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Dear Colleagues,

The latest issue of Art Libraries Journal has been published (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2018) and it is devoted to the concept of the art library as a place — as an aesthetic as well as an intellectual experience. The articles in this issue were all first presented as papers at the IFLA Art Libraries Section Satellite Meeting in the summer of 2016 in Chicago, Illinois.

Art libraries worldwide certainly grapple with issues common to all libraries, but they also seem to have challenges that are more visual; more aesthetic in nature. Many of the art libraries in these articles coexist with historically significant buildings, some have sought for decades and even centuries to find a permanent home of any sort, others struggle with renovations and changing modes of research and service to patrons. The libraries and collections illuminated all have a strong sense of ‘place;’ they all strive to respect and venerate history in both collections and spaces, while still meeting the changing needs of contemporary researchers. 

I have included the full contents below and if your institution subscribes to Cambridge Core the latest Art Libraries Journal can be accessed from: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/art-libraries-journal

 

The Art Library as Place: Building on the Past, Building for the Future

Contents

Editor’s note
Kraig Binkowski

From research library to research services: Stories of change at the Rijksmuseum
Geert-Jan Koot

Old building, new public: The renovation of the Forney Art Library in Paris
Lucile Trunel

Light and wood: An intimate and human space within the art libraries of Louis I. Kahn                                               
Kraig Binkowski

The right space: 150 years of housing a national gallery’s library and archive collection
Andrea Lydon

An historical space in a new context: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Research Library as a part of the future House of Text
Ekaterina Igoshina

The last Doge’s groom: How the Villa Manin stable became a regional institute and library for Friuli-Venezia Giulia cultural heritage
Simonetta Pasqualis Dell'Antonio, Rita Auriemma and Alessandro Giacomello

Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design: A decade of success and change
Mark Pompelia and Carol Terry

Awakening an old lady: The Labrouste room
Anne Élisabeth Buxtorf 

The museum libraries on Madrid’s golden triangle of art (2005-2015): New spaces for new services
Soledad Cánovas del Castillo and Javier Docampo

 

 

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Kraig Binkowski
Chief Librarian
Reference Library and Archives
Yale Center for British Art

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