IRC member Jeannette Dixon, who wrote the U.S. entry, is serving as chair of the IFLA Art Libraries Section. One CD-ROM disc contains the catalogues of the five leading Dutch art libraries. These catalogues are not accessible via the Internet. They give access to over 325,000 bibliographical records and 10,000 acquisitions will be added annually. Updates every 6 months.
Emphasis is on Dutch art.
Data is collected primarily on the basis of scholarly works supplemented by data from printed and electronic catalogues. Publication form is as a CD-ROM to be published spring 1999, price ca. BL Rijswijk, tel 3115 2124817. The US Visual Resources Association Conference will be held in Los Angeles February 9-13, 1999. The European Computer Network for the Arts has an extremely useful set of links to Web sites in the visual arts.