From Library Journal
Sheehy has organized an enjoyable yet practical journey through the development and management of libraries and special collections for the performing arts. Dividing the discipline into four major categories?dance, film, music, and theater?the book falls into neat divisions that operate well in the context of an edited work. Opening with an uncluttered historical account of the formation of the field of performing arts librarianship and its categories, Sheehy sets the stage for the practical chapters highlighting management issues relevant to these collections. Particularly apropos are the sections on the political side of management in the not-for-profit sector, the realities of which rarely seem to be addressed in management texts. Closing with a substantive, well-annotated bib-liography and index, this book will be an interesting tool for any professional in the field of humanities librarianship.?Lorri Zipperer, American Medical Assn., Chicago
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
?Carolyn A. Sheehy and Greenwood Press have provided a handy overview of management issues in performing arts librarianship; this book should be of primary interest to library school students interested in directing their professional careers to the fields of dance, film studies, music, or theater librarianship in an academic or public library setting. ...is a good general introduction to the complex issues of performing arts librarianship for those coming to the topic for the first time.?-Collection Management
?No one individual is likely to be fully knowledgeable on all aspects of the work of a kind of library, or all components of a particular function. Therefore, guides like Carolyn Sheehy's Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries, which rely on a range of contributors who have taken their time to prepare essays specifically for publication, are generally the most satisfactory. In this case, Sheehy herself has done an excellent job of providing a solid historical overview and a selected annotated bibliography. This is an outstanding example of the type of guide that provides a broad overview and that is most likely to be useful to all who are engaged in any aspects of this field of librarianship.?-Wilson Library Bulletin
?Sheehy has organized an enjoyable yet practical journey through the development and management of libraries and special collections for the performing arts. Opening with an uncluttered historical account of the formation of the field of performing arts librarianship and its categories, Sheehy sets the stage for the practical chapters highlighting management issues relevant to these collections. Closing with a substantive, well-annotated bibliography and index, this book will be an interesting tool for any professional in the field of humanities librarianship.?-Library Journal
"Carolyn A. Sheehy and Greenwood Press have provided a handy overview of management issues in performing arts librarianship; this book should be of primary interest to library school students interested in directing their professional careers to the fields of dance, film studies, music, or theater librarianship in an academic or public library setting. ...is a good general introduction to the complex issues of performing arts librarianship for those coming to the topic for the first time."-Collection Management
"Sheehy has organized an enjoyable yet practical journey through the development and management of libraries and special collections for the performing arts. Opening with an uncluttered historical account of the formation of the field of performing arts librarianship and its categories, Sheehy sets the stage for the practical chapters highlighting management issues relevant to these collections. Closing with a substantive, well-annotated bibliography and index, this book will be an interesting tool for any professional in the field of humanities librarianship."-Library Journal
"No one individual is likely to be fully knowledgeable on all aspects of the work of a kind of library, or all components of a particular function. Therefore, guides like Carolyn Sheehy's Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries, which rely on a range of contributors who have taken their time to prepare essays specifically for publication, are generally the most satisfactory. In this case, Sheehy herself has done an excellent job of providing a solid historical overview and a selected annotated bibliography. This is an outstanding example of the type of guide that provides a broad overview and that is most likely to be useful to all who are engaged in any aspects of this field of librarianship."-Wilson Library Bulletin
About the Author
CAROLYN A. SHEEHY is Clare and Lucy Oesterle Director of Library Services at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. She was formerly an Assistant Professor and Head of the Reference Department at the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Administrative Curator of special collections at The Newberry Library, where she helped launch the Chicago Dance Collection. She has published many works on the performing arts, archives and manuscripts, and public services (including Reference and Information Service in Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas: A Management Handbook, edited by Gerard B. McCabe, Greenwood Press, 1992). She is an active member of several local, state, and national library associations.
