Tula_Giannini

Tula Giannini

Tula Giannini

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Prof. Tula Giannini is an American academic with subject expertise in musicology, digital culture, and digital heritage.

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Tula Giannini holds B.M. and M.M. degrees in Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an M.L.S. degree in Library Science from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. degree in Musicology from Bryn Mawr College.[3] Early in her career, she was a professional flautist.[4] She taught at the Catholic University, Rutgers University, and the University of Hawaiʻi.[5] Director of the Talbott Library at Westminster Choir College, and Head of Collection Management at Adelphi University. She joined the Pratt Institute in 1998 and served as Dean of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), from 2015 renamed to the School of Information under her leadership,[6] From 2004 to 2017, Giannini served as Dean of the School of Information at Pratt Institute where she is a tenured full professor.

Giannini has overseen the introduction of new academic/professional programs at the Pratt Institute, including: Advanced Certificates in Archives (2004), Museum Libraries (2005), Conservation and Digital Curation (2016); a Dual Masters with the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt (2008), which received an Innovation Award from NASED;[3] an M.S. degree in Museums and Digital Culture (2015);[7] M.S. in Information Experience Design and M.S. in Data Analytics and Visualization (2016).[8] She received four significant Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grants for programs involving digital cultural heritage: GATEWAI (Graduate Archives Training and Education, Work and Information); M-LEAD I and M-LEAD II (Museum Library Education and Digitization);[9] and CHART (Cultural Heritage: Access, Research and Technology),[10][11] which resulted in the Brooklyn Visual Heritage website.

Giannini has contributed entries to The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, published by Oxford University Press.[12] She has also published books.[13]

Selected publications

  • Giannini, T. (1993). Great Flute Makers of France: The Lot and Godfroy families, 1650–1900. Bingham. ISBN 978-0946113057.
  • Giannini, T. (August 1993). "Jacques Hotteterre le Romain and his father, Martin: A re-examination based on recently found documents". Early Music. XXI (3). Oxford University Press: 377–395. doi:10.1093/em/XXI.3.377.
  • Bowen, J.P.; Giannini, T. (2014). "Digitalism: The New Realism". EVA London 2014 Conference Proceedings on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing. BCS: 324–331. doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2014.38.
  • Giannini, T.; Bowen, J.P. (2016). "Curating Digital Life and Culture: Art and Information" (PDF). EVA London 2016 Conference Proceedings on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing. BCS: 237–244. doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.46.
  • Giannini, T.; Bowen, J.P. (2017). "Life in Code and Digits: When Shannon met Turing". EVA London 2017 Conference Proceedings on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing. BCS: 51–58. doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.9.
  • Giannini, T.; Bowen, J.P., eds. (2019). Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Series on Cultural Computing. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6. ISBN 978-3-319-97456-9. S2CID 146115899.[2][14]

References

  1. [1]
    Giannini, T.; Bowen, J.P., eds. (2019). Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Series on Cultural Computing. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6. ISBN 978-3-319-97456-9. S2CID 146115899.
  2. [2]
    Koslow, Jennifer (4 September 2019). "Book Review – Museums and digital culture: new perspectives and research". Museum Management and Curatorship. 34 (5): 537–539. doi:10.1080/09647775.2019.1661098. S2CID 203059899.
  3. [3]
    "Tula Giannini". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  4. [4]
    Giannini, Tula. "Great Flute Makers of France: The Lot and Godfroy Families, 1650–1900". thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  5. [5]
    Giannini, Tula (2015). "Candidate for Vice President/President-Elect – Tula Giannini". ALISE Election. Association for Library and Information Science Education. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  6. [6]
    "School of Information and Library Science Renamed". News. Pratt Institute. 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Museums and Digital Culture Core Faculty". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  8. [8]
    "School of Information Launches two New Master of Science Programs". News. Pratt Institute. 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  9. [9]
    "SILS Partners with NY Cultural Institutions to Prepare Information Professionals for Museum Careers". News. Pratt Institute. 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  10. [10]
    "Pratt School of Information and Library Science Award $971,407 Grant". News. Pratt Institute. 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  11. [11]
    "News12 Booklyn Features the Work of Library and Information Science Students". News. Pratt Institute. 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  12. [12]
    Libin, Laurence, ed. (2014). The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199743391.
  13. [13]
    "Tula Giannini", Amazon.com, Amazon, retrieved 19 October 2020
  14. [14]
    "New and Noteworthy: 2019 Faculty Books Roundup". News. Pratt Institute. 5 December 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.


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