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The New Art Library |
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ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA—DELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTER |
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Speakers Friday, March 28, 2008 |
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Roger Lawson is the administrative librarian at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for staffing, budget, automation, and space planning at the library. He received his B.A. (international relations/art history) from the University of Virginia in 1974 and began his career at the Gallery in 1979 as a copy cataloger. After receiving his M.S.L.S. from Catholic University in 1980, he held positions as cataloger for monographs and serials and became head of the cataloging section in 1985. A long-standing member of ARLIS/NA, he has served as its president and a member of several committees. Allen Townsend's career in arts libraries spans more than twenty years. He holds an M.L.S. from the University of North Texas and an M.M from Southern Methodist University, in whose libraries he gained his early experience as a paraprofessional. He was recently appointed the Director of Yale University's Arts Library after serving seventeen years as a museum library director for the Amon Carter Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. He also held the office of president of ARLIS/NA in 2004 and remains active in the organization. Linda Seckelson came to the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992. Her responsibilities as head of Reader Services include supervision of reference and outreach, circulation, interlibrary services, central catalog (public access to object records), and portions of the vertical files. Her previous positions were at the American Craft Council, the Evanston Public Library, and at Northwestern University. Seckelson received a B.A. in music history from Grinnell College and an M.L.S. from UCLA. She has seen librarianship from the perspective of different kinds of libraries, and through the transition to automation. Active in ARLIS/NA, she has given presentations at ARLIS/NA and other conferences. |
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Andrea S. Goldstein Chapter President Tyler School of Art Library 7725 Penrose Avenue Elkins Park, PA 19027 t: 215-782-2850 andrea@temple.edu |
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