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Libraries of art museums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Else Vossen-Delbrück*
Affiliation:
Rijksmuseum Library, Jan Luyckenstraat 1a, Amsterdam
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Abstract

With one exception Dutch art museum libraries date from the second half of the 19th century or later. In general, museum libraries reflect the scope of the museum they serve and exist primarily for the use of museum staff although the public are also admitted. Most now use the same cataloguing rules; manual catalogues are still commonplace but are likely to be displaced by the computer.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1987

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Notes

1. De Nederlandse museumgids: musea, oudheidkamers, bezoekerscentra, planten- en dierentuinen, The Hague, 1986 (3rd ed.).

2. Teyler 1778-1978: studies en bijdragen over Teylers Stichting naar aanleiding van het tweede eeuwfeest. Haarlem, 1978.

3. The Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde at Leiden (1837), the Volkenkundig Musuem Nusantara at Delft (1864) and the Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde in Rotterdam (1883) respectively.

4. See in the series ‘Nederlandse Musea’ no. 7, Rijksmuseum Het Catharijneconvent, Haarlem, 1983, especially p.7-31.

5. In 1984-1985 Openbaar Kunstbezit published Inventarisatie van videokunst, films van kunstenaars, avantgarde en experimentele films die in Nederland beschikbaar zijn, 2 vols.: Videocatalogus: registratie van performances, videokunst, videoinstallatie s en films van beeldend kunstenaars, 1, Weesp, 1984 and Filmcatalogus: documentaires over kunst, avantgarde- en experimentele films, animatiefilms, filmgeschiedenis, 2, Weesp, 1985.

6. An exception to this is the Teylers Stichting, which financed its collections from 1778 (when Pieter Teyler died and left his goods and capital to the foundation then to be established) until quite recently out of its own capital.

7. Catalogus Bibliotheek Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1957; Catalogus der kunsthistorische bibliotheek in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1934-1936 (4 vols.).

8. Koldewey, Eloy F. and Nauta, Gerhard J.De automatisering in de Nederlandse museumwereld’, Museumvisie vol. 10 1986, p.94.Google Scholar