Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship

Glassman, Paul and Judy Dyki (eds.) Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship. 2nd edition. Neal-Schuman, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1624-7

Description
The handbook examines methods of innovative librarianship in academic and art school libraries and offers guidelines for information professionals working in art and design environments who support and anticipate the information needs of artists, designers, architects, and the historians who study those disciplines.

Table of Contents 

Part 1: Roles and Responsibilities
1. Governance and administration of the art and design library – Paul Glassman
2. Evolution not revolution – Barbara Opar
3. Expanding roles for fine arts liaison librarians – Stephanie Kays
4. Accreditation and visual arts libraries – Judy Dyki
5. Design thinking for design librarians: rethinking art and design librarianship – Rachel Ivy Clarke

Part 2: Materials and Collection Management
6. Visual resources: from analogue to digital and beyond – Molly Schoen
7. Developing digital collections – Greta Bahnemann and Jeannine Keefer
8. Inspirational encounters: management and use of archives and special collections in the art and design Library – Sarah Mahurter
9. What’s special about special collections? – Lee Sorensen
10. Artists’ books, publications, multiples, and objects – Tony White
11. Exhibition and collection documentation – Gustavo Grandal Montero
12. Tactile Libraries: material collections in art, architecture, and design – Rebecca Coleman and Mark Pompelia
13. Seeing the bigger picture: archival description of visual information – Alyssa Carver

Part 3: Teaching and Learning
14. Embedded in their world: moving mentally into the studio environment – Michael Wirtz
15. Teaching with threshold concepts and the acrl framework in the art and design context – Alexander Watkins
16. Teaching by the book: art history pedagogy and special collections – Sandra Ludig Brooke
17. Meta-Literacies in art and design education – Leo Appleton
18. The art of evidence: a method for instructing students in art history research – Catherine Haras
19. “I want students to research the idea of red”: using instructional design for information literacy instruction in the fine arts – Katie Greer and Amanda Nichols Hess
20. Cultural differences and information literacy competencies – Nancy Fawley

Part 4: Knowledge Creation
21. The ever-shifting landscape: mapping the present and future of digital art histories – Colin Post
22. Critical cARTography: mapping spaces for dialogue about identity and artistic practices – Andy Rutkowski and Stacy Williams
23. More than just art on the walls: enhancing fine arts pedagogy in the academic library space – Rachael Muszkiewicz, Jonathan Bull and Aimee Tomasek
24. Beyond the monograph? transformations in scholarly communication and their impact on art librarianship – Patrick Tomlin

Part 5: Physical Environment
25. Changing typologies in contemporary library design – Leo Appleton, Karen Latimer, and Pat Christie
26. Why is that column in the middle of the room? success in creating classrooms for library instruction – Paul Glassman
27. Finding common ground: creating library spaces for collaboration – Beverly Mitchell

Part 6. Promotion and Sustainability
28. Marketing plans – Paul Glassman
29. Engaging with social media – Ken Laing and Hillary Webb
30. Website strategies for art and design libraries – Judy Dyki

Appendix: Library profiles – Beth Morris

Artsy Toddler Storytimes (book)

Hopkins, C.G. (2013). Artsy Toddler Storytimes: A Year's Worth of Ready-To-Go Programming. Chicago, IL: Neal-Schuman.

For toddlers, every storytime can be a new adventure, while art activities are important for developing impulse control, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor dexterity in the hands. Hopkins’ new book fuses them together. Designed for children ages 1 to 3 years old, the book’s 52 storytimes promote pre-reading skills such as print motivation, vocabulary, and narrative skills. Based on themes familiar to children, including bears, bugs, springtime,clothing and hats, flowers and gardens, weather, music, pets, transportation, pirates, and many more, each storytime includes a list of books, action songs or rhymes along with their words, a flannelboard experience, plus instruction for two to three art activities. This complete toddler storytime resource also includes

• An introduction which discusses the differences between art activities and craft activities, a toddler’s ability in creating art, and why children this age should be exposed to art activities
• Advice for using different art mediums, such as food, plus important safety considerations
• Pointers on conducting playful yet educational storytimes  
• Tips for finding inexpensive art materials, with a list of recommended supplies to keep on hand
• More than 100 drawings, all easy to reproduce and modify
• Weblinks to “Artsy Helper Sheets,” downloadable supplements complete with phrases, tips, and tricks that inform parents and caregivers about the benefits of doing art activities with toddlers

Pick up Hopkins' book and you'll be ready to conduct a storytime within moments!

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Books in Motion: Connecting Preschoolers with Books Through Art, Games, Movement, Music, Playacting, and Props

Glair-Dietzel, Julie.  Books in Motion: Connecting Preschoolers with Books Through Art, Games, Movement, Music, Playacting, and Props.  Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013.  027.625 Dietz   ISBN 978-1-55570-810-8.

Librarians and educators can shake up storytimes, help children stay healthy, and encourage a lifelong love of reading with Dietzel-Glair's easy-to-use resource. Demonstrating exactly how to use children's books to engage preschool-age children through movement, it's loaded with storytimes that will have children standing up tall, balancing as they pretend to walk across a bridge, or even flying around the room like an airplane. Presenting hundreds of ideas, this all-in-one book is divided into five sections:

• Art spotlights titles that are natural hooks for art or craft activities alongside ideas on how to create art just like the character in the story, while an appendix includes art patterns that can be used as coloring sheets;
• Games includes searching games, follow-the-leader games, and guessing games to enhance the books in this section;
• Movement features books that kids can jump, stomp, clap, chomp, waddle, parade, wiggle, and stretch with;
• Music chooses books perfect for activities like shaking a maraca, singing, dancing between the pages, and creating new sound effects;
• Playacting lets kids pretend along with the characters in these books, whether it's washing their face, swimming with fish, or hunting a lion;
• Props encourages storytime leaders to bring out their puppets, flannelboard pieces, and scarves; these books have enough props for everyone in the program to have a part.

Each chapter includes as much instruction as possible for a wide range of motions. Pick and choose the amount of movement that is right for your storytime crowd, or do it all!