The Virtual Catalogue for Art History (www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk/vkk
or www.artlibraries.net) has today been enriched by two new target
systems of utmost importance: the Library of the Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, and the National Art Library, Victoria and
Albert Museum. London.
Research Library at the Getty Research Institute: General collections
include more than 900,000 volumes, incl. 140,000 auction catalogs on the
history of art, architecture, and archaeology since prehistory and
antiquity and extending to contemporary art in Europe, North America,
Latin America, and selected regions of Asia. Special collections contain
rare books, prints, photographs, manuscripts, and archival collections.
The online catalogue currently contains ca. 650,000 bibliographical
records for books, microforms, A/V materials etc., and about 15,000
serial/periodical titles (3,500 current).
National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The
collections main strenghts focus on the main collecting areas of the
Museum and the Library\'s own specialist area in the history of the art,
craft and design of the book. There are also strong collections in
architecture. Major strengths are in sales catalogues, particularly
18th and 19th century and in exhibition catalogues. The online catalogue
now provides 750,000 records for all forms of material held, both the
documentary collections of literature (about 1 million printed items) ,
and the material, both historic and contemporary, which now forms part
of the V&A Word and Image department\'s curatorial collections.
Both the Getty Library and the NAL provide in-depth subject indexing for
their holdings.
With the inclusion of these two institutions, the Virtual Catalogue for
Art Histories gives access to about 5,7 million records. A significant
percentage of these records concerns articles from periodicals and
collective writings as well special collections as photographic
collections, manuscripts and archival collections.
To better communicate the project’s international scope and purpose, a
complete relaunch of the interface is in preparation for the beginning
of 2007. On this occasion, the project will probably be rechristened as
artlibraries.net. You may already use the pertinent URL:
www.artlibraries.net.
Special thanks to Uwe Dierolf and Ernst Rotzinger from the University
Library of Karlsruhe for the technical work!
For the VKK committee
Rüdiger Hoyer
Reference:
WWW: Virtual Catalogue for Art History : new target systems. In: ArtHist.net, Nov 16, 2006 (accessed Nov 2, 2024), <https://arthist.net/archive/28738>.