I am pleased to announce new enhancements to WATSONLINE, the catalog of the libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new design of WATSONLINE now includes six scopes that provide the ability to search specific library collections (periodicals and auction catalogs) as well as specific libraries within the Museum, without searching the entire catalog. The scoped libraries are Cloisters, Costume Institute, Uris, and Menschel (Department of Photographs). The redesign team was comprised of Watson Library staff members, Lisa Beidel, Claudia Funk, Oleg Kreymer, Linda Seckelson, Deborah Vincelli, and Renee Watson, and from the Lehman Collection, Meg Black.
Watson Library has completed the retrospective conversion of its collection of books and serials. In the past 18 months we have added 36,000 records for books and serials, 22,000 records for artists files, and 73,000 auction sale catalog records. Daniel Starr managed this milestone project that added more than 130,000 Watson Library records to WATSONLINE. We are currently working on the final stage of RECON, the conversion of the remaining 20,000 auction sale catalog records.
Please contact me directly if you have any questions or if you would like to share your observations about the new WATSONLINE, http://library.metmuseum.org.
Many thanks.
Ken Soehner
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