NAAB Architecture Program Report (APR) 2013 - Tulane School of ...
NAAB Architecture Program Report (APR) 2013 - Tulane School of ... NAAB Architecture Program Report (APR) 2013 - Tulane School of ...
Tulane UniversityArchitecture Program ReportSeptember 2013I.2.5.Information ResourcesThe Libraries: An OverviewTulane University, through its libraries, is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), agroup recognized as the top 114 research libraries in North America. The facilities, services, andresources of the Tulane libraries serve the university's students and faculty, but also serve as a majorcultural resource for researchers and scholars from throughout the Gulf South region, from other partsof the United States, and internationally, especially for scholarly work in the areas of Latin Americanstudies, jazz studies and New Orleans history.The main library, Howard-Tilton Memorial, supports research broadly across the university's academicprograms and research activities. Its general collections are housed in the Howard-Tilton building onTulane's uptown campus and at an off-site storage facility a few miles away. The Howard-Tilton buildingalso houses the Latin American Library, which holds one of the world's principal collections for LatinAmerican studies. The Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Special Collections Division is located in JonesHall across from the Howard-Tilton building. It includes the Hogan Jazz Archive, Louisiana ResearchCollection, Rare Books, the Southeastern Architectural Archive and University Archives. Howard-Tilton’s Architecture Library is located on the second floor of Richardson Memorial Hall within theSchool of Architecture.Three more full-service libraries also support the university's professional schools; these are theRudolph Matas Library (health sciences), the Turchin Library (business), and the Tulane Law Library. Inaddition, Tulane is host to a number of other smaller, specialized libraries that enhance research andthese include the Amistad Research Center, the Minna F. Koch Memorial Library of Botany, the NadineVorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives and the Alfred H. Clifford Mathematics Research Library.Resources & ProgrammingPrint & Electronic Resources: Tulane's libraries invest more than $10 million annually in acquisitions.The libraries’ holdings of more than 4.3 million volumes represent a depth and a variety of collections ofinternational scope present only at the world’s top research institutions. The collections support thediverse academic profile of the university through a range of collections policies and a liaison programthat assigns librarian bibliographers to work with each academic department. Much of Tulane’s wealthof rare or archival collections has a regional focus on Latin America, the Gulf South and Louisiana.Tulane’s libraries have built a large array of digital resources accessible to students and facultythrough the campus network. This includes hundreds of research databases and access to articles frommore than 112,000 subscription-based journals and other periodicals and nearly 930,000 e-books.Tulane subscribes to 100% of the Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) “Core List ofPeriodical Titles for a First-Degree Program in Architecture” and 60% of the AASL “SupplementaryList.”The libraries employ a web-scale discovery tool to provide broader, centralized access to its digitalresources, and is using other technology applications to enhance library use online. A new TulaneUniversity Digital Library (TUDL) hosts digital holdings unique to the university by digitizing selectedarchival collections. Recent additions to TUDL include the Ralston Crawford Collection and BourbonStreet, 1944-1952, both of which include numerous historic photographs of New Orleans buildings andstreet views.The Architecture Library, a branch of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, houses the standardreference materials in architecture, monographs on contemporary architecture and historically eminentarchitects, as well as works on architectural theory, urban planning, environmental design,sustainability, historic preservation, building technologies and graphic standards. Current architectureand architecture-related serials are housed in the Architecture Library, with older and discontinued titlestransferred to the main library or to Tulane’s offsite facility. Presently the branch houses 19,89849
Tulane UniversityArchitecture Program ReportSeptember 2013cataloged titles. Tulane libraries retain 704 architecture/architecture-related serial titles, of which 169are housed in the Architecture Library.The Latin American Library, a unit of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, houses both circulatingand special collections materials associated with the built environment in Latin America.The Music & Media Center, a department in Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, purchases videoand audio-visual materials on a selective basis. Holdings include documentaries and fictive filmsassociated with famous architects and buildings, historic preservation, urban planning andsustainability.The Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA), a special collections department of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, is the largest architectural archive in the southern United States, housing nearly1 million architectural drawings; 250,000 photographs and thousands of historic building trade catalogs.Additionally, the SEAA houses the Garden Library of the New Orleans Town Gardeners, a noncirculatingcollection of library and archival materials focused on regional horticulture and gardens.The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC), a special collections department of Tulane’s Howard-TiltonMemorial Library, houses library and archival materials associated with the history of Louisiana.Manuscript collections include the papers of local architects, architectural educators andpreservationists, and historic property owners. Additionally, LaRC houses an extensive cartographiccollection.The Rare Books unit of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library retains important works of AndreaPalladio, Augustus Pugin, William Kent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jacques-François Blondel, JamesGibbs, Inigo Jones, James Stuart, Batty Langley, Benjamin Asher, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Sir John Soane, John Ruskin, Richard Norman Shaw and Gustav Stickley.The Tulane Law Library, administered by and housed in the Tulane University Law School, supports theresearch and curricular needs of faculty and students by providing access to an outstanding collectionof print and electronic legal materials. Holdings include publications associated with the legal aspects ofarchitecture, engineering and construction processes, and those associated with historic preservationand community development.The Tulane University Archives preserves the official records of the university, including departmentaland school administrative records, theses and dissertations, yearbooks, historic photographs anddocuments associated with building campaigns.The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, a special collections department of Tulane’s Howard-TiltonMemorial Library, retains oral histories, photographs and sheet music publications that documenthistoric structures and places associated with jazz musicians and performances.Collection Development: To ensure that library resources are appropriate to Tulane’s educationalprogram, collections are tightly focused on the academic needs of the university through a liaisonprogram that assigns librarian bibliographers to work in concert with each supported academicdepartment or school. The academic units themselves assign “book chairs” to work with the library in aliaison partnership. Individual collection policies document selection parameters and considerations foreach unit that are regularly updated. Architecture faculty, staff and students may request books inrelated fields through the library’s “suggest a book” interface or by referral to the appropriate liaisonlibrarian.The formal liaison relationship with the faculty also informs the development of library services thatenhance access to collections, as does the faculty’s role in serving on the Faculty Senate Committeeon Libraries and the library’s partnerships with other campus entities such as Tulane’s TechnologyServices.50
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<strong>Tulane</strong> University<strong>Architecture</strong> <strong>Program</strong> <strong>Report</strong>September <strong>2013</strong>cataloged titles. <strong>Tulane</strong> libraries retain 704 architecture/architecture-related serial titles, <strong>of</strong> which 169are housed in the <strong>Architecture</strong> Library.The Latin American Library, a unit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, houses both circulatingand special collections materials associated with the built environment in Latin America.The Music & Media Center, a department in <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, purchases videoand audio-visual materials on a selective basis. Holdings include documentaries and fictive filmsassociated with famous architects and buildings, historic preservation, urban planning andsustainability.The Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA), a special collections department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, is the largest architectural archive in the southern United States, housing nearly1 million architectural drawings; 250,000 photographs and thousands <strong>of</strong> historic building trade catalogs.Additionally, the SEAA houses the Garden Library <strong>of</strong> the New Orleans Town Gardeners, a noncirculatingcollection <strong>of</strong> library and archival materials focused on regional horticulture and gardens.The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC), a special collections department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-TiltonMemorial Library, houses library and archival materials associated with the history <strong>of</strong> Louisiana.Manuscript collections include the papers <strong>of</strong> local architects, architectural educators andpreservationists, and historic property owners. Additionally, LaRC houses an extensive cartographiccollection.The Rare Books unit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library retains important works <strong>of</strong> AndreaPalladio, Augustus Pugin, William Kent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jacques-François Blondel, JamesGibbs, Inigo Jones, James Stuart, Batty Langley, Benjamin Asher, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Sir John Soane, John Ruskin, Richard Norman Shaw and Gustav Stickley.The <strong>Tulane</strong> Law Library, administered by and housed in the <strong>Tulane</strong> University Law <strong>School</strong>, supports theresearch and curricular needs <strong>of</strong> faculty and students by providing access to an outstanding collection<strong>of</strong> print and electronic legal materials. Holdings include publications associated with the legal aspects <strong>of</strong>architecture, engineering and construction processes, and those associated with historic preservationand community development.The <strong>Tulane</strong> University Archives preserves the <strong>of</strong>ficial records <strong>of</strong> the university, including departmentaland school administrative records, theses and dissertations, yearbooks, historic photographs anddocuments associated with building campaigns.The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, a special collections department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong>’s Howard-TiltonMemorial Library, retains oral histories, photographs and sheet music publications that documenthistoric structures and places associated with jazz musicians and performances.Collection Development: To ensure that library resources are appropriate to <strong>Tulane</strong>’s educationalprogram, collections are tightly focused on the academic needs <strong>of</strong> the university through a liaisonprogram that assigns librarian bibliographers to work in concert with each supported academicdepartment or school. The academic units themselves assign “book chairs” to work with the library in aliaison partnership. Individual collection policies document selection parameters and considerations foreach unit that are regularly updated. <strong>Architecture</strong> faculty, staff and students may request books inrelated fields through the library’s “suggest a book” interface or by referral to the appropriate liaisonlibrarian.The formal liaison relationship with the faculty also informs the development <strong>of</strong> library services thatenhance access to collections, as does the faculty’s role in serving on the Faculty Senate Committeeon Libraries and the library’s partnerships with other campus entities such as <strong>Tulane</strong>’s TechnologyServices.50