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In our library the auction catalogues are arranged by the date of the
auction, with the exception of all Christie's and Sotheby's auctions which
are separated but also arranged chronologically.
After we started automation all the auctions are catalogued by title of the
auction, auctioneer, auction place, first and last date of the auction,
auctionnumber and the name of the collection(s) sold.
In the case of the auction of works of one artist we also add the artist's
name to it. When cataloguing older ones we also add the numbers of Lugt's
Repertoire des catalogues de ventes. At the moment we are using Tinlib, an
English based library system, but in a Dutch version especially adopted for
the use in art libraries in Holland. In our new system we plan to treat the
auction catalogues just the same as books and exhibition catalogues but at
least with the same possibilities as mentioned.
In our Institute visitors often only know the date of the auction or only
the name of the auctioneer etc. so it is important you can search for all
individual marks.


Gosem C. Dullaart
Bibliothecaris /Librarian
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie RKD/Netherlands Institute for
Art History
P.O. Box 90418
2509 LK Den Haag
Nederland
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> > From: Norine Duncan [SMTP:<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind9911%26L%3DARLIS-L%26E%3D7BIT%26P%3D97476%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>]
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> > Subject:      classifying auction catalogs
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> > I would be interested to know what other
> > academic libraries do about classifying
> > auction catalogs--keep them together,
> > or scatter them by subject? Please
> > tell me your arguments in support of
> > your practice. Thanks.
> >
> > Norine Duncan
> > Brown University
>