Pratt Institute

Education

M.L.S., Columbia University
M.A., Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York
B.A., Art History, The City University of New York

Biography

Supervising Librarian, NYPL, Research Libraries, Art & Architecture Dept. Duties include: Reference Librarian – Art & Architecture Division & General Research Division; Personal Reference Consultations for in-depth research; Italian Language Bibliographer (Art & Architecture); Design and Teach classes for undergraduate students, graduate students and general public in Southcourt facility. Responsible for: Art & Architecture reading room: reference and browsing collection; Developing and maintaining NYPL as premier center for auction sale reference materials; Bibliographic instruction program for graduate & undergraduate art history courses. Supervision of Library Technical Assistants, pages. Supervision of Pratt library school interns.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Contributor. Guide to the Literature of Art History. 2nd edition. Forthcoming, 2004.

Review of Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist by Joanna Woods-Marsden. In Art Documentation. Fall, 1999.

“Auction Catalogs & Indexes as Reference Tools”. In Art Documentation, Winter, 1999.

“How to Research an Architectural Structure,” 1997. (Revised and expanded edition of NYPL User Guide #4, 1994). http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/artarc/archit/arch.html

“Auction Sale Indexes: Books, CD-Rom’s and On-Line Services”, 1996. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/artarc/auction/auctions.html

Review of The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua by David Kunzle. In Art Documentation, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1996.

“Richard Long.” In Current Biography, Vol. 56, No. 9, September 1995.

Review of Benozzo Gozzoli by Cristina Acidini Luchinat and Pontormo/Rosso Fiorentino by Elisabetta Marchetti Letta. In Art Documentation, Fall, 1995.

PRESENTATIONS:

Organizer & Co-Chair. “Modernizing Libraries: Classical Architecture Meets Modern Technology.” Sponsored by Art Libraries Society of North America: 32nd Annual Conference, New York City, New York.

Panel speaker. “The Internet and the Appraisal,” November 5, 1999. Sponsored by The American Appraisers Association: Annual Conference, New York City.

Panel speaker. “Auction Catalogs: Collection Development, Organization, Reference, and the Appraiser,” March 8, 1998. Sponsored by Art Libraries Society of North America: 26th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Panel speaker. “Reference and Referral: Auction House Art Catalogs,” February, 1996. Sponsored by The New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency.