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Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne
The Art and Museum Library is the largest library
of its kind in northwest Germany. It is a public library and is
open to everyone free of charge. As it is a reference library
the collection of books can only be used in the reading rooms.
It is possible to have photocopies and printouts (10 cents per
page) made where this is technically possible and considerations
of conservation permit.
It is possible to inform the library in advance
by telephone, fax, e-mail or via the online catalogue (http://194.8.223.32)
what literature you require. Ordering in advance is advisable
as some groups of works are stored elsewhere for reasons of space.
Collection:
The collection comprises roughly 350,000 volumes and 783 current
journals and museum periodicals. The collection of books at the
Art and Museum Library of the City of Cologne covers the period
from the Middle Ages to the present day with particular reference
to publications relevant to museums (catalogues of collections
and exhibitions, museological literature, museum bulletins, auction
catalogues etc.).
Areas of special emphasis
The library receives support in three of the areas in which it
collects from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German
research society).
Fine Arts in the 20th and 21st
centuries
This mainly includes monographs on artists, catalogues of works
and exhibition catalogues. As the museum participates in an international
exchange of writings on a substantial scale it has a large amount
of “grey” literature which does not appear in the
book trade.
Art of the BeNeLux countries
The library collects literature on the fine arts and architecture
in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. A large part of the
collection includes monographs on artists and themes in art history.
At the same time the library collects catalogues of collections
and exhibitions in this field.
Pictorial documents of photography
and film
The collecting focus for the field of photography is complemented
by the “Bruno-Uhl-Bibliothek der deutschen Gesellschaft
für Photography (DGPh)” (library of the German Society
for Photography) and by the library of the “Agfa Foto-Historama”
creating one of the largest libraries of photography in Germany
which concentrates on the history of photography, genres in photography
and applied photography. The photographic magazines from the late
19th and early 20th centuries represent an especially rare collection.
Literature search service
The entire collection of the Art and Museum Library (with the
exception of auction catalogues) can be researched in the online
catalogue (OPAC) (http://194.8.223.32)
and in the virtual catalogue for art history (VKK) (http://vkk.uni-karlsruhe.de).
In addition, the homepage of the Art and Museum Library offers
further search possibilities for literature on art history and
interdisciplinary literature collected at other libraries.
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