Earlier this Fall I traveled to Santiago, Chile and attended the Primavera del Libro (it is their Spring), a book fair dedicated to independent publishers which took place October 6-11, 2015 in Parque Bustamante. I was one of about 15 librarians attending the fair from the United States and Europe primarily comprising of SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials) members (http://salalm.org/ … Continue reading A Spring of Books in Santiago, Chile / Sócrates Silva

By now you are probably aware of the ongoing discussion about the fate of Ashgate Publishing, which was acquired by Informa (Taylor & Francis Publishing) last summer. The news has been actively discussed in various blogs and lists, including CAAH-L. Our colleague Doug Litts of the Art Institute of Chicago posted the news on ARLIS-L (Friday, November 20), where he quoted an Ashgate staff member’s … Continue reading Thoughts about Ashgate and libraries / Kathleen Salomon

Rembrandt’s Changing Impressions Catalog for an exhibition held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Galley, New York from September 9, 2015 to December 12, 2015. Curated by Robert Fucci. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) manipulated his copperplates in unprecedented ways to achieve printed images that were often in flux. That many of the different results were circulated as finished works in their own right … Continue reading New publication: Rembrandt’s Changing Impressions / Chris Sala

The St. Louis Public Library is fortunate to have a very special architectural collection that is a sometimes awkward hybrid — a restricted rare book room that lives in a busy urban public library. The nucleus of the Steedman Architectural Library was given to SLPL in 1928; the donor, George Fox Steedman, also paid to have a special room designed and built especially to house … Continue reading Collection Development for a Public/Private Special Collection / Suzy Frechette

Art libraries and their collections are ecosystems unique to their institutions, forged by institutional priorities, cultural prerogatives and the savvy decisions of their selectors. Through the years, I have worked in multiple collections that reflect the needs of their users and institutions, but seemed to be insulated from factors that create universal collections decisions in libraries. Our status as special and departmental allowed us to … Continue reading The Academic Art Library and Consortial Collections / Sarah Falls, Ohio State University.