Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries

Herausgeber: Sheehy, Carolyn A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This professional reference provides solid advice to academic and public librarians for managing performing arts collections. The volume is divided into sections on the history of performing arts librarianship, dance collections, film studies collections, music collections, and theater collections. Each chapter is written by one or more expert contributors and presents current and reliable information on collection management. They discuss personnel management, collection development, technical services, public services, the impact of new technologies, facilities management, financial planning, and political considerations. Each chapter closes with references cited in the chapter, and the volume concludes with a valuable selected, annotated bibliography of important background sources and management tools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780313279768
• ISBN-10: 0313279764
• Artikelnr.: 20955488

Autorenporträt

CAROLYN A. SHEEHY is Clare and Lucy Oesterle Director of Library Services at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. She was formerly an Assistant Professor and Head of the Reference Department at the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Administrative Curator of special collections at The Newberry Library, where she helped launch the Chicago Dance Collection. She has published many works on the performing arts, archives and manuscripts, and public services (including Reference and Information Service in Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas: A Management Handbook, edited by Gerard B. McCabe, Greenwood Press, 1992). She is an active member of several local, state, and national library associations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Carolyn A. Sheehy Historical Overview by Carolyn A. Sheehy
Dance Collections by Nena Couch Film Studies Collections by Kristine R.
Brancolini and Beverly L. Teach Music Collections by Rosalinda I. Hack and
Richard Schwegel Theater Collections by Romaine Ahlstrom, Brigitte J.
Kueppers, and Helene G. Mochedlover Annotated Bibliography by Carolyn A.
Sheehy Index