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Meta catalogues and search engines: artlibraries.net and the state of the art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Rüdiger Hoyer*
Affiliation:
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10, 80333 München, Germany
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Abstract

artlibraries.net, formerly the VKK, is an international specialised meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records and, should the occasion arise, other objects from distinctive art historical databases. This article analyses artlibraries.net from a functional point of view, but also discusses the cataloguing and subject indexing practice prevailing in art libraries internationally. It aims to identify some parameters for the future of art bibliography.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2011

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1. artlibraries.net, http://www.artlibraries.net. Also see Hoyer, Rüdiger, ‘The Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte as a tool for international co-operation,’ Art libraries journal 28, no. 1 (2003): 1518.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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