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Art Libraries Section

Scope

The Section endeavors to represent libraries and organizations concerned with all formats of textual and visual documentation for the visual arts, including fine arts, applied arts, design and architecture. The Section strives to improve access to information about these subjects for users of independent research libraries, museum libraries, art libraries attached to educational institutions art departments within national, college, university and public libraries, government departments and agencies, libraries in cultural centres and other collections of art information. The Section is also concerned with the creation, study and enjoyment of the visual arts through these libraries and with the encouragement of activities of national and regional societies of art librarians and visual resources curators. It provides an international forum for the free exchange of information and materials on art and furthers the aims of the Core Activities of IFLA.

Strategic Plan

2006-2007 | 2004-2005

Projects

INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF ART LIBRARIES

The Editor, Thomas Hill, engaged the support of 53 Regional Co-ordinators covering most of the world. This dedicated team provided the Editor with a complete update of facts and he was able to produce camera-ready copy for K.G. Saur to publish the Directory in time for the Copenhagen conference. ARLIS/NA deserves our gratitude for undertaking the development of the Directory in electronic form, and especially Thomas Hill, staunchly supported by Vassar College, for single-mindedly pursuing the objective.

Future tasks will include not only keeping the data up-to-date but also gathering information on some countries for which no data is as yet available - North and South Korea, Georgia, the former Soviet states of Central Asia, Burma, Viet-Nam, Albania, Macedonia, Iraq, Iran and Cambodia.

Project leader: Thomas Hill, Vassar College Box 512, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA, Telephone: (1) 914 437 5791, Fax: (1) 914 437 5864, Email: Thhill@vassar.edu

URL: http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/

Hill, Thomas (comp.) International Directory of Art Libraries. KG Saur, 1997. 251 pages. ISBN 3-598-21807-9.
Available electronically at: http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/

THE MULTILINGUAL GLOSSARY FOR ART LIBRARIANS
2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1996. [PDF: 474 KB]
English with Indexes in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish

Publications

Newsletter

2007: No. 61 | No. 60
2006: No. 59 | No. 58
2005: No. 57 | No. 56
2004: No. 55 | No. 54
2003: No. 53 | No. 52
2002: No. 51 | No. 50
2001: No. 49 | No. 48
2000: No. 47 | No. 46

Section Leaflet

English | French | German | Italian | Spanish | Portuguese | Russian

Imageline

Annual Report

2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000

Conferences

Minutes of Meetings

2007 Durban: 18th and 24th August
2006 Seoul: 19th and 25th August
2005 Oslo: 13th and 19th August
2002 Glasgow: 17th August | 23rd August

Mailing lists:

IFLAART - Art Libraries Mailing List: IFLAART is a closed mailing list intended to support the activities of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Art Libraries Section. Messages to the list can be posted by the list members only, and uniquely from their specified email addresses. For this reason, any member may add additional email addresses, if needed. Corrections and additions should be sent to the administrator of the list who will deal with the necessary updates.

Useful Addresses

Chair:
Olga Sinitsyna
Deputy Director General
All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature
1 Nikolojamskaja Street
109 189 MOSCOW
Russian Federation
Tel. +(7)(495)9153621
Fax +(7)(495)9153637
Secretary/Information Coordinator/Editor:
Eila Rämö
Information Specialist, Deputy Director
University of Art and Design
Hämeentie 135 C FIN-00560 HELSINKI
Finland
Tel. +(358)(9)75630243
Fax +(358)(9)75630246
Treasurer:
Susan M. Allen
Chief Librarian, Research Library
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
LOS ANGELES, CA 900490-1688
United States
Tel. +(1)(310)4407611
Fax +(1)(310)4407781