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International Directory of Art Libraries
Art Section of the International Federation of Library Associations

Le centre de ressources documentaires: Histoire de l'art - (dead link)
Llinks to over 40 libraries and archives France

IRIS
Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence
"...represents a unique resource for scholarly research in the humanities. The focus is on art history (including references on art conservation and restoration) and the Renaissance in all its aspects (history, literature, philosophy, political theory, and music), with particular attention to scholarship on the Italian Renaissance."

SIBMAS - SociÈtÈ Internationale des BibliothËques et des MusÈes des Arts du Spectacle (International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts)
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Amistad Research Center (Tulane)

Art Institute of Chicago - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
"Merged in 1957, the Libraries hold a research collection of 320,000 scholarly works, including 1,200 current serials subscriptions and 70,000 auction sales catalogs."

  • Library Catalog
  • Institutional Archives of The Art Institute of Chicago - (dead link)
    • Museum News Releases Index for 1969-1998 - (dead link)

Biblioteca Ambrosiana Archive of Drawings (From Notre Dame University)

Dutch Institute for Art History (Florence, Italy)
"...forms part of Utrecht University and is administered by a group of six universities. The Institute promotes research on Italian art, on Dutch and Flemish art and artists in Italy and on the rich tradition of artistic exchange and mutual influence between Italy and the North. It provides scholars and students from the Netherlands and elsewhere with accommodation, research and publication opportunities and the use of its library in a city with extraordinary resources for art historical research and international academic training and exchange. In addition the Institute publishes scholarly works and organizes lectures, conferences and exhibitions."

The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library

Getty Research Library

The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
 A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive
"...contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar (Burma)...In addition to being the most comprehensive collection of its kind, The Huntington Archive includes the largest photographic archive of Nepali art and architecture in the world and represents the only formal collection that photographically records this country's artistic heritage." 
Maintained by Janice M. Glowski, Ohio State University

Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
Santa Fe, NM

  • Library - (dead link)
    Use the IAIA online catalog to search for resources in the library.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Art Research Library - (dead link)

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Libraries and Study Centers

National Museum of African Art - Warren M. Robbins Library - (dead link)
Smithsonian Institution

Museum of Modern Art Library (DADANET)

National Gallery of Canada - Library & Archives - (dead link)

  • National Gallery of Canada Bulletin and Annual Bulletin, 1963-1985
  • Artists in Canada
    "...compiled and maintained by the National Gallery of Canada Library, is a bilingual union list that identifies the location of documentation files on Canadian artists. Twenty-three libraries and art galleries across Canada have contributed biographical information and lists of their documentation files to create this resource which contains information for over 42 700 artists."

National Library of Wales

  • CAIRS-web (Non-print Materials)
    "CairsWeb offers similar search facilities to GeoWeb, and the views available on the database enable the user to search three categories of material. The Framed Works of Art database covers the Library's substantial holdings of art works, mainly of Welsh interest, with fine examples of landscape, portraiture and genre pictures. Digitised examples of over 4000 works are provided on these pages. The Map database now includes the complete records of all maps accessioned since 1984, all antiquarian maps and atlases, all architectural plans and drawings, and most of the Library's railway plans and drawings."


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Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art
 On-line Resource Guide
"The Roland Collection is the work of 230 film makers from 25 different countries and consists of more than 640 films and videos on art available worldwide for institutional and individual use...offers inexhaustible worlds of history, culture, philosophy, emotion, human document, celebration, protest, moral challenge and imaginative liberation - all embodied in the forms of art. This on-line resource guide is designed to give unprecedented access to those worlds."

Smithsonian Institution - Archives of American Art

University of British Columbia Fine Arts Library

University of Oslo Art History Library - (dead link)

Vassar College Art Library

Warburg Institute - (dead link)

Yale University - Art Library


 


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