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| General Information and mission | |
artlibraries.net – Virtual Catalogue for Art History (http://www.artlibraries.net/), formerly the VKK, is a European specialized meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records and, should the occasion arise, other objects of distinctive art historical databases.
Currently, artlibraries.net gives access to more than 8 million records (as of June 2008), including a high percentage of records for articles in periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues and exhibition books, etc., and an increasing percentage of records for archival and photographic materials as well as for online resources.
artlibraries.net is a meta search interface based on the technology of the well known KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) which conducts a simultaneous search in a number of web catalogues. As artlibraries.net does not have its own database, it depends on the availability of target systems. artlibraries.net produces standardized short-title hit lists. To view the full information for a selected title requires following the link to the respective target catalogue, with the possibility of deriving further benefit from that system's complete features, for example, additional retrieval options, interlibrary loan, or document delivery.
This meta catalogue was launched in 1999 as VKK (“Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte”) with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) within its art libraries programme. Since then, it has been expanding, first on a national, now on a European scale, with the aim of reaching a high degree of thematic completeness and coverage of all publication types. The interface has been relaunched in March 2007 and the name changed to artlibraries.net. Target systems may be research institutes, educational institutions, museums and exhibition centres, pertinent holdings of general research libraries, as well as specialized union catalogues, online bibliographies, and other relevant web databases. In order to obtain a truly European-wide co-operation serving the international art historical community, the circle of participants will be extended especially to institutions in Great Britain and Scandinavia, in other Southern European countries, and in the Eastern European countries that have joined the European Union.
One very important structural principle of artlibraries.net is the complementary character of the holdings traced in the individual databases. In addition to striving for comprehensiveness in the coverage of subject areas and formats, the future development will also be guided by the aims of improving direct access to online resources and of multiplying and networking document delivery services. As a bibliographic and documentary tool, artlibraries.net is thus intended to satisfy the needs even of highly specialized art historical research.
The participating institutions acknowledge the principle of Open Access to scholarly information. They feel that artlibraries.net should also be used to further this principle.
| | | Top of page | | Organizational principles and information for future participants | |
Under the common responsibility of the participating institutions acting as partners, artlibraries.net – Virtual Catalogue for Art History is being continuously developed, not only with regard to new target systems. It is equally important to improve the quantity and the quality of the information provided by the participants, as well as to evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of the retrieval software of both the meta catalogue and its targets. Therefore, artlibraries.net is also to be understood as a platform for connecting important international partners on a truly operative level.
The specific usefulness and value of artlibraries.net depends particularly on the degree of completeness, specialization, and subject indexing of the records found in the target systems and on the extent to which their individual holdings complement one another. All art historical fields, including the most recent ones, should be taken into account and be represented very well. Archaeological holdings are, however, largely beyond the scope. Articles and review articles, sales catalogues, 'grey literature', non-print materials and online resources are to be comprised as broadly as possible. Some specialized targets already provide entries for photos, videos, archival materials or newspaper clippings. With the participation of the libraries of the French national museums, 'world art history' has been introduced into artlibraries.net Other targets, such as the Florentine IRIS consortium, are contributing interesting interdisciplinary elements.
artlibraries.net – Virtual Catalogue for Art History is a gateway to the participating institutions' web catalogues. It in no way replaces these websites, with their genuine individual features and services. On the contrary, it renders them more visible and efficient within a European federation of cooperating partners.
Regular meetings of the general assembly of the artlibraries.net partners and additional meetings of its international committee sustain the fulfilment of the aims described above within the general context of art historical web resources. All decisions concerning software, web design, retrieval options (insofar as these are not covered by the general development of the KVK), additional common services, and especially the integration of new target systems are taken jointly by the participants. In order to consolidate the general and particularly the financial organization of artlibraries.net as well as its long-term development, the creation of an association based on local law remains an option for the future. For the time being, the organization's common administration and development is carried out in an un-bureaucratic manner in trustful partnership.
If necessary, in case the partners do not come to an agreement otherwise, votes will be taken at the general meetings or by e-mail. Decisions by vote require a two-thirds majority (one vote per target system). Only the admission of a new target system always requires a vote. Qualified requests for participation should be made in writing and should preferably be addressed to one of the members of the committee. Such requests will be discussed with reference to the characteristics and aims of artlibraries.net as described above. The committee members, volunteers appointed by the assembly, are prepared to serve as contact persons and, together with the technical supervisor, to deal with retrieval problems and with other issues regarding the multilingual website. In addition, these colleagues are available for public relations and for bringing development concepts to fruition.
| | | Top of page | | Technical administration and charges for participation | |
Insofar as artlibraries.net is based on the technology of the "Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)", it is hosted by and administered in collaboration with the University Library of Karlsruhe, Germany. For each additional artlibraries.net target system, the University Library of Karlsruhe must provide an appropriate structural CGI description. Currently, the cost for integrating a new target is ca. EUR 3.000, or half this sum if an existing CGI script can be reused. Subsequently, there is an annual charge for hosting and maintenance by the University Library of Karlsruhe. This charge is recalculated annually depending on the number of targets, and amounts to less than ten percent of the full initial fee. One of the partners, at present the Zentralinstitut fuer Kunstgeschichte, acts as collection agency for the annual charge and once a year sends the total amount to the University of Karlsruhe.
Relaunch and webdesign: www.janus-media.de, 2007
| | | Top of page | | Committee | |
Interested institutions are invited to contact one of the members of the international committee:
Rüdiger Hoyer, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, E-mail: r.hoyer@zikg.eu
Geert-Jan Koot, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, E-mail: g.koot@rijksmuseum.nl
Isabelle le Masne de Chermont, Direction des Musées de France, Service des bibliothèques, des archives et de la documentation générale, Paris, E-mail: isabelle.le-masne-de-chermont@culture.gouv.fr
Irena Murray, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects
E-mail: irena.murray@inst.riba.org
Michael Rocke, Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti, Firenze, E-mail: mrocke@itatti.it
Jan Simane, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut), E-mail: Simane@khi.fi.it
Technical supervisor:
Uwe Dierolf, Universitätsbibliothek Karlsruhe, E-mail: kvkadmin ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
Selected further readings
Rüdiger Hoyer: International art libraries networking : new target systems for the Virtual Catalogue for Art History. – In: IFLA Art Libraries Section Newsletter n° 59 (2006), pp. 7-8. – online: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/news/art-newsletter59.pdf.
Idem: The "Virtuelle [sic!] Katalog Kunstgeschichte" (VKK). - In: AKMB news 9.2003, 2, pp. 15-16.
Idem: The Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte as a tool for international co-operation. - In: Art Libraries Journal 28.2003,1, pp. 15-18.
Maria Effinger / Rüdiger Hoyer: Der Virtuelle Katalog Kunstgeschichte (VKK). - In: Bibliotheksdienst 53.1999, 10, pp. 1660-1666.
Purpus, Elke: Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte: erstes Treffen der Bibliotheken und Verbünde. - In: AKMB-news 10(2004), 3, p. 54-55.
| | | Top of page | | Target systems | |
- Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam
- Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Art and Exhibition Hall, Bonn
- Library of the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne
- Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Cologne
- Academy of Media Arts Cologne
- SLUB Dresden - Contemporary Art
- Union Catalogue of Düsseldorf Cultural Institutions
- IRIS Consortium, Florence
- IRIS Consortium, Florence, Art auctions
- Union Catalogue Florence-Munich-Rome
- Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie, Geneva
- Heidelberg University Library (Special Subject Collection in Art History)
- documenta Archive, Kassel, Library
- Art Library, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
- British Architectural Library (RIBA), London
- National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Getty Research Institute Research Library, Los Angeles
- Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
- The Metropolitan Museum, New York
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg
- National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
- Bibliothèque des Arts décoratifs, Paris
- Union catalogue of the libraries of the French national museums
- Kunsthaus Zurich, Library
- Swiss Institute for Art Research, Library
- ART-Guide (Art history websites)
- OLC-SSG Art / Art Science
| | | Top of page | | Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam | |
Special subject collections:
- Art History (Western and Asiatic Art)
- Dutch History
- Museology, conservation and restauration
Searchable holdings (2/2006): 145,000 monographs, 3,200 periodicals, 22,000 auction catalogues (since aquisition year 1989)
| | | Top of page | | Kunstbibliothek und Verbundkatalog der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin | |
Participants:
The Union Catalogue of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin contains the following holdings of the Kunstbibliothek: all periodicals, monographs acquired since 1995 as well as the articles catalogued since the beginning of 2004.
It also comprises the monographs and periodicals acquired since summer 2003 by the special libraries of the following museums ans institutes:
- Ethnologisches Museum
- Institut für Museumskunde
- Museum Europäischer Kulturen
- Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Furthermore, it comprises the monographs and periodicals acquired since summer 2003 for the reference collections of the following museums and institutes:
- Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
- Antikensammlung
- Gemäldegalerie
- Kunstgewerbemuseum
- Kupferstichkabinett
- Museum für Fotografie
- Museum für Indische Kunst
- Museum für Islamische Kunst
- Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst
- Münzkabinett
- Alte Nationalgalerie
- Neue Nationalgalerie
- Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
- Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
- Vorderasiatisches Museum
- Rathgen-Forschungslabor
For more detailed informations and conditions of access see the library guide: http://www.ifskb.de/?q=node/31
Subject fields covered by the participants:
- Prehistory, early history, Egyptology, papyrology, archaeology of the Near East, classical archaeology, early Christian and Byzantine art, numismatics
- European art and art history since late Antiquity, architecture, book art, graphics, decorative arts, painting, posters, sculpture, photography, new media, international fashion and clothes
- Islamic, Indian, East Asian art
- European, American, African and Asian ethnography
- Museum studies and restoration
Special subject collections of the Kunstbibliothek funded by the DFG:
- Anglo-Saxon art
- Scandinavian art
- 20th/21st century architecture
- Spanish-Portuguese art
Searchable holdings (12/2007): 146,180 book titles, 15.615 periodical titels, 11,687 series titles, 9,702 articles, 339 online publications and 372 microforms.
| | | Top of page | | Art and Exhibition Hall, Bonn | |
Special subject collections:
- History of exhibitions and exhibition management
- Art literature (20th and 21st century art and art trade)
- Comprehensive literature on current and past exhibitions of the
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle (from "Arctic - Antarctic" to "High Renaissance in Vatican")
- Arts management
Searchable holdings (5/2008): 40,948 medias (books, compact discs, cd-roms, videos), 121 current periodicals
| | | Top of page | | Kunst- und Museumbibliothek, Cologne | |
Special subject collections (supported by the DFG):
- Art of the Benelux Countries
- 20th and 21st century art (without Italy and architecture)
- Photography and film : history and imagery
Searchable holdings: ca. 365,000 monographs, 5,958 periodicals (792 current) (6/2004) (complete library holdings)
| | | Top of page | | Academy of Media Arts Cologne – Library | |
Special subject collections:
- Contemporary Art, Art Theory
Advanced, interdisciplinary and multimedia forms of art, Video art, Computer art
- Photography
Artistic and experimental photography, Photography in the media age
- Applied Art, Design
Typography, Electronic publishing, Electronic image design, Space design, Video design, Screen design, Interactive media design, Computer graphics , Video and computer plays
- Music, Sound, Noises
Acoustic basis, Concepts of sound design of the 20th century, Electronic music, Music and picture
- Film and Television
History and theory of film, Dramaturgy, Screenplay, Acting, Direction, Film industry, Film art
- Theory of media
Visual communication, Culture of media, History and theory of the computer, History and theory of automats, machines and of virtual realities
- Philosophy, Sociology
Aesthetics, Technical philosophy, Epistemology, Sociology, Gender Studies Searchable holdings (5/2003): 20,000 books, 7,000 media, 100 current periodicals
| | | Top of page | | SLUB Dresden - Contemporary Art | |
Special subject collections (supported by the DFG) (since 01.01.1993):
- Contemporary Art since 1945
- Photography
- Industrial Design
- Graphical Design
Searchable holdings on contemporary art (8/2008): at present the subject catalogue contains about 110,000 records with holding information for books, journals, serials, dissertations and other materials. more literature
The Saxon State and University Library Dresden offers a Document Delivery Service for the special subject collections.
| | | Top of page | | Union Catalogue of Düsseldorf Cultural Institutions (UCD) | |
The UCD - edited by the public library of Düsseldorf - is the union catalogue of the following institutions financed by the City of Düsseldorf :
- Filmmuseum
- Görres-Gymnasium
- Goethe-Museum / Anton- and-Katharina-Kippenberg-Foundation
- Heinrich-Heine-Institut
- Hetjens-Museum - Deutsches Keramikmuseum
- museum kunst palast
- Stadtarchiv
- Stadtmuseum
- Theatermuseum / Dumont-Lindemann Archive
Beside these institutions, the Art Academy of Düsseldorf and the Art Collection of North Rhine-Westphalia took part in the union catalogue until 1992. Because of that, the catalogue contains more than 54,000 bibliographic units of these institutions.
Scope: fine arts, art history, arts and crafts, glass, ceramics, design, architecture, literature and literary studies with the emphasis on Goethe and Heine, film, theatre and performing arts, history of the city and region of Düsseldorf. Not only German but also international media are intensively collected. To a high degree, these media are grey literature such as exhibition catalogues, leaflets and the like, which get into the library stocks because of the international exchange activities of the cultural institutions.
Searchable holdings (1/2007): approximaltely 275,000 bibliographic units.
| | | Top of page | | IRIS – Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence | |
Participants:
- Berenson Library (Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
- Library of the Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte
- Library of the Uffizi (Soprintendenza BAS di Firenze, Pistoia e Prato)
- Library of the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi
- Library if the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento
- Library of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (conservation and restoration)
- Library of the Università Internazionale dell'Arte - UIA
Main specialist fields:
- Art history (including references on art conservation and restoration) and
- The Renaissance in all its aspects (history, literature, philosophy, political theory, and music), with particular attention to scholarship on the Italian Renaissance.
Geographical scope: Italy, Italian-Dutch relation in Art history
Searchable holdings (8/2007): more than 235,000 titles (monographs, periodicals, manuscripts, incunabula, non-print-media)
| | | Top of page | | IRIS Consortium, Florence, Art auctions | |
Searchable holdings (8/2007):
ca. 19,000 bibliographic records of the IRIS consortium's auction catalogues
| | | Top of page | | Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie (BAA) des Musées d'Art et d'histoire de la Ville, Geneva | |
The catalogue of the Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie des Musées d’art et d’histoire de la Ville de Genève contains all periodicals, all monographs published after 1900, all exhibition catalogues published after 1986. It also comprises ancient and precious monographic collections, archives, articles, sale and auction catalogues, exhibition catalogues published before 1986 (conversion of the remaining in process).
Beside its own collection, the Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie manages all the libraries’ collections of the Musées d’art et d’histoire and its sections, including the libraries of
- the Cabinet des estampes,
- the Cabinet des dessins,
- the Cabinet de numismatique,
- the Centre d'iconographie genevoise,
- the Musée de l'horlogerie et de l'émaillerie,
- the musée Ariana (ceramics and glass),
- the Départements des Beaux-Arts, des arts décoratifs, des armes et d'archéologie,
- the Centrale d'inventaire et documentation scientifique,
- the Accueil des publics (cultural mediation),
- the Laboratoire de recherches et de restauration.
Special subjects collections : The Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie’s collections reflect the Musées encyclopedic collections, which range from prehistory to the present : archeology, architecture, fine arts, graphic arts, applied arts, design, ceramics and glass, metalwork, watchmaking, enamelling, numismatics, ancients weapons and suits of armour, scenography and theater design, photography, cinema and video, garden art, fashion and textile, contemporary art, history and theory of art, museology, cultural mediation, conservation and restoration.
Specialized collections : Arts and artists in Geneva and in Switzerland. Unique sale and auction catalogues’ collection in Switzerland (19th and 20th centuries). Collection of monographs on and of Le Corbusier. Collections of the booklets of the French Salons. Collection of artist’s books and bibliophilie editions.
Searchable holdings on line (5/2008): ca 310'000 monographs (including bound periodicals), 20'000 sale and auction catalogues, 50'000 exhibition catalogues, 5'890 periodical titles (including ca. 2'000 current titles). The Médiathèque (media library) contains multimedia items (325 cd-roms, 230 titles of microforms, videos, databases, electronical periodicals etc), iconographic documents on paper and files on artists.
Opened to the public, the Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie offers a document delivery service, for the local users, and the interlibrary loan at the Swiss and international level.
The catalogue of the Bibliothèque d’art et d’archéologie is part of the union catalogue of the Library Network of Western Switzerland (http://www.rero.ch).
More informations : www.ville-ge.ch/baa
| | | Top of page | | Heidelberg University Library | |
Special subject collections (supported by the DFG):
- Medieval and Modern Art History (up to 1945) and Art Studies
Searchable holdings within the special subject collection in art history (6/2008): ca. 370,000 monographs, ca. 6,300 periodicals, including about 1,300 currently held. (more information)
Heidelberg University Library offers Interlibrary Loan and participates in the Subito Document Delivery Service.
| | | Top of page | | Art Library, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon | |
Current profile of collection development:
- Architecture
- Fine Arts
- Photography
- Design
- History of Art
- Portuguese arts and artists
Historical collections:
- History, literature and archaeology
- Photographic collections (mostly by Portuguese authors/on Portuguese art)
- Architectural drawings
Searchable holdings (6/2006): ca 150,000 titles of monographs, over 2,500 periodicals from which ca 250 titles being currently received, and ca 23,000 exhibition and auction catalogues.
| | | Top of page | | British Architectural Library (RIBA), London | |
Special subject collections:
- Architecture
- History and Theory of Architecture
- Urban design and planning
Searchable holdings (update 07/2006):
55,000 monographs, 10,000 archives, 10,000 drawings, 200 artefacts, 333,000 indexed periodical articles
| | | Top of page | | National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London | |
Subjects covered by the Library include those that are central to the work of the Museum:
- Prints, drawings and paintings
- Furniture and woodwork
- Textiles, fashion and dress
- Ceramics and glass
- Metalwork
- Sculpture
- The art and design of the Middle East, Far East, India and South East Asia
- The history of the art, craft and design of the book
This core material is supplemented by literature from a much broader subject field including, for example, a strong collection of documentation about architecture. Relevant materials are acquired in most Western European, as well as some Asian, languages. The Department is also responsible for the Archive of Art and Design, which holds around 200 archive groups relating to individuals, associations and companies involved in any stage of the art and design process.
Searchable holdings (11/2006): 750,000 bibliographic records, including monographs, rare books, exhibition catalogues, auction house sale catalogues, trade literature, information files, periodicals and manuscripts. The catalogue also contains group-level descriptions for archives, many of which are described in more detail elsewhere. In addition, the database provides brief records for some 20,000 art and design periodical titles held by other libraries throughout the UK and Ireland. These are also searchable via ARLIS.NET.
| | | Top of page | | Getty Research Institute Research Library, Los Angeles | |
The general library collections (secondary sources) include more than 900,000 volumes of books and periodicals, including 140,000 auction catalogs on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology since prehistory and antiquity and extending to contemporary art in Europe, North America, Latin America, and selected regions of Asia.
Special collections (primary sources) contain rare books, prints, maps, photographs, optical devices, manuscripts, and archival collections, including artists’ journals, letters, and sketchbooks, architectural drawings, artistic biographies and treatises, early guidebooks and travel literature, emblem books, festival books and prints, reproductive prints, and archives of art dealers and galleries. These collections support research in the following broad areas:
- Historiography of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
- The Modern Period – from the 19th century to the contemporary period
- Collecting and Display
- Visual Resources for the History of Art and Architecture
- Art in Los Angeles
Searchable holdings (11/2006): Approximately 650,000 bibliographic records may be searched, including scholarly monographs, rare books, auction catalogs, microforms, A/V materials, and about 15,000 serial/periodical titles (3,500 current).
Interlibrary loan: The Research Library is a participant in the SHARES program of RLG-Programs/OCLC.
| | | Top of page | Union Catalogue Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) - Munich (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) -
Rome (Bibliotheca Hertziana (BH) | |
Special subject fields within art libraries programme supported by the DFG:
- Art in northern Italy (KHI)
- 19th, 20th and 21st century Italian art (KHI)
- Art in southern Italy (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
- French art (ZI)
- Art theory and science history (ZI)
- Iconography (ZI)
- Art of eastern and southeastern countries (ZI)
- Literature on the art history published in eastern and southeastern countries
Searchable holdings (7/2008): ca. 1,397,500 titles, of which about 689,000 articles (+ 27.000 offprints) and reviews from periodicals, including online periodicals, and collections, ca. 59,000 auction catalogs, ca. 8,800 periodical records.
The union catalogue gives access to the ZI document delivery service, see http://www.zikg.eu/main/biblio/docdel_en.htm.
| | | Top of page | | Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montréal | |
The Library of the CCA is an international research collection devoted to the literature of architecture in its broadest sense, including its professional history, its formal and theoretical elements and its relationship to the main currents of intellectual history. The collection comprises materials relating to the history of architectural theory, practice, and publishing from the fifteenth century to the present.
Collection strengths: Renaissance treatises, fortification treatises, festival books, architectural toys and games, architectural trade catalogues and materials relating to international expositions.
Special collections include: the Trissino Collection of early books on Italy, the Harris Collection of British Country House Guides, the Edward Craig Theatre Collection and Historic Theatres' Trust Collection, the C. Donald Cook Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, the Hoffman Collection of souvenir buildings.
Searchable holdings (11/2007): Approximately 173,000 bibliographic records may be searched, including scholarly monographs, rare books, exhibition catalogues, microforms, audiovisual materials and electronic resources, ephemera files, three-dimensional objects, and over 5,000 serial titles (ca. 760 current).
| | | Top of page | | The Metropolitan Museum, New York | |
Thomas J. Watson Library and departmental libraries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Special subject collection:
The Thomas J. Watson Library and departmental libraries serve the research needs and educational program of the Museum. The libraries' holdings reflect the Museum's encyclopedic collections, which range from prehistory to the present, with particular emphasis on European and American art, architecture and decorative arts, and substantial holdings in ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Asian, Islamic art, and indigenous art of Oceania, Africa and the Americas.
The Thomas J. Watson Library, the Museum's central research library, contains approximately 600,000 titles, including over 11,000 periodical titles, more than 125,000 auction and sale catalogs, as well as an extensive collection of electronic resources, autograph letters, and ephemera files relating to individual artists and to the history of the Museum. Relevant materials are acquired in all languages.
Searchable holdings: bibliographic records may be searched, including scholarly monographs and exhibition catalogs, rare books, auction/sale catalogs, microforms, periodicals titles and an extensive collection of electronic resources, autograph letters, and ephemera files relating to individual artists and to the history of the Museum.
Interlibrary loan: The Watson Library is a participant in the SHARES program of RLG-Programs/OCLC.
| | | Top of page | | Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, Library | |
Special subject collection (supported by the DFG from 1972 to 2005):
German art from ca. 9th century until today
Searchable holdings (6/2008): ca. 247,136 entries (since acquisition year 3/2000 as well als retrospectively reconverted titles), 3,162 periodicals (1,694 current); 14,538 articles on the art of the German speaking countries (from the bibliography ‘Schrifttum zur deutschen Kunst’).
The library is a reference library and offers copies for interlibrary loan (books only by way of an exception).
| | | Top of page | | National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives | |
The National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives supports research by Gallery staff and Research Fellows, and serves as Canada’s national research collection in the visual arts. Collections are international in scope, encompassing all aspects of Canadian art and related developments with European and North American traditions.
Special subject collections:
- all aspects of Canadian art
- history of post-Medieval western European and American art
- history of photography
- European and North American graphic arts
- art conservation
- silver
- Art Metropole collection
Searchable holdings (01/2008):
230,000 books, exhibition catalogues and bound periodicals, 1,100 current periodical subscriptions, 50,000 auction catalogues, 95,000 microforms, 80,000 documentation files, 360,000 study photographs, 182,000 slides and 650 linear meters of institutional archives and private papers.
Interlibrary loan: / Prêt inter-bibliothèques: / Fernleihe: / Prestito interbibliotecario:
The Library is a participant in the SHARES program of RLG-Programs/OCLC.
| | | Top of page | | Bibliothèque des arts décoratifs, Paris | |
Special subject collections:
- Applied art, design
- Graphic design
- Architecture
- Garden art
- Costume and fashion
- History of art
- Photography
They cover the eras from Antiquity to the present.
Searchable holdings (5/2008):
ca. 167,000 records for books, exhibition and auction catalogues, comprising 1,500 'livrets de Salons', 1,800 catalogues of Great exhibitions, 56,800 auction catalogues; 2,600 periodical records (170 current); ca. 52,600 articles from 1958 to 1994.
The digitised images of the iconographic collection (ca. 12,000 pages) are available on the internet via the recordings of the catalogue. For more detailed information: http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/fr/05bibliothequeartsdeco/03images/page01.html
| | | Top of page | | Union catalogue of the libraries of the French national museums | |
This catalogue includes a part of the bibliographical references of twenty-three libraries of national museums (including libraries of the Musée Picasso, Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet, Musée d’Orsay, Musée du Moyen-Age-thermes et hôtel de Cluny) and the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux.
Special subject collections:
- Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Eastern archaeology
- Western art
- Asiatic art
- Conservation and restoration
Searchable holdings (6/2008) : more than 348,600 records for monographs, museums, exhibition and auction catalogues, serials and CD-Roms.
Conversion of the remaining records in process will allow libraries to include all their records into the union catalogue.
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Main fields:
- 19th to 21st century art and art history (painting, sculpture, graphics, drawing, photography, video, new media)
- Aesthetics
- Museology
- Conservation and restauration
- Art education
Geographical scope: Switzerland, Europe, North America
Searchable holdings (6/2008): 78,000 monographs and electronic resources (46,200) complete entries); 659 periodicals (306 currently subscribed)
The Kunsthaus Library ist not a reference library and participates in interlibrary loan.
(More information)
| | | Top of page | | Swiss Institute for Art Research, Library | |
Main fields:
- Swiss art
- Art history, art theory (painting, sculpture, graphics)
- Conservation, restoration, preservation
Searchable holdings (6/2008):
85’000 bibliographic records (books, exhibition catalogues, non books, journal titles and journal articles, auction catalogues)
Reference library. Interlibrary loans for titles that cannot be located in another library. More information…
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ART-Guide provides access to a selected collection of high quality and scientifically relevant art history resources on the Internet, such as subject gateways, online databases, search engines or mailing lists. The database concentrates on collecting websites with thematic focus on European Art History from Medieval up to Contemporary Art and Aesthetics. The collection is regularly updated by link checkers.
ART-Guide is offered by Heidelberg University Library and Saxon State and University Library Dresden. It is maintained in connection with “arthistoricum,net – The Virtual Library for Art History”, which is a DFG-funded joint project of Zentralinstitut fuer Kunstgeschichte Munich and Heidelberg University Library.
Scope:
- European Art History (from Medieval up to Contemporary Art)
- Aesthetics
Number or records (6/2008) : ca. 3,500 websites
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Online Contents Art / Art Science offers access to tables of contents of art and art related journals. It is a subject oriented selection of bibliographic data from the Swets Database Online Contents. This database is regularly enhanced by table of contents data from additional periodicals out of the special collections of the State and University Library (SLUB) Dresden and the University Library Heidelberg.
Number of records (6/2008): ca. 530,000 articles from ca. 420 journals.
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