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Arizona Libraries



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Selected Libraries with Significant Holdings in Art



North America



The University of Chicago Library

Columbia University

Library of Congress

University of California

Frick Art Reference Library

The Research Library of The Getty Institute

Harvard University

Indiana University Fine Arts Library

University of Michigan Fine Arts Library

New York University Libraries

New York Public Library

Princeton University Library

The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of The Art Institute of Chicago

Stanford University Libraries

Yale University Art and Architecture Library

The Thomas J. Watson Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Europe


The National Art Library/Victoria and Albert Museum

The British Library

National Library of France/Bibliotheque National de France

Vatican Library/Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

The Warburg Institute Library




Indexes to Libraries Worldwide



OCLC WorldCat

    OCLC's (Online Computer Library Center)WorldCat is a Union Catalog or database that contains around forty+ million records in over 400 languages of items held by libraries around the world. These items include a broad range of materials including books, journals, musical scores, computer data files, magazines, newspapewrs, computer programs, manuscripts, sound recordings, films, slides, maps, videotapes and other forms of information. Items recorded in this database date from around 1000 A.D to the present. New records are added daily.

    Online Access (ASU only)

RLG Union Catalog

    RLG's (Research Library Group) Union Catalog contains around one hundred million items from one hundred plus member libraries around the world. These items include various formats including books, serials, archives, ,manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files and more.

    Online Access (ASU only)

IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations/International Directory of Art Libraries

    IFLA has a database of about "...3000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world." These resources are searchable by the name of the library, librarian, city and nation.

Libweb

    Index to libraries worldwide maintained by Tom Dowling at the University of California at Berkeley.
     

Web CATS

    Web CATS is an index to libraries' web based online public access catalogs (OPACs). It is maintained by the compiler, Peter Scott, and the programmer, Doug Macdonald, at the University of Saskatchewan Libraries.




Art Library Catalogs



Bibliothèque Forney. Catalogue d'articles de periodiques et beaux-arts. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972. 4 v.
Hayden Reference Z5939 .P223
Columbia University. Libraries. Avery Architectural Library. Catalog of the Avery Memorial Library of Columbia University. 2nd ed. enl. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1968. 19 v. Supplements: 1972-.
Architecture Reference NA 2520 .A92x 1968
Fogg Art Museum. Fine Arts Library. Catalog of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1971. 15 v. Supplement, 1976.
Hayden Reference Z 5939 .H3512x
Freer Gallery of Art. Library. Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1967. 6 v.
Hayden Reference Z 5939 .F7x
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Library. Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1960-77. 25 v. Supplements, 1962-.
Hayden Reference N 7425 .M4x
Museum of Modern Art. Library. Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1976. 14 v.
Hayden Reference N 5300 .N4x
National Art Library (Great Britain). Catalogue: Author Catalog. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1972. 10 v.
Hayden Reference Z5939 .V63
National Art Library (Great Britain). Catalogue of Exhibition Catalogues. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972.
Hayden Reference Z5939 .V64
New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division. Dictionary Catalog of the Art and Architecture Division. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975. 30 v.
Hayden Reference N 7420 .N39x
New York Public Library. Prints Division. Dictionary Catalog of the Prints Division. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975. 5 v.
Hayden Reference NE53 .N7
Warburg Institute. Library. Catalog of the Warburg Institute Library, University of London. First Supplement. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1971.
Hayden Reference Z921 .Lx



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