Carolyn A. Sheehy

Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

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 Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313363825
• Artikelnr.: 37837186

Autorenporträt

CAROLYN A. SHEEHY is Clare and Lucy Oesterle Director of Library Services at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Formerly, she was Head of the Reference Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Administrative Curator of Special Collections at The Newberry Library. She is the editor of Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries (Greenwood, 1994) and the author of Reference and Information Service in Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas: A Management Handbook, edited by Gerard B. McCabe (Greenwood, 1992). She is the current president of the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries and a former president of LIBRAS, a consortium of eighteen private Chicago-area academic libraries.

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