Library staff often added notes to these catalogs (e.g. info about their
own library holdings, difficult main entries or series, see-also
references). Some of those might be worth retaining somehow.
|((| Ellen Chapman, MLS, MA, CA
|))| University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, b.j. irvine wrote:
> I would consider this move carefully because I do not believe ALL of
> these catalogs are online and even if they are, there is considerable
> info. in the original catalogs that may never be online. For example,
> there is considerable indexing of art and related journals in both the
> MMA, MMA Goldwater Library, and MOMA catalogs as well as the NYPL/Art &
> Arch. catalog. In addition, thanks to Bernard Karpel, former MoMA library
> director, there is in-depth access to exhibition literature that can
> rarely be matched in other sources.
> I am sure others on this list could even offer more insights about the
> sustained value of many of these catalogs.
> Of course, this information would be of primary value to academic or
> research library collections and their patrons so your library's mission
> would obviously play a key role in the decision about whether or not to
> keep these catalogs. My graduate students at IU are required to use these
> catalogs because of their significant research documentation.
> BJ Kish Irvine, Indiana University
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, 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
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > 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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