PRODUCTIVITY
OUTREACH
Purchase Prizes
Fine and Applied Arts Purchase Prizes
2001 RIT Library Purchase Prize awards were made to Alex Gabriel Bernstein
for his work "Listen to Me"; Belinda Bryce for her work "Omicron Variant
#2 "; Seung-Yean Cho for her work "Trois C". Members of the 2001 Purchase
Prize Committee were Kari E. Horowicz, (KEH) Art and Photography Librarian
/ Archivist, Eileen Bushnell, Professor, Foundation Studies Department,
and Chuck Lewis, Professor, Interior Design Department.
Photography Purchase Prizes
2001 RIT Library Photo Purchase Prize awards were made to Steven Brahms
for his work "Untitled"; Stephen J. Crescenzo for his work "Easter Prayer";
Devon Day for her work "Remembering Vietnam"; Annie Ford-Smith for her work
"Fashionable Bowling"; Jessica Harper for her work "Self-Portrait with Chrisopher
and His Parents"; Amanda Jinks for her work "Untitled"; Julian Olivari for
his work "Skin Graft"; and Paul Zimmerman, Rob Massman and Jason Hupe for
their collaborative work "Latex".
Members of the 2001 Photo Purchase Prize Committee were Kari E. Horowicz,
(KEH), Art and Photography Librarian / Archivist, Susan Lakin, Professor,
Willie Osterman, Professor/Coordinator, MFA Imaging Arts - Photography.
Loans
Alvin Lustig Fortune magazine (December 1946) cover loaned to Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany for exhibition entitled "Bauhaus: Dessau - Chicago - New
York" from August 11 - November 12, 2000.
Loaned 14 photographs (5 photographs by Charles Savage; 6 photographs of
Robert Bagby; 3 photographs of Frederick Brehm for an exhibit of photographs
of former faculty members of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.
Exhibition organized by Robert Keyser.
Loaned 11 items from the Lester Beall Collection for an exhibition, "
Saving Corporate Modernism" which ran from December 13, 2000 to March
15, 2001 at Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut.
Open Houses
KEH prepared and hosted an open house for Art House students in March 2001.
Presentations
KEH prepared and presented "Managing Image Collections at RIT Library"
for the seminar Preserving Photographs in a Digital World sponsored by the
Image Permanence Institute and George Eastman House on August 16, 2000.
Exhibitions
KEH worked extensively on "Talking Walls" project in the following ways:
-Worked with Betsy Murkett, Bevier Gallery Management in organizing and
installing the exhibit.
-Worked with Nate Martel, student assistant, who worked on the web page.
Final web page is located at http://wally.rit.edu/special/talkingwalls/
-The exhibition was held September 5 - 27, 2000.
A comment from Professor Peter Haggerty:
"I looked at Talking Walls a little more in depth this morning and
I am even more impressed with it. Congratulations on spearheading such
a fabulous project. I just love it. I have sent its address to all my
colleagues in the English and Creative and Cultural Studies Departments,
telling them it's great, and asking them to look at it and respond. Also,
I recommended using it as assignments for our writing classes."
ACCESS
Digital Project
1,000 RIT historical institutional photographs were digitized and catalogued
in brief MARC format. The digitization was outsourced to Museum Photographics.
The 1,000 photographs were selected from the collections dating from approximately
the 1890s to the 1970s. This projected was started in March, 2001 and completed
by the end of June 2001.
Collection Maintenance
KEH wrote and submitted a grant to the New York State Program for the Conservation
and Preservation of Library Research Materials for the preservation/conservation
survey of the unique poster collection (2,087 posters) owned by the Archives
and Special Collections, RIT Library.
Funding for additional compact shelving was secured. Compact shelving from
SpaceSaver was installed in June 2001, allowing for consolidation and additional
space for the collections.
Heidi Halton, Project Archivist, worked on rehousing and sleeving the RIT
Institutional Photograph Collection. In addition, she organized and created
finding aids for the oversize photograph collection, glass negatives collections,
5x7 photograph collections and 4x5 photograph collections.
Acquisitions
Notable 2000/01 acquisitions for the Special Collections included:
- Sugimoto, Hiroshi. Theatre. New York, New York: Sonnabend Sundell
Editions, 2000. Accompanied by a limited edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's
U. A. Walker, New York, 1978 photogravure print. 8/1000.
- 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography: Culture and Criticism,
15 hand-pulled photogravures. Brewster, Mass. : Leo & Wolfe Photography,
Inc, 1999.
Volume 2.
Co-operative Purchases with the Cary Collection
Each year the Archives and Special Collections and Cary Graphic Arts Collection
make a collaborative purchase. The item is mutually selected by the Curator
of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection and the Art and Photography Librarian
/ Archivist. The location of the item alternates between the Cary Collection
and the Archives and Special Collections. This year, the following title
was selected for the Cary Graphic Arts Collection:
- Icones librorum artifices : 2nd series, being actual, putative, fugative
& fantastical portraits of engravers, illustrators & binders. Leeds,
Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 2000. 2nd series. Illustrations by Leonard
Baskin. No. 33 of 40 copies.
- Gifts
Marion Rand gave a small collection of Paul Rand materials to the Archives
and Special Collection
Web Page Development
One new page was developed to highlight portions of the Archives and Special
Collections
The RIT Archives Photography Collection
[created by Nathan Martel]
http://wally.rit.edu/Images/ritphotos/index.html
SERVICE
Hours Open and Patrons Served
The Archives and Special Collections Reading Room provided service to 733
patrons using 2596 items.
INSTRUCTION
27 classes met in the Reading Room of the Archives and Special Collections
to look at ASC materials.
STAFFING
Staff
Jody Sidlauskas joined the Archives and Special Collections staff in October
2000 as a part-time assistant.
Sarah Reynolds joined the Archives and Special Collections in January 2001
as a part-time assistant.
Heidi Halton joined the Archives and Special Collections staff as the a
temporary Project Archivist in March 2001.
Three temporary catalogers were hired to catalog RIT historical photographs
for the Digital Project. They were Betty Spring, Katharine Woodring and
Lori Ann Thorat.
Student Staff
-Kari Horowicz hired the following student assistants:
- Haley Shaw in August 2000
- Megan MacNeil in October 2000
The followings students were previously hired in other fiscal years and
continued to work in Archives:
- Karen Hibbert
- Nathan Martel
- Candace VanWart
PRODUCTIVITY
The Archives and Special Collections saw an increase in productivity due
to the staffing increases outlined above. The staffing for the digitization
of the RIT Historical Photograph Collection produced improved access to
the collections.
Maintained by Kari Horowicz.
