When I came into the office a couple of weeks ago, I was surrounded by stacks and stacks of magazines. They were artist profiles, art crafts international, artlink, art monthly, and other interesting magazines. The curator was ill that day, but via email she asked me to check through all these magazines in oder to find the reviews relevant to the artworks in our collection. If I found these articles, she wished I could clip them out or photocopy them, place them into the corresponding artist's file and throw away these old magazines for the installation of the new library.
It was definitely easy to find the name of the artists who in our collection by EMU, but the review articles on the specific artworks in the collection were very rare; thus I planned to clip out the article related to the artist who in our collection and his/her artworks were similar to the works that in out collection.
I spent solid four days working on these, but nearly the end I suddenly found that I forgot to mark the references on the top right corner of the article cut out. One significant thing I learnt from this magazine checking was that marking the reference was essential, because if the article could be used one day, it would be terrible that the reference could not be found. After checking them one by one through EMU, I classified every article according to the surname of the artists and then placed them back into their files.
Writing essays seems to be a daily routine of a curator. She/he needs a lot of inspirations and also references. That is a reason why the curator wanted to keep all the useful articles in file. Many clients require the article about the work he/she appreciates. Next I ll tell you the story that I wrote two articles for our clients. #^_^#
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