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XX. The Ceremonial of making the King's Bed. Communicated by Mr. Brooke, of the Herald's College, F.S.A.
Authors: Brooke
Published: July 2016

I have sent you the old ceremony of making the king's bed in the time of Henry the 8th; with a view, as it has something singular in it, of affording some little entertainment to you, and the Society, if you shall think proper to communicate it to them.
XXVI. Mr. Pegge's Remarks on the Bones of Fowls found in Christchurch-Twynham, Hampshire. In a Letter to the Secretary
Authors: Pegge
Published: July 2016

If singularity be any motive for surprize and admiration, the late discovery at Christ Church, in Hampshire, may justly excite the wonder of the curious and inquisitive. At the ancient monastery, now the seat of my most respected friend Gustavus Brander, esq. the prior, who was a very considerable ecclesiastic [a], though not mitred, had his proper refractory, with a chapel adjoining.
I. A Description of what is called a Roman Camp in Westphalia, by the Abbé Mann, in a Letter addressed to the President
Authors: Mann
Published: July 2016

The signal favour I received, in January 1793, from the learned Society of Antiquaries (over which your Lordship so worthily presides), of being admitted an honorary member of that illustrious body, has constantly made me wish to meet with an occasion that might enable me to express my gratitude by some communication worthy of its notice.
VIII. Copy of an Original Manuscript entitled “Instructionns for every Centioner to observe duringe the continuance of the Frenche Fleet uppon this Cost untill knowlege shal be had of ther dispercement, given by Sir George Carye, Captein, this fyrst of September, 1586.” Communicated by Sir William Musgrave, Bart. F.R.S. and F.A.S.
Authors: Musgrave William
Published: July 2016

The subsequent extract from Strype's Annals, A. D. 1586, contains the history of this event.

“The queen this year had enemies on all hands of her, and continual apprehensions of invasion, especially from Spain, now that the queen had taken the people of the Low Countries under her protection. And to secure herself by sea sir Francis Drake was sent out with forty gallies, for defence and offence, and did notable execution, which our historians mention: and of this sir George Carew, governor of the Isle of Wight, gave intelligence from thence unto the earl of Sussex, lord lieutenant of the county of Southampton, upon occasion of the strong report that came to court, that they were all up in that Isle of Wight, which, as things then stood abroad, inclined men to believe.
IX. Account of the Fall of some of the Stones of Stonehenge, in a Letter from William George Maton, M.B. F.A.S. to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.
Authors: Maton William George
Published: July 2016

Having lately had more leisure to make remarks on the alteration produced in the aspect of Stonehenge, by the fall of some of the stones in January last, than when I first visited the spot for this purpose, I am anxious to lay before the Antiquarian Society a more full and correct account of it than that which you did me the honour to transmit to them before.
XI. Additional Remarks on the Helmdon Mantle-Tree Inscription, and on the Knowledge and Use of Arabic Numerals in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries. By the Rev. Sam. Denne, F.A.S.
Authors: Denne Sam.
Published: July 2016

It was observed by the late Dr. Johnson, that “of an art universally practised the first teacher is forgotten;” and strictly applicable to this general position is the declaration of Mr. North, that, “though next to the art of printing there is no invention of more extensive use than that of the numeral figures or cyphers, yet, when, where, and by whom they were invented, are questions never perhaps to be clearly answered. Despairing, therefore, of success in such an investigation, the inquiries I proposed were limited to periods when the vulgar figures of arithmetick were certainly known in England, and my humble attempt was, and is, to mark the very slow progress made for centuries in the use of these rudiments of a science, an ignorance in which is now deemed disreputable in those who have acquired other branches of a liberal education.
XX. Observations on Stone Pillars, Crosses, and Crucifixes, by Thomas Astle, Esq.. F.R.S. and F.A.S. In a Letter to the President
Authors: Astle Thomas
Published: July 2016

Permit me to lay before you the following observations on erect stone pillars, crosses, and crucifixes. The drawings herewith transmitted to your lordship were selected by me from two volumes of drawings of Antiquities collected by John Anstis the Elder, Esq. Garter King at Arms
XXIII. Dissertation on the Lives and Works of several Anglo-Norman Poets of the Thirteenth Century. In a Letter from Mons. De La Rue to John Henniker Major, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. and F.A.S. Translated from the French
Authors: De La Rue
Published: July 2016

I have in several dissertations already treated of some of the Anglo-Norman Trouveres of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. As a pursuit of this kind must of necessity throw great light on the literary history of England in an age of such obscurity, I am convinced that my researches of this nature must be exceedingly welcome to you; and it is with the greatest pleasure that I take the present moment to communicate to you this part of my labours on the poets of the thirteenth century.
XXIV. A short Chronological Account of the Religious Establishments made by English Catholics on the Continent of Europe. By the Abbé Mann
Authors: Mann
Published: July 2016

If the subject which I take in hand appears little interesting at a time when the reigning spirit of several nations is far more disposed to destroy all the monuments of the piety of their ancestors, than to preserve any memory of them, and has already destroyed the greatest part of these I am going to mention; I hope it will appear in a different light to the learned Society of Antiquaries, whose chief care is to collect and preserve to futurity a faithful remembrance of whatever concerns former ages.

If a time should ever come when an exact account of this small part of the British nation shall be found interesting, the following lists of these establishments, collected with care and exactness, may not prove unwelcome, as they may lead to sources where a complete account of each of them may be found.

I shall make no farther apology for this essay than to beg it may be considered rather as a testimony of my profound respect for the learned Society to which I have the honour of presenting it, than for any intrinsic value which I attribute to it.
XXVII. A Description of the Church of Melbourne in Derbyshire, with an Attempt to explain from it the real Situation of the Porticus in the ancient Churches. By William Wilkins, Esq. F.A.S.
Authors: Wilkins William
Published: July 2016

There are but few subjects of architectural art to be met with in this kingdom which were executed from the period of the departure of the Romans to the reign of king Alfred; and indeed the records are but few, and rather barren, to which any reference can be made, or which are to be relied upon with respect to them. The writings of venerable Bede, the Book of Domesday, and a few others, have, however, transmitted authorities on which some dependance may be placed. With respect to buildings, their descriptions are generally short, and leave much room for conjecture; yet a sufficiency may be gathered from them in several instances to assist the Antiquary in his researches. The following extract from Domesday Book shews that the manor of Melbourne in the county of Derby (which lieth in the hundred and deanry of Repton, and is in the diocese of Litchfield and Coventry) [a] is an ancient demesne of the crown, under the head of Terra Regis.
I. Observation on the Time of the Death and Place of Burial of Queen Katharine Parr. By the Rev. Treadway Nash, D.D. F.A.S.
Authors: Nash Treadway
Published: July 2016

As it is the plan of the Society of Antiquaries to give attention to discoveries however trifling, which may tend to illustrate any point of English history, I now take the liberty of laying before them some circumstances which clearly ascertain the time of the deaths and burying place of Katharine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry the Eighth. If no account of this discovery hath by any one been laid before the Society, I wish this to be read, as George Ballard the industrious Antiquary of Cambden, a town about ten miles from Sudley, says, the particulars of the death and burial of this lady are desiderata, and his ignorance, of it appears the more extraordinary, as his business of a stay-maker must often have led him into those parts.
II. An Account of the Discovery of the Corpse of one of the Abbots of Gloucester. In a Letter from Mr. John Cooke, Surgeon, of that City, to Charles Marsh, Esq. F.R. and A.S.S.
Authors: Cooke John
Published: July 2016

In the year 1741, Bishop Benson, at his single expence for the better securing of the organ, which had been removed some years before from the South side of the choir, gave order that a screen with proper pillars should be erected. During the course of this work a stone coffin containing the corpse of an abbot was discovered. Very lately it was thought proper that the whole of the pavement of the body of the church should be new laid, to which the late Chancellor Benson very liberally contributed. It was begun in his life-time. This occasioned the same coffin to be again exposed, and by this it is also to be apprehended that many very antient grave stones must be destroyed and the modern ones removed from the vaults they covered to distinct places, to effect the uniformity of the flooring. On Monday the 7th of March last I had past through the Cathedral at the time when the same graves were just exposed. Several persons were standing round the venerable remains, and I was called upon to be a spectator of that awful sight. My attention was instantly fixt, and I made a sketch which I have since perfected.
III. Letter from Count de Bruhl, Envoy from the Elector of Saxony, and Knight of the White Eagle of Poland, F.R. and A. SS. to the Hon. Daines Barrington, containing some Chess Anecdotes of the present Century
Authors: de Bruhl
Published: July 2016

I find myself very much honoured by the very able learned Dissertation you have been pleased to address to me, and, in compliance with your commands, I have sent it to the Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, to which I can easily conceive it must prove a very valuable acquisition. Perhaps, before it is sent to the press, you would wish to add some notices concerning two eminent players in France, and likewise make use of the inclosed anecdote.
XXI. Antiquities in Cumberland and Westmorland, by Hayman Rooke, Esq. in a letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, V.P.
Authors: Rooke Hayman
Published: July 2016

I Have taken the liberty of troubling your Lordship with an account of some Roman antiquities I met with, last summer, in Cumberland; when I had the honour of being at Rose Castle. The Gentleman who permitted me to take drawings of these assured me that they had never hitherto been taken notice of. I shall, therefore, beg your Lordship will do me the honour to lay the memoir before the Society, should you think it worthy of their notice.
XXXI. Observations on the Derivation of the English Language. In a Letter from the Rev. William Drake, A.M. F.S.A, to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary
Authors: Drake William
Published: July 2016

You may remember I sent you formerly some observations upon the English language, endeavouring to prove it originally Gothic. It must indeed be allowed that many Celtic terms are visible in it; for which many causes may be assigned; but that the chief materials of which our language is constituted are purely Teutonic no one that attentively considers it can, I think, possibly deny. The Gothic of which we have happily recovered such valuable remains, is the parent, from whence a very numerous progeny are descended. The learned Grævius, in his life of Junius, has traced the pedigree with great accuracy, which, if you give me leave, I will insert in his own words:
V. Two Original Papers. One, a Letter containing an Account of the Reception of King Charles the Second, when Prince of Wales, at Cambridge, in 1641. The second, the Appointment of Sir Ralph Hare, Baronet, of the County of Norfolk, to be one of the Hostages to the Kingdom of Scotland in 1646. Communicated by Sir George Nayler, Knt. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary
Authors: Nayler George
Published: July 2016

I beg to transmit to you the enclosed Papers, (which have fallen into my hands in the course of professional business,) conceiving that they may be interesting to the Society of Antiquaries. Should you coincide with me in this opinion, have the goodness to submit the originals at your next meeting, and then return them to me. The copies which I have also enclosed are at your service.
IX. Copy of an Original Letter from Cardinal Wolsey, immediately upon his Disgrace, to Gardiner, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. Secretary
Authors: Ellis Henry
Published: July 2016

Some time ago I had the pleasure of communicating to the Society the Copy of a Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Thomas Cromwell, immediately on his disgrace; dated from Esher in Surrey. I have since laid my hand upon another of the Cardinal's Letters, addressed to Gardiner, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, preserved among the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. It adds another to the many proofs of which we are in possession, that Wolsey clung to life even with a fallen fortune and a broken heart.
X. A Letter from W. E. Rouse Boughton, Esq. F.R.S. to the Rev. Stephen Weston, B. D. respecting some Egyptian Antiquities
Authors: Boughton W.E. Rouse
Published: July 2016

During my travels in Upper Egypt, in the course of the year 1811, I had the good fortune to meet with a mummy, in a catacomb near Thebes, which appeared never to have been opened before, containing some writing upon papyrus in a state of perfect preservation; and as these writings are but rarely found in mummies, I felt great anxiety to bring the one which fell into my hands safe to Great Britain. For this purpose I had a tin box made for holding it, in order to prevent it from being crushed amongst my packages. I myself proceeded by land to Constantinople; but having sent my baggage by sea, it was unluckily soaked by salt water, and the tin case corroded, so as greatly to injure the manuscript. I have, however, collected some of the fragments, and made accurate copies of them (Pl. I. II.), which I have now the honour of presenting to the Society of Antiquaries; conceiving that they may afford additional specimens of the antient Egyptian character, of which I believe there are not many in Great Britain, and may possibly contribute to the assistance of scientific men, in various parts of Europe, who are giving their attention to that interesting country, established by all profane and sacred history to have been the birth-place of science and wisdom.
XX. Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.
Authors: Lysons Samuel
Published: July 2016

The village of Bignor, in Sussex, is pleasantly situated on the north side of the South Downs, at the distance of about nine miles from the sea, six miles from Petworth, and about the same distance from Arundel. Within half a mile of the village runs a Roman road very distinctly marked, leading from Chichester by way of Pulborough (where it crosses the river Arun) to Dorking, and from thence to London. On this road there was great reason to expect some traces of a Roman station about Bignor, as Richard of Cirencester, in his fifteenth Iter, next after Regnum, proceeding eastward, introduces a station which he terms “Ad decimum,” not noticed in the Itinerary of Antonine; and Bignor is, by the Roman road, about ten miles disstant from Chichester, the Regnum of the Romans. No Roman remains had however been noticed near this place till the year 1811, when a mosaic pavement was discovered by the plough in the month of July, in a field called the Deny, about a quarter of a mile east of the church, part of a copyhold estate held under the Earl of Newburgh by Mr. George Tupper, a respectable farmer, by whom it is also occupied. The inhabitants of the village have a tradition, that Bignor formerly stood in this field, and the common field adjoining, on the east, called the Town-Field.
XXXVIII. Observations on the Christmas Diversions formerly given by the Lord of Misrule, and on the King's Office of Revels and Tents: chiefly from Papers preserved at Losely, near Guildford, in a Letter from William Bray, Esq. Treasurer, to Samuel Lysons, Esq. Vice President
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

Amongst many curious papers preserved at Losely, near Guildford; the ancient seat of the Mores, and now possessed by their descendant James More Molyneux, Esq. are accounts relating to the Christmas Diversions given by the Lord of Misrule, and relating to the King's Office of Revells and Tents. The former may serve as an addition to the account of the Lord of Misrule, given by our late worthy Secretary, Mr. Brand; the latter I do not remember to have seen in print.
XXXIX. Copy of an Appointment of a Lord of Misrule; communicated by William Bray, Esq. in a Letter to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Vice President
Authors: Bray William
Published: July 2016

I lately addressed to you some account of a person known by the title of Lord of Misrule, whose office it was to amuse the King and other great men by his frolicks during the twelve days of the Christmas holidays. I have since met with an account of the power with which he was invested in the Mansion House of Richard Evelyn, of Wotton in Surrey, Esq a gentleman of considerable fortune, who always kept open house during those days of mirth and jollity; but, who being High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1634, seems to have called in the assistance of this officer to celebrate the feast with more than usual ceremony. Perhaps it may serve as a supplement to the former Paper, but you will make what use of it you please.
II. Remarks on a Gimmal Ring, by Robert Smith, Esq. F. R. S. and F. A. S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Smith Robert
Published: July 2016

I have the pleasure to exhibit to the Society a curiousGimmalorGemmowRing; which was dug up, a few months ago, by the workmen employed on some buildings belonging to George Shepley Esq. at Horsley-down, in Surrey. It was discovered about eight or nine seet below the surface of the earth, in what is called made-ground, but which appeared to have lain undisturbed for a considerable length of time. Other rings, and many ancient copper coins and medals, both Roman and English, were found near the same spot; as were the skeletons of several human bodies.
V. Account of some Roman Antiquities, discovered at Topesfield, in Essex, in a Letter from Thomas Walford, Esq. F. A. S. to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Walford Thomas
Published: July 2016

If you think the following curious Roman Antiquities worthy the notice of the Society, you will do me the honour of exhibiting them at one of their meetings. They were discovered June 28, 1800, by a labourer making a ditch at the bottom of Red Barnfield, belonging to Bradfield Farm, in the parish of Topesfield, in Essex, situate about two miles west-by-south of the ancient Roman road from Camulodunum to Camboritum.
X. Account of a Brick, brought from the Site of antient Babylon, in a Letter from Nathaniel Hulme, M. D. F. R. S. and F. A. S. to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Authors: Hulme Nathaniel
Published: July 2016

The brick which I have now the honour to exhibit to the Antiquarian Society (together with a drawing of it) was sent to me by a friend at Bombay, and arrived in England about August or September last. My correspondent says, that it was lately brought to Bombay, with some others of the same kind, from the ruins of the city of Babylon, but unluckily omits to inform me by whom they were brought, or to give any description of the place or its situation where they were found; but merely mentions it as a fact known at Bombay, that they certainly came from the site of antient Babylon.
XVIII. Observations on Bridekirk Font and on the Runic Column at Bewcastle, in Cumberland, by Henry Howard, Esq. in a Letter to George Nayler, Esq. York Herald, F. A. S.
Authors: Howard Henry
Published: July 2016

The Society of Antiquaries have honoured a communication of mine, respecting the tomb of Alfred, in a manner far beyond its deserts. This, however, encourages me to venture to offer to them, through your friendly hands, some details relative to the two celebrated Runic monuments in this county, the Font at Bridekirk, and the Obelisk at Bewcastle.
XXI. Account of antient Sculptures and Inscriptions, in the Abbey Church of Romsey, in a Letter from John Latham, M.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Bart. F.R.S. and V.P.A.S.
Authors: Latham John
Published: July 2016

Among many other curious labours of our forefathers to be seen in our old Abbey Church of Romsey, I had long noticed some singular irregularities, appearing somewhat like groupes of figures, on the capitals of two of the pilliars at the east end of the north and south aisles; but, from their having been in a great measure obliterated by successive coats of white-wash bestowed upon them from time to time, under the idea, no doubt, of beautifying, no conjecture whatever could be formed of what they were meant to represent, until some little time since I came to the resolution of having them thoroughly cleaned for that purpose. This being done, I was not a little rejoiced to find that the figures on both were in tolerable preservation, sufficiently so as to allow of their being traced on paper, whereby I am enabled to send you afac simileof them in their proper size and situation. I have also made drawings of both on a small scale on one piece of paper, whereby the whole may be seen at one view, for the purpose of your laying them before the Antiquarian Society, should you judge them to be worth their attention.
Viewpoint
Authors: Pacey Philip
Published: July 2016

Art speaks with many tongues, the immediacy of the image requiring no translation. One does not need fluent Italian to appreciate Titian, nor French to enjoy the Impressionists. The art of China means a great deal to many who think of Chinese as the world’s least learnable language, and by whom a taste for Chinese music has yet to be acquired. The visual arts of different countries and culture-groups have had, and still have, enough in common for contact between them to be mutually stimulating; an interest in Man as maker of images and co-creator of the visible world, implies concern for art the world over.
Open Eye Research
Authors: Coulson Anthony
Published: July 2016

Some reflections on the photographic research undertaken by the Arts Faculty Liaison Librarian, as part of the preparation for publication of the texts for the Open University course, ‘Architecture and Design 1890-1939’.
The international role of special libraries
Authors: Matthews John
Published: July 2016

Definitions are suggested of the nature and role of the special library, and reasons outlined for the need for international cooperation. In particular it is suggested that the heterogeneous formats and wide subject fields embraced in art literature inevitably compel libraries to seek co-operation. Parallel developments in the field of music literature are mentioned. In conclusion the moves towards art library co-operation started in 1976 are seen as exemplifying the dual role that special libraries can play both through subject expertise and by virtue of their contribution to international librarianship.

Acknowledgements are due to Trevor Fawcett, University of East Anglia Library, who kindly allowed the writer to draw on material published in a report presented to the British Library, Research and Development Department, and also from certain articles written by him.
Selected new books
Authors: Kaden Vera
Published: July 2016

This series will be concerned with giving details of more esoteric art publications that are unlikely to be found in provincial bookshops but are nevertheless of interest to a wide variety of librarians.
Viewpoint
Authors: Strain Michael
Published: July 2016

As convenor of the ARLIS Working Party on Co-operative and Co-ordinated Acquisition, I am delighted to accept the hospitality of these pages and the opportunity to discuss current problems in co-operation.

For some time now it has been obvious that art librarians as a whole have been aware of a need to co-operate at all levels. This is a healthy sign of maturing awareness and self-identification as librarians with common problems.
Viewpoint
Authors: Cheetham David L.
Published: July 2016

At the recent conference on ‘user education’ it struck me that there was a tendency in librarianship as a whole to see courses of instruction in isolation and to look upon this work done by the librarian as the sole teaching that he or she does. I come from an average Polytechnic and run fairly conventional, even orthodox, formal courses on library use linked with a rather bureaucratic compulsory library tutoring system for dissertations.

Seen in isolation such courses can be given an exaggerated importance when they are, in fact, only a minor part of the process. Supporting and acting as a vital example to such tuition is everything from an initial orientation tour through to information work, to literature guides, to stock selection and relegation policies, indeed the whole library. The long term objective of a Polytechnic Library must be about introducing and promoting an ‘eyes open’ approach to information-seeking in the real world beyond the educational institution. The question that should be asked is, “Is the Polytechnic Library as a whole conceived in such a way as to be as relevant as possible to its prime objective of educating its users — or is it there because-it is there?”
Art and archives
Authors: Whalley Irene , Wainwright Clive , Fox-Rtt Sarah
Published: July 2016

The Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum has always collected primary source material. This consists of artists’ letters, diaries, sitters’ books and various personal papers. Or it may be material of a more general kind: inventories, bills, unpublished articles, recipes for paints and varnishes and similar items of use to the Museum departments or to other readers. Occasionally in the past we have been offered material relating to a firm, a person, or a society, which consisted of a mixture of printed matter, photographs, original drawings, manuscript letters etc., which, when received in the Museum, would be divided among the relevant departments — the Library and the Department of Prints and Drawings in particular. The Library continues to acquire manuscript material of the kind mentioned above, and indeed in the last two years has pursued an active policy in this field. As a result we have acquired such varied items as the wardrobe accounts of the Empress Josephine for 1809 (2 large boxes of them), a 16th century herald’s sketchbook, an unpublished history of jade, and a letter from Sir William Nicholson to Siegfried Sassoon agreeing to illustrate ‘Memoirs of a fox-hunting man’. A list of the English accessions is published annually, and all acquisitions are notified to the National Register of Archives. Most of the items were acquired by purchase (e.g. from booksellers’ lists or auction sales), but there have also been some welcome donations.
ARLIS «Internationale»: a Budapest itinerary
Authors: Wood Kathryn
Published: July 2016

Describes the art libraries and art collections visited in Budapest during a ten day visit sponsored by the British Council.

Sincere acknowledgements are due to the Hungarian Art Librarians and Museums staff whose genuine interest and hospitality provided the raw material for this paper.
Selected new books: the decorative arts. Part II
Authors: Smith Gaye
Published: July 2016

A book which accompanied an exhibition organised for the 1977 Welsh Eisteddfod is Davies Brothers, Gatesmiths: 18th century wrought ironwork in Wales by Ifor Edwards, Welsh Arts Council/Crafts Advisory Committee (153 Charles Street, Cardiff, CF1 4ED), c. £2.00.111 p. This introductory visual study of the work of the Davies Brothers shows examples of the gates they made for Chirk Castle, Erdigg Hall, Hawkstone Hall and the Parish churches of Wrexham, Oswestry and Ruthin in North Wales. The designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co. by A.J. Tilbrook and Gordon House, London: Ornament Press Ltd., 1976, £10.40,283 p., approximately 300 monochrome photos, is a splendid visual survey of this art nouveau craftsman.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.: a review article
Authors: Fawcett Trevor
Published: July 2016

Because this review will be partial in its survey and somewhat critical in tone, it may be as well to begin by applauding the overall achievement of AACR. Its long-awaited publication in 1967 helped enormously to clear the cataloguing air. Here at last was a convincing demonstration that behind all the craft mysteries of cataloguing there lay a logic, a rationale; that it was not just a matter of following a few rule of thumb procedures. For dealing with the general run of modern printed texts in English-speaking libraries the new code promised well.
Preservation of moving pictures and sound carriers
Authors: Harrison Helen P.
Published: July 2016

The specific properties of film, video recordings, audiotapes, cassettes and discs are described, and attention is drawn to problems and hazards. Methods of storage, cleaning, use and long term preservation are recommended, and environmental factors are considered.
Libraries and folk art
Authors: Mathiesen Eske
Published: July 2016

Folk art is widely supposed to have come to an end with the coming of urban, industrial society, but activities persist which may be termed ‘folk art’ and which include, for instance, ‘family art’ — the creating, by a family, of its own visual surroundings and traditions. Folk art is a people’s art; it affirms and renews personal, local, and community experience; it is a shared activity which does not elevate the role of the ‘artist’. But libraries by and large document fine art, and thus, at least by implication, are associated with its values and appear to have nothing to contribute to the kind of social change which may be necessary if people’s art is to flourish.

The text of a paper delivered to art librarian members of the Danish Library Association in November 1972, published in Bibliotek 70, no. 2, 1973, pp. 31-34, and now published for the first time in English.
Problems of reference
Authors: Emanuel Muriel
Published: July 2016

An individual account of some of the problems encountered in the preparation of a series of reference works.
Art databases and art bibliographies: a survey
Authors: Rinehart Michael
Published: July 2016

Following a conference ‘Bibliographie d’histoire de l’art’, in Paris in 1969, considerable developments have occurred in the control of art-historical documentation. This paper surveys the not insignificant role which computers have played in this development, tracing the appearance of bibliographical art databases (serial bibliographies and abstracting and indexing services, library catalogues and networks, and individual computer-aided projects), and developments in the management and analysis of ‘museum’ objects and images. The greatest importance is attached to co-operation between the various activities outlined, and matters such as standardisation (of content and form) and compatibility of systems are discussed in depth. In conclusion, a series of goals are proposed.
Decennalia: an editorial essay
Authors: Haskins Katherine
Published: July 2016

The year the Olympic Games were forced to halt international sportsmanship to include a horrifying entre’act of international bloodshed. A year of political schizophrenia in the United States, in which the largest popular vote ever was accorded to the man who was to be at the epicenter of the most profound national scandal in U.S. history. The sort of year which makes newspaper editors happy, and fills the rest of us with morbid fascination. It is not surprising, therefore, that the founding of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) is not the event that most people associate with the year 1972. And yet, the organisation grew and was shaped in the intervening decade by circumstances not only within the relatively narrow spectrum of professional art librarianship and visual curatorship, but within the larger contexts of sociological and technological circumstances, and within the art and library worlds of which it is a part.
Major issues of the past ten years in visual resources curatorship
Authors: Kirkpatrick Nancy
Published: July 2016

During the past ten years the field of visual resources curatorship has become increasingly professional. Hand in hand with this advancement has come a push to introduce standards for organising and accessing visual materials. Computerisation has occurred in individual image collections, yet the wider use of automated systems within visual resources collections awaits the establishment of such standards. These concerns for professionalism, standardisation, automation and the adoption of new photographic media have been prime factors in the development of visual resources curatorship since 1972.
Education for art librarianship: the first decade and beyond
Authors: Lemke Antje Bultmann
Published: July 2016

The first art librarianship curricula were determined by the bibliographic requirements of scholarly libraries, until, the membership of ARLIS/NA revealed, in the 1970s, that programs with wider scope were needed. Today MSLS curricula for art librarians include core courses on general library topics; background courses in the humanities, archives and special collections, indexing and abstracting, and preservation; subject courses in art bibliography and visual resources; fieldwork and internships; and recommendations for institutional cognate courses in art history and museology. Qualifications emphasise subject specialisation of faculty and strong local art resources. Here curriculum objectives are enumerated, and the importance of co-ordination with related professional programs is stressed.
Source material for art history in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden
Authors: Schäme Ulrike
Published: July 2016

In the 1970s the Sächsische Landesbibliothek formulated policies for the collection and documentation of archival material in the fine arts. Based on a rich existing collection, the Library was able to expand its acquisitions programme by systematic searching and soliciting of material. The scope and some of the specific strengths of the collection are described, as are those of the Akademie der Künste der DDR and the archive of the National-Galerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. The article has been translated from the original German by Vera Kaden and Tom French.
Aspects of Fluxus from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection
Authors: Hendricks Jon , Silverman Gilbert B.
Published: July 2016

Fluxus is a radical art movement, started by George Maciunas and others in 1962, which is still having a profound effect on advanced art movements of the 1970s and 1980s. By using excerpts from publications; an early essay by George Brecht; and unpublished letters by George Maciunas to several artists drawn from the collection of Gilbert and Lila Silverman, we are able to trace the development of Fluxus publishing concepts and also sense the political foundation of the movement. The article is prefaced by Gilbert B. Silverman’s introductory remarks on the formation and purposes of his collection.
Architecture in journals of the ‘avant-garde’. Part 1
Authors: Pezzini Isabella , Gubler Jacques
Published: July 2016

A selection of ‘avant-garde’ journals, from the early 20th century onwards, which have included architectural material. The journals are grouped into countries (which appear in alphabetical order), and are then arranged chronologically by date first published. Part 1 covers journals from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Italy. The journals are described by a number of contributors denoted by their initials: A.B. (Antoine Baudin); J.G. (Jacques Gubler); M.D.G. (Manolo De Giorgi); B.H. (Brian Henson); I.P. (Isabella Pezzini); F.R. (Franco Raggi); P.G.T. (Piero G. Tanca).

The article is the translation of a survey ‘La rete delle riviste’ which first appeared in Rassegna, no. 12, December 1982 - a special issue entitled ‘Architettura nelle riviste d’avanguardia’.
Databases in architecture
Authors: Nurcombe Valerie J.
Published: July 2016

A survey of architectural databases and other databases with relevant content, both currently available and prospective. The article also identifies some problems and gaps in the field, and predicts some likely developments. This is a revised version of a paper delivered at the ARLIS/UKOLOG seminar on databases in art and the humanities, 24 February 1984, in Manchester, England.
Pages from the diary of an art department in Denmark
Authors: Andersen Gunhild Leth , Schultz Sissel , Christensen Claus
Published: July 2016

The art department of the Gladsaxe Bibliotek, near Copenhagen, is one of several art departments in public libraries, and one of the art libraries created in Denmark as a result of the Public Libraries Act of 1964 and two subsequent reports, in 1967 and 1971, on the provision of audiovisual material under the terms of the new Act. In addition to providing books and journals, these art libraries lend slides, posters, and original prints, and mount exhibitions of works of art by local and other artists. The librarians concerned have formed a subsection of the Danish Library Association, the ‘Faggruppen for kunstbibliotekarer’ (known as ‘Kunstfaggruppen’) and these ‘diary pages’originally appeared, in Danish, in the group’s newsletter Medd. Blade no. 3, 1983, pp 7-9. For further reading, see the Art Libraries Journal vol. 6, no. 3, Winter 1981, pp 3-12.
Visual resources: proposals for an ideal network
Authors: Roberts Helene E.
Published: July 2016

Aby Warburg used a system of screens, wooden frames covered with fabric, upon which he displayed photographs. He could compare images, manipulate them in different arrangements, and order them in support of a visual argument. The computer and the video screen allow present day art historians to contemplate the creation of a much larger and more sophisticated version of Warburg’s screens in an ideal network of images and data. Images of works of art will be identified by basic information and accompanied with all the relevant information of a full catalogue entry. Correctly formulated this information can be retrieved in various ways to allow for making numerous connections between works of art and revealing a variety of relationships between them. Each work can thus be studied within a visual and historical context or compared with works of art sharing similar characteristics from widely different cultures and periods. The number of works of art existing in the world is very large, and the information which may be recorded about them is immense. Forming the ideal network is a considerable undertaking and one that will take the help and co-operation of the whole art historical community.
Art libraries for the people
Authors: Phillpot Clive
Published: July 2016

Basing his arguments on Ranganathan’s tenets of librarianship, the writer challenges art librarians to question many of their attitudes to users, and the effect of these on the universal availability of art documentation, from the ‘user friendliness’ of libraries, through practical techniques of librarianship which assist users, to implications for interlibrary co-operation worldwide. This is a slightly revised version of a paper delivered to the IFLA Section of Art Libraries Preconference in Chicago, August 1985.
To know ourselves; A Canadian perspective on national art bibliography
Authors: Williamson Mary
Published: July 2016

In smaller countries where the art literature has tended to be overlooked by international indexing services, there is a pressing need for national art bibliographies. A retrospective bibliography can serve a vital role in awakening citizens to unfamiliar artists and artistic activity, and to the richness of the cultural heritage. Beyond that, national art bibliographies make possible the investigation of artistic influences and international cultural connections, and of individual artists on the move.
AICARC and the Archives of Modern Art
Authors: Heusser Hans-Jörg
Published: July 2016

Since the 1960s AICA, the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, has been increasingly concerned with the primary resources on which research depends. In particular, access to archival material was felt to be necessary in order to counter a dominant, highly selective, ‘modernist’ interpretation of 20th century art, with a more objective, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched history of the period covering all countries. The AICARC-Bulletin, founded in 1974, is devoted to primary sources, archives and documentation centres, archival techniques, and the ‘documentary’ approach to art, in relation to the art of this century.
Image and Reality: the National Art Library
Authors: Esteve-Coll Elizabeth
Published: July 2016

The Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum originated in the mid-19th century as the library of a School of Design, and adopted the title ‘The National Art Library’ later in the century following publication of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. Decades of steady growth and of low usage ended in the late 1960s, when sudden growth of art publishing, and of interest in art history, generated demands the Library was not equipped to meet. The Library possesses one of the world’s outstanding collections of art publications but is still funded, staffed, and administered as if its role was merely that of a Department of the Museum. Currently all aspects of the Library’s procedures and policies are under review; government funding is to be sought for a programme of computerisation, and it is hoped to redefine the Library’s role in national and international contexts and to re-establish it as the ‘heart and core’ of art library provision in the U.K., as an active participant in cooperative schemes and projects, and as a training centre for art librarianship, or in other words, as an active and truly national art library.
Artists on Libraries 2:
Authors: Trepanier Peter
Published: July 2016

“‘Of course not. The model is very important. Yanaihara and Caroline feel the same way you do about it, that posing is an active participation in the work. It’s not easy, either. I know that. But Genet felt that posing was completely passive. And he stopped posing because he felt he was being transformed into an object. I thought that was a very literary attitude.’”

[Alberto Giacometti in conversation with the author] Lord, James. A Giacometti portrait (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1980), p. 78.
Artists on Libraries 3:
Authors: Opdahl Ørnulf
Published: July 2016

Which libraries do you use and how do your use them? Having lived rather isolated I have felt the need to build up my own library. In younger days I used the local public library quite a lot. Their collection of art books was rather meagre, but it was still a strong inspiration. They had got several current art magazines as well, both Norwegian and international. I still use’ public libraries, especially their collection of fiction, poetry, philosophy, etc., which is quite good. They provide the information they have not got themselves through inter-library lending, and the services have been quite satisfactory. Apart from the library of the Statens Kunstakademi (National Academy of Fine Art) I have never used a ‘professional’ art library.
Interactive videodisc project at University College Dublin
Authors: Hastings Angela
Published: July 2016

A six-month project undertaken by the University College Dublin School of Architecture has investigated the possibilities of putting a collection of images, transferred from slides, on to videodisc accessed through a computer. The project grew out of an earlier project to computerize the catalogue of the Slide Library of the Architecture and Planning Library. Drawbacks include loss of image quality and the impossibility of adding to the disc once pressed. Changing technology may provide answers to some of these problems, enabling the benefits confirmed by the project’s successful completion to be exploited further.
Art library services in public libraries
Authors: French Sonia
Published: July 2016

The mixed fortunes of art, and of subject specialisation, in British public libraries in recent years is compared to the situation in Denmark where librarianship in the service of art has as its main focus the good of the people. The principles which give art librarianship its own integrity are reiterated and the gradual invasion of public library services by the commercial ethic is rejected. Art librarianship can still achieve new successes, and some of these are noted. The scope for new initiatives which the public library service offers is recognised and new areas for development are suggested, modelled on the international network of Music Information Centres.
Public art libraries and artists and designers: a symbiotic scheme for success
Authors: Dane William J.
Published: July 2016

The inter-relationship between art librarians and artists/designers in the public library sector in America has been a reality since the early 20th century when libraries were organized into subject departments. This specialized clientele is eclectic and ranges from novices to the most accomplished artists and includes architects, art directors, illustrators, calligraphers, craftspeople and photographers in addition to painters, sculptors and graphic artists. Materials and services in public art libraries are highly diversified and the literature of other disciplines is also readily available. The increase in art exhibitions and special collections is noted in addition to a new focus on information for career opportunities, art law and the handicapped. Current developments set the stage for the continuing symbiotic relationship between public art librarians and artists/designers into the 21st century.
Bibliotheques messageres d’art et de culture
Authors: Rouit Huguette
Published: July 2016

The situation for libraries in France, particularly art libraries, is complex. Administrative structures differ from those of other countries and from one another, but the existence of networks provides a means of linking different libraries and systems and of sharing and exploiting their common resources. Art education is currently a government priority; libraries of schools of art (including that of the Ecole du Louvre) are among the art libraries which fall within the sphere of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The training of French museum personnel is now the responsibility of the new École du Patrimoine attached to the Ecole du Louvre and served by its library and a related documentation centre. Co-operation among art libraries is demonstrated by their participation in union catalogues and computer networks: the Ministry of Culture and Communication has adopted the LIBRA system, developed for public libraries, and some art libraries within the Ministry’s jurisdiction have recently joined the network. Their peculiarities have necessitated some adaptions of the system. Still more national co-operation is essential: the professional associations, including the Art Subsection of the Association des Bibliothécaires Français, advocate it; the technology is available. Now is the time for French art librarians to seize the opportunity of joining together to serve an eager public - ‘tous les publics’ - more effectively than ever before.