The online library catalogue of the Centre canadien d'architecture /
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montréal, has today been added as a
new target system to the virtual catalogue for art history artlibraries.net
(www.artlibraries.net). (Thanks to Uwe Dierolf, University Library of
Karlsruhe, and to Janusmedia, Munich)

Judy Silverman, CCA's Acting Head Librarian, characterizes the collection in
these words:
The Library of the CCA is an international research collection devoted to
the literature of architecture in its broadest sense, including its
professional history, its formal and theoretical elements and its
relationship to the main currents of intellectual history. The collection
comprises materials relating to the history of architectural theory,
practice, and publishing from the fifteenth century to the present.
Collection strengths: Renaissance treatises, fortification treatises,
festival books, architectural toys and games, architectural trade catalogues
and materials relating to international expositions.
Special collections include: the Trissino Collection of early books on
Italy, the Harris Collection of British Country House Guides, the Edward
Craig Theatre Collection and Historic Theatres' Trust Collection, the C.
Donald Cook Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, the Hoffman Collection of
souvenir buildings.
Searchable holdings: Approximately 173,000 bibliographic records may be
searched, including scholarly monographs, rare books, exhibition catalogues,
microforms, audiovisual materials and electronic resources, ephemera files,
three-dimensional objects, and over 5,000 serial titles (ca. 760 current).

For more detailed information, please visit www.cca.qc.ca