Jennifer Pollock
- 513 556 1319
- 5480A Aronoff
- pollocjr@ucmail.uc.edu
- http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/daap/
Jennifer is the Head of the DAAP Library and her experience in both the arts and libraries is wide-ranging. Before moving to Cambridge, MA in 1999 to pursuit her BA in psychology at Harvard University via the Division of Continuing Education (DCE), she studied art and graphic design at Old Dominion in Virginia (1997-1999). While taking classes, she interned for Three Fish Design, a graphic design firm, where she designed ephemeral materials such as flyers, posters, pamphlets, and catalogs as well as book covers and corporate identity packages. While living, studying, and working in Norfolk, VA, Jennifer also volunteered at D'Art Centre and was a member of an informal group of artists that regularly got together to paint, sculpt, and play music.
Jennifer began her library career at Harvard's Widener library in 1999. There she worked as a circulation desk student assistant and helped establish the groundwork for a database of images found in books, pamphlets, documents, and manuscripts scanned for the Harvard Open Collections project, Women Working, 1870-1930. On weekends, she worked as a gallery showroom coordinator at Intarawut, the showroom for the Marc J. Matz Collection of Colonial Indian, China trade, campaign furniture, and works of art.
Jennifer worked on her Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree via the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's remote program (LEEP) while working at Widener. In connection with her graduate work, Jennifer took a course in Islamic book art under Dr. David Roxburgh and was awarded the Lois Wells Irwin Fellowship which helped fund Preserve the Word, an independent project about digitally and physically preserving the ancient Buddhist wall paintings, sculpture, and scrolls in the Dunhuang Caves of China.
After receiving her MLIS in 2005, Jennifer took a museum library position at the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University where she worked as the Assistant Librarian. In 2006, she presented Art Librarians: Bridging the past to the future, for the Art Libraries Section at the 72nd annual International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference in Seoul, Korea. Jennifer is a member of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) and has had a paper accepted for publication in ARLIS/NA's journal, Art Documentation (fall 2009). She is a regular book reviewer for Library Journal in which she has published numerous reviews of art monographs. Jennifer has authored a book review essay entitled A bibliographical history of the study and use of color from Aristotle to Kandinsky which was published in Art Libraries Journal, the regular publication for ARLIS/UK and she is the regular author of the Health & Fitness chapter of Bowker's Magazines for Libraries (MFL).