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    Newsletter of the Section of Art Libraries (Web edition)no. 42 (1998, no 1)Amsterdam 1998IFLA Conference 16-21 AugustThe Section of Art Libraries will be meeting as follows. Exact times are not yet available. Some general IFLA activities are also included.
RegistrationThe costs of registration for the IFLA conference is 750 Dutch guilders before 1 May and 850 Dutch guilders after that. Registration forms can be obtained from
P.O. Box 302 1000 AH Amsterdam The Netherlands Fax: +31 20 50 40 225 E-mail: ifla@congrex.nl Information about the IFLA Amsterdam conference can be found on the general IFLA net website at: http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/64intro.htm Conference hotelIf you are going to attend the IFLA conference please register early. The Gay Olympics will preceed this conference and the International Radiologists Convention will follow this conference so rooms will be at premium. Whilst normal practice is ‘first come, first served’ the conference organisers recommend that you should mark your conference registration form at the first line at the Name preferred hotel entry with: ‘Art Librarian’. At the second line please mark the name of hotel you prefer.We made reservations in three different hotels in different price categories in the vicinity of the Rijksmuseum.
The conference organisers recommend that if we wish to stay together we should register as soon as possible because the rooms cannot be held specially. Open Session ProgrammeTo be held at the main conference center, RAI, on the morning of Tuesday 18 August.
Workshop ProgrammeTo be held at the Rijksmuseum, on Thursday 20 August, followed by an introduction to the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Interactive Multimedia System and a visit to the library.
Reports on Art Librarianship from Around the WorldA call for national reports on art librarianship was issued in the fall 1997 newsletter of the IFLA Section of Art Libraries. It has resulted in an interesting mix of articles, which give us insight into both the authors of the reports, and the character of the art library communities in different countries. We are fortunate to have representation from so many countries: Russia, Spain, Norway, Denmark, France, and Canada, to name a few. The impact of IFLA can be seen in the development of art library societies springing up immediately following an IFLA meeting in that country: ARLIS/Norden, ARLIS/MOS, and the art librarians group in Spain are examples of this.I hope that we can use these reports as a place to begin a dialogue about the things we have in common. The second Standing Committee Meeting of the Art Section in Amsterdam will be devoted to oral presentations of the national reports. There we can ask each other questions and discuss the issues which are of mutual interest. These discussions should lead us to future conference topics and newsletter articles for the coming year. I would like to thank each author for his or her contribution. Please let me know if you would like to see more national reports in future newsletters.
Jeannette Dixon, Report From Canada by Renata GutmanArt and Architecture Librarianship in Canada: The Recent Past and the PresentAs is the case in many countries these days, art librarianship (which is understood, for the purposes of this article, to include art, architecture and design librarianship) in Canada has been challenged by the current trend of cutting funding for culture in favour of reducing the national deficit and ‘putting the country’s economic house in order’. This has, perhaps, hit somewhat harder in Canada, a relatively young country with a small population and without a large base of private and corporate donors; a country where government subsidies account for a large portion of funding for the arts. A permanent challenge to the art library community remains the country’s geography. Most of the population of Canada, and its larger urban centres, are located within a relatively narrow band of land which stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific coast. If librarians from the east coast wish to get together with their colleagues from the west coast, this becomes a time-consuming and costly undertaking, more expensive often, than travelling to Europe. While the east coast centres and the cities in Ontario and Québec are generally within two to five hours travelling distance from one another, colleagues on the Prairie provinces are more isolated in their urban centres, and physically separated from the west coast by the Rocky Mountains. Thus, it is pleasing to report that despite these challenges, art librarianship is alive and well in Canada; perhaps not flourishing at the moment, but continuing to build on the foundation laid within the last 30 years. When the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) was founded in 1972, Canadian art librarians were quick to join this professional association and have played increasingly active roles in it. The first local chapter in Canada was established with the creation of ARLIS/Montréal Ottawa Québec (ARLIS/MOQ) in 1987, followed by ARLIS/Ontario in 1992. Meanwhile west coast colleagues have joined with their American neighbours to form the ARLIS/Northwest chapter. Communication among the members from coast to coast is enhanced through the Canadian Members Meeting at the ARLIS/NA Annual Conference, which provides an opportunity for members from across the country to meet. There is also an ARLIS/NA Canadian Representative who attempts to attend chapter meetings at either end of the country. Another useful organ of communication continues to be the CARLIS Newsletter, begun under the auspices of CARLIS, the ‘art section’ of the Canadian Library Association (CLA), and continued, thanks to the efforts of Melva Dwyer, even after CARLIS ceased to exist as an organisation. The CARLIS Newsletter provides news about members of the profession and about people active in the arts, it provides a calendar of events and a selection of citations for articles from regional publications, a means to bridge the geographical expanse in a painless fashion. In 1993 Murray Waddington, Chief Librarian at the National Gallery of Canada hosted a two-day joint conference of the ARLIS/MOQ and ARLIS/Ontario chapters. At this conference papers were presented outlining the evolution and current concerns of Canadian art librarianship. It was clear from the presentations that while a solid base for the profession existed, art librarians in Canada needed to band together in a more formal way in order to meet the challenges facing them: shrinking funding, new technologies, ethical issues. The conference led to the formation of the Canadian Art Information Professionals Strategic Plan Task Force, chaired by Murray Waddington. The task force included representation from across the country and its meetings and consultations resulted in the draft of the Canadian Art Information Professionals Strategic Plan. The plan was presented at the Canadian Members Meeting at the ARLIS/NA 1995 Annual Conference, hosted in Montréal by the ARLIS/MOQ chapter. Members ratified the Strategic Plan and voted to carry out the first two recommendations, namely to improve communications among Canadian art information professionals, and to develop more coherent regional and national support among Canadian art libraries. Bob Foley, Librarian of the Banff School of Fine Arts at that time, took up the first point of the plan by establishing CARLISL, the discussion list for Canadian art librarians. Needless to say, electronic mail and all it offers in terms of instant communication at a reasonable cost has been very influential in bringing the profession together despite geographic distance. Murray Waddington, in his role as Canadian Representative to ARLIS/NA, petitioned the Executive Board of ARLIS/NA with regard to the second point in the Canadian Art Information Professionals Strategic Plan. In response, ARLIS/NA set up the Canadian Representation Task Force, which considered how a stronger focus could be given to the Canadian membership and Canadian issues within ARLIS/NA. They also took into consideration how an identifiable caucus could be formed which would allow Canadian art information professionals to work independently of ARLIS/NA on strictly Canadian issues. In March 1996 a draft of the report of the Canadian Representation Task Force was submitted to members, who voted to recommend to ARLIS/NA the establishment of ARLIS/Canada as a national chapter. The ARLIS/NA Executive Board endorsed the creation of ARLIS/Canada in at its Executive Board meeting that same year. The founding of the national chapter has helped to link the local chapters and provides a framework for national initiatives. The 1999 ARLIS/NA Annual Conference will be hosted in Vancouver by the ARLIS/Northwest chapter. This will provide exposure for Canadian art information professionals and highlight some Canadian issues as well as those of concern to North American professionals in general. What are the recent, current and proposed initiatives? As deputy editor of Art Libraries Journal, the official publication of ARLIS/UK & Ireland, Peter Trepanier, Head of Reader Services at the National Gallery of Canada, has put together a series of special issues dedicated to art librarianship in Canada. The first issue presented the papers delivered at the joint ARLIS/MOQ - ARLIS/Ontario conference in 1993, two subsequent issues focused on French Canada and Atlantic Canada respectively, and the fall 1999 issue will focus on western Canada, a follow-up to the Vancouver ARLIS/NA conference. In addition to regional effort, a number of projects of national interest have been undertaken. The Library of the National Gallery of Canada has worked with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) to mount the Artists in Canada database on the CHIN Website. Artists in Canada is a union catalogue of files on Canadian artists held by the National Gallery of Canada Library and more than 33 other libraries across Canada. CHIN is also offering to host the online version of ARLIS/NA Canadian chapter newsletters on their Website; this will provide access to information about the chapters to professionals across the country. ARLIS/MOQ chapter members Peter Trepanier and Sylvie Alix completed another project designed to create awareness of art and architecture bibliographic resources in Canada and facilitate access to them. The Guide des «index-maison» concernant les ouvrages traitant de l’art, de l’architecture et du design canadiens localisés dans les bibliothèques canadiennes/Guide to In-house Indexes of Canadian Art, Architecture & Design Literature in Canadian Libraries was published in a special issue of the chapter newsletter in 1996, and will be made available on the Internet in the future. At the National Gallery of Canada, Jonathan Franklin is working on an inventory of 19th century Canadian auction catalogues, to be published as an Occasional Paper by the Library. A continuing concern is the level and quantity of indexing of Canadian art and architecture periodicals by international indexing services and the inclusion of more art and architecture periodicals by Canadian indexing services. Canadian art librarians have lobbied for both of these in the past, but find they must constantly be vigilant to ensure continued coverage. Another area of interest and concern is the location of archival material on artists and architects in Canada. The idea of producing a guide to such materials has been discussed for several years and it is hoped that a project can eventually be undertaken, perhaps under the umbrella of a larger, international initiative such as the International Guide to Literature and Art Archives in Libraries, Museums and Other Institutions, sponsored by IFLA and ICA/CLA. Advances in information technology are providing new challenges for art librarianship, but also opening many new doors to enhanced communication, to resource-sharing which may help in the effort to offset the effects of diminishing budgets, and to the creation of projects designed to draw professionals together. In this context, Canadian art and architecture librarians look to the future with enthusiasm and hope. Report from Scandinavia by Anja LollesgaardArt Librarianship and Cooperation from ARLIS/Norden’s Point of ViewARLIS/Norden meets the IFLA Section of Art Libraries The meeting with the IFLA Section of Art Libraries in Copenhagen August/September 1997 was a major event in the 11 years long history of ARLIS/Norden. Only once before, in Stockholm 1990, our Scandinavian community of art librarians has had the opportunity to meet with art librarians from all over the world, within the frame of an IFLA General Conference. For those of us who participated in the workshop of IFLA Section of Art Libraries in 1997, it was a very great experience. It gives great pleasure to meet with colleagues, with whom you share your professional devotion, and it gives you a lot of inspiration and new ideas to meet with colleagues, who are professionally and technologically ahead of you. But meeting with colleagues who work under fundamentally different conditions - poor, harsh and antagonistic - is an experience that shakes you. A Scandinavian librarian is well aware of the fact that librarianship in other parts of the world is carried out under conditions very different from those in Scandinavia. But to actually meet in person with colleagues ‘from out there’ awakens the consciousness drastically. We face the fact that we are librarians in a society privileged by the traditions of a democratic and homogeneous culture. And we inevitably get to admire those foreign colleagues for the way they commit themselves to the profession, caused by, and in spite of, harsh conditions. Such a meeting gives new energy, and we identify ourselves as a part of ‘the great cause of art librarianship’. This phrase may sound ridiculous to others. Nevertheless, it makes good sense to librarians, and it is a vital motive power, both in the daily work in the library and in the professional cooperation at the national, regional and international level. Norden - Scandinavia Norden is the Scandinavian name for the Northern European region comprising the five Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Although we are five different countries, we share a strong feeling of a common cultural identity. We share the history and the tradition of a democratic and relatively homogeneous culture. All the Scandinavian countries are small by the number of inhabitants, Iceland being the smallest with 500,000, and Sweden the biggest with 9,000,000 inhabitants. Apart from Finland, who speaks a non-Indo-European language, the Scandinavian countries understand each others' languages, at least the written versions. The geography of the region varies a lot. Iceland is a volcano island in the Atlantic Ocean. Finland, Norway, and Sweden are rich in mountains, lakes and forests. Denmark is flat as a pancake, the highest ‘mountain’ being 173 (one hundred and seventy-three) meters high. Consequently, the Danish hills are called ‘wholes’ by the young sons of the big Norwegian Dovre-troll, but they ARE indeed very naughty, as you might already know from Hans Christian Andersen. So, we share the identity of being very small nations, yet playing a role in the international community. We are lucky to live in countries with freedom of expression, and we enjoy the international appreciation of Scandinavian design and of the ‘Northern light’ in Scandinavian painting. ARLIS/Norden - network ARLIS/Norden is an association for art libraries and librarians in the five Scandinavian countries, and a member of IFLA Section of Art Libraries. ARLIS/Norden aims to further every aspect of art librarianship in the Scandinavian countries. The association wants to give art librarians the opportunity to cooperate. It is a platform for coordinated action and serves as a forum for information and discussion among its members, and promotes their professional interests concerning education, research activities, and publications. ARLIS/Norden promotes the cooperation of the Nordic art libraries. It aims to contribute to the cooperation of the art society with the general library community, the specialised art libraries, art history and research, and the art museum community. The annual meeting and conference is the key event of the association. It normally takes place during 2-3 days, and is arranged on a rotating basis in the Scandinavian countries. The program is organized on a topic of common concern. On these occasions there is ample opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas, and study visits are set up. ARLIS/Norden Info, the membership newsletter, is published three times a year, since 1987. It is edited successively by the five Scandinavian countries by the individual board members in turn. It contains information about:
Since 1995 each article should be provided with an English summary in order to improve the communication and contacts with our foreign colleagues at the Art Libraries Journal . The newsletter is a modest photocopied publication of 20-30 pages, printed in 120 copies. Aside from the annual meeting, the basic activities take place in the national groups, which meet regularly, mostly by visits to the member libraries, buildings of architectural and professional interest, or other art institutions. Art librarians in art departments of public and general libraries cannot share the enthusiasm about art with their overall management or colleagues. And art librarians in libraries at museums and private institutions most often work alone within a parent institution and may feel a lack of understanding of library matters, since the primary objective of the institution is not the provision of a library. That is the reason why these meetings are so important for all art librarians. They give them the feeling of being part of a professional community, and give them new ideas, moral support and energy for the daily work. Aside from the annual meetings and the regular activities in the national groups, the activities of the past years have been: an information sheet about ARLIS/Norden, a membership campaign, a homepage, an internal editor's manual for the newsletter, the IFLA-Conference 1997, and an Artists' books project. The association was established by 24 institutions in Stockholm in 1986, and by the end of 1997 the membership was 111, of which 86 institutional and 25 individual members. The annual membership subscription is 550 SEK (Swedish crowns) $85 for institutional and 150 SEK, or $25 for individual members. The committee/board consists of five members, one from each country, and five substitutes. The committee meets twice a year, one of them in connection with the annual meeting and conference. One of the committee members is elected chair, and one is elected treasurer/book keeper. Our annual budget is c. 53.000 SEK ($9,000), and it covers the printing and distribution of the newsletter, meetings of the committee/board, international contacts (participation in international art library conferences), and membership of IFLA. But the budget covers only a small part of the actual costs of the activities. Half of the actual expenses from the association's activities are covered by the member libraries or parent institutions. The membership subscription is low, owing to the fact, that it is considered impossible for the art libraries to pay more. Consequently, the association is not able to pay for help. So, the activities of the association are conducted on a volunteer basis. It would be of great value to get professional help for secretary work, membership database, book keeping or editorial activities, so that the committee could be released for the association's primary objectives, the activities of cooperation and meetings for the members. But till now it has been considered an unrealistic ambition. Our countries and hence our art library communities are too small and still too young to have a professional level like ARLIS/UK & Ireland. But the meetings with ARLIS/UK & Ireland and the other national and regional art library societies give us inspiration and new ideas so that we wish to continue the work of improving our professional qualifications and cooperation. Report from France by Nicole Picot, Suzanne Day, and Marie-Claude ThompsonAssociation des Bibliothécaires français, Art libraries sub-sectionFormed in 1967 as part of the Association des Bibliothécaires Français, the Art Libraries Sub-section is a flexible group open to the exchange of new ideas. Sharing a common base of reflection, its members keep each other informed of their activities through field trips, meetings and exchange of correspondence, with the aim of promoting collaboration in order to resolve problems specific to art documentation. The Art Libraries Sub-section promotes encounters between librarians, serves as a platform for working meetings and as a force for group negotiations for colleagues from a wide variety of institutional backgrounds, including public and university libraries, schools of architecture and the fine arts, libraries of museums and state organizations. The Sub-section's principal themes of reflection concern acquisitions policies, organising collective catalogues, methods of cataloguing and in particular authority files used in indexing, evaluation of reference works and especialy new formats like CD-ROM, as well as group cooperation on a program aimed at the reproduction and diffusion of rare and frequently consulted documents. Noted for its dynamism, the Association, which has been successively presided by Jacqueline Viaux, Huguette Rouit, Denise Gazier, Geneviève Bonté, Annie Jacques, Catherine Schmitt, has always been attentive to new developments concerning the study of art history in France. It closely follows the activities of the Comité Français d'Histoire de l'Art, associations of art history professors and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, which are scheduled to be located on the rue de Richelieu after the relocation of the National Library, in the new Tolbiac building. Three committees are presently working on the following projects :
The catalogues of the Salons are deemed to be priority. Initiated by Louis XIV and Colbert in 1667, this prestigious event takes its name from the Salon Carré of the Palais du Louvre. Localization of sources which conserve the surviving documentation, fundamental to the study of the history of the French art and its influence abroad, has been completed. Production of the CD-ROM is not yet finalized, due to lack of funds.
In addition to one day seminars devoted to on-the-job training, high points on the calendar have included the national congresses held in Saint-Etienne (1989), Paris (1991), Besançon (1993), Grenoble (1996), Paris (1997). The Association has been represented at congresses of art libraries organized in Great Britain, Germany ,USA, the IFLA congresses and European colloquiums. The sub-section has published the educational publications indicated on the attached bibliography. Selections from Les Sources de l'Histoire de l'art en France. Répertoire des bibliothèques, centres de documentation et ressources an art, architecture, archéologie by Marie Claude Thompson with the collaboration of Catherine Schmitt and Nicole Picot. Paris : ABF/La Documentation française, 1993, is included in the International Directory of Art Libraries published by K.G. Saur for IFLA. Congress proceedings and reports on activities are regularly published in the Bulletin d'informations de l'Association des Bibliothécaires français. In order to promote contacts between the various art libraries associations, we would like to transmit news to our colleagues as regularly as possible. Please send relevant information to Susan Day, Chief Librarian, Institut Français d'Architecture , 6, rue de Tournon, 75006 Paris, France, who will forward.
A la recherche de la mémoire : le patrimoine culturel. Actes du colloque organisé par la Section des bibliothèques d'art de l'IFLA, Paris, 16/19 Août 1989. Ed. By Huguette Rouit and Jean-Marcel Humbert. Paris : Saur, 1992. Novembre des arts à Besançon : documentation, enseignement, recherche et histoire de l'art. Actes du colloque de la Sous-Section des bibliothèques d'art de l'Association des bibliothécaires français organisé à l'Ecole d'art de Besançon du 19 au 21 novembre 1993. Paris : Association des Bibliothécaires français, 1994. Art moderne et bibliographie : le dépouillement des périodiques et l'histoire de l'art du XXe siècle dans les répertoires bibliographiques. 2e ed. Report by Harry Bellet, Catherine Schmitt, Nicole Picot. Paris : Centre Pompidou/Bibliothèque publique d'information, 1995. Les catalogues d'expositions : guide de catalogage by Francine Delaigle. Paris : Documentation du Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Pompidou, 1991. Les collections d'art dans les bibliothèques : guide pour la constitution d'un fonds by Nicole Picot. Paris : Centre Pompidou/Bibliothèque publique d'information, 1993. Les Sources de l'histoire de l'art en France : répertoire des bibliothèques, centres de documentation et ressources en art, architecture , archéologie by Marie Claude Thompson with the collaboration of Catherine Schmitt and Nicole Picot. Paris : ABF/La Documentation française, 1993. Bulletin des bibliothèques de France, no. 1, 1993 : ‘Bibliothèques d'art’
Bulletin d'informations. Association des Bibliothécaires Français:
no. 154, 1st quarter 1992, Dossier : vers une bibliothèque nationale des arts? no. 167, 1st quarter 1995, Bibliothèques d'art, cinq ans d'activités. by Catherine Schmitt. no. 173, 4th quarter 1996, Dans la lumière de Matisse : proceedings of the 4th national meeting of the subsection held in Musée de Grenoble , 29/31 march 1996. no. 178, 1st quarter 1998, 30e anniverssaire de la Sous-section des bibliothèques d'art. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of Art Libraries. Les bibliothèques d'art : une communauté scientifique. Lecture at the meeting of the Association Générale des Conservateurs de Collections Publiques de France, Limoges, 1995. Musées et collections publiques de France, no. 212, 1996. Die Französchischen Kunstbibliotheken. Lecture given at the congress of the Museumsbibliotheken, Berlin, 7 march 1997. AKMB News, no. 1, May 1997. Report from Germany by Margret SchildWorking Group of Art and Museum Libraries in Germany - Arbeitgemein-schaft der Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken (AKMB)Since the beginning of the 1990s, the AKMB combines the interests of institutions and persons concerned with librarian work in the arts and humanities:
The AKMB was founded in February 1995 at Berlin. The first meeting of its members took place in the annual conference of librarians at Goettingen. Altogether the AKMB has 137 corporate and 72 personal members (1997/12/31). The AKMB organizes annual meetings of its members to support professional development by lectures, and to enable an exchange between the members. The themes of the lectures reflect the activities of the AKMB: in 1996 in the context of the Annual Librarian Conference held at Erlangen, alphabetical cataloguing, acquisition in art and museum libraries, the use of the German Authority File for Subjects (i.e. Deutsche Schlagwortnormdatei - SWD), have been subjects. In 1997 the meeting was organized in the context of the Conference of the Working Group of Special Libraries (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken) in Berlin. The focal point of this conference was subject indexing - the benefits of using German standards, developed mainly by university libraries. The problems of applying subject terms in specialized collections and ways towards a cooperation to improve the quality of the existing subject authority file were also addressed. Since 1995 specialized groups have been founded to discuss topics of the day-to-day librarianship and to define projects for the further work of the AKMB. Some examples of the working groups include the preparation and organization of courses and seminars, and the development of discussion groups among experts. The following groups currently exist: Data Processing, Acquisition, Cataloguing, Museum Libraries, One Person Libraries, and Subject Indexing. Courses and workshops enable the participants to discuss and solve practical problems, for example developing and / or creating new classifications for shelving and presenting the collection, preservation methods and conditions, and an ALLEGRO-C software user meeting. Between 40 and 70 persons participated in each course or workshop. Another result of the work during the first years is the edition of the "AKMB-news", which has been positive admitted by the colleagues. The news is published three times a year, reflecting activities of the AKMB by publishing relevant articles. The editing team acquires the articles for the issues as well as advertisements to raise funds for the publication and, over and above that, it manages together with the treasurer the subscriptions. In 1998 the AKMB plans the following activities: workshop on the preservation of printed materials in art and museum libraries at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel; the meeting of members and annual conference within the German Librarian Congress at Frankfurt am Main; the reinforcement of international contacts; a workshop on subject indexing at the Art Library at Berlin together with the annual meeting of the Documentation Working Group within the German Council of Museums in October; the annual meeting at Wolfenbuettel, ‘Data processing in art and museum libraries’; courses concerning the use of the use of the German Subject Authority File.
Further reading: Collaboration between artists and librarians in a German Magazine (Lutz Jahre). Art Libraries Journal Vol. 23 (1998), No. 1, S. 22-25.
AKMB on the WWW (German speaking): Reports from The NetherlandsAbstracts of the articles published in Art Libraries Journal, vol. 23 (1998) no.2.
The ‘Nachtwacht’ is not a Restaurant: The DutchESS Guide to Quality Information on the Internet DutchESS (Dutch Electronic Subject Service, formerly NBW) is an Internet guide for the academic community produced by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (the national library of the Netherlands) in cooperation with a number of Dutch academic libraries. The resources are selected by subject specialists who evaluate Internet information according to academic quality standards and make selections relevant to their own specific user groups. DutchESS has (as yet) no geographical restrictions, although it aims to cover Dutch resources as completely as possible. The service includes all disciplines, but the content depends on the contributions of individual subject specialists as well as on the bias of the participating libraries. A large number of art sites can now be found on the Internet, but many of them are superficial, lack substantial informative content, and/or are not relevant for academic research. Only a relatively small number meet the quality criteria of DutchESS and have been added to the database so far. Future developments of DutchESS may include participation in a European network of subject-based Information Gateways.
Automation at the RKD: a Short Overview The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) is one of the largest art documentation centres in the world. It maintains collections of millions of reproductions and press clippings, as well as housing a sizeable library of approximately 400,000 books. In the past decade the RKD has begun setting up various automated systems for the management of these collections. The major systems in operation are the automated library with some 30,000 records online and accessible for visitors, a database with bio- and bibliographical information on artists (100,000 records), and the recently-begun image database (approximately 8,000 records). Plans for the future include in-house and web access to all databases, continued improvement and expansion of the systems, retrospective conversion of parts of the collections and publication of CD-ROMs.
Now On-line: Dutch Nineteenth-century Exhibition Catalogues of Contemporary Visual Arts and their Contents
Recently it has become possible to get access, on the Internet, to a number of important items in CADENS, a work-in-progress project which is analysing the contents of all Dutch nineteenth-century exhibition catalogues of contemporary visual arts. As well as detailed information about the exhibition catalogues, a chronological compilation is available for each artist's exhibits. In future it will also be possible, using keywords, to search the titles of the exhibits online.
Book and Image: Art Libraries and Visual Resources in The Netherlands In Spring 1999 the Art Libraries Society / The Netherlands (OKBN) plans to organize a conference on ‘Book & Image: Visual Resources and Art Libraries’, to discuss various aspects of the whereabouts, accessibility and use of visual resources in art libraries and other collections of art historical documentation. By doing this we hope to increase awareness amongst art librarians and visual resource librarians of the necessity of communicating questions and sharing their experiences. In particular we need to find new ways of co-operating in order to meet the challenges posed by new technological developments and future users. A small work group of ARLIS-NL members, joined by some colleagues from slide libraries and visual archives, already meets bi-monthly for brainstorming sessions aimed at preparing an attractive and challenging program for this event.
BONAS: Two Centuries of the Life and Work of Dutch Architects Documented in a Database The BONAS database is the result of an initiative to gather and make easily accessible information about the work of nineteenth and twentieth century Dutch architects and related professionals. It gives details of their lives and works and of a large number of their buildings from about 1790 to the present. An extensive bibliography is being compiled at the same time, and the data is being published in a series of volumes on individual practitioners.
The Department of Old Books, alias the Treasury, of the Delft University of Technology Library The Delft University of Technology Library, the oldest technical library in the Netherlands, is the national focal point for collecting literature on the applied sciences and technology. A major part of this collection covers applied and visual arts, with works from the sixteenth and seventeenth century based on Vitruvius, others by Palladio, Serlio or Dutch architects like Hendrik de Keyser, and contextual material on architecture and the fine arts. The Treasury aims to be both a nationally and an internationally known collection of technological literature.
Network Collectie Nederland: An Intranet for Dutch Museums As of the first of January 1997, Dutch museums have been able to hook up the computerised service called Netwerk Collectie Nederland. The NCN is a closed network, an intranet on a subscription basis, meant for a limited group of professional users. It was created as a joint venture by several museum and governmental organisations and developed by the Instituut Collectie Nederland (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage). Its initial aim was to facilitate mobility of collections, i.e. the exchange of objects between collecting institutions in the Netherlands. The experience of the first operational year has shown that this focus is too narrow to enable the service to become financially self-supporting within four years, which is the goal. An intricate combination of push and pull factors of a political, technical and cultural nature contributes to a disappointing take-up of the NCN by its intended users. New directions are currently being studied to improve this situation. As a case study, the story of the NCN can serve as an example of the complexity of such endeavours. Report from Mexico by Elsa BarbarenaArt Libraries and Art Library Education in Mexico, the Art Section of AMBACThe AMBAC (Associacion Mexicana de Bibliotecarios A. C.) is the Mexican Library Association active since 1954. The Art Section was established in 1984, and included only the art and architectural libraries and the art and architecture book collections in other libraries. 20 libraries and book collections were included. In 1992 there was a petition from the president of AMBAC to include not only art, but the arts (literature, theater, music, dance). It was not until this year, 1998, that the art section will be expanded, including also rare book collections, because a rare book could be considered an art work together with painting, engraving design and sculpture. Nevertheless, the art libraries have been present in the art library world through the following actions:
For more information, please refer to IFLA Section of Art Libraries Newsletter, no. 17, Fall 1986, p. 5. Report from Norway by Torill WeigaardARLIS Norge (Norway) Annual Report 1997
By 1998 ARLIS Norge has entered its fifteenth year as a society. However let us for a moment recapitulate how it all started. In 1983 three Norwegian art librarians, Åse Markussen, Anne Lise Rabben and Astrid Skjerven, attended the IFLA Section of Art Libraries meetings in Munich. They returned home full of enthusiasm after meeting colleagues from all over the world. Inspired by Philip Pacey and Clive Phillpot, the idea of forming a Norwegian ARLIS had been born, with ARLIS/UK and Ireland as the model organization. Back in Norway an open meeting was called, the idea received overwhelming support by those present, and on 6th of October 1983, ARLIS Norge was a fact. After five years the membership had increased from 18 to 65. By the end of 1997, ARLIS Norge had 64 members: 28 institutional members and 36 personal members. A slight decrease in institutional memberships was caused by the effect of merging small academic institutions into larger units. Small is no longer considered beautiful. The number of private members, however, seems to be on the increase. Norway is a long and mountainous country but we still count members in most geographic regions, from Tromsø in the far north to Oslo in the south. The majority of members are, however, centered in and around the capital. On the 24th of January 1997 the annual meeting was held at the University Library in Oslo. Prior to the meeting we were given a lecture accompanied by a slide show on the topic, Unto Us a Child Is Born, about Christian Christmas motifs in art, from an exhibition at the National Gallery in Oslo. The board elected at the subsequent meeting was as follows: Ingeborg Buaas, Svein Engelstad, (The University Library of Oslo), Anne Grønli (The University Library in Trondheim), Torill Weigaard (The Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo). Specially invited to the annual meeting were the members of the board of ARLIS/Norden, who held its board meeting in Oslo simultaneously. After the meeting we all enjoyed dinner at a nearby French bistro. Many of our members are working in small or even one-person libraries. These social gatherings are an important opportunity to meet and talk to colleagues about the problems and pleasures of working life. The next meeting was held on the 17th of June at the Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. We were fortunate enough to have the curator of the large Yves Kline exhibition, Karin Hellandsjø, to show us around. Mrs. Hellandsjø has a background as a librarian and is one of the founding members of ARLIS Norge. The meeting was very well attended, and the hardiest of us had the cold pleasure of dining at a sidewalk café afterwards. Norwegians are a stubborn lot; if the calendar says June, it is summer and therefore one eats outdoors regardless of the temperature! The autumn meeting was held on the 2nd of December at the Library at the National Association of Norwegian Architects. We viewed their self-developed multimedia database on Norwegian Architecture, available to subscribers via the Internet. In addition, Sidsel Moum from the Oslo School of Architecture shared her experiences with us regarding a newly acquired multi-media software. Again the evening was pleasantly rounded off at an Indian restaurant. The board has had four meetings during 1997 and published three issues of our newsletter ARLIS Nytt with the board members as editors. The work with the database, Bibliography of Norwegian Art, is making steady progress. It is available on the web at: www.nbo.uio.no/baser/kunstbib_eng.html ARLIS Norge is a member of ARLIS/Norden, ARLIS/UK and Ireland, ARLIS/NA and the IFLA art section standing committee. Our IFLA member, Herlof Hatlebrekke, was re-elected in 1997 for the next four years. Svein Engelstad and Torill Weigaard are also members of the board of ARLIS Norden and have been responsible for editing one issue of ARLIS Norden Info. Report from Russia by Ada KolganovaThe Russian Library AssociationBefore telling you about our work in the concrete years 1997, I should make preliminary comments, from which the colleagues reading the newsletter can form some view of the Association activity in our country. The unification of librarians into professional and corporate groups (associations, unions) began only in the nineties during the formation of the new political situation. We felt this necessity most keenly when as a result of the decentralization, the bureaucratic management connections between libraries broke down. It should be also taken into account that the art libraries were separated long before, because they are related to different departments. On the initiative of the Russian State Art Library, the first who united were librarians of the special libraries of Moscow. They created a precedent in the history of the library, when art librarians of museums and institutes and art departments of large universal libraries united. The distinguishing feature of our Section is the fact that it embraces not only large libraries of the federal level, but also very small special libraries. They have a different status, position, funds, financial and technical (computer) potentialities. The task of ARLIS-MOS was to unite the efforts of the art libraries bent to broadening the potentialities of the special libraries mentioned: to raise their status, provide wide access to the information sources in the field of art, develop international cooperation, and permanently advance the professional level of art librarians. Then one of the first sections, RLARL, the Art Library Section, was founded on the basis of MOS-ARLIS. The active members of the Section are both specialists known in the IFLA Section (S. Artamonova, O. Sinitzina, R. Mikhaleva) and those who cannot yet participate in IFLA work, but who actively present their libraries in our joint work. There is no doubt that the difficulties and problems, common for the Russian libraries, complicate the work of the section, but it already has its own branch in St. Petersburg. We try to draw specialists from different regions of Russia into all arrangements, events and affairs. The main difficulty of the last years is sharp financial limitation, because of which we are very much limited in business trips not only abroad, but also within our country. It very much hampers professional contacts and has an influence on our plans. Especially it is very difficult to hold joint professional meetings, therefore we selected the following tactics. The first way: for our seminars and conferences we choose the places where large all-Russia meetings are taking place; the second way is to organize meetings according to separate trends and problems. Therefore it is very useful for us to take part in the international conference in the Crimea, to where I already invited IFLA colleagues and invite them once more with pleasure. The Crimean conference became a serious international symposium, where in 1998 we shall meet for the third time. We raised the problem of information technology support of art and the humanities. Several most productive trends and general projects were worked out for the last years, though they don’t always unite all the libraries. It gives an opportunity to those who have very limited support for software engineering and specialists to be developed. The members of the Section are choosing what project they should join. It is essential to note that defining the main tasks, the members of the Section try to support the general international trends, where the experience of the IFLA Section of Art Libraries is especially useful. For example, this interconnection is shown in the work under the project of developing fees for service. Our Section was one of the first to begin sowing the idea of adaptation of libraries to the new economic conditions. The first seminar concerned charged services in art libraries. Experience and problems with charged services was the featured topic in September 1994. There a general approach to the charged service was defined; prices and policies were analyzed and unified as far as possible. It was important to determine the trends of developing the charged service. The problem interested many, especially after the IFLA conference in Peking, and a seminar of an analogous theme was conducted in December 1997. It appeared to be businesslike and useful. The participants were workers of libraries, differing in their status and subordination. But the problems of the introduction of charged services are common for the Russian libraries. Most of the libraries have worked with charged service more than for 3 years. Everyone revealed their own peculiarities in the work. Such meetings make it possible to show how work of this kind is developing, what changes and innovations there are, and what is useful to take from the experience of other libraries. Not so long ago most librarians disapproved the attempts to take money from readers for any service. But the general work of the Section helps greatly to clarify the professional trends and to develop useful strategies to deal with these changes. Report from Spain by Javier DocampoRecent Meetings of Spanish Art Librarians: Towards a National AssociationThe 59th Congress and General Conference of IFLA in Barcelona in August 1993 and more specifically, the Satellite Meeting held August 18-21, was the first occasion for the meeting of Spanish art librarians. We shared our experiences and wishes for the future. One of the agreements made was to hold at least one annual meeting, each year in a different Spanish town. The enthusiasm of the Spanish librarians has made possible the holding of 5 meetings. The next year, 1994, the meeting took place in Madrid and served as a model for future encounters. First we visited many specialized libraries; afterward we had a working meeting in the Biblioteca Nacional. It was devoted to the need of a Spanish association and the first working group (which dealt with exhibition catalogues) began its development. The meeting in 1995 was held in Lisbon, which underlined the Iberian character of these meetings and the wish to unite Spanish and Portuguese librarians. The host was the Fundcao Gulbenkian, well known as the leading center of visual arts in Portugal. The central meeting focused on indexing in the field of art history. There was also a trip to the historical town of Coimbra. The most important change in the 1996 meeting, named formally as IV Encuentro de Bibliotecas de Arte, was the presentation of papers. The meeting took place in San Sebastian, a beautiful Basque town. The first day was devoted to papers dealing with various topics: the analysis of the collections of important libraries, (Centro de Estudios Historicos, and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, both in Madrid), grey literature in the field of art, photography as a documentation tool, and subject headings. More working groups were formed, dealing with exchange of publications and indexing and thesauri. There were also visits to libraries of some Basque towns. Last year the meeting was in Valencia. The number of papers grew to fourteen, and they focused on art periodicals. These papers have been published by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos. The main meeting dealt with the creation of a union catalog of art periodicals. Besides the working groups already extant, the formation of groups specialized in photography and rare and ancient collections were proposed. The VI Encuentro de Bibliotecas de Arte will be held in Barcelona from April 21-23. Its main topic will be the relationships between the libraries and institutions to which they belong. There will also be a seminar about libraries and royalties. The meeting will have some papers, the working groups will continue their projects, and there will be library visits. The coordinator of the meeting is Theresa Coso, from the Biblioteca General d’Historia de l’Art (Tel. 93/2684850, Fax 93/3154865, email: wbhage@correu.gencat.es). Report from the United Kingdom & Ireland by Beth HoughtonARLIS/UK & Ireland1997 has been an eventful year in the UK and we face a number changes and challenges in 1998. Gillian Varley, who has been Chair for the last 4 years, retires from that position in April 1998 (and from her post of Head of Public Services at the National Art Library). She will be well-known to many readers of the Newsletter, since she has attended a number of IFLA and art library conferences in Europe during her tenure. However, she will continue to be visible (and very active) in the field, as she has taken over from Philip Pacey as editor of the Art Libraries Journal. Philip has finally put away his editor’s blue pencil after decades of dedication to the Journal, a period during which he steered it from foundation to the major international journal of art librarianship it now is. In recognition of this achievement, and of his international and professional activities, he both received ARLIS/NA’s distinguished service award and was made an honorary member of ARLIS/UK & Ireland in 1998. Gillian will be replaced as Chair by Debby Shorley, of the University of Ulster in Belfast. A successful conference in Canterbury (attended by many overseas delegates) was followed by a study tour of Paris where we were made welcome at a number of key art libraries in the city. The 1998 Conference will be held in Bristol in July (details elsewhere in this Newsletter), the 1999 Conference at the University of Warwick (Midlands), 22 - 25 July, and we meet in Cambridge, 6 - 9 July, in the year 2000. We look forward to welcoming a regular number of overseas delegates at these events. ARLIS/UK & Ireland’s committees and working parties have had a busy year. In addition to organising the annual conference, the Education and Professional Development Committee organised a successful programme of visits and workshops for members as well as setting up a working party to liaise with the schools of librarianship and information studies on specialist training for art librarians. This Committee has also been examining the value of the relatively new national vocational qualifications (NVQs) for various levels of art library and information work, for example slide librarianship. Although the Committee for the National Co-ordination of Art Library Resources finally formally recommended winding up the Visual Arts Library and Information Plan (VALIP) in the absence of funding support from the newly formed national library body: The Library and Information Commission, this was in the belief that ARLIS/UK itself would carry forward the agenda of desired initiatives, albeit at a slower pace. The Committee continues to press forward with the Union List of Art, Architecture and Design Serials, which is already available on the National Art Library’s web site where it is hosted (http://nal.vam.ac.uk). Another project involved assessing the coverage and currency of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), with the intention of opening a dialogue with BHA staff on improvements to the service and on the ability of users to actually obtain the material cited. Work on guidelines on Stock Disposal began with the aim of producing a draft document for discussion at the 1999 Conference. The Committee was also active on a number of directory projects: launching work on a revised (and electronically held) edition of Art and design documentation in the UK: a directory of resources, with the intention of making electronic links to both the Union List of ... Serials, IFLA’s International directory of art libraries and, where possible, to the ARLIS/UK& Ireland Directory of members. A new working party was set up to survey and provide a focus for public librarians with art collections. The Cataloguing and Classification Committee completed work on a revised edition of its guidelines for cataloguing exhibition catalogues, available mid-1998, and on the copyright front, the Visual Resources Committee continued its liaison on the DACS Slide Licensing Scheme ( to which over 60 art slide libraries had signed up by the end of 1997). Independent of ARLIS, special interest and regional groups are proving a lively growth area with a very active group of Archivists involved in visual arts archives meeting regularly and a number of local and regional groups continuing to thrive (AVAIL in Ireland (North and South); SVAG in Scotland and LALIC in Leeds). Other non-ARLIS projects include ADAM, a gateway to art, design, architecture and media resources on the Internet (http://adam.ac.uk) and a project hosted by the UK Association of Art Historians to create a register of Artists’ Papers in UK repositories.
With so much activity, it is difficult to believe that one of our current preoccupations is concern about the decline of subject specialisation in libraries and the need to combat the prevailing view that clever computer systems and the universal availability of global chaos on the internet can replace subject knowledge. Report from the United States by Jeannette DixonThe Art Libraries Society of North America: Past and PresentARLIS/NA was founded in 1972 by a group of art librarians lead by Judith Hoffberg. Following the annual conference in Chicago of the American Library Association, this small group of art librarians felt the need to establish their own organization. ARLIS/NA was modeled on ARLIS/UK and Ireland, which was established in 1969. There are currently 1,500 members of ARLIS/NA. The mission of ARLIS/NA is to foster excellence in art librarianship and visual resources curatorship for the advancement of the visual arts. The focus is on continuing education for the members. The membership consists of art and architecture librarians, visual resources professionals, artists, curators, educators, publishers, book dealers, and other interested in visual arts information. There are five basic divisions based on work environments: Academic Libraries, Art and Design School Libraries, Museum Libraries, Public Libraries, and Visual Resources Collections. There are additionally sections, which are groups based on more focused interests: Architecture, Computers, Reference & Information Services, and Cataloging. Further, there are a number of round table which currently cover the following topics: Decorative Arts, Film and Video, Gay and Lesbian Interests, Indigenous Art and Culture, New Art, Serials, Space Planners, and Women and Art. All of these groups sponsor conference programs and projects. The focus of the year is the annual conference, which meets in a different city in North American every year. It offers opportunities to meet with colleagues in formal sessions, and informally over meals and in discussion groups. In 1998, the conference was held in Philadelphia, March 5 through 11. In addition to committee meetings and sessions, there were tours of local architecture, art libraries, and museums, as well as book exhibitions and numerous social events. Next year’s ARLIS/NA conference will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 25 – 31, 1999. A few of the topics which will be addressed are: the arts and architecture of the Pacific Rim/Pacific Northwest; staffing the art/architecture library; electronic art/architecture librarianship; art book publishing in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the United States; copyright issues and digitized images; and censorship issues. The association employees the services of a professional management firm, but the major part of the work of the organization falls to the membership. There are nineteen chapters throughout North America which are organized into regions: Canada, Midwest, Northeast, South, and West. The chapters and regions sponsor meetings in their own local areas, as well as provide for local arrangements and the planning of the content of the sessions for the ARLIS/NA annual conference. Of special interest to individuals living outside North America are some of our travel awards:
ARLIS/NA has an extensive publications program. ARLIS/NA Update is the society’s newsletter. It informs the membership of activities through reports from the membership. Art Documentation, the society’s journal, contains substantive articles of a scholarly and substantive nature. In the series of Occasional Papers, important titles that address professional concerns have been published, including Facilities Standards for Art Libraries and Visual Resources Collections, Concordance of Ancient Site Names, and The Art and Architecture Thesaurus Sourcebook. The electronic discussion list, ARLISL, provides an expedient forum for discussing and exchanging information, and you don’t have to be a member to participate. Visit the ARLIS/NA Website for more detailed information at: http://caroline.eastlib.ufl.edu:80/arlis/ New ARLIS Web SitesARLIS/UK & Ireland and ARLIS/Netherlands have each established a web site to disseminate information about the society and its activities.ARLIS/UK & Ireland is an independant body, founded in 1969, which became an education charity in 1995. Its mission is to provide relevant and timely information for its members and for anyone with a professional interest in art, architecture and design librarianship. Launch date 1 September 1997: http://arlis.nal.vam.ac.uk/
ARLIS/Netherlands is a consortium bringing together librarians and subjectspecialists of those libraries in the Netherlands that hold specialized collections on the visual arts and the history of art and architecture. It has its origins in 1982, but is was only in 1996 that the informal consortium was transformed into an official, registered association. Launch date 19 February 1998: http://www.let.ruu.nl/~okbn/
New Editor for the Art Libraries JournalThe longest running journal of art librarianship, the Art Libraries Journal, has a new editor, Gillian Varley, former Head of Public Services at the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has taken over from Philip Pacey of the University of Central Lancashire, who was the founder editor and has established the Journal’s position as the only worldwide quarterly in its field.Gillian Varley was previously responsible for the Art and Design Library at Kingston Polytechnic (now the University of Kingston). She is the compiler and editor of Art and design documentation: a directory of resources (ARLIS/UK & Ireland, 1993) and has recently completed a four-year term as Chair of ARLIS/UK & Ireland: the Art Libraries Society. The Art Libraries Journal works closely with the IFLA Section of Art Libraries, publishing a selection of its annual conference papers. Though mainly English-language, The ALJ also publishes articles in French, German and Spanish and these are normally accompanied by an English summary. Subscibers to Art Libraries Journal have the added benefit of receiving the IFLA Section of Art Libraries Newsletter as a courtesy mailing two times a year. Ideas for articles are warmly invited, and should be submitted to the editor, Gillian Varley, at 28 Fieldend, Twickenham, Middlesex TW1 4TF, England. Books for review may be sent to the Reviews Editor, Sheila Klos, at the Architecture & Allied Arts Library, 5249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5249, U.S.A. ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference, Bristol 2-5 July, 1998 Art, Architecture and Design: Sources, Practice, Libraries The 1998 ARLIS/UK & Ireland conference will be held at the University of Bristol’s Clifton Hill House, an imposing Palladian mansion built around 1747, and once the home of Victorian writer and critic John Addington Symons. Clifton, Bristol’s best-known quarter, is mainly Georgian in character, its most familiar landmark being Brunel’s spectacular Suspension Bridge spanning the Avon Gorge. The conference takes as its theme the practical and technical aspects of art, architecture and design librarianship, including sources for the applied and decorative arts. Bristol and Bath are ideal locations for this theme with their wealth of artistic and architectural heritage. On the first day introductory lectures will provide a backdrop to the art and architecture of Bristol and Bath, ending with an evening guided architectural walk through Clifton Village. Friday will be spent in the historic Roman city of Bath with a lecture and guided walks in the morning, followed by a choice of study visits each containing a particular study/sources/documentation element. It is planned to include the Building of Bath Musum, No.1 Royal Crescent, the Royal Photographic Society, Holburne Museum & Craft Study Centre, and the American Museum. On Saturday delegates will be able to choose from a number of practical workshop sessions on topics such as study skills, service promotion and display, quality assurance, income generation and fee-based services, and managing digital image projects. The final day will address some of the other issues currently affecting art, architecture and design librarianship. Conference speakers include James Ayres, Francis Greenacre, Trevor Fawcett, Stephen Green, Serena Kelly, Amanda Duffy, Jan van der Wateren, Beth Houghton and Grace Kempster. A final conference programme will be available shortly. To ensure you receive this, together with booking details, please contact one of the following:
Margaret Young Edinburgh Central Library George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EG Tel: +44 131 225 5584 ext.225 Fax: +44 131 225 8783
Sonia French 18 College Road Bromsgrove Worcs. B60 2NE Tel & Fax:+44 1527 579298 email: sfrench@arlis.demon.co.uk The IFLA Section of Art Libraries List of membersThe past three years, we have seen a steady increase in membership to the Section:
1997: 85 members 1998: 90 members Nevertheless ours is still a small Section and we should encourage as many people and organisations as possible to join. Currently membership for institutions costs 750 Dutch guilders (US $ 375) which includes membership of two sections. Libraries can register for additional sections at a charge of only 100 Dutch guilders (US $ 50). If your parent institution is already a member please ensure that your art library is represented by choosing to join the Section of Art Libraries. You can also join as a Personal Affiliate at 200 Dutch guilders (US $ 100) which includes membership of one Section.
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Australian Library and Information Association P.O. Box E441 KINGSTON ACT 2600 Australia Tel: *(61)(2)62851877 Fax: *(61)(2)62822249 E-mail: enquiry@alia.org.au/virginia.walsh@alia.org.au WWW-site: www.alia.org.au
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Art Libraries Society The Netherlands (ARLIS/NL) 2509 LK THE HAGUE The Netherlands Tel: *(31)(70)3471514 Fax: *(31)(70)3475005 E-mail: dullaart@rkd.nl WWW-site: www.let.ruu.nl/~okbn
Koninklijke Bibliotheek P.O. Box 90407 2509 LK THE HAGUE The Netherlands Tel: *(31)(70)3140911 Fax: *(31)(70)3140450 E-mail: secretariaat@konbib.nl / wim.vandrimmelen@konbib.nl WWW-site: www.konbib.nl
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) 2509 LK THE HAGUE The Netherlands Tel: *(31)(70)3471514 Fax: *(31)(70)3475005 E-mail: jvdstarre@artnet.xs4all.nl WWW-site: www.konbib.nl/rkd New Zealand
University of Canterbury, Library CHRISTCHURCH 1 New Zealand Tel: *(64)(3)3667001 Fax: *(64)(3)3642055 E-mail: r.hlavac@csc.canterbury.ac.nz WWW-site: www.library.canterbury.ac.nz Norway
Henie-Onstad Art Center Library N-1311 HöVIKODDEN Norway Tel: *(47)67543050 Fax: *(47)67543270
Arlis Norge, P.O. Box 1009 - Blindern N-0315 OSLO Norway Tel: *(47)22859226 Fax: *(47)22859050 E-mail: svein.engelstad@ub.uio.no Portugal
Departamento de Documentaçao e Pesquisa do Centro de Arte Rua Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt 1093 LISBON Codex Portugal Tel: *(351)(1)7935131 Fax: *(351)(1)7939294 E-mail: jresende@gulbenkian.pt
Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Biblioteca Geral de Arte 1093 LISBON Codex Portugal Tel: *(351)(1)7935131 Fax: *(351)(1)7935139 E-mail: artlib@gulbenkian.pt
Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico Palácio Nacional da Ajuda 1300 LISBON Portugal Tel: *(351)(1)3649725 Fax: *(351)(1)3641515 E-mail: ippar@telepac.pt Russian Federation
Centralized Library System 456 770 CHELYABINSK Oblast Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(35172)32821 Fax: *(7)(35172)32330 E-mail: galina@ptnt.ch70.chel.su
M.I. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature 109 189 MOSCOW Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(095)9153621 Fax: *(7)(095)9153637 E-mail: genieva@libfl.msk.su WWW-site: www.libfl.msk.su
Russian State Art Library 103 031 MOSCOW Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(095)2920653 Fax: *(7)(095)2920653 E-mail: silina@artlib.msk.ru
Russian State Library 101 000 MOSCOW Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(095)2023565/2906062 Fax: *(7)(095)9136933/2002255 E-mail: irgb@glas.apc.org
Russian Library Association 191 069 ST PETERSBURG Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(812)1102856/1105861 Fax: *(7)(812)1105861 E-mail: rnb@glas.apc.org
St Petersburg State Theatre Library 191 011 ST PETERSBURG Russian Federation Tel: *(7)(812)3120311 Fax: *(7)(812)3120311 E-mail: raisa@sptl.spb.su WWW-site: www.sptl.ru Scandinavia
Arlis Norden S-824 30 HUDIKSVALL Sweden Tel: *(46)(650)19609 Fax: *(46)(650)38186 Slovenia
Ms. Katja Kranjc SI-1000 LJUBLJANA Slovenia Tel: *(386)(61)311092 Fax: *(386)(61)214120 E-mail: k.apih@eunet.si South Africa
Ms Josephine Andersen CAPE TOWN 8000 South Africa Tel: *(27)(21)451628 Fax: *(27)(21)4610045 E-mail: joey@gem.co.za/sang@gem.co.za Spain
Col.legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris-Documentalistes de Catalunya 08003 BARCELONA Spain Tel: *(34)(3)3197675 Fax: *(34)(3)3197874 E-mail: cobdc001@sarenet.es WWW-site: www.greendata.es/cobdc/
Biblioteca Nacional 28071 MADRID Spain Tel: *(34)(1)5807800 Fax: *(34)(1)5775634 E-mail: luisalberto@bne.es WWW-site: www.bne.es
Instituto del Patrimonio Historico Español 28040 MADRID Spain Tel: *(34)(1)5504400/5504566 Fax: *(34)(1)5504444
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Biblioteca 28001 MADRID Spain Tel: *(34)(1)5777912 ext. 226/7 Fax: *(34)(1)4312757
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Guillem de Castro 118 46003 VALENCIA Spain Tel: *(34)(6)3863000 Fax: *(34)(6)3921094 Sri Lanka
Russell Bowden Bangalawatte KOTTAWA Sri Lanka Tel: (94)(1)840698 Fax: (94)(0)74765090 E-mail: russell@slt.lk Sweden
Svenska Bibliotekariesamfundet Box 5405, S-114 84 STOCKHOLM Sweden Tel: *(46)(8)7839325 Fax: *(46)(8)6633528 Switzerland
Association des Bibliothèques et Bibliothécaires Suisses CH-3008 BERNE Switzerland Tel: *(41)(31)3824240 Fax: *(41)(31)3824648 E-mail: bbs@bbs.ch WWW-site: www.bbs.ch
Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archéologie CH-1204 GENEVA Switzerland Tel: *(41)(22)3114411 Fax: *(41)(22)3120945 E-mail: info.baa@ville-ge.ch Turkey
Ms Tulin Zanbakoglu Ayaspasa Inonu Caddesi 63 80090 ISTANBUL Taksim Turkey Tel: *(90)(0212)2513565 Fax: *(90)(0212)2933638 United Kingdom
The British Library United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(1937)546123 Fax: *(44)(1937)546478 E-mail: ifla@bl.uk
ARLIS UK & Ireland (Art Libraries Society of the United Kingdom & Ireland) BROMSGROVE Worcester B6O 2NE United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(1527)579298 Fax: *(44)(1527)579298 E-mail: sfrench@arlis.demon.co.uk WWW-site: arlis.nal.vam.ac.uk
Mitchell Library GLASGOW G3 7DN, Scotland United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(141)2872999 Fax: *(44)(141)2872815
Dictionary of Art 25 Eccleston Place LONDON SW1W 9NF United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(171)8818356 Fax: *(44)(171)8818357 E-mail: tda@macmillan.co.uk WWW-site: www.groveartmusic.com
The Library Association LONDON WC1E 7AE United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(171)6367543 Fax: *(44)(171)4367218 E-mail: browns@la-hq.org.uk WWW-site: www.la-hq.org.uk/
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum LONDON SW7 2RL United Kingdom Tel: *(44)(171)9388315/303 Fax: *(44)(171)9388461/275 E-mail: enquiries@nal.vam.ac.uk WWW-site: www.nal.vam.ac.uk/ United States
Graduate School of Library & Information Science, 300 The Fenway BOSTON Massachusetts 02115-5820 United States Tel: *(1)(617)5212805 Fax: *(1)(617)5213192 E-mail: jmatarazzo@vmsvax.simmons.edu WWW-site: www.simmons.edu/gslis
Museum of Fine Arts, Library BOSTON Massachusetts 02115-5519 United States Tel: *(1)(617)3693386 Fax: *(1)(617)2479063 E-mail: nancyallen@mfa.org
Ms Deirdre E. Lawrence 200 Eastern Parkway BROOKLYN New York 11238-6052 United States Tel: *(1)(718)6385000 ext. 308 Fax: *(1)(718)6383731 E-mail: bklnmus2@metgate.metro.org
American Library Association CHICAGO Illinois 60611 United States Tel: *(1)(312)9446780 Fax: *(1)(312)9443897 E-mail: wgordon@ala.org
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO Illinois 60603 United States Tel: *(1)(312)8995097 Fax: *(1)(312)8991465 E-mail: ceike@artic.edu WWW-site: www/saic/flaxman/flaxman/
Ms Ann B. Abid 11150 East Blvd CLEVELAND Ohio 44106-1797 United States Tel: *(1)(216)4217340 ext. 537 Fax: *(1)(216)4210921 E-mail: abid@cma-oh.org
Ms Jeannette Dixon P.O. Box 6826 HOUSTON Texas 77265 United States Tel: *(1)(713)6397326 Fax: *(1)(713)6397399 E-mail: hirsch@neosoft.com
Joseph A. Busch 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 300 LOS ANGELES California 90049-1680 United States Tel: *(1)(310)4406343 Fax: *(1)(310)4407715 E-mail: jbusch@getty.edu
University of Minnesota Libraries, 309 - 19th Avenue South MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota 55455-0414 United States Tel: *(1)(612)6241807 Fax: *(1)(612)6269353 E-mail: t-shau@tc.umn.edu
Bobbie Xuereb 18 West 86th Street NEW YORK New York 10024 United States Tel: *91)(212)5013035 Fax: *(1)(212)5013098 E-mail: xuereb@bgc.bard.edu
Frick Art Reference Library (The Frick Collection) NEW YORK New York 10021 United States Tel: *(1)(212)2888700 Fax: *(1)(212)8792091 E-mail: barnett@frick.org
Museum of Modern Art, Library NEW YORK New York 10019-5498 United States Tel: *(1)(212)7089433 Fax: *(1)(212)3331122 E-mail: jekdahl@moma.org/dstarr@moma.org
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Suite 201 RALEIGH North Carolina 27607-7506 United States Tel: *(1)(919)7875181 ext. 2 Fax: *(1)(919)7874916 E-mail: pdepas@mercury.internet.com / arlisna@compuserve.com WWW-site: afalib.uflib.ufl.edu/arlis
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Library SAN FRANCISCO California 94118-4598 United States Tel: *(1)(415)3798826 Fax: *(1)(415)6688828 E-mail: jstuckey@asianart.org WWW-site: www.asianart.org
Special Libraries Association WASHINGTON D.C. 20009 United States Tel: *(1)(202)2344700 Fax: *(1)(202)2659317 E-mail: sla@sla.org List submitted by IFLA Headquarters, February 28, 1998 Booking FormSpecial arrangements for art librarians organised by ARLIS/NetherlandsIFLA Conference 16-21 August 1998
Name...................................................................... Institution............................................................... Address................................................................... Country................................................................... Tel. No. +......................... Fax. No. +............................ E-mail: .................................................................. I wish to book for the following parts of the art librarians’ arrangements: Tuesday, 18 August, afternoon Visits to the Royal Library and the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague Travelling costs from Amsterdam to The Hague at your own expenses (return ticket Dutch guilders 25; US $ 12; £ 7) YES / NO accompanying person YES / NO Reception Royal Library YES / NO accompanying person YES / NO Wednesday, 19 August City walk and art library visits in Amsterdam - Special tour for art librarians, sponsored by ARLIS/NL and Erasmus Booksellers (maximum 100 guests) City walk with art library visits: YES / NO accompanying person: YES / NO Canal boat lunch YES / NO Vegetarian YES / NO accompanying person YES / NO Vegeterian YES / NO Reception Amsterdam Historical Museum YES / NO accompanying person YES / NO The lunch on the canal boats is sponsored by Erasmus Booksellers. Last booking will be 1 July, 1998.
Please send completed form to:
ARLIS/NL Library Rijksmuseum P.O. Box 74888 NL-1070 DN Amsterdam The Netherlands Fax: +31 20 6798146 E-mail: bibliotheek@rijksmuseum.nl
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