抄録
In March, 1995, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo cordially invited Ms. Nancy S. Allen, Director of Information Resources of Museum Fine of Arts, Boston to Tokyo and she gave two open lectures. One was entitled "The Role and Function of Libraries in Art Museums" and the other was "Educating Art Librarians", which was based on her educational career at Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In the former lecture, she discribed how the library developed and achieved the effective functions in two hundred years' history of the museum. Just before writing her texts of the lectures, she was appointed as Director of Information Resources of the museum. In her lecture, she talked about her new tasks on the development of a museum-wide, automated collections information management system for objects. In the latter lecture, the audience was intensely impressed that she recognized her students as the future colleagues of art librarians and understood how she lead them to acquire the practical manners of real works in art librarianship and art documentation. Today both in Japanese museums and libraries, the needs for development of art librarianship/art documentation is becoming tangible, Ms. Allen's lectures based on her rich experiences have significant meanings for us. Members of JADS and the author sincerely thank Ms. Allen for her kindness, especially for preparing the excellent texts in her new tasks as Director of Information Resources.
