We have the same question here at UCSB. If others could reply to the list,
or if Bob could compile a summary of responses, I (and probably other
librarians facing this issue) would be appreciative.
Ellen K. Kempf
Art Librarian
Arts Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-2766
Fax: (805) 893-5879
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At 02:47 PM 9/23/2004 -0500, Bob Sloane wrote:
>In the effort to maximize shelf space, we are investigating what other
>art library's have decided to do about these multi-volume library
>catalogs that were published in the 1960's-80's.
>
>It would appear from random checks of catalog entries that all of the
>published entries now appear on the institutional online catalogs which
>are easily accessible from the Internet.
>
>We would be interested to hear what other library's who may own these
>titles have decided to do with them. Did you discard them? Sell them?
>Give them away?
>
>Bob Sloane
>Department Head
>Art Information Center
>Harold Washington Library Center
>400 S. State Street 8/N
>Chicago, IL 60605
>ph: 312-747-4846
>fx: 312-747-4832
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>
>Here are the titles in question:
>
>1) Catalog of the library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. GK
>Hall, 1976, 14v.
>2) Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library. The Fogg Art
>Museum. 1976, 15v + 3 supp.
>3) Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design. Harvard
>University, GK Hall, 1968, 44v + 2 supp.
>4) Dictionary Catalog of the Arts and Architecture Division. New York
>Public Library. 1975, 30v.
>5) Catalogue of the Theatre and Drama Collections. New York Public
>Library. 1967, 9v.
>6) Dictionary Catalog of the Prints Division. New York Public Library.
>1975, 5v.
>7) Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. Library Catalog. 1960, 25v + 6
>supp.
>8) Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
>1982, 4v.
>9) The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and
>Periodicals. 1974, 9v.
>10) Library Catalog of the International Museum of Photography at George
>Eastman House. 1982, 4v.
>11) Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art.
>Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. 1991, 2v.
>
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