Temporary Building 9 (TB9) (Davis, CA) is a historical place within the UC Davis campus that has served the public university's art communities since the 1960s. The TB9 Library is maintained by Annabeth Rosen.

A.R.T. Library Program Questionnaire gathers insights from librarians and publishers within the Program's distribution network to reconsider and reflect on what it means to make art books public today

• How would you define the main role the library plays in your community?
  

Like the studio, the library is a place where ideas brew, a place of learning where imagination prevails. The endless possibilities of ideas held in books, available for anyone to have, are a gift.

• How would you define your responsibility as a librarian?
  

My responsibility as a librarian has been bringing the broadest and deepest selection of books to our community. Books that are beautiful objects in themselves, some exquisitely designed, that underscores their content with their very form, is one of the best tools teachers have. Many students have limited experience with books, relying on their devices to look at art, uncurated. An author or editor is like the director of a movie, or a curator of an exhibition, offering a point of view, a set of ideas as an example, as a way of seeing and thinking.

• When was the first time you participated in the A.R.T. Library Program? Do you participate yearly?
  

I really can’t remember, maybe 8 or so years ago. I wouldn’t miss the opportunity for anything.