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Art in the Web: the Advanced Information Workstation as a tool for art research
Authors: Niet Marco de , Wishaupt Maggy
Published: July 2016

The quality of the library of the future will be measured not only in terms of its collections, but also in terms of the diversity and efficiency of its electronic services. Therefore, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at The Hague is building an Advanced Information Workstation for the humanities. With this multimedia workstation, users can easily locate and consult sources on the local network (OPAC, CD-ROMs, databases on several collections) and services and databases on national and international networks. Facilities for downloading and processing information will also be offered. Care has been taken to ensure that the Advanced Information Workstation facilitates access, through full bibliographic descriptions and selected keywords, to sources of art history information on the Internet, as well as to specialised on-line bibliographies such as Art Index.
The virtual museum comes to campus: two perspectives on the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
Authors: Giral Angela , Dixon Jeannette
Published: July 2016

The Getty Art History Information Program has joined with MUSE Educational Media in a project bringing together seven universities and seven art museums for the purpose of making digital images of works of art available for study and teaching via campus networks. Beyond the immediate benefits to its participants, the project is designed to develop methods and guidelines for the academic use of digitized museum-owned materials at colleges and universities. Columbia University and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts are two of the participants in the project, which is remarkable for the level of collaboration which it is achieving between museums and universities.
On the necessity of being a Luddite
Authors: Austin Gabriel
Published: July 2016

The now 50-year-old scrap heap of discarded, expensive computer equipment is a monument to bad design and bad understanding of these excellent new tools. The current inadequacies are glossed over with colours and pictures. Buzzwords are used to distract from the battle over control being waged with dubious interpretations of patent and copyright laws. Women have a major role in resisting these efforts.
Why conserve?
Authors: Esteve-Coll Elizabeth
Published: July 2016

There is a fundamental dichotomy between conservation and access. The ambiguity which clouds discussion on the issue starts with the selection process. Who selects what for whom. Librarians are trained to be objective in the selection process using tried and tested tools. Much material from the mid-19th century is in an unusable state and until really cheap mass deacidification or paper strengthening programmes are started, conservation must rely on microform to supply the user with required material. Digitisation is no substitute for the microform. Increasing use of personal computers will familiarise our readers with material outside their specific sphere of interest and will stimulate demand for access to original material. Conservation of some art forms distorts the artist’s intention and should be avoided. Research has demonstrated that the environmental conditions for storage are more flexible than hitherto believed. This will have a bearing on international loan exhibitions. Librarians and conservators should make common cause to serve the user and allow maximum appropriate access.
Architecture in Canada: French-language publishing, 1981-1995
Authors: Guttman Renata
Published: July 2016

Interest in Canada’s built heritage flourished in the period following 1967, inspired by the centennial of Confederation and institutional support of heritage research. An already vibrant and officially sanctioned concern for cultural history in Canada’s mainly Francophone province Quebec and the Official Languages Act of 1969 resulted in a rich series of French-language publications devoted to Canadian architecture. The architecture of provinces, cities and towns, of individual styles, buildings and architects, architectural competitions and archaeology have all been explored in the literature. The contribution of scholars, cultural, academic, and governmental institutions, and publishers has created a strong body of work related to architecture in Canada.
Subsidising end-user access to research databases: From Card File to the World Wide Web
Authors: Busch Joseph A. , Giral Angela
Published: July 2016

Through the last decade the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP), recently renamed the Getty Information Institute, has been subsidising end-user online access to scholarly research databases. A study of subsidised access to Dialog databases provided to Getty Centre resident scholars has been reported by Marcia Bates, who found that searching patterns in humanities research differ substantially from those previously investigated in science and the social sciences. The cost of collecting research information and of making it available greatly exceeds revenues generated from its use; inability to measure use is an obstacle to justifying maintenance of subsidies at present levels. Key factors to be considered in assessing the relative value of different models of information provision include information quality, number of accesses, royalties received, user charges, producer subsidy, and user input. Analysis suggests that the non-profit method provides the best mode of access and supports the decision of AHIP to work in partnership with the Research Libraries Group.
Le Classement methodique de la Collection de Gravures et de Photographies de la Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs
Authors: Bouchon Chantal
Published: July 2016

Jules Maciet’s encyclopaedic collection of iconography in the Bibliothèque des Arts décoratifs, one of Paris’s most accessible specialist art libraries, offers the researcher an eclectic range of visual material from rare prints to ephemera from current elections. Its founder’s ambition that it should be exhaustive has been sustained to this day by a succession of librarians who have chosen to adhere to the original arrangement of material, which is based on a system familiar to users of print departments such as that in the Bibliothèque nationale. An index to engravers, publishers, and print-sellers, and thorough documentation of sources, make this 19th century vision a reference tool which continues to serve artists and other users today.
Redressing past cultural biases and imbalances in South Africa: a contribution by the Library of the South African National Gallery
Authors: Andersen Josephine
Published: July 2016

Legislation in South Africa now provides for the inclusion of arts and culture and adult literacy in the education system and art libraries can help promote this Government initiative by distributing their resources widely. The Library of the South African National Gallery is playing an unusual and non-traditional role in helping redress past inequities. It uses visual art, with its concern with expression and communication, to encourage adult learning and stimulate articulacy by encouraging learners to ‘read’ texts from the mass media and visual artworks in order to develop skills in all kinds of literacy. SANG’s project shows how language and artworks can be linked together productively, contributing to the basic education and training of adults.
The Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources
Authors: DeLuca Carolyn
Published: July 2016

The Hazen Center is a state-of-the-art electronic resource center situated within the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It provides access to art historical research and other scholarly resources available via electronic media such as CD-ROMs and the Internet, and also serves as a teaching center for their use. The Center is used by the Museum’s staff, the academic community, and by visiting art researchers.
Mexican Art and Architecture Databases: Needs, Achievements, Problems
Authors: Barberena Elsa
Published: July 2016

Mexico has played an important role in art and architecture since the prehispanic period, and has contributed not only to the spread of Mexican culture but also to the enrichment of the art world in general. But Mexican art and architecture have been poorly covered by indexes and abstracts, possibly because many of the relevant periodicals have been short-lived, or because of the use of the Spanish language, or due to intermittent financial resources. Nevertheless creators of bibliographical tools such as databases in Mexico are convinced of their country’s cultural richness, and are committed to spreading information in this subject area, whatever difficulties may be encountered.
Connecting art images and bibliographic data: creating a tool for distance education through collaboration
Authors: Durbin Roger
Published: July 2016

About the only way a small non-profit art museum and its library can hope to create and disseminate information about both its art and bibliographic collections is through collaboration and co-operation. The Akron Art Museum, the University of Akron Libraries, and OhioLink (the state-wide library and multimedia consortium) joined forces to compile the necessary records, images and software to connect information in the museum library’s catalogue to image files, and other biographic and bibliographic databases. Selected portions of the newly created resources are refashioned and merged with web-based lesson plans for use within the museum itself, out in the greater metropolitan area, and wherever Internet-based web resources can reach.
The show goes on! Preserving performing arts ephemera, or the power of the program
Authors: Stone Richard
Published: July 2016

Collecting and preserving heritage materials across the broad spectrum of the performing arts on a national scale is a daunting task. Much of the material is as ephemeral and as transitory as the theatrical experience itself. In Australia there is a realistic acceptance of the need for a distributed national collection. An active network of individuals and institutions are working to ensure the preservation of the country’s performing arts heritage and to enhance access to those collections, increasingly by electronic means.
The Irishness of Irish architectural information provision: the PADDI database
Authors: Latimer Karen
Published: July 2016

Interest in, and information on, Irish architecture has increased greatly in recent years. Information providers are faced with the problem of tracking down relevant material, much of it grey literature, and then making it widely available. The problem is exacerbated since such material rarely appears in national and international bibliographies and databases. The solution described here has been to establish a joint database (PADDI: Planning Architecture Design Database Ireland), produced collaboratively by Queen’s University Belfast and University College Dublin.
Art libraries of Lithuania
Authors: Lukošiûnienë Laimë Gabrielë
Published: July 2016

Of the numerous libraries dealing with art documentation in Lithuania, it is the National Library which holds the most significant collection. The exhibition programme of its Arts Department is particularly noteworthy: displays of items from the collection travel all over the country and beyond its borders to foreign lands, including the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Ireland and Finland. The enthusiasm generated has encouraged similar activities in other libraries, as is described in the directory of Lithuanian art libraries which concludes this article.
Architecture for all: the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Authors: Haworth-Booth Mark , Snodin Michael
Published: July 2016

A project to enhance access to architectural drawings and manuscripts has recently begun at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Two major collections of designs - those in the V&A’s Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection and those in the Special Collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) - will be housed together at the Museum from 2003. In this article two of the V&A’s curators outline the planning for the move, which involves modifying existing space to provide new accommodation for staff, storage and consultation by the public, and describe the broader partnership between the two institutions, which promises much for the study and appreciation of architecture.
Community of interest: ARCLIB, the architecture school librarians’ group1
Authors: Tranmer Catherine
Published: July 2016

Originally set up in 1988, ARCLIB has become a lively pressure group involving not only architecture school librarians in the United Kingdom but also those in other European countries and the USA. National conferences have provided an annual focus and these are listed in the appendix, but there have also been active international contacts over the years, the current hosting of the ARCLIB discussion list in Venice being one example. ARCLIB also publishes its own Bulletin, which reports on the Group’s activities and keeps members in contact with one another.
Electronic resources for the arts: supporting distance learners at the Open University
Authors: Love-Rodgers Christine
Published: July 2016

How can arts librarians support learners at a distance in using electronic library services? At the Open University (OU), electronic resources, web design, training and personal contact all play a part in supporting students over a wide geographical area. This article looks at the past, present and future of electronic library services to support distance learners, focusing on the dynamic role of the arts subject librarian.
Bookhad – an emerging RSLP project
Authors: Mahurter Sarah
Published: July 2016

Co-operation, collaboration and interoperability meet in BOOKHAD to deliver a research resource which offers a new arrangement of key material through the use of modern technology. The essence of BOOKHAD is sharing a range of material to support scholars of book history and book design, in a focused, illustrated and subject-orientated way. The vision of the project is to provide richer access to selected resources for a community of book historians and designers than was available to them before this nationally-funded project was undertaken.
Eye (Level) Chart: twenty years of programming at Eye Level Gallery
Authors: Dykhuis Peter
Published: July 2016

An exhibition entitled Eye (Level) Chart reviewed the twenty year history of Eye Level Gallery, an artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The temporal history of the Gallery was presented as a chronological gallery display of exhibition announcements, posters and graphic ephemera. More than a mere summary of exhibitions, significant social and cultural information was revealed through the charting of promotional materials that were astutely archived over a twenty-year period.
Ostrich ballets and fish floats: the ephemeral art of festivals
Authors: Reed Marcia
Published: July 2016

During the Renaissance and Baroque periods temporary festival monuments, architectural works, fireworks, and table pieces were designed for the time of celebrations and were destroyed or torn down at the ceremony’s end. Memories of these works live on in the books and prints published as historic accounts, souvenirs, and reports for those at a distance who were unable to attend. Now held in library and archival collections, these works on paper are indispensable sources for researchers who seek to describe and to interpret the transitory and disposable, yet extraordinary, art of festivals.
Viewpoint
Authors: Bury Stephen
Published: July 2016

‘A national art library’: if every one of these four words raises questions and demands qualification, together they suggest even more.

Art is so elusive and resistant to institutionalisation that no single library - ‘a’ national art library - could possibly have the omniscience and omnipresence (never mind the money) to collect everything: to take a UK example, how many libraries managed to collect the Freeze (1988) exhibition catalogue at the time? And who collected the ‘programme note’ from that one-off performance in a half-derelict warehouse in Penge? Co-operation and collaboration in collection development are needed to maximise the research resources available in any particular nation, to ensure the retention of last or archival copies - and any national art library must surely have a role in this. However, this just sets up a chain of secondary problems - with access and funding at the top of the list. Individual institutions ultimately have their own agendas and priorities: and this even applies to national institutions, where existing collection strengths may skew collecting priorities. Perhaps we have to accept an incomplete but vibrant mosaic: the librarian’s desire for comprehensiveness and universal bibliographic control cannot be achieved in the real world.
The National Art Library repositioned
Authors: Lambert Susan
Published: July 2016

Archives, libraries and museums have for some time been trying out the advantages, for themselves and for each other, of working together and sharing long-term aims. These independent sorties were given a coercive impetus in April 2000 when the Government-funded Library & Information Commission and the Museums & Galleries Commission were replaced by the single-word Resource, to bring together ‘strategic advocacy, leadership and advice to enable museums, archives and libraries to touch people’s lives and inspire their imagination, learning and creativity’. At the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Art Library, which already included the Museum’s Archives, has recently merged with Prints, Drawings and Paintings to form the Word & Image Department. The integration of the National Art Library with a department that has traditionally put greater emphasis on its curatorial role has suggested new paths of development for us all and, in particular, an enhanced contribution for the new Department across the full range of material culture as represented in the V&A’s collections. Thus the merger has acted as a catalyst to put into practice aspects of the Government’s agenda within a single institution. This article outlines some of the developments proposed for the Word & Image Department, with particular emphasis on implications for the National Art Library, its staff, collections and users.
The historical photograph: record, information source, object, resource
Authors: Baxter Guy
Published: July 2016

This article looks at the contributions that historical photograph collections can make to people’s lives, by examining the ideas that museums, archives and libraries explore and apply in the management of such collections. For instance, the theme of the photograph as an historical record of events will be used to examine the archivist’s approach; the photograph as a source of information for learning or enjoyment will introduce theories developed by the library community; and the value of the photograph as a physical object will form the basis for looking at how museums approach our vast and challenging photographic heritage.
The National Trust and its libraries
Authors: Purcell Mark
Published: July 2016

The National Trust’s many historic buildings range from country houses to vernacular architecture, industrial archaeology and literary shrines. More than 150 of these properties contain books, for the most part the historic collections of their original owners. Though, in common with other heritage bodies, the Trust has been rather slow to realise the importance of its books, these libraries together represent something equivalent to the rare books collection of a national library. They are an incomparable though extremely fragile resource for the history of private book ownership, besides containing many rare books, and others of great beauty and interest.
The art of partnership: a Scottish case study
Authors: Royan Bruce
Published: July 2016

The Scottish Cultural Resources Network is a nationwide collaboration of institutions from many curatorial domains, which has built a massive and sustainable multimedia digital library including tens of thousands of resources for the study and appreciation of art. This paper traces the history and governance of SCRAN, with examples of how it manages the creation of digital content. It goes on to describe issues of intellectual property rights and organisational sustainability and discusses what future such a service may have. Finally, it introduces a number of SCRAN-based digital libraries, including Resources for Learning in Scotland, the AMICO Library™, and the British History Library, as well as portal services such as Netwide Search.
The drawn evidence: Scotland’s architectural development online
Authors: Whatley Patricia
Published: July 2016

The Drawn evidence project, 1999-2001, selected a sample of Scottish architectural drawings and contextual associated items from collections situated throughout Scotland to illustrate the country’s architectural development. High quality digitised images were produced and placed on a searchable web site. Funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme, the project has provided a rich research resource for academics.
Typologising the artist’s book
Authors: Chappell Duncan
Published: July 2016

Over the past thirty years, the artist’s book has inspired comment from critics of disparate disciplines from writers on art, bibliography and librarianship, all keen to bring the artist’s book under the writer’s explanatory gaze and assimilate it into critical discourse. As a cross-disciplinary field of activity, it is thus open to constant reconfiguration from the respective voices of the practitioner, the critic, the librarian and the bibliographer. The definitions and categorisations offered by these writers often belie their respective dispositions, their training and the expectations of the audiences for whom they write.
The National Art and Design Library in Denmark
Authors: Gelfer-Jørgensen Mirjam , Horsfeld Hanne
Published: July 2016

In 1997, the Danish Folketing made a grant of 200 million Danish kroner, the DEF grant, to upgrade IT facilities in research libraries throughout the country and help create Denmark’s Electronic Research Library. Most of the money was assigned to the major research libraries, but funds were also made available to some medium-sized libraries, among which was the National Art and Design Library in the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen.
Small, but perfectly formed … Art and Design Books in Brighton
Authors: Nixon Mary
Published: July 2016

Illuminated manuscripts, beer bottle labels, photographs of street furniture, pieces of Regency wallpaper and early films of the Royal Sussex Regiment all appear on the Art and Design Books in Brighton web site. They are just some of the items held in library and archival collections in Brighton & Hove that are relevant to the study of art and design history. This paper describes the smallest and newest of the collaborative collection management projects of the UK’s Research Support Libraries Programme.
Images of Britain: Mass-Observation 1937-2003
Authors: Sheridan Dorothy
Published: July 2016

The papers generated by the research organisation ‘Mass-Observation’ provide a unique and insightful account of everyday life in the UK, documenting the years from 1937 until the mid-1950s. Using a variety of research methods (including in the early years photography and painting), Mass-Observation set about recording the lives of people throughout the country. In 1981 a new version of Mass-Observation was launched, based in the original Archive at the University of Sussex. Hundreds of volunteers record their own lives mostly in writing but also sometimes in images, in response to a variety of themes sent to them by the Archive. Research access is possible to both early and recent material.
Design and implementation of an online teaching and learning resource for textile design, arts and crafts
Authors: Goetz Susanne , Lambert Jo , Studd Rachel
Published: July 2016

A research team within the Textiles Department at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has since 2001 been involved in designing and realising an internet-based resource for textile students and staff at higher education institutions in the UK. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). Members of the team here provide an overview of the main issues involved in planning and implementing a digitisation project, discussing technical and design details and describing the construction of textile terminology relevant to design students.
The Archives of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Authors: Pomeroy Mark
Published: July 2016

The Academy is one of Britain’s foremost cultural institutions. It is a unique survival of the age of enlightenment, continuing to fulfil the purposes for which it was founded. The Academy is run by artists for the benefit of artists, while providing an elegant venue for ‘the promotion of the arts of design’. The Library of the Royal Academy of Arts is well known, as it is the oldest fine art library in the United Kingdom. The Archives has always lain in comparative shadow, even though it is close to the heart of the institution. This article attempts to place the Archives in context, to describe how the institution has regarded it over time and how it is now being revealed to a wide public.
The art of compilation: the birth of systematic bibliography in art history
Authors: Hurley Cecilia
Published: July 2016

Few of us could imagine undertaking any form of research without using one of the many bibliographies, library catalogues or databases which are now available. It is hard to imagine a time without them, and yet for art historians the first large-scale bibliographies in art history only appeared fewer than 150 years ago. This paper examines examples of two such works and contrasts differing visions of an art history bibliography.
Towards a network for visual arts libraries in Cuba
Authors: Isax Verónica Lavín , Martínez Gretel Chinea
Published: July 2016

The creation of co-operative networks for sharing information has been one of the most significant advances of recent decades in Cuba; they have been set up in various areas of knowledge in order to solve the problems caused by the increasing accumulation of data, images, ideas, information and objects. The difficulties faced daily by libraries and their users in accessing this information have led to groups of libraries working together and sharing information, goals and users. But visual arts librarians have not yet formalised a network of this sort, although preliminary analysis has shown the benefits of such co-operation.
Discovery of the hidden manuscripts
Authors: Nikolova-Houston Tatiana
Published: July 2016

Slavic manuscripts present unique problems to the librarian, curator and scholar. Slavic works are marginalized in Western library institutions and educational curricula due to misconceptions about their intellectual value, the difficulties of studying them in Soviet and then post-Soviet Eastern Europe, and their lack of documentation, preservation and conservation. Cross-disciplinary interest, however, has expanded research beyond geographical and temporal boundaries to incorporate the technologies and viewpoints of literary criticism, historiography and even information architecture and hypertext theory. This article describes the author’s discovery of Slavic medieval manuscripts and her efforts to preserve, catalog, digitize, study and popularize them in a West that views the Middle Ages through the clouded lens of contemporary popular culture.
The people versus technology
Authors: Pringle Mike
Published: July 2016

How can the many and various members of the arts education community get the digital images they need, in a world where intellectual property rights issues, lack of co-ordination, poor quality, erratic standards and insubstantial support are the norm? Perhaps we should think about whether we focus too much on the technology in Information Communication Technology. Are we guilty of flooding the internet with innovative new products instead of facing up to the fact that most of the issues in finding digital images are to do with people processes: informing and communicating?
The Carpet Archives Centre, Kidderminster
Authors: Reed Peter
Published: July 2016

The Carpet Archives Centre was established in Kidderminster in late 2001 by The Carpet Museum Trust, in response to offers of archive collections by local companies in the town as the carpet industry in the United Kingdom contracted. These collections are about carpets but not just about carpets for they illustrate design, technology, social history and the close links between the industry and the town. A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004 enabled the Trust to advance public access to these collections.
Art and architecture students in new libraries: the UEL experience
Authors: Preece Judith , McDonald Andrew
Published: July 2016

The Docklands campus of the University of East London (UEL) is located in one of the fastest-growing regeneration areas in the UK. It is also one of the most dramatic and visually stunning new libraries in the sector. Good communication with everyone involved in the planning and design process was crucial to the success of the building. The design, the engineering, the widely varying subject areas supported, the dynamics of the library staff and the quality of the external bodies involved, all contribute to the whole. For art and architecture students the large clean space has meant that they are once again able to use the library in a creative way.
The Médiathèque at the musée du quai Branly in Paris: virtual, but more than that
Authors: Grandet Odile
Published: July 2016

In June 2006, just a year ago, in Paris – between the Seine and the Eiffel Tower – a new museum opened. The musée du quai Branly is dedicated to non-European arts and civilisations. At the heart of this museum is a médiathèque.
The Biblioteca Berenson at Villa I Tatti
Authors: Rocke Michael
Published: July 2016

Although it began as the personal library of one of the most influential art historians and connoisseurs of the last century, the Biblioteca Berenson now has a broad interdisciplinary scope that goes far beyond art and art history. As the library of Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies since the 1960s, it has become a major resource for research into all aspects of the society, culture and thought of Italy between about 1200 and 1650. Nonetheless the Berenson Library offers rich and often unique resources for art historical research, both on the Renaissance and on the 20th century.
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine: a library dedicated to contemporary architecture in the heart of Paris
Authors: Perreaudin Philippe
Published: July 2016

Located in the heart of the French capital, between the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine opened its doors in September 2007. This new cultural institution offers its varied visitors, from specialists to the simply curious, a vast reference library specialising in modern and contemporary architecture. Unique in Europe because of the nature of its holdings and its accessibility, this new library is also an architectural adventure, mixing contemporary volumes and reproductions of Romanesque paintings.
The Factory Project: digitisation at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Authors: Dodds Douglas , Ravilious Ella
Published: July 2016

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Word and Image Department holds an estimated 750,000 prints, drawings, paintings and photographs. Recent acquisitions have been catalogued using the Museum’s Collections Information System, but the vast majority of earlier acquisitions are still only described in a wide range of card indexes and printed catalogues. The indexes have been scanned, but the Museum now needs to complete the transfer of the catalogue records to its online system. The ‘Factory’ digitisation project was established in November 2007, with the intention of digitising the Department’s entire holdings and making them available online. Some 15,000 objects have been photographed in the first year, and cataloguing is also under way. The digital images and catalogue descriptions will be made available online via the Museum’s website as the project proceeds.
Where Google Scholar stands on art: an evaluation of content coverage in online databases
Authors: Rozear Hannah Noll
Published: July 2016

This study evaluates the content coverage of Google Scholar, as it compares to three bibliographic databases – Arts & humanities citation index, Bibliography of the history of art and Art full text/Art index retrospective – on the subject of art history. The comparison reveals that it indexes roughly one-third of the 470 tested articles, dwarfed by the Arts & humanities citation index’s 73% coverage. Additionally, 64% of the 157 articles retrieved in Google Scholar are ‘citation-only’ records that contain incomplete bibliographic data and lack direct links to the abstracts or full text of the articles.
Cataloguing artists’ videos
Authors: Cooke Jacqueline
Published: July 2016

Artists’ videos present some challenges to cataloguers. How to select the source of information, how to describe them in ways which will help library users to find them, and particularly how to facilitate subject access are matters addressed in this article. With reference to the artist’s video collections at Goldsmiths, the author considers interpretations of the rules for cataloguing art documentation and moving image material and discusses how they can be applied to video works and art documentation from contemporary art practices.
Larger museum libraries in the Netherlands
Authors: van Boxtel Erik
Published: July 2016

Particular attention has been paid to the large museum library in the Netherlands in recent years. Two new large museum libraries came into existence not long ago, in Eindhoven and Rotterdam. And at the beginning of 2010 another one will open its doors in Amsterdam, that of the Stedelijk Museum. The importance of good art historical libraries for the dissemination of information and research is increasingly being recognized by their parent institutions, and is as a result being communicated to a broader audience. That there are sometimes great differences in the way each operates within its institution and towards its users will be made clear in this article.
The library as a breeding place for inspiration: art academy libraries in the Netherlands
Authors: Dirker Mariëtta
Published: July 2016

Art academy libraries belong to institutions that deal primarily with the development of artists. As a result the library usually functions in an environment where a great deal of experiment, research and study is going on, and is there as a resource for the students as they produce their visual and written work. When I was asked to write an article about them, I decided to make visits to several similar libraries in the Netherlands so that I could compare their characteristics, use and users.
Redefining the library: current trends in library design
Authors: Latimer Karen
Published: July 2016

The planning and design of library spaces is changing radically in the light of increased expectations, developments in teaching and learning, and the growth of electronic resources. The need for physical space in the age of the virtual library has been questioned, but in recent years there has been a plethora of bigger and better library buildings. This paper considers the drivers for change in library building design, the importance of good communication between librarians and architects, and the underpinning criteria for good design both of the building as a whole and of the fixtures and fittings within. Modern libraries must respond to social, pedagogical and technological changes, and librarians, in collaboration with architects and institutional administrators, must design inspirational and practical buildings fit for 21st-century use.
The English-speaking researcher in Italy
Authors: Miller Steven
Published: July 2016

Italy is celebrated for its outstanding patrimony in art and architecture. Less known are its equally rich libraries and archives. English researchers are sometimes daunted by the perceived barriers of language, cataloguing and access when they contemplate exploring these collections, scattered throughout the country in state, academic and ecclesiastical institutions. Steven Miller, acting Head Librarian of Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales, shares his experience of using a wide range of Italian libraries and archives over the last ten years.
Sharing higher education learning and teaching resources in art, design and media
Authors: Mallinder Stephen , Flint Debbie
Published: July 2016

Wider social, cultural and technological changes are precipitating transformations in higher education. There is increasing need for universities and specialist colleges to operate effectively in a global online environment. The development of accessible and re-usable online teaching and learning materials has provided challenges to staff and institutions. This article explores aspects of the UK Open Educational Resources Programme and, in particular, the Art Design and Media Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project which has sought to examine the processes, challenges and opportunities open educational resources (OERs) present to these ‘creative’ disciplines. Part of the project has explored art, design and media tutors’ perceptions of the shift to ‘teaching in public’ and we share some preliminary findings.
Words . . . will not stay in place: cataloging and sharing image collections
Authors: Shulman James
Published: July 2016

Words have been affixed to still images for hundreds of years to describe who created a work or what it portrays. This paper examines the ways this process might evolve in an era where dissemination of knowledge is far less linear than it was in an age of print, and reviews two projects that ARTstor is pursuing with the art historical community. One captures users’ notes about 190,000 photographs of old master drawings that are in need of updated descriptive cataloging. The other will create a Built Works Registry through the use of a credentialed Wikipedia-like strategy.
The ‘crisis’ of art bibliography
Authors: Simane Jan
Published: July 2016

The temporary cessation to publication of the leading and most comprehensive bibliography in the arts, the International bibliography of art (formerly Bibliography of the history of art) in 2009, led to a lively debate on the future of art bibliography. Many scholars, librarians and information specialists were in favour of saving the established model and of ensuring its continuing existence. At the same time there arose the controversial and much-debated question of whether the traditional model of the IBA – grounded in an intellectual analysis of documents (articles from journals, monographs, exhibition catalogues, etc.) and their description with standardised metadata and abstracts – still corresponds to the needs of modern research on the one hand and to the new potentialities and realities of displaying, connecting, exchanging and gaining information in digital data networks on the other. Library catalogues play a decisive role in this consideration: unlike bibliographies, which follow traditional and more or less unvaried standards, they have mutated to a great degree from inflexible registers to dynamic networks. They enrich and connect the bibliographic information with additional data, they invite the user to tag and to review the corresponding literature and they enable complex forms of unforeseeable discovery. Thus the ‘crisis’ into which art bibliography was plunged when the old IBA ceased publication, at the same time opened up the opportunity to discuss alternative, future-oriented solutions for the appropriate format of bibliographic information supply in the arts today.
Towards a network analysis of art writers in Edwardian London: the Art Journal, Connoisseur and Burlington Magazine in 1903
Authors: Pezzini Barbara
Published: July 2016

Network has become a much used term in modernist studies, but what is a network and what does it tell us about a periodical? A network is a series of connections, the study of which reveals not only the modes of production, readership and social and political niches of journals, but also the constituent elements of their aesthetic discourse. This article explores the biographical, commercial and institutional connections of three periodicals at the beginning of the 20th century – the Art Journal, Connoisseur and Burlington Magazine – within the year 1903. Their different approaches to art historical analysis are also examined, not as abstract philosophies unbounded by constraints of time or context, but interpreted as texts originating from a specific and shifting history, in which the relationship with the art market emerges as crucial.
Building the new Library of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Authors: Nijhoff Michiel
Published: July 2016

From 1993 onwards a number of plans have been made to create an extension of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. City politics, changing views on what kind of a museum the Stedelijk wants to be, and budgetary problems were the reasons two consecutive plans, one by Robert Venturi, the other by Alvaro Siza, were not realised. Finally the Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel designed a new wing, doubling the space of the Museum. In this building, known as ‘The Bathtub’, the library has been given a prominent place.
The Edo-Tokyo Museum Library
Authors: Tateishi Momoko
Published: July 2016

The Edo-Tokyo Museum Library is the specialist library of a museum that opened in 1993, and that has a particular focus on the history and culture of Tokyo (known in pre-modern times as Edo). It houses a collection of books, documents, secondary materials and microfilms covering history, performing arts, customs and traditions, architecture, literature and much else. The Library’s holdings are a part of the Museum’s collections; we record them and store them, making them available for public consultation on the understanding that they are objects to be treated with care, preserved for future generations, and may also be used in the museum exhibitions. At the same time, we also make a point of collecting art exhibition catalogues, and we have characteristics of an art library. On the eve of our 20th anniversary our operations are due for a review, but here I will concentrate on giving a brief summary of our activities.
Cultural Heritage Online: discovering the possibilities of a digital archive
Authors: Marukawa Yūzõ
Published: July 2016

This article offers a brief summary of Cultural Heritage Online, a web portal that contains information and images illustrating Japan’s cultural heritage. What are some of the site’s recently-added features, which are aimed at increasing opportunities to find out about 96,000 objects and places of historical and cultural interest? The map navigation feature, for example, which allows users to search for works of art, sites of interest, and museums, in a particular location; and the Associative Search function, which has a Limit Search option that gives them the opportunity to narrow down results? What will be the effect of the new link that allows data to be added directly by participating museums and art galleries? The author takes readers through a sample search sequence and explains some of the possible options. He also considers ways in which this web portal might develop in the future: a database of artists will be shared online in due course, and an English version of the website is in preparation.
The saveMLAK project: the Great East Japan Earthquake and new developments in museum-library-archive collaboration
Authors: Yamamura Maki
Published: July 2016

The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 was a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions even for a country that is one of the most earthquake-prone in the world. The saveMLAK project, which came into being in response to this earthquake and its related disasters, comprises an online network of museums, libraries and archives, as well as kōminkan, or community centres (hence the acronym MLAK), and is the first organisation of its kind in Japan. What was the genesis of saveMLAK, and what kind of activities does it engage in? Who are saveMLAK’s participants? What needs to be done to help the saveMLAK network develop further and become even more effective in coping with future natural disasters?
ENLIST! EU projects in libraries after the example of Artists’ Books on Tour and Partage Plus at the MAK in Vienna
Authors: Pokomy-Nagel Kathrin
Published: July 2016

For institutions operating in the field of arts and culture, taking part in subsidised programs is a favourable – not to say often the only – way to conduct large-scale projects. The many options of participating in various EU-funded grant programs provide cultural facilities with the opportunity not only to internally optimise their holdings but also to closely co-operate with partner institutions from the cultural, as well as from other industries, thus exchanging knowledge and experience, professionally networking on a cross-border level, and laying the corner stone for potential future projects. As a positive side effect, the interconnectedness and often public-oriented aims almost always imply potentially high publicity effects for all participants. Notwithstanding the undisputed benefits accompanied by EU-projects, it must be kept in mind that they also involve a great deal of administrative effort that must not be underestimated.
The Chinese Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
Authors: Shu Yue , Yoshimura Reiko
Published: July 2016

The library of the Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is considered one of the finest East Asian art research collections in the United States. The development and progress of the library’s Chinese Collection has mirrored the historical changes in the field of Chinese art studies in the last one hundred years. Today, the library collection has more than 90,000 volumes, including 17,437 Chinese language monographs and 836 serials in over 25,000 volumes. In a landscape of changing scholarship, technology and user demands, the library is balancing the use of printed materials and digital resources and collaborating with other libraries to continue to meet the needs of curators, researchers and visitors.
Casa Daros Library: a nascent Latin American contemporary art library in Brazil
Authors: Piccinini Ranieli
Published: July 2016

In 2006, Daros Latinamerica – one of the most comprehensive collections dedicated to Latin American contemporary art in the world – acquired a building, designed by the architect Francisco Joaquim Bethencourt da Silva (1831-1912) and listed as official historical heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro. After seven years of refurbishment, Casa Daros and its library opened its doors on 23 March 2013. The library has maintained and improved its collection about contemporary Latin American art – considered unique in the region – ever since, with a view to motivating and increasing the amount of research on the subject in Brazil. At the same time, the library team plays an important role in the preparation of the programming planned in the cultural centre – considered a platform for art, education, and communication – and also during the events at Casa Daros, providing support for the researchers’ needs.
Displaced, a book art competition
Authors: Hubschmann Katharina
Published: July 2016

In 2013 the Wiener Library, the oldest Holocaust library in the world, put out a call for submissions for a book art competition under the theme Displaced. An exhibition of short-listed works opened in March 2014. The article explains the thinking behind the competition and highlights some of the entries received from artists worldwide.