Joan M. Benedetti
Independent Editor & Writer
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Art museum libraries; edited a book (ART MUSEUM LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANSHIP) about them, large & small, with contributions from 45 ARLIS art museum librarians (ARLIS/NA & Scarecrow Press, 2007) from across North America and elsewhere. Other interests: international folk art and contemporary craft; traditional and contemporary Native American art; product design; subject cataloging; museum archives. Worked for 21 years as Museum Librarian at the Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM--renamed Craft Contemporary) in L.A., then for 5 years as a cataloger at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Processed and wrote finding aid (now online) for the CAFAM Records, at UCLA Special Collections; interviewed 17 former staff & trustees for CAFAM Oral History Project (now also online). Also worked formerly as Dec Arts Librarian at the Milwaukee P.L. and as cataloger at the Santa Monica P.L. Now retired in Santa Fe, NM; member of ARLIS/NA Mountain West chapter; lifetime member of ARLIS/NA Southern California chapter; member of Friends of Folk Art of the Museum of Int'l Folk Art; and supportive of all 8 wonderful Santa Fe museums!
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