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Museum libraries: from hidden treasures to treasured information centers1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Michiel Nijhoff
Michiel Nijhoff*
Affiliation:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 3015 CX Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Co-operative efforts are being made to improve access to the large number of publications held in Dutch libraries specialising in the history of art. These include the PICA/NCC system run by the universities and the Royal Library, and the CD-ROM being produced by museum and other libraries which do not take part in PICA but which hold especially strong collections of exhibition and auction catalogues. The opening up of these collections on the Internet and on disk is expected to result in an increase in the number of students using museum libraries. Their role will inevitably change and this will have consequences for their own organisations, as is illustrated here by the current situation of the library of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 28 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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References

1. Text of a paper delivered at the Open Session of the Art Libraries Section at the 64th IFLA General Conference 1998 in Amsterdam.Google Scholar
2. DutchESS was described in more detail by Marianne Peereboom and Maggy Wishaupt in Art Libraries Journal vol. 23 no. 2 1998, p.12–14.Google Scholar
3. http://www.rotterdamnet.nl/basis.htm Google Scholar
4. Just before this article was finished news came through that the Ministry of Culture is going to give an extra financial injection of several hundreds of thousands of guilders to the University of Utrecht and the Royal Library to repair some of the damage done to acquisitions over the past fifteen years. Of course this is a welcome gift, but it does not as yet change the downward trend at the universities.Google Scholar