| Description |
2 sound discs (ca. 111 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + transcript (67 leaves) |
| Note |
Interview with Madeleine M. Nichols conducted by Lynn Garafola on May 12, 2006 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of the Oral History Project. |
| Summary |
Disc 1 (ca. 55 min.). Madeleine M. Nichols speaks about her first experiences dancing, including at Thalia Mara's school with Hilda Butsova and Arthur Mahoney; other classes and significant experiences before college and at the University of Michigan; attending library school and her subsequent first jobs in New York; her first position with the Dance Division [at the New York Public Library for the Perfoming Arts] as a film cataloger; arranging the Library's original film documentations; development of the Library's film and video acquisition program; reflections on her early years at the Library; fund raising for the Dance Division during this period and the development of the original documentation program with the financial support of Jerome Robbins; her work with copyright issues and, briefly, her hiatus from the Library to attend law school and practice law; returning to the Dance Division as curator; cataloging policies and practices of the Dance Division; challenges of her work there; changes that occurred in the field during her time away from the Library; changing role of the Library regarding the recording of dance works; acquisitions during her tenure, including, briefly, the Ruben Ter-Arutunian collection |
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Disc 2 (ca.63 min.). Madeleine M. Nichols speaks further regarding the Ter-Arutunian donation; the donation from Lincoln Kirstein for the conservation labratory and paper conservator position; acquisition of the Kirstein papers; other major acquisitions; the importance of developing digital access for dance media; advisors and mentors that have been important to her including the Committee for the Dance Division and founding curator of the Dance Division, Gegi [Genevieve] Oswald; her perception of her role in the context of the field of dance; her particular affinities within her role as curator; her legacy to the Library; her thoughts on the Library's role and its future. |
| Funding |
This Oral History Project interview and preservation of its recording were funded in part with public funds from the Harkness Foundations for Dance and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007. |
| Local Note |
Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2465 nos. 1-2 |
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Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 4-2465. |
| Subject |
Nichols, Madeleine M.
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Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-
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Oswald, Genevieve.
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
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Committee for the Dance Collection.
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Jerome Robbins Film Archive.
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Arts administrators.
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Arts -- Management.
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Collection management (Libraries)
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Library materials -- Digitization.
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Archival materials -- Digitization.
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Dance libraries.
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Fund raising.
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Arts fund raising.
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| Local Subject |
Documentation.
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Audiotapes -- Nichols, M.
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| Added Author |
Garafola, Lynn, Interviewer.
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| Donor/Sponsor |
Oral History Archive. Oral History Project.
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New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
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Harkness Foundations for Dance.
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| Call No. |
*MGZTL 4-2465 [sound disc]
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| Research Call Number |
*MGZTL 4-2465 [sound disc]
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*MGZMT 4-2465 [transcript]
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*MGZTL 4-2465
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