Kevin Winkler Appointed Assistant Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Kevin Winkler, formerly Chief of the Circulating Collections at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, has been promoted to Assistant Director of the Library. Mr. Winkler will have primary responsibility for public service throughout the Library for the Performing Arts, including the four research divisions and the Circulating Collections. He will also oversee the Finance Unit and develop earned income projects. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, one of The New York Public Library's four research libraries, is a constituent of Lincoln Center and is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza.

His appointment was announced jointly by Jacqueline Z. Davis, the Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director of the Library for the Performing Arts and by David S. Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon Director and Chief Executive of the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.

"Kevin Winkler is a consummate administrator/librarian, and I am delighted that he has accepted this position," said Ms. Davis. "In the years we have worked together, he has demonstrated his leadership skills and comprehensive approach in dealing with the unique problems of a research and branch library in the performing arts." Mr. Ferriero observed that Mr. Winkler "is enormously respected throughout the library profession for his knowledge and his contributions in the field. Twice, he has served as president of the Theatre Library Association, and he as written and edited numerous articles on performing arts archives and theater history."

About Kevin Winkler
Kevin Winker has been on the staff of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for over thirteen years, first as Assistant Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection and, for the past nine years, as Chief of the Circulating Collections. Previously he was a staff librarian at the Citibank Research Library. One of his first duties when he was appointed Chief of the Circulating Collections was to plan, organize, and implement the relocation of all Circulating Collections' staff, materials, and services to the Mid-Manhattan Library during the Library for the Performing Arts's renovation from 1998 to 2001. Under his leadership, the Library recently conducted its first patron focus groups. His expertise in theater history led to his curating the Library's well-received exhibition Original Cast Recordings in 2003.

Mr. Winkler recently completed two terms as President of the Theatre Library Association (TLA) and is the editor of Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives, a volume of TLA's monograph series Performing Arts Resources.   He is the producer and host for TLA's annual book awards presentation and is co-chair of the Planning Committee for TLA's forthcoming symposium, Performance Reclamation: Research, Discovery, and Interpretation, to be held next February at New York University.  

For the past two years, Mr. Winkler has taught the "Institute in Performing Arts Libraries" for the Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science. He has published articles and reviews in Theatre History Studies and is a contributor to Performing Processes: Creating Live Performances (Intellect Books) and The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era (University of Michigan Press). With Mary Ellen Rogan, he co-authored the entry on performing arts libraries in the International Dictionary of Library Histories (Fitzroy Dearborn). He holds an M.S. in library science from Columbia University, an M.A. in theatre from Hunter College, and a B.A. in theatre from San Diego State University.

About The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. Its divisions are the Circulating Collections, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Music Division, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. The materials in its collections are available free of charge, along with a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances. An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts -whether professional or amateur- the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters, and photographs.

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