MUSEUM TOL NEWSAuthor(s): Nancy AllenSource: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 6 (OCTOBER 1977), p. 179Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27945943 .

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spring meetings based on their interest and needs.

The fall meeting was held on 24 September at the Brid

well Theology Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. William Bunce, Chief Librarian of the Kohler

Art Library at the University of Wisconsin, spoke on the

topic "Collection Development of Art Research Materi

als." The group then broke up into two sessions, one on

collection of visual art resources, and the other on collec

tion development of non-visual art resources.

WESTERN NEW YORK The fall meeting of the Chapter was held in Rochester on

7 October, beginning at the Memorial Art Gallery. Rowland

Collins, chairman of the Univ. of Rochester's English Dept.

gave an illustrated lecture on Victorian cemeteries, particular

ly Mt. Hope in Rochester, with a plea for their preservation. A behind-the-scenes tour of the Memorial Art Gallery's re

search and storage areas followed.

After lunch, a business meeting was held which included

the election of Shirley Gray as vice-chairman elect. Member

then had a tour of the facilities and library of the Interna

tional Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.

MUSEUM TOL NEWS

Your interest and ideas are needed as we plan the agenda for the Museum TOL Business Meeting of the Annual Confe rence in New York. What specific goals do we have as a

group? What is unique about Museum library collections and services? Are we prepared to organize a project? What do we want and what can we offer to a Museum TOL? I would appreciate hearing from anyone before the Confe rence or after we arrive in New York.

?Nancy Allen

Moderator, Museum TOL Museum of Fine Arts Library

Boston, MA 02115

A REPORT ON THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CON FERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING

Historians of city and regional planning are finally and

slowly getting organized! Move over and make room, Soci

ety of Architectural Historians and allied professional soci eties! What was billed as the first international conference on the history of urban and regional planning was held in Lon

don, England from September 14 - 18 on the grounds of Bedford College, Regent's Park, sponsored by an informal

group of British planning historians calling themselves the

"History of Planning Group." (for further details about this

group including information abou the publications, write

Anthony Sutcliffe, Dept. of Economic and Soc. History, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England.) The international quality of the representation at the meeting ran roughly as follows:English, 60; American, 20; German, 12; Italian, 4; French, 3; Japanese, 3; Australian, 3; Spa nish, 2; Polish, 1.

Its billing as the first conference of its type was qualified during the conference when the Polish representative in formed the chair that three previous conferences have been held behind the Iron Curtain on roughly the same subject in the recent past. It attests to the lack of communication

among city planning historians around the world, which the chair readily admitted and lamented, that none of the

English organizers of the conference had heard of these Iron Curtain meetings. Perhaps it is worth noting that a conference on the history of world cities (as distinguished from city planning history) was held in Lucca, Italy just prior to the London conference, one of several which have been held on this subject over the past few years, which several of the notables at the London meeting attended. This had nothing to do with the London meeting, however. The London meeting featured sessions devoted to the

following topics: Planning before the 19th century; the

genesis of town planning between the mid-19th century and 1914; town planning and housing reform; rural & regional planning; the development of planning in the inter-war years; planning and conservation; planning in practice; the big-city experience; planning in practice; the new towns; planning in the third world. The papers will be

published under the supervision of the respective session

chairpersons. Librarians will be especially interested in a new biblio

graphic guide which appeared just before the conference: The History of Modern Town Planning: A Bibliographic Guide by Anthony Sutcliffe (112 pages, including an

index). Copies of this publication, the only one of its kind so far as I know, can be obtained from The Publications Officers, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Univer

sity of Birmingham, P.O. Box J63, Birmingham B15 2TT. The price is ?1.75 (about S3.20).

?Peter Kaufman

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