has been an essential source for art historians since it first appeared in 1903 and remains so today. Though many catalogs of drawings exist for individual collections and artists, Berenson’s study is the only resource that includes examples from across the Western world by nearly seventy Florentine painters, from Taddeo Gaddi in the fourteenth century through Bronzino in the sixteenth. The Florentine Renaissance Drawings project makes Berenson’s invaluable catalog information available in a machinereadable format. As with most projects that transform textual art documentation into digital editions, the authors faced challenges in maintaining a balance between making data scalable and preserving the nuances of the original text. This study demonstrates how Linked Open Data (LOD) technology allows one to maintain the complexity of source data while allowing for standardization of terms and concepts.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"10 1","pages":"33 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86051457","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}
{"title":"The Pedagogical Value of Provenance Research in Rare Book and Cultural Heritage Collections","authors":"Kiana Jones","doi":"10.1086/697275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697275","url":null,"abstract":"Provenance research in rare book and cultural heritage collections has pedagogical value that should encourage information professionals to incorporate it into their research and teaching practice. Its value extends to building deeper connections with faculty and students and enriching the body of knowledge surrounding the collection. This article reviews the literature addressing the value of provenance research in rare book collections and discusses a case study of provenance research at the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Evidence of value is provided through the resulting curriculum collaboration and knowledge development.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"75 1","pages":"82 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79234053","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}
{"title":"The Collecting Practices for Art Exhibition Catalogs at Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada","authors":"Andi Back","doi":"10.1086/697272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697272","url":null,"abstract":"Reporting on the results of a survey conducted in spring 2017, the author offers insight into the contemporary trends and challenges of collecting US, Canadian, and European print and digital art exhibition catalogs by academic art librarians in the United States and Canada. Findings demonstrate that for academic institutions with programs in art history, fine arts, or design, exhibition catalogs are a collection priority. Due to the variety of publishers of art exhibition catalogs, specialized knowledge to identify and acquire these resources is required.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"87 11 1","pages":"104 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84033532","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}
{"title":"Bouzouki Music: Allan Sekula and the Comics","authors":"P. Baker","doi":"10.1086/697273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697273","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, art historian Sally Stein made the gift of the Allan Sekula Library to the Clark Art Institute in memory of her husband Allan Sekula (1951–2013). An internationally known artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer, Sekula is recognized as a public intellectual, trenchant art critic, and critical theorist. He is also known for the social commentary, criticism, and activism that informed his life and work. This article considers a representative sample of comic and graphic novel titles found in the Allan Sekula Library and provides an analysis of complementary materials in the Allan Sekula Archive now held by the Getty Research Institute. From the dark heroism of the worker in the early books-without-words of Giacomo Patri and Frans Masereel to the vulgar staccato bouzouki and priapic productions of Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson, the author examines the comic, manga, and graphic materials used by Allan Sekula as both subject and “object of interest” in his physical installations, films, essays, and teaching. [This article is a revision of a paper presented at the “How to Develop a Comic Book and Graphic Novel Collection” session at the ARLIS/NA conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in February 2017.]","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86661149","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}
{"title":"“Make Visible the Otherwise”: Queering the Art Library","authors":"S. Page","doi":"10.1086/697278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697278","url":null,"abstract":"Using methods from library and information science in conjunction with art and art history, the author explores the challenges and possibilities associated with “queering” the art library. The author underlines the importance of providing access to materials relating to non-normative sexualities, genders, and identities and suggests that queer art and theory can intersect to critique traditional library structures. This is demonstrated through a description and analysis of a course-long collaboration in a Memphis College of Art art history class in which students produced finding aids for the library on topics relating to gender and sexuality in art. [This article is a revision of a poster presented at the ARLIS/NA + VRA joint conference held in Seattle, Washington, in March 2016.] Perhaps it is human nature to search for a reflection of ourselves in literature. … We need artistic, literary, historical and quantitative proof that we are, and always have been, “here.” But we don’t always find it.—tatiana de la tierra1","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"51 1","pages":"20 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84579521","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}
{"title":"Establishing an Open-Access MFA Thesis Collection","authors":"Jennifer Akins","doi":"10.1086/697271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697271","url":null,"abstract":"Open-access MFA theses give students the opportunity to publish and establish their work in the public sphere. While providing visibility and preservation of their work, they also serve as a resource for future scholars and their university communities. This article documents the process of working with the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts’ Graduate School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis to disseminate and archive its written MFA theses and related files. Even with an established institutional repository, special considerations for visual art theses must be addressed, including image copyright and privacy and creative concerns. In addition to the team effort on campus, the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) community responses to a survey proved instrumental when approaching the school and developing an initial plan. [This article is an expansion of a paper presented at the ARLIS/NA conference held in New York, New York, in February 2018.]","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"15 1","pages":"44 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84737805","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}
{"title":"Understanding Copyfraud: Public Domain Images and False Claims of Copyright","authors":"C. Needham","doi":"10.1086/694241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/694241","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright fraud or copyfraud—when museums misrepresent or restrict rights in ways that go against public domain copyright law—continues to be a widespread practice even in the years following the 1999 Bridgeman Art Library, LTD. v. Corel Corp. court case. To help clarify this situation, the author first reviews the relevant copyright issues, then considers some of the problems that copyfraud creates in universities, publishing houses, and museums. In conclusion, he explores the ways museums, supported by their librarians and visual resources managers, have recently changed their approach to copyright and copyfraud, and the ways in which this is transforming scholarship and allowing scholars and librarians to better serve the public.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"75 1","pages":"219 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86526701","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}
{"title":"Understanding Art-Making as Documentation","authors":"T. Gorichanaz","doi":"10.1086/694239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/694239","url":null,"abstract":"Typically, arts information professionals are concerned with the documentation of artwork. As a provocation, this conceptual article explores how art-making itself can be considered a form of documentation and finished artworks as documents in their own right. In this view, art works as evidence in referencing something else, within a broader system, and under scrutiny it exposes how it references. Some implications of this perspective are discussed, springing from a historical discussion of document epistemology, research on the information behavior of artists, and the philosophy of Nelson Goodman. This discussion provides a framework for conceptualizing artistic information behavior along the entire information chain. Framing art-making in terms of information science in this way may help arts information professionals assist artists, as well as provide grounds for deeper co-understandings between artists and information scientists. Once information scientists consider art as a kind of document, one can begin to see that even non-artistic documents perhaps never were as “objective” or “factual” as they may have seemed.","PeriodicalId":43009,"journal":{"name":"Art Documentation","volume":"386 1","pages":"191 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86820182","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}