The statement below was signed by nearly 400 alumni of the University of Texas at Austin.
15 December 2017
To: Dean Douglas Dempster, Provost Maurie McInnis, President Greg Fenves, Vice-Provost Lorraine Haricombe, Director of UT Libraries; and the Fine Arts Library Task Force
Cc: Art and Art History Department Chair Jack Risley, Theater and Dance Department Chair Brant Pope, and Butler School of Music Director Mary Ellen Poole
From: The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Fine Arts Alumni
Re: Future of the Fine Arts Library
As alumni of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Fine Arts, we were exceedingly concerned to hear reports from faculty and students (especially those who attended the Town Hall) as well as to read Dean Dempster’s own letter, along with articles in The Daily Texan and The Dallas Morning News, about the proposal to move books out of the Fine Arts Library to make room for new academic programs. We cannot speak to the efficacy of such new programs—either for or against them—but we believe the gutting of physical resources from the library to be a short-sighted and ultimately harmful prospect.
The proposed solution of a “bookless” library would undermine the rigor and innovation that is at the foundation of a Tier-1 research university like UT-Austin. Dean Dempster writes in his letter to the UT-Austin community that the process of relocating books to off-site storage is already in media res and “obviously has not been fatal to our research eminence or educational effectiveness.” We are glad UT-Austin’s reputation has not diminished…yet! And, we write because we worry that it will—and that our pride and confidence in our alma mater to train the next generation of fine arts professionals will as well. Those of us at comparable institutions considering similar questions see the effects of the disinvestment from libraries every day. Many of us have risen to meet this challenge by incorporating units or sessions dedicated to digital research literacy. Paradoxical though it may seem, a key component of digital literacy is recognizing the value of analog resources. This cannot be taught if there are none available. The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, certainly understands the significance of analog resources. It recently invested in an art history research library consisting of over 400,000 volumes that will be made available in a new privately funded museum/library on the Dallas campus. Without a fully functional, on-site Fine Arts Library, UT-Austin’s College of Fine Art is certain to not only lose high quality faculty and students to this program but also have its primacy in the state compromised.
It is no secret that many academic institutions are examining how to appropriately meet the challenges of the digital age. Yet, in the post-digital age, books are not merely information. Artists, even “digital artists,” carefully consider the materials they use when constructing their works of art. Digitizing the Fine Arts Library collection will have a deadening and flattening effect on so much rich material. For artists who believe art books to be autonomous works of art in their own right, this move is especially troubling. Photography books from Robert Frank’s seminal 1959 The Americans to LaToya Ruby Frazier’s most recent The Notion of Family were created as art works with a material specificity as exacting as a painter’s choice of canvas, panel, oil, or acrylic. PDFs simply offer a very poor viewer experience that is unintended and sometimes unimaginable to the artists who created them. Also, does education itself have to be a zero-sum game? Why does digitization have to preclude material preservation? New languages are created at the intersections of perceived borders, where our expectations are transcended only through acknowledging our histories. Given, also, that challenges to the digitization of art and visual media have not yet been solved or even sufficiently outlined, to remove or relocate physical visual art resources is quite simply premature and ill-advised.
In warding off criticism of the incipient plan for a bookless Fine Arts Library, Dean Dempster notes that the removal of card catalogues and slide collections, which once held considerable real estate in the art library, were decried in their time. True, we say, but each of those resources pointed back to one thing: books! The card catalogue was replaced by a digital system for finding books, the slide library was a compendium of photographs mostly taken from books and journals. One thing was constant: the assumption of the value of physical books and journals.
Finding a book in the catalogue is only a jumping off point towards exploration within the stacks. Serious students of the fine arts and humanities need to have the ability to browse, to pull fifteen books off the shelf, and to spend as much or as little time with them as they need. Many of us can tell you how frequently a book we came across while looking for something else made a major impact on research or constructing an argument. Books are at the building blocks of the academic enterprise of a College of Fine Arts; removing direct access to these resources undermines this foundation.
We also have grave concerns about Dean Dempster’s statements that advocate for relying on e-books for the research, creative, and teaching needs of the College of Fine Arts. As fine arts professionals in esteemed positions across the world, we cannot overstate the necessity of high quality reproductions of works of art. Art books and exhibition catalogs do not translate adequately into e-publishing formats and e-book readers are seriously lacking in usability. Because of this, there are very few art e-books available for purchase (prominent art publishers report that less than 1% of their books are published as e-books while the Association of American Publishers report that e- book sales are declining). Moreover, art books and exhibition catalogs that are self or independently published by artists and designers for their teaching and research are not typically available in e-publishing formats. These analog resources are critical to the success of the faculty and students in the College, and they cannot be waited on for retrieval from remote storage, especially not from the Joint Library Facility, from which faculty and students have reported experiencing a retrieval time of upwards of ten days.
To return one last time to Dean Dempster’s letter, he writes: “Until further study, no decision has been made about the disposition of the Fine Arts collection and library services in the Doty Fine Arts Building.” We sincerely hope this is the case, and we write in advance of a decision so as to add our voice and to make it clear that any decision that would remove physical resources from the Fine Arts Library would be unacceptable to us. Our education rests on many things: books with high quality reproductions being one of the most important. When your development teams boast about our accomplishments to your donors, or when you quote our job placements in your accreditation metrics, you forget that it was hours spent looking at these books that resulted in such achievements. We write today to remind you of these books—because we certainly have not forgotten them.
Most sincerely,
Erina Duganne (PhD, Art History, 2004), Associate Professor and Area Coordinator for Art History, Texas State University
Andy Campbell (PhD, Art History, 2012), Assistant Professor of Critical Studies, USC-Roski School of Art and Design
Barry Stone (MFA, Studio Art, 2001), Associate Professor and Area Coordinator for Photography, Texas State University
Vanessa Paumen (MA, Art History, 2002), Coordinator/Curator, Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium
Rowena Houghton Dasch (PhD, Art History, 2012), Executive Director, Neill-Cochran House Museum
Michael Wellen (PhD, Art History, 2012), Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London, England
Pamela Franks (PhD, Art History, 2000), Senior Deputy Director and Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Anne Collins Goodyear (PhD, Art History, 2002), Co-Director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Stephanie Hanor (PhD, Art History, 2003), Assistant Dean and Director, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Nora (Miki) Garcia (MA, Art History, 1998), Director, Arizona State University Art Museum
Matthew H. Robb (MA, Art History, 1999), Chief Curator, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Susan V. Webster (PhD, Art History, 1992), Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art History, The College of William & Mary
Amelia Goerlitz (MA, Art History, 2003), Chair of Academic Programs, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rex Koontz (PhD, Art History, 1994), Professor of Art History, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston
Noah Simblist (PhD, Art History, 2015), Chair and Associate Professor, VCUarts Dept of Painting + Printmaking
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Jan Schall (PhD, Art History, 1989), Sanders Sosland Curator, Modern Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Wendy R. Salmond (PhD, Art History, 1989), Professor of Art History, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Christina Cogdell (PhD, Art History, 2001, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Design, University of California at Davis
Lane Relyea (PhD, Art History, 2004), Associate Professor, Northwestern University
David A Cole (PhD, Art History, 1996), Executive Director, Hagley Museum and Library
Jackson Rushing III (PhD, Art History, 1989) Eugene B. Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art, The University of Oklahoma
Maria M. Malagon (PhD, Art History, 2006), Profesora titular, Universidad
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Hallie Ringle (MA, Art History, 2013) Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Linda Briscoe Myers (MA, Art History, 1997), Research Associate, Harry Ransom Center
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Ann Johns (PhD, Art History, 2000), Distinguished Senior Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin
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Barbara Zabel (MA, Art History, 1972), Professor Emerita, Connecticut College
Katie Anania (PhD, Art History, 2016), Wallace Postdoctoral Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies
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Annie Miller (MFA, 2016), Lecturer, Texas State University and UT-Austin
Hannah W. Wong (PhD, Art History, 2017), Independent scholar
Thomas Edwards (MA, Art History, 2016), Instructor, Austin Community College
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Lisa Nigro (MFA, 1994), Adjunct Professor, Southwest School of Art
Jeffrey Marshall (BA, Studio Art, 2008), Independent curator
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Christina Ruth Johnson, (MA, Art History, 2013), Art & Art History Teacher, Fine Arts Department Lead, Founders Classical Academy of Leander
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Valerie Hellstein (MA, Art History, 2001), Independent scholar
Vladimir Mejia (BFA, Studio Art, 2014), Director, Co-Lab Projects
Anastasia Kirages (BA, Art History, 2010), Organizer, Zine Fest Houston
Nathan O’Neal (BFA, Studio Art, 2001) Senior Rights Analyst, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Rita Daily (BFA, Studio Art, 2013), Art Director, Central Market
Patrick Phipps (BFA, 1991), Senior Thesis Advisor, School of the Woods
Jennie Lamensdorf (MA, Art History, 2011), Director and Curator, Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings, NYC
Shannon Mercado (BFA, Studio Art, 2015), Taxidermist, Double Nickle Taxidermy
Melissa Marshall (BA, English, 2012), Special Education Teacher, KIPP Public Schools
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Colleen Danaher (BA, Theatre and Dance, 2002) Stage Manager, Wicked National Tour
Lisa Crowder (BFA, Studio Art, 1999), Owner, Lisa Crowder Jewelry
Jonas Hart (MFA, Studio Art), Woodshop Technician, The University of Texas at Austin
Lauren Clemon (BFA, 2011) Art Teacher, Garland ISD
Danny Nouri (BFA, Studio Art, 2013), Producer
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Anthony Sonnenberg (BA, Studio Art, 2009)
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Layne Bell (BFA, 2014)
Katharine Butler (BFA, Studio Art, 2012)
Kathleen Hudspeth (BFA, 2000)
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Andrea Pramuk (MFA, 1994)
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Shelby Johnston (BA, Art History, 2016)
Lauren Doan (BFA, Studio Art, 2010)
Ben Brandt (MFA, 2012)
Colette Clendaniel (BFA, Studio Art, 2013)
Candace Briceño (BFA, Studio Art, 1994)
Anna Krachey (MFA, Studio Art, 2008)
Kathy Favor (BFA, Studio Art, 1993-94)
Rachel Bueno (2014)
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Annie Simpson (BFA, Studio Art, 1999)
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Allison Swarr (BFA, 2016)
Kayaneh Wood (MA, 2004)
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James Foster (MLIS, 1992), Librarian, UT-Austin
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Matthew Hedstrom (PhD 2006, American Studies), Associate Professor, University of Virginia
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Nelson Millan (English, 2018)
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Julie Garbus, (PhD, English, 2002)
Kelsey Scroggins (BBA, 2004)
Linda Migliaccio Nash (BS, 1995)
Paula Bossa (MA, Art History, 2011)
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