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Posted on behalf of Michiel Nijhoff: . In january 2007 the last remaining titles of the library of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam were added to the on-line catalogue. It concerns 110.000 pre-1991 exhibition catalogues. From 1991 all acquisitions were catalogued in the automated system Tinlib, a collection that was converted to the Adlib system in 2003. The 25.000 monographs and books (as in 'not exhibition catalogues') were retrocatalogued in 2005 and 2006. These were catalogued and indexed as normal acquisitions are, and can be found in various ways, author, title, artists's name etc. The descriptions of the 110.000 exhibition catalogues from before 1991, a vast treasure with many very rare items, is yet to be upgraded to full descriptions. The descriptions are data-entried from hand written index cards and contain many faults and misspellings. They can be searched on words from the title, and on exposition data. If one wants to find out how many publications there are in the library on Christian Boltanski, the search should be for Boltanski in the subject field 'artist'. Then all books and catalogues from 19991 and all monographs and books from before 1991 are found (128 hits, including group exhibitions). To include the pre-1991 exhibition catalogues in the search a second search should be made in the title field for 'Boltanski' (some 40 additional hits; the soloexhibitions will be covered more or less, the group exhibitions cannot be found in this way). Of course the idea is to add the artist's indexes to the solo and group exhibitions, but due to lack of personnel this project will take a long time completing. Nevertheless this is the first time in the history of the library that all titles are together within one system. We now know that the total collection counts 167.000 titles. That includes the 1500 documentary video's and DVD-s the library houses. There are also 1200 review titles (of which 220 ongoing subscriptions). Not included are the 25.000 binders with artist's press clippings. These also will be made accessible in the near future. The past few years the museum has put a lot of effort and funding in cataloguing the library and the collection. The collection of the museum now has about 90.000 objects and will be completely registrated in july 2007. The library and the collection are in two separate databases using the same software. The two are linked, using shared files for artists names, exhibition data, a thesaurus, geographical names etc. One can can find the documentation on a sculpture by Karel Appel in the collection of the museum by searching the collection database. In the library catalogue one will find exactly which sculptures owned by the museum are in the book 'The complete sculpture of Karel Appel'. As yet the library database is on-line accessible for the public through the website www.stedelijk.nl . The collection databse is not yet accessible. The whole operation is a prelude to the new libarry/information centre, that will open at the end of 2008 in the new building at Museumplein. The Dutch architectural firm Benthem Crouwel, also designer of Schiphol Airport for example, designed a new wing for the 19th century building that is being renovated now. The library of the museum, officially opened in 1957, will get a prominent and very accessible place in this new wing. -------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer van toepassing op E-mail van Stedelijk Museum __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]