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The Chinese Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Yue Shu  and
Reiko Yoshimura
Yue Shu*
Affiliation:
Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1050 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20560, USA
Reiko Yoshimura*
Affiliation:
Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1050 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20560, USA
*
Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The library of the Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is considered one of the finest East Asian art research collections in the United States. The development and progress of the library’s Chinese Collection has mirrored the historical changes in the field of Chinese art studies in the last one hundred years. Today, the library collection has more than 90,000 volumes, including 17,437 Chinese language monographs and 836 serials in over 25,000 volumes. In a landscape of changing scholarship, technology and user demands, the library is balancing the use of printed materials and digital resources and collaborating with other libraries to continue to meet the needs of curators, researchers and visitors.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 39 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: Chinese Art Documentation in China, UK and USA , 2014 , pp. 33 - 38
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2014

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