   
Newsletter of the Section of Art Libraries
March 1996,
Volume 38, 1996, No. 1
ISSN: 0261-152X
Beijing 1996
IFLA Conference 25-31 August 1996
The Section of Art Libraries will be meeting as follows. Exact times
are not yet available.
Friday 23 August
1400-1800
Special Libraries Co-ordinating Board (for elected officers only)
Saturday 24 August
Art Libraries Standing Committee meeting I
Evening
IFLA Officers reception
Sunday 25 August
All day - Orientation to IFLA for new members
Evening
Opening of exhibition and reception
Monday 26 August
Conference opening and Plenary session
Evening
Reception
Tuesday 27 August
Art Libraries Open Programme Session
Main Convention Center
Evening
Entertainment
Wednesday 28 August
Programme sessions of Sections and Round Tables
Evening
Local Government reception
Thursday 29 August
Section of Art Libraries Workshop
Main Convention Center
Evening
Receptions
Friday 30 August
a.m. - Art Libraries Standing Committee meeting II
p.m. - Special Libraries Co-ordinating Board meeting
Closing session
Saturday 31 August
Excursions
There will be many opportunities during the conference to attend
sessions by other Sections of IFLA such as on:
- Acquisition and Exchange
- Management
- Cataloguing
- Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Document Delivery and Interlending
- University & General Research Libraries
- Education and Training
- User Education Library
- Theory and Research
There will also be organised tours to libraries in Beijing and post-
conference tours. The charge for post-conference tours will be
additional to the registration costs.
Conference Hotel
In the past the art librarians have always tried to stay together in
the same hotel. This year we have selected the Continental Grand
Hotel which is connected to the Convention Center with underground
tunnels. You should note that the price is US$ 85 per night but
this is not per person - it is per room and every room has 2 beds.
So it is much better value than one thinks!
Registration
The cost of registration for the IFLA conference is $350 before 1
May and $400 after that. Registration forms can be obtained from
IFLA Headquarters, PO Box 95312, 2509 CH The Hague,
The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-70-3140884,
Fax: +31-70 -3834827,
E-mail: IFLA@ifla.org.
Completed Registration forms should be sent to Mr. Qiu Dongjiang,
Room 5030,
Beijing International Convention Center,
8 Beichendong
Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
100101, P.R. China. Telephone:+86-10-4933308/+86-10-4913623,
Fax:+86-10-4910257
(After 8 May 1996 Telephone: +86-10 64933308/+86-10-64913623,
Fax:+86-10-64910257.)
Open Session Programme
To be held at the main Convention Center on Tuesday 27 August
Theme:
Chinese libraries and collections within and outside China.
Chinese art libraries moving towards the 21st century -An
exposition on the development of the Reference Library of Chinese
Academy of Arts
Dai Shujuan, Library of Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing, China
The provision and use of information on Chinese art in
London
libraries Haiyao Zheng, National Art Library, London, England
Copper-engraving in China. The first Chinese-European co-
operative project in the field of art
Hartmut Walravens, ISBN Agency, Berlin, Germany
Workshop Programme
To be held at the main Convention Center on Thursday 29 August
Theme: Pay or profit: Fee or free
- Introduction to the Workshop
Jan van der Wateren, Chairman, IFLA Section of Art LibrariesNational
Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
- Paying for services: experiences at the Smithsonian
Institution
Cecilia Chin and Ildiko P DeAngelis, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington DC, USA
- Free to fee: The current account from an academic
librarian
Karen Latimer, Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Self-financing services in Libraries: a method of increasing
limited library budgets in Post Communist Romania
Sally Wood-Lamont and Joana Robu, Central Library, Club-Napoca,
Romania
- Tariffing digital images: the Spanish background
Javier Docampo, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain
- Subsidizing end user access to research databases: from card
file to the World Wide Web
Angela Giral, Avery Library, New York and Joseph Busch, Getty Art
History Information Program, Santa Monica, USA
- Paid services at the Library for Foreign Literature(Moscow):
new objectives, experience, perspectives
Olga Sinitsyna, MI Rudomino Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow,
Russia
Art Libraries Congress Grenoble, 29/31, March
1996
Held in the Musès de Grenoble, the fourth congress of the
art libraries sub-section of the ABF was attended by 130
participants from museum and university libraries, art and
architecture schools, as well as major establishments including the
Bibliothéue Nationale de France and the Centre nationald'art
et de culture Georges Pompidou.
The program was:
RAMEAU AUTHORITY FILE
In collaboration with the Service de Coordination Bibliographique of
the Bibliothèue Nationale de France, a group was formed with
a view to completing the RAMEAU (Rértoire d'Autorité-
Matiè Encyclopéique et Alphabéique
Unifié authority file and specifically the domains relating
to art and architecture terminology.
Marie Claude Thompson (BNF. Déartement des estampes et de
laphotographie) reported on the results of an investigation made
last summer to determine the needs of art libraries with regard to
automated cataloguing, network services, importation of
bibliographic notices, subject indexation, and the use of
authority files or thesauri .
Véonique Lacan (BNF, SCB) presented Rameau (used now by
almost 400 specialized and university libraries).
A committee was formed with a view to improving 20th century art
and architecture terminology used in Rameau.
Catherine Arminjon (Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et
des Sites) and Maryse Bideault (Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art ,
CNRS, Getty AHIP) gave useful information about their experience in
indexing art documentation.
These lectures showed wide diversity in the automated management
programmes and indexation methods used by libraries, revealing the
need for better coordination and training.
CATALOGUING OF INACCESSIBLE DOMAINS
A working group, presented by Jean Paul Oddos (Documentation du
MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou) is establishing the parameters required
for computerized cataloguing of files (albums) on artists and
photographic materials. This documentation is essential to
scientific research in museums.
CD-ROM ON FRENCH SALONS
The aim of this working group was presented by Marie Elisabeth
Wisniewki (Biblioth$BoR(Jue et archives desmus$BqF(Js nationaux) : to
edit these fragile and muchconsulted documents as a viable alternative to
manual consultation. We selected four Salons as priority:
- The Salon de l'Acad$BqN(Jie Royale de Peinture et de Sculture (1673/1983)
- The Salon de la Soci$BqU(J+ nationale des beaux-arts (1890-1983)
- The Salon des Ind$BqQ(Jendants (1884/1993)
- the Salon d'Automne (1903/1994)
Reproducing the leaflets in text mode will facilitate rapid access
to the text and indexes (names of exhibitors, titles of works
displayed). The Chadwyck-Healey Company is making a feasability
study to produce and distribute the CD-ROM.
Two round tables allowed librarians in the art schools (presided by
Mireille Etignard, Ecole d'art de Besan$BmP(Jn) and museum libraries
(Isabelle le Masne de Chermont, Biblioth$BoR(Jue et archives des
mus$BqF(Js nationaux, Paris) to exchange ideas about their work.Demonstrations
of CD-ROM and the Internet completed the session.
Four booksellers proposed information on their services :Casalini
Libri, Erasmus, L$BqP(Jnce Laget,Macmillan Dictionary of art.
It was also the occasion to give information about IFLA publications:
- International index of art libraries
- Lexicon of art and library science terminology
The questionnaire concerning job training for art libraries (an
initiative proposed by Beth Houghton, Tate Gallery library, London)
was given out. It has been translated into French.
We had also the pleasure to meet again some foreign colleagues.
Gillian Varley (Head public services National Art Library, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London and Chair ARLIS/UK and Ireland) presented
a paper on cooperative projects with the British Library.
We met also Ulrike Michalowski (Gesamthochschul-bibliothek Kassel),
R(I|(Jdiger Hoyer (Zentralinstitut f(I|(Jr Kunstgeschichte, Munich), Jean-
Pierre Dubouloz and Marie Fran$BmP(Jise Guillermin (Biblioth$BoR(Jue
d'art et d'arch$BqP(Jlogie, Gen$BoW(Je), Hiroyuki Hatano (The National Museum of
Western Art, Tokyo).
Sylvie Crouzet (Biblioth$BoR(Jue municipale d'$BqU(Jude et d'information,
Grenoble) presented the regional network of libraries in Grenoble
and invited us to a Matisse "Jazz" exhibition and to a concert. We
visited the Mus$BqF(J de Grenoble, the Mus$BqF(J Dauphinois and the
Mus$BqF(J de
la R$BqW(Jolution fran$BmB(Jise au Ch$BcU(Jeau de Vizille.
Suzanne DAY, Nicole PICOT
April 1996
ARLIS Worlwide 4: Questionnaire Set Out by the Editor
Revised version in English of the article on ABF put in the newsletter No.34.
Sous-section des Biblioth$BoR(Jues d'Art de l'Association des
Biblioth$BqD(Jaires Fran$BmB(Jis (ABF)
7, rue des Lions Saint-Paul
75004 PARIS
Tel.:+33-1-48-87-97-87
Fax.:+33-1-48-87-97-13
Pr$BqT(Jidente : Nicole PICOT
Biblioth$BoR(Jue et Archives des Mus$BqF(Js Nationaux Direction des
Mus$BqF(Js de
France
6, rue des Pyramides
75041 PARIS cedex 01
Tel. : +33-1-40-20-58-95
Fax. : +33-1-40-20-51-69
Founded in 1967 by Jacqueline Viaux
Purpose: Exchange of ideas, reflection and cooperation through field
trips, meetings, training seminars, working groups, with the aim of
resolving problems specific to art documentation through
collaboration. The wide range of art libraries, the large number of
government administrations involved and the impact of
decentralization make a common structural base more and more
necessary.
Number of individual members : 100
Principal publications :
THOMPSON (Marie Claude).-Les sources de l'histoire de l'art en
Franc: r$BqQ(Jertoire des biblioth$BoR(Jues, centres de documentation et
ressources documentaires en art, architecture et arch$BqP(Jlogie
r$BqB(J
lis+ par Marie Claude Thompson avec le concours de Catherine Schmitt
et Nicole Picot.- Paris : ABF , 1993.
Novembre des arts + Besan$BmP(Jn: documentation, enseignement,
recherche et histoire de l'art.
Actes du colloque de la Sous-section des biblioth$BoR(Jues d'art de
l'ABF organis+ + l'Ecole d'art de Besan$BmP(Jn du 19 au 21 novembre
1993.- Paris : ABF, 1994.
SCHMITT ( Catherine).-Biblioth$BoR(Jues d'art, cinq ans d'activit+
(1989-1994)
In.:Bulletin d'information de l'ABF. N(I0(J 166, 1 er trimestre
1995 : pp.83/88.
IFLA Section of Art Libraries List of Members 2:new
members
We have seen a dramatic increase in membership to the Section. Since
publishing our list in Newsletter no.36, 1995, no.1 some 22 further
members joined whilst 4 members did not renew membership. Their
details are listed below.
Nevertheless ours is still a very small Section and we should
encourage as many people and organisations as possible to join.
Currently membership for institutions costs 600 Dutch Guilders
(c.US$ 362) which includes membership of two Sections. Libraries can
register for additional sections at a charge of only 100 Dutch
Guilders (c.US$ 60). 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 (c.US$ 120) which includes
membership of one Section.
BELGIUM
ROYAL MUSEUM FOR FINE ARTS, LIBRARY
Dieter Lampens
Scientific Librarian
Plaatsnijdersstraat 2
B-2000 Antwerpen
VLAAMSE VERENIGING VOOR BIBLIOTHEEK-ARCHIEF-EN DOCUMENTATIEWEZEN (VVBAD)
President: E Pairon
Waterloostraat 11
B-2600 Berchem
Antwerpen
CHINA
CHINA SOCIETY FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE
c/o National Library of China
Secretary General: Liu Xiangsheng
39 Bai Shi Qiao Road
Beijing 100081
FRANCE
ASSOCIATION DES DIPL(IT(JM(II(JS DE L'ECOLE DE BIBLIOTH(II(JCAIRES-
DOCUMENTALISTES
President: Ms. Marie-C$BqD(Jile Comerre
s/c Biblioth$BoR(Jue du Saulchoir
43bis rue de la Glaci$BoS(Je
75013 Paris
BIBLIOTH(IH(JQUE DU SAULCHOIR
Michel Albaric
43bis rue de la Glaci$BoS(Je
75013 Paris
BIBLIOTH(II(JQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
Richelieu Site
President: Jean Favier
2 rue Vivienne
75084 Paris Cedex 02
UNIVERSIT(II(J PARIS XII-VAL-DE-MARNE
Service Commun de Documentation
Director: Ms. Dominique Roche
61 avenue du G$BqOqS(Jal de Gaulle
94010 Creteil Cedex
HONG KONG
URBAN COUNCIL PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Chief Librarian: Michael Mak
6th Floor, High Block
City Hall, Edinburgh Place
Hong Kong
IRAN
IRANIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE ORGANIZATION DOCUMENTATION CENTER (ICHO-DOC)
Head: Ms. Fariba Farzam
Azadi Avenue
PO Box 13445/719
Tehran
PORTUGUAL
DEPARTAMENTO DE DOCUMENTA(IG(JAO E PESQUISA
DO CENTRO DE ARTE
Moderna Jos+ de Azeredo Perdigao
Jorge M Resende
Rua Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt
1093 Lisboa Codex
INSTITUTO PORTUGU(IJ(JS DO PATRIM(IS(JNIO ARQUITECT(IS(JNICO EARQUOL(IS(JGICO (IPPAR)
Library
Pal$BaD(Jio Nacional da Ajuda
300 Lisbon
RUSSIA
RUSSIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
President: V. N. Zaitsev
18 Sadovaja Street
191 069 St Petersburg
RUSSIAN STATE ART LIBRARY
Director: Ms. Tamara I Silina
8/1 Pushkinskaja Street
103 031 Moscow
ST PETERSBURG THEATRE LIBRARY
Director: Ms. Raisa A Mikhaljova
2 Zodchy Rossi Street
190 011 St Petersburg
SPAIN
MUSEO ARQUEOL(IS(JGICO NACIONAL, LIBRARY
Ms. Del Rosario Lopez de Prado
c/Serrano 13
28001 Madrid
SRI LANKA
RUSSELL BOWDEN
1115/1 Parakum Mawatha
Bangalawatte
Kottawa
TURKEY
ZANBAKOGLU
Ms. tulin
c/o Traditional Design and Book Center
Ayaspasa Inonu Caddesi 63
80090 Istanbul, Taksim
UNITED STATES
JOSEPH A. BUSCH
c/o Getty Art History Information Program
401 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1100
Santa Monica
California 90401
FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY (of The Frick Collection)
Chief Librarian: Mrs. Patricia J Barnett
10 East 71st Street
New York
New York 10021
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, SIMMONS COLLEGE
Dean:James M. Matarazzo
300 The Fenway
Boston
Massachusetts 02115
MRS. KAREN MULLER
733 W. Briar Place
Chicago
Illinois 60657
MS. SUSAN G. SWARTZBURG
c/o Rutgers University
(H) 1050 George Street #4L
New Brunswick
New Jersey 08901
MEMBERSHIPS NOT RENEWED
AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION
Executive Director: Ms. V Walsh
RUSSIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR IFLA, SECRETARIAT
c/o The Russian State Library
Secretary: Ms. L F Kozlova
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES
JAMES M. BOWER
c/o Getty Art History Information Program
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
New address of ARLIS/Norden is as follows:
ARLIS/Norden
Kerstin Assarsson-Rizzi
Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek
Box 5405
S-114 84 Stockholm
Sweden
National Art Library and the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web pages of the National Art Library (Great Britain)
are now available via the Internet and can be accessed as follows:
http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/
The Library's on-line computer catalogue can be accessed from within
these WWW pages. The Library's computer catalogue contain all items
catalogued since 1987, plus an increasing amount of older material.
If you wish to go straight to the catalogue rather than through the WWW, use the following address:
telnet nal. vam.ac.uk
At the login:prompt, type opac and press RETURN
We welcome everybody's visits to our site.
Jan van der Wateren
Keeper and Chief Librarian
National Art Library, London
Bibliotecas de arte, arquitectura y dise(Iq(Jo:perspectivas actuales. Art, Architecture and Design Libraries: current trends. Barcelona, 18-21 August 1993
The proceedings of the IFLA Section of Art Libraries Satellite
meeting in Barcelona were published in December 1995 as IFLA
Publications number 74. In this publication the 32 papers which were
presented at the conference, some of them updated at the request of
the authors, plus eight which were not read due to lack of time,
have been collected together.
The conference had a general title:"Art, Architecture and Design
Libraries: current trends" and the aim of the conference was to
point out current trends in art librarianship. Since the conference
was held in a Spanish city, almost half of it was dedicated to
Spanish art and architecture documentation and to Spanish art
libraries and their collections.
The book is divided into five sections, one each for the themes of
the conference programme.
Theme 1. Art, architecture and design libraries: current
trends, with contributions from Michel Melot (Paris), Jan
van der Starre (Netherlands), Douglas Dodds (United Kingdom), John
Kirby (United Kingdom) and Amelia Maria Moreira (Brazil).
Theme 2. Image processing of iconographic material in art
documentation gathers seven papers on the processing of such
material, for example digitization projects in two national
libraries (Spain and Italy), in the collection of photographs in an
art research institution (Departamento de Arte Diego Vel zquez
CSIC, Spain) and recent developments in Japan.
Theme 3. Documentation of architecture and design: libraries
and archives includes five papers that range from European
co-operation between architectural libraries, to the presentation of
architecture libraries in Catalonia from their very beginnings, and
archives as a source of information in architecture.
Theme 4. Documentation of Spanish art and architectural
heritage collects seven papers, covering documentation from
Spanish art at the Frick Art Reference Library in New York to ARCAT,
a database specialising in Catalan Romanesque art.
Theme 5. Spanish art libraries and special collections
brings together eight papers that present eight collections in Spanish
art libraries in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada and Palma de
Mallorca.
In addition the publication also includes the speeches of the
opening and closing session, as well as the conference programme and
the list of participants.
Copies can be purchased from K.G. Saur Verlag, Postfach 70 16 20, D-
81316 Munich, Germany for DM168.00 (DM126.00 for IFLA members).
Credit card payments (Visa and American Express) are also accepted.
ISBN 3-598-21801-X
ISSN 0344-6891 (IFLA Publications)
Ma Llu$B}T(Ja Pons and Conxita Sangenis, Editors
JADS Information: A small window reporting our activities
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the No.1 issue of
JADS Information, the annual English newsletter of Japan Art
Documentation Society (JADS). The purpose of this newsletter is to
introduce the activities of JADS and to exchange information and
opinions among art librarians, art documentalists, art historians
and all persons and organizations concernedaround the world.
We recognize the importance of the publication of the English
newsletter for our further development of activities. JADS was
established in 1989 to contribute to the promotion of activities and
the solution of problems in art documentation from not only internal
but international viewpoints.
As you will see on the last page of No.1 issue of JADS
Information, Mr. Takeshi Mizutani, member of International
Exchange Committee of JADS, referred to IFLA Tokyo Conference held
in 1986.
He mentioned that the opportunity of communicating and sharing the
time and place with overseas colleagues of ARLIS/NA, ARLIS/ANZ and
others at that meeting stimulated us and produced the result of the
establishment of JADS 3 years later.
It may safely be said that such an international exchange seeded the
birth of the new association in Japan.
Fortunately some of us could attend or participate as speakers in
international conferences like IFLA SAL and so on. Especially Mr.
Hiroyuki Hatano, Acting President and Secretary General of JADS, has
been making continuous efforts to convey Japanese new trends and
movements in art documentation at such conferences.
At the same time we are conscious that we need to expand the
communications with the colleagues who can not afford to attend such
conferences.
JADS Information is a very small window reporting our
activities. We apologize for the five year suspension since the
preliminary issue (No.0) was published in 1991. We would like to lay
the foundations of the publication and set it on the path as an
annual newsletter.
Though the language problem is always a great wall against us, we
will consider the best way to give the information. The contents of
No.1 issue is mainly an introduction of JADS and its 7 years of
activities, and brief English summaries from The Bulletin of
Japan Art Documentation Society and Proceedings of the First Forum
on Art Documentation: Art Information and Library Services. From
the next issue we will add the articles to introduce Japanese art
libraries or Japanese source literature of art, activities of
working groups and members, and columns by the editorial board and
so forth.
This newsletter will be distributed to the principal related
societies, organizations, and institutions as a gift or on an
exchange program basis. So subscriptions are free, however, we would
greatly appreciate it, if you would pay for the postage by sending 3
International Postal Coupons (Coupon-Reponse International) to the
following address. We would like to take this opportunity of
exchanging materials including the Bulletin with overseas
organizations. We look forward to your opinions and information. We
will reflect your valuable advice and suggestions to this
newsletter.
JADS Information, edited and published by Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS). No.1 (1996.3)+ Annual. ISSN 1342-0356
Address:Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS),
c/o Hatano Office,
Curatorial Department, The National Museum of Western Art,
7-7 Ueno-koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110,
Japan
Tel:+81-3-3828-5166 Fax: +81-3-3828-5797
E-mail address:LDT02307@niftyserve.or.jp
Setsuko Nakamura
Editor-in-Chief of JADS Information
Bridgestone Museum of Art
Tokyo, Japan
This newsletter is produced with the financial assistance of the
Library of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the
Humanities.
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