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Conference Session 176 B

Art Discovery: A Portal to the World’s Great Art Libraries

Art Libraries

20 八月 2014 10:30 - 12:30 | Off-site

Art Discovery is an open-access discovery tool developed by an international network of sixty art libraries and powered by OCLC’s WorldCat search engine. Users worldwide can search aggregated bibliographic data from the participating library’s holdings plus an OCLC metadata pool derived from thousands of commercial and freely-accessible collections, portals, and repositories. This session comprises a demonstration of Art Discovery and discussion about its ongoing development, and a brief introduction to the library of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Location: Bibliothèque, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Palais Saint-Pierre, 20 Place des Terreaux
69001 Lyon

How to get there:
Accessible by C5 bus from Cité Internationale to Hôtel de Ville

Last update: 16 June 2014