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.
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