Dear Colleagues,
The Clark is extremely pleased to announce its partnership with Archive-It (www.archive-it.org) to harvest web content created for the
55th Venice Biennale. The Venice Biennale collection of blogs, social media sites, video, and organizational websites documents the international art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2013. The Archive-It crawl on behalf of the Library began April
28, 2013 and will continue through to the end of the exhibition in November. This virtual collection will complement the Library’s growing Venice Biennale Collection of exhibition catalogues, press kits, and ephemera which began with the 52nd Biennale
in 2007. This year promises to be a banner year for our physical Biennale Collection with Russian gold from Vadim Zakharov’s project titled
Danaë
and Golden Lion award winner for the Angola Pavilion Edson Chagas’
Found not Taken series of prints.
We invite you to explore the Venice Biennale 2013 on the Web Collection here:
http://archive-it.org/collections/3682
About Archive-It
First deployed in 2006, Archive-It is a subscription web archiving service from the Internet Archive that helps organizations harvest, build, and preserve collections of digital content. Through its user friendly web application Archive-It
partners can collect, catalog, and manage their collections of archived content with 24/7 access and fll text search available for their use as well as their patrons. Content is hosted and stored at the Internet Archive data centers.
About the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Established in 1962, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library is one of the major art history reference libraries in the country. Focusing on post-medieval art, the Clark Library’s collection is outstanding in Italian and Northern
Renaissance, Baroque, and French nineteenth-century, history of photography, and contemporary art fields and is well balanced in other areas as well. The Library’s resources include approximately 250,000 books, bound periodicals, auction sales catalogues,
as well as a growing collection of digital assets. The Library holds a collection of over 2,000 contemporary artists’ books, the Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books, the Mary Ann Beinecke Collection of Decorative Arts, and the David A. Hanson Collection
on the History of Photomechanical Reproduction. Of note is the Library’s Institutional Archives and the Sterling and Francine Clark Papers which include diaries, correspondence, inventories of artwork, and personal papers of the Institute’s founders.
Penny Baker
Collections Management Librarian
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
225 South Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
Tel. 413-458-0531