The New York Public Library

Acknowledgments

Utopia Website:

Designer: Renée Roberts (NYPL)

Site Coordinator: Meg Maher (NYPL)

Site Refinement and Usability Testing: Future Phase Computer Systems

Additional Production Support: David Rosensweig (NYPL), Jay Haque (NYPL), Michelle Misner (NYPL), Angel Urena (NYPL), Jane Moffitt, Marc Johnson

 

Utopia Exhibition:

Curator: Roland Schaer, Délégué à la diffusion culturelle, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)

Curatorial advisors:

Gregory Claeys, Professor of the History of Political Thought, Royal Holloway and New Bedford College, University of London

Ruth Eaton, architectural historian

Danielle Lecoq, Professeur d’histoire médiévale, chargée de cours à l’université de Paris VII — Denis Diderot

Lyman Tower Sargent, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis

Research curator: Holland Goss

Coordination:

Anne-Françoise Leprévots-Bonnardel

Laurent Portes

Additional advice:

Denis Bruckmann

Bernard Vouillot

Laurent Gervereau

Didier Ottinger

Viviane Cabannes

Nadine Marienstras

Anne-Hélène Rigogne

Anne Dressen

Staff of The New York Public Library who participated in the development and implementation of the exhibition:

Paul LeClerc, President

William D. Walker, Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries

Jean Bowen and her successor, Rodney Phillips, Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Library

H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections

David Cronin, Manager, Public Programs

Exhibitions Program Office:

Manager: Susan Rabbiner

Research Coordinators: Jeanne Bornstein, Meg Maher

Registrars: Jean Mihich, Caryn Gedell, Louisa Hilton, Rick Fiocco, Melitte Buchman

Exhibitions Conservator: Myriam de Arteni

Installation Coordinator: Russell Drisch

Preparation and Installation: Matt Benson, Megan Bongiovanni, Davidson Burnam, Patrick T. Day, Eric Doeringer, Scott Fernsler, Susan Fisher, Andrew Gaylard, Mark Jetton, Todd Kelly, James Rumley

Exhibitions Assistant: Jeanne Stehr-Jahn

Editor: Barbara Bergeron

Graphic Design: Marc Blaustein

Additional Graphic Design: Ann Antoshak, Kara Van Woerden, Suzanne Doig

Development and Government Affairs: Catherine Dunn, Susan Brady, Grace Harvey, Melissa Grundman, Alysia Abbott, Julie Schieffelin, Debby Fitzgerald

Legal Counsel: Robert J. Vanni, Jennifer Goldberg

Public Relations: Herb Scher, Sabina Potaczek, Liz Smith

Public Programming:

Humanities and Social Sciences Library: Jane McNamara, Betsy Bradley, Rachel Natelson

Donnell Library Center: Marie Nesthus, Joseph Yranski, David Callahan

Mid-Manhattan Library: Cecil Hixon, Marsha Spyros

Volunteer Coordinator: Linda Azarian

Digital Imaging: Anthony Troncale, Danielle Mericle

Digital Recording for Audio Stations: Adrian Cosentini

Roland Schaer is now Professeur de philosophie, Rouen. David Cronin is now Executive Director, New York Council for the Humanities

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Consultants who participated in the planning and implementation of the exhibition:

Installation and Casework Design: Tim Culbert + Celia Imrey, INLINE Studio

Audio-visual consultant: Scharff Weisberg

Lighting Design: Kugler Tillotson Associates

Installation Fabrication: Insight Group

Casework Fabrication: GlasBau Hahn, GmbH

CHRISTIE'S


Lenders

Thanks to the chiefs, curators, and staff of the following New York Public Library collections who provided advice and assistance during the selection of materials for the exhibition:

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Rare Books Division; General Research Division; Spencer Collection; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Photography Collection, Print Collection, and Art and Architecture Department of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Slavic and Baltic Division; Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Map Division; Dorot Jewish Division; Arents Tobacco Collection

Science, Industry and Business Library

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; Music Division; Billy Rose Theatre Collection

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Photographs and Prints Division; Art and Artifacts Division

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The New York Public Library is grateful to the Bibliothèque nationale de France for lending approximately 60 items to the exhibition.

The Library also wishes to thank the following institutions and individuals for their generosity in making available items from their collections:

The California Historical Society, San Francisco

Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris

Francis P. Chinard, M.D.

Cinémathèque française, Paris

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York

Fellowship for Intentional Community, Rutledge, Missouri

Special Collections, Harvard Law Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Arc-et-Senans, France

Donald E. Janzen Collection, Danville, Kentucky

The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Musée des arts et métiers, CNAM, Paris

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Private Collection
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