The New Art Museum Library

The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through scholarly essays by top librarians, celebrating innovative initiatives and defining their value within institutions. It documents changes in the environment and provides strategies for librarians to thrive in the 21st century.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 12 March 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The New Art Museum Library addresses the challenges facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publication Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti, was the first to solely focus on the field of art museum librarianship. In the decade since then, many changes have occurred in the field, both technological and ideological, prompting the need for a follow-up publication. In addition to representing current thinking and practice, this new publication also addresses the need to clearly articulate and define the art museum library's value within its institution. It documents the broad changes in the environment that art museum libraries now function within and to celebrate the many innovative initiatives that are flourishing in this new landscape. Librarians working in art museums face unique challenges as museums redefine what object-based, visitor-centric learning looks like in the 21st century. These unique challenges mean that art museum libraries are developing new strategies and initiatives so that they can continue to thrive in this environment. The unique nature of these initiatives means that they will be useful to librarians working in a wide range of special libraries, as well as more broadly in academic and public libraries. The New Art Museum Library is uniquely positioned to present new strategies and initiatives, including digital art history initiatives, the new norms in art museum library staffing, and the public programing priorities that are core to many art museum libraries today. This book is an endorsed project of ARLIS/NA.

Weight: 363g
Dimension: 227 x 151 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538197004