The faculty has their own objective which sometimes does not coincide with the interests of the student, because student artists gain inspiration from sources outside of academia. Voice your concerns and interests. The librarians are listening. Therefore, another recent priority for the library is outreach. Because of the new staff, the librarians have to re-establish rapport with faculty and students.
Librarians always attend faculty meetings and meet with faculty one on one.
Karen, one of the new librarians, said she needs to first get her feet wet in order to see how everything functions at CalArts. In her interactions, her main concern will be towards developing a database for the Slide Library. I thought it unfortunate when she told me that the check-out time for slides will be decreasing from the three weeks students and faculty are now allotted. But she hopes to research slide library models from other schools in order to understand how those models could function at CalArts. The Curriculum Support Committee is in favor of having a new bookstore.