scholarly journals Video as art: collecting artists’ moving image in academic art libraries

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Gustavo Grandal Montero
Keyword(s):  
Collection Development ◽  
Art Collecting ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Film And Video

Video collections have been part of library holdings for several decades, but developing and managing these collections presents a number of challenges. This is the case particularly for artists’ film and video, and this article attempts to identify the issues involved and to offer some practical guidance, drawing on the experience of collection development and management at Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, and across the libraries of University of the Arts London and elsewhere.

The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection: a resource for moving-image research

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
David Curtis ◽  
Steven Ball
Keyword(s):  
Research Priorities ◽  
Video Study ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Digital Storage ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Film And Video

The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection is a small specialist collection dedicated to the history of artists’ moving images in Britain, which is based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London. The Collection services the needs of both academics and curators in this specialist area. Its founders describe itsraison d’êtreand collecting policy, and outline some of the challenges of working in an environment susceptible to changing research priorities and uncertain digital storage standards.

Access policies and licensing issues in research libraries

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Horava
Keyword(s):  
Collection Development ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Acquisition Management ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Access Policies ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis paper discusses the importance of incorporating licensing issues in access policies for electronic resources in research libraries. The implications for patron understanding of basic legal issues and the role of the library in managing and acquiring these resources are investigated and discussed.Design/methodology/approachA survey of various research libraries was undertaken to examine what is provided to patrons in terms of conditions of use for electronic resources. Literature relating to the management and provision of electronic resources was examined.FindingsIt was found that few libraries provide key licensing information to their patrons. This has important consequences in terms of the patron's lack of awareness of restrictions on use, as well as the costs, complexity, and consortial involvement in acquiring these resources.Research limitations/implicationsA comprehensive international review of the trends and practices of research libraries regarding access policies and licensing issues would build upon this paper's findings.Practical implicationsLibrary patrons are not receiving adequate information about the resources they are using. If more research libraries would consider what licensing information is made available to patrons, there could be changes in patron understanding and perception of the library. This will impact the profile of the library in academia, and the changing role of librarians in collection development in the digital environment.Originality/valueThe paper will be of value to research libraries involved in the acquisition, management and delivery of electronic resources to its patrons, and to librarians involved in collection development and management.

scholarly journals Collection Development and Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Development And Management

The collection development and management literature from 2011 and 2012 explores how libraries are making difficult collection choices with decreasing funds, competing needs for space, and a continually developing e-market. Digital content is no longer new in collection management, but some of the ways the content is chosen have changed; collection-building activities now include various models of patron-driven demand acquisitions. Other literature in this area examines how libraries are addressing their print and electronic collections with topics including open access materials, shared collection building, and weeding collections for repurposed space.

Insane Acquaintances

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
Post War

Insane Acquaintances charts the varied encounters between artistic modernism and the British public in the years between ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910) and the Festival of Britain (1951). Through a range of case studies which explore the work of the ‘mediators’ of modernism in Britain – those individuals, groups and organisations which facilitated the introduction of modernist art and design to public audiences during the first part of the twentieth century – Insane Acquaintances explores the social, political and cultural impact of visual modernism over the course of four decades. Focusing on the efforts to legitimise, explain and make authentic the abstract (and often continental) modernist aesthetics that shaped British artistic culture during the years 1910-1951, this study charts the changing taste of the nation, through chapters on Postimpressionist art and crafts, modernist art in schools, the home design and decoration, Surrealism and revolution and the post-War institutionalisation and funding of the arts.

Library - Lab - Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Tabea Lurk
Keyword(s):  
Information Service ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Work Cycle ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The Mediathek of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Basel (FHNW) is a remarkable place. It's shaped, on the one hand, by the demands it must meet in functioning as the central information hub of the Faculty of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst - HGK). On the other hand its exposed location on the Campus der Künste (art campus) and its specific spatial plan determine the everyday work. Positioned between research and education, the Mediathek HGK functions as an intermediary, with the character of a laboratory: it provides access to important knowledge bases and makes content available in a way which enables experimental, creative and yet also systematic forms of research. Knowledge, in the sense of classified information, becomes a resource and raw material for the arts and design. New, digital contents must be made as available and accessible as archived (post-research) or historical material. A creative work cycle is enabled, which continually questions, implements, refines and forgets materials and resources.1Both the dynamic agility of the university itself and the focus on always questioning the adequacy, timeliness, relevance, potential, etc. of the theme of information service, results in continuous developments at the Mediathek (bibliotheca semper reformanda est).

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