Reimagining artistic content

in

art museums and libraries

Are poetry, drama, even opera “museum-able” art forms?

The dash to digitization changes all the rules…

Artifacts, documents, antelopes,performances can all be housed and stored for display and research, provided they meet the criteria.

Criteria for inclusion (6 of 8)

• Covers a significant period or a significant artist’s works

• Recorded archives of actual readings/performance

• Real-time broadcasts, podcasts downloadable

• Includes lectures, conferences, and symposium proceedings

• Contains on-going courses, lectures, MOOC’s

• Integrates with social media for access and sharing

• Patrons can subscribe to periodic updates

• Searchability across multiple platforms or websites

A sampling of poetry archive websites

• PennSound (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound)

• UBUweb (ubu.com)

• Poets.org (www.poets.org)

• The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org)

• The Poetry Center (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)

The proposed publication will consist of the following chapters:

1. Introduction.2. Staffing and resource challenges in maintaining an on-line archive. 3. Archiving collaboration across many related agencies. 4. Pedagogy of using on-line archived material in teaching, esp., on-line courses. 5. Archivist, curator, collaborator, performer: managing the poetry archive. 6. Fundraising and marketing for poetry archiving organizations. 7. Poetry as a museum-able art. 8. Library directorship in the on-line archiving environment. 9. Conclusion.

The original paper from LSC 834 Art and Museum

Librarianship can be found here: http://raymmaxx.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/684-art-and-museum-

librarianship-research-proposal/