John Kresten Jespersen Email: jjespersen@ric.edu Blog: http://ornament-scholar.blogspot.com/ Employment -- Library and Archives, Library School Summer 2009 present: James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI; Associate Professor, Metadata and Reference Librarian Co-ordinator of Digital Initiatives: Duties include cataloging, management, reference and collection development, and digital initiatives in Special Collections.. Fall 2007 -- present: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI; Adjunct Professor, LSC 505, Organization of Information with Dr. Heather P. Jespersen. Spring 2005 Summer 2009: James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI; Assistant Professor, Cataloging Librarian Duties include cataloging, management, reference and collection development. Fall 2002 Spring 2005: Levin Library, Curry College, Milton, MA Technical Services Supervisor (full-time staff position) Duties include reference, bibliographic instruction and archives. Spring 2002 - Fall 2002: Levin Library, Curry College, Milton, MA Catalog Librarian (part-time). Fall 2001 - Spring 2002: Rhode Island School of Design Library Reference Librarian, Evenings (part-time). Spring 2001 - Fall 2001: Levin Library, Curry College, Milton, MA Reference Librarian (part-time). Fall 2000: Brown University Archives, Providence, RI. Processing the personal papers of the late William H. Jordy. Fall 2000: University Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Cataloging the Ames Collection of nineteenth-century illustrated travel books for Special Collections. Spring 2000: The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI. Processing the archives of the JCBL.
2 Summer 1977: National Archives, Washington, D.C. Cartographic Division. Processing the architectural drawings of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Employment -- Art History and Architecture 1996-1997 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Visiting Lecturer 1989-1990 The Technical University of Nova Scotia School of Architecture, Graduate Program Visiting Lecturer 1990 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Visiting Assistant Professor 1988-1989 Southwest Missouri State University Assistant Professor 1987-1988 The College of William and Mary Visiting Assistant Professor 1986-1987 Mary Washington College Visiting Assistant Professor 1984-1988 Yale University, School of Architecture Visiting Lecturer 1984 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture, Graduate Program Visiting Lecturer Symposia Communicating with Color in Art, Science and Industry Conference Of March 28 and 29, 1985: Rochester Institute of Technology. Owen Jones Color System for Architecture and the Decorative Arts. Society for Architectural Historians, New England Chapter: Annual Symposium, March, 1984. Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament of 1856: Field Theory in Victorian Design. Lectures Owen Jones (1809-1874): achievement and influence. Friends of the Adams Library series. Thursday, September 25, 2008. Fortes Room, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College, Providence, R.I. Inspired by the Athenaeum Series: architectural historian Kresten Jespersen on The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The Providence Athenaeum, Providence, R.I.
3 Publications Originality and Jones The Grammar of Ornament of 1856, Journal of Design History, 21, (2), 2008), pp. 143-153; Prof. Tim Putnam, ed., peer reviewed. Abstract: http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/epn008? ijkey=rffvwxr9lccbqlo&keytype=ref Full Text: http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/epn008? ijkey=rffvwxr9lccbqlo&keytype=ref PDF: http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/epn008? ijkey=rffvwxr9lccbqlo&keytype=ref A Photo Archive of Curry College (Milton, MA: Curry College Publications, 2005), pp. 3-47. The Problems of Subject Access to Visual Materials with Heather P. Jespersen. Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 42,1 (Sept., 2004), pp. 37-48, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. Prof. Jeong-Yeou Chiu, ed., by invitation. Grammar of Ornament: Lesson Plans, Direct Imagination, Inc., 1997, pp.1-17. I wrote the introductory Grammar Discipline Study Guide, pp.2-5, on the Web http://www.dimagin.com/images/lesson_plans.pdf (Viewed October 8, 2008). Introduction to Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament of 1856 with Ellen Christensen and Carol Flores, CD-ROM by Direct Imagination, Inc. (March 1996), 1-41. Making History: A Reflection on the Theory of History, AN+I+MAD;VER+SION (Halifax, N.S., 1990), Peter Russell, ed., 13-15. Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament: Field Theory in the Post- Modern Studio. CRIT 21 (Washington, D.C., 1988), Leigh Coulter, ed. 28-33. Form and Meaning: The Conventionalization of the Leaf Ornament. Perspecta 23 (New York: Rizzoli, 1987), Fred Groen and Richard Munday, eds. 144-155.
4 Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863. Rubenism, exhibition catalogue (Meriden, CT: Department of Art, Brown University and the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1975), 241-273. Book publications and books in progress: Jespersen, John Kresten, Owen Jones and the Conventionalization of Ornament (1988). Library Faculty and Staff Publications. Paper 1. http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/librarypublications/1 for open access and http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/book_gallery/1/ for closed access and all the plates. Jespersen, John Kresten, The Ornament of Kent C. Bloomer, a book on the ornamentor Kent Bloomer, Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Yale University. Have begun research and have the necessary permissions to proceed with the book. Research in Progress: I am presently researching an article on the interior design of Owen Jones. I am focusing on a collection of designs by Owen Jones at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Prints and Drawings Department, and doing background reading. I am interested in writing a short monograph on Owen Jones flat pattern designs In the Victoria and Albert Museum. The recent museum publication (2010) on his patterns indicates a need for such a publication. Exhibitions Ornament and Color. An exhibit of significant chromolithographed pattern and illustrated books from 1841-1890 that demonstrate the influence of Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament of 1856. James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, July 2008. Curry College: Celebrating 125 Years of Excellence in Education. John Kresten Jespersen, Curator. Levin Library, Curry College, Sept. 17-28, 2004, and Oct. 8-11, 2004. Teaching/Practice Architectural Education and the Visual Arts, Cliff Eyland, Curator. Two of my original gouache designs, first published In CRIT 21, were featured in the faculty/student show, June, 1990.
5 Acknowledgements Stacey Sloboda, The Grammar of Ornament: Cosmopolitanism and Reform in British Design.. Journal of Design History, 2008, 21(3): pp. 223-236. Carol A. Hrvol Flores, Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transition. New York, Rizzoli, 2006 Nicholas Frankel, The Ecstasy of Decoration: The Grammar of Ornament as Embodied Experience. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Winter 2003. On the Web at: http://www.19thcartworldwide.org/winter_03/articles/fran.html Debra Schafter, The Order of Ornament, the Structure of Style: Theoretical Foundations of Modern Art and Architecture. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Mark Crinson, Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture. London, Routledge, 1996. In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Researcher, American Decorative Arts. New York, Rizzoli, 1986. Service to Rhode Island College Secretary of the Council of Rhode Island College, 2008-2011 Secretary of the Executive Committee of Council, 2008-2011 Chair, Board of College Discipline, 2010-2011 Committee for the President s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009-2010 Budget Review Committee, August 2008 Energy Implementation Team (BRC), 2008-2009 Chair, Committee on College Lectures, 2008-2010 Executive Committee of Council, 2007-2008 Chair, Faculty Research Committee, 2007-2008 Faculty Research Committee, 2006-2007 At-Large Member of Council, 2006-2011 Mary Tucker Thorp College Professorship Award Nominating Committee, 2005-2006
6 Service to Adams Library Unit Heads, 2010- Conferences attended Chair of the Departmental Advisory Committee, 2009-2010. HELIN Advisory Team, 2008- Secretary of the Departmental Advisory Committee, 2006-2008 Member of ALMA (Adams Library Management Association), 2007-2008 Co-Manager of Technical Services, 2007-2008 Membership Committee, Friends of the Adams Library, 2005-2009 Library Liaison to the English Department and to Film Studies, 2005-2008 Library Liaison to the Art Department, 2008- HELIN Cataloging Committee, 2007-2009 HELIN Government Documents Committee, 2006- NETSL Annual Conference, 2010: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move. April 15, 2010 College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Center. HELIN Annual Conference: Measuring Success through Collaboration, Jan. 13, 2010 Bryant University, Bello Center. NERCOMP SIG Workshop: Images: Content, Management, Teaching, and Learning Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center, Jan. 23, 2009. NETSL Annual Conference, 2009: Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing, Mining, & Harvesting April, 17, 2009 College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Center. HELIN Annual Conference, Libraries above the Fold, Jan. 8, 2008, Bryant University, Bello Center Robert L. Cunningham Annual Bibliographic Services Conference 2007: Subject Access: Out of Control? November 16, 2007 - College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA HELIN Annual Conference: Libraries and the Net Generation January 11, 2007 Bryant University, RI
7 ALA Annual Conference June 22-28, 2007 Washington, D.C. NETSL Annual Conference, 2007: Re-Imagining Technical Services April 13, 2007 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Robert L. Cunningham Annual Bibliographic Services Conference 2006: OPAC 2.0: Reinventing the Library Catalog November 17, 2006 - College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Innovative Users Group Regional Conference: New England Center, University of New Hampshire November 9, 2006 NETSL Annual Conference, 2006: Exploring the Open Universe: A Librarian s Guide April 6, 2006 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Robert L. Cunningham Annual Bibliographic Services Conference 2005: Google vs. the OPAC: The Challenge is On November 18, 2005 - College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA NELA Annual Conference: Making Connections October 17, 2005 - DCU Center, Worcester, MA NETSL Annual Conference, 2005: Metadata and Meaning: Creating the 21 st Century Catalog April 8, 2005 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA ALA Midwinter: January 15-17, 2005 Boston, MA Workshops HELIN ERM workshops with Martha Sanders, June 18 th, 2008 and August 26 th, 2008. NELINET Workshop: Social Networking Tools for Teaching LIS, by Erin Logsdon, May 16, 2008. NELINET Workshop: RDA and the LC Working Group on the Future Of Bibliographic Control, by Diane Baden, April 1, 2008 NELINET Workshop: AACR, RDA, and FRBR, by Margaret Lourie Online, Feb. 14, 2008 NELINET Workshop: OCLC Connexion Searching, by Margaret Lourie, Online, Jan. 17, 2008
8 NELINET Workshop: Demystifying Cataloging, by Margaret Lourie, January 4, 2008 HELIN Workshop: Authority Control by Martha Sanders, February 15, 2007 NELINET Workshop: Library of Congress Classification, by Margaret Lourie, March 14 and 20, 2007 Government Documents Workshop by Tom Stieve, Brown University, October 30, 2006 NELINET Workshop: OCLC Connexion Client Basic, by Amy Benson, March 16, 2005 HELIN Workshop: Creating Lists in Millennium by Ruth Souto, June 29, 2005 ALCTS/PCC Workshop: Basic Subject Cataloging using LCSH, Sept. 28 and 29, 2005 with trainers Christina Bellinger, University of New Hampshire and Steven Arakawa, Yale University. NELINET Workshop: OCLC Interlibrary Loan: Tips and Tricks by Carrie Bartels, November 17, 2004 NELINET Workshop: OCLC Union List by Carrie Bartels, November 3, 2004 NELINET Workshop: OCLC ILL on FirstSearch by Carrie Bartels, September 22, 2004 NELINET Workshop: OCLC Authority File by Margaret Lourie, April 1, 2003 NELINET Workshop: Library of Congress Subject Headings by Margaret Lourie, April 10 (9:30 AM 3:30 PM), April 10, 2003 Certificate of Professional Development awarded by NELINET, 2004 Honors and Awards Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, And Commerce (RSA), 2010- Honorarium, Friends of the Adams Library, Rhode Island College, Dr. Jean E. Brown, 2008. Who s Who in America, 65 th edition, 2011. Who s Who in America, 61 st edition, 2007. Who s Who in America, 60 th edition, 2006. Who s Who in America, 58 th edition, 2004. Who s Who in Finance and Business, 36 th edition, 2006.
9 Who s Who in Finance and Business, 34 th edition, 2004. Beta Phi Mu (The International Library Science Honorary Society), 2001. Honorarium, School of Architecture, Yale University, Prof. Kent C. Bloomer, 1990 Honorarium, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Dr. Charles W. Moore, Professor, 1990. Honorarium, Center for British Art, Yale University, Dr. Duncan Robinson, Director, 1987 Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship in Art History, 1979. B.A. summa cum laude; graduated 6th in the Class of 1973. Memberships Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), 1986-1991, 2009- American Library Association (ALA), 2001-2009, ALCTS 2005; New England Library Association ( NELA), 2005-2009. New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) 2005-9 Corresponding Secretary of NETSL, 2005-2006 Creative work and marketing Founded ILMARI a line of fine sterling jewelry marketed to local stores from 1993-1996. Acted as CEO, designer, model maker, and salesman. Jewelry line now on display at the Gallery 361, 361 South Main Street, Providence, RI (401) 831-6812 Languages French: Reading knowledge and some conversation German: Some reading knowledge. Latin: Fourth Year Latin at Moses Brown School, Providence, RI. Spanish: I have an ear as it was my first language
10 Education 1998-2000 University of Rhode Island M.L.I.S. Library and Information Studies 1977-1984 Brown University Ph.D. Art and Architectural History 1973-1977 Brown University A.M. Art and Architectural History 1969-1973 Providence College B.A. Humanities with Honors 1965-1966 Lawrence University References On request