Art & Architecture Group
Started in 1979 by 10 North American universities and
museum libraries within RLG, the Art & Architecture Group (AAG)
counted more than 80 institutions worldwide among its constituents. The
remarkable strength of their combined collections and their commitment
to collaborative solutions helped to make RLG databases an unparalleled
resource for art-related bibliographic research. The AAG provided an
early and productive model of how art and architecture institutions
could share resources and expertise in an online environment.
Over its lifetime the group focused on art-specific
projects within RLG, including:
- Building SCIPIO,
a database of art and rare book sales catalogs.
- Establishing an art and museum libraries "trading
partnership" within the larger RLG SHARES
interlending program.
- Coordinating collection development and cataloging
efforts, as in the art-related monographic series cooperative
cataloging
project (see below).
- Participating in the Art
Serials Preservation
Project to create
microfilming that was available to the
larger community.
- Appointing the working group for the "Inaccessible
Domain"
Materials project—which led to a new
bibliographic
standard for aggregations of unique research materials.
The AAG
Steering Committee coordinated
the group's activities with
input from all participants and annual meetings held in conjunction
with the annual conference of their primary professional association,
the Art Libraries Society of North America. Reports from the last ten
years of AAG annual meetings provide snapshots of the group's
priorities and RLG progress:
[these are all past events, I'm pretty sure] - [link
"/en/page.php?Page_ID=396"] Houston
2005
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=17062"] New
York 2004
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=7521"] Baltimore
2003
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=37"] St
Louis 2002
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=21"] Los
Angeles 2001
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=36"] Pittsburgh
2000
- [ link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=44"] Vancouver
1999
- [ link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=43"] Philadelphia
1998
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=42"] San
Antonio 1997
- [link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=41"] Miami
Beach 1996
- [ link "/en/page.php?Page_ID=40" Montreal
1995
Steering committee rosters
The Art & Architecture Group Steering Committee
comprised six members from the larger group together with an RLG
program officer acting as liaison for art-related activities and
initiatives.
2004-2005 (final year)
Stephen Bury, British Library; Mary Elings,UC Berkeley, Bancroft
Library; C. Danial Elliott, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Katherine
Haskins, Yale University; Amy Lucker (Chair),
Harvard University; Sally McKay, Getty Research Institute;
Günter Waibel (RLG liaison), RLG
2003 - 2004
Stephen Bury, Kitty Chibnik, Jeannette Dixon (Chair
up to June 2003), Katherine Haskins (replaced Kenneth
Soehner), Amy Lucker (Chair from June 2003), Sally
McKay (replaced Jocelyn Gibbs), Günter Waibel (RLG
liaison)
2002 - 2003
Mary Clare Altenhofen (Chair),
Kitty Chibnik, Jeannette Dixon, Doug Dodds, Jocelyn Gibbs, Tony Gill (RLG
liaison), Kenneth Soehner
2001 - 2002
Mary Clare Altenhofen (Vice Chair), Kitty Chibnik,
Jeannette Dixon, Doug Dodds, Tony Gill (RLG liaison),
Christina Huemer (Chair)
2000 - 2001
Mary Clare Altenhofen, Doug Dodds, Leigh Gates, Tony
Gill (RLG liaison), Christina Huemer, Amy Lucker (Chair
until July 2000), Kathleen Salomon (Chair from
August 2000)
1999 - 2000
Peter Blank (Chair), Leigh Gates,
Tony Gill (RLG liaison), Deborah Kempe, Amy
Lucker, Kathleen Salomon, Murray Waddington
1998 - 1999
Peter Blank, Anne Champagne, Katie Keller (RLG
liaison), Deborah Kempe, Susan Roeper (Chair),
Allen Townsend, Margaret Webster
1997 - 1998
Peter Blank (replaced Adeane Bregman), Anne Champagne,
Katie Keller (RLG liaison), Susan Roeper, Ed
Teague (Chair), Allen Townsend, Margaret Webster
1996 - 1997
Adeane Bregman, Max Marmor, Katherine Martinez (RLG
liaison), Susan Moon (Chair), Doralynn
Pines, Susan Roeper, Judy Silverman
1995 - 1996
Carol Hughes (RLG liaison), Milan
Hughston (Chair), Lyn Korenic, Max Marmor, Susan
Moon, Barbara Reed, Judy Silverman
1994 - 1995
Carol Hughes (RLG liaison
replacing Jim Coleman), Milan Hughston, Lyn Korenic, Roger Lawson
(Chair), Max Marmor (replaced Peggy Kusnerz), Susan Moon, Barbara Reed
Art cataloging coordination
In this 1996-1997 project, Art & Architecture
Group participants gave priority cataloging to publications in
agreed-on monographic series. These members selected titles they
received regularly and committed to creating bibliographic records
using RLIN® within a month of receipt. Twenty-one libraries
committed to cataloging a total of 60 titles out of 87 that were
identified.
This bounded cooperative effort helped to ensure that
new materials were cataloged in a timely fashion, divided the
cataloging effort among members, and resulted in more art-related
cataloging copy in the RLG Union Catalog.
(Table compiled by Laila Abdel-Malek,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with contributions from Patricia D. Siska,
then of the Frick Art Reference Library.)
Series
Title |
Assignment |
Academia
dei Lincei. Fonti e document) inediti per la storia dell'arte |
University
of California, Berkeley |
Acta
Universitatis Stockholmensis. Stockholm Studies in Art History |
University
of Minnesota |
Aegyptiaca
Helvetica |
unassigned
|
Aegyptiaca
Treverensia |
Brooklyn
Museum |
Aegyptische
Forschungen |
unassigned
|
Agypten
und Altes Testament |
Brooklyn
Museum |
Agyptologische
Abhandlungen |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Allard
Pierson Series |
unassigned
|
Allard
Pierson series. Scripta minora |
unassigned
|
Antike
Munzen und geschnittene Steine |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Arbeitsberichte
aus dem Stadtischen Museum Braunschweig |
Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art |
Archaeologia
Homerica |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Archaeologica
Roma (Bretschneider) |
Harvard
University |
Archaeological
Survey of Egypt. Memoirs |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Archaeologische
Veroffentlichungen |
Harvard
University |
Architecture
rurale francaise |
unassigned
|
Arsbek
for statens konstmuseum |
Cleveland
Museum of Art |
Art
et les grandes civilisations (Paris) |
unassigned
|
Arte
e archeologia. Studi e document) |
Cleveland
Museum of Art |
Arte
Hispalense |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Artibus
Asiae. Supplementum |
Rutgers
University |
Australian
Center for Egyptology. Reports |
New
York University |
Bau-
und Denkmaler im Rheinland |
unassigned
|
Bibliotheca
Aegyptia |
Brooklyn
Museum |
Bibliotheque
de la Societe francaise d'archeologie |
unassigned
|
Bibliotheque
des cahiers archeologique |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Bibliotheque
des Ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome |
unassigned
|
Boreas
(Uppsala) |
Getty
Research Institute |
Caeculus |
unassigned
|
Cahiers
d'archeologie romande |
unassigned
|
Cistercial
Fathers |
University
of Pennsylvania |
Codices
select) prototypice impress) |
Pierpont
Morgan Library |
Collection
de l'Ecole francaise de Rome |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art |
Collezioni
romane di antichita |
unassigned
|
Corpus
Antiquitatum Aegyptiacum |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Corpus
Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard |
Harvard
University |
Corpus
Signorum imperil Romani |
Cleveland
Museum of Art |
Corpus
vasorum antiquorum |
Cleveland
Museum of Art |
Corpus
vitrearum Medii Aevii |
Harvard
University |
Danmarks
Kirker |
unassigned
|
Denkschriften
(Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) |
unassigned
|
Deutsche
Burgerhaus |
unassigned
|
Deutsche
Lande, deutsche Kunst |
unassigned
|
Deutsches
Archaologisches Institut |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art |
Dossiers
du Departement des peintures |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art |
Dumbarton
Oaks Studies |
Rutgers
University |
Estudios
de arte y estetica (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) |
unassigned
|
Fathers
of the Church |
Pierpont
Morgan Library |
Figura |
University
of Michigan |
Galleria
degli Uffizi. Gabinetto dei disegni. Cataloghi |
Columbia
University |
Hamburger
Aegyptologische Studien |
Brooklyn
Museum |
Hesperia.
Supplement |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Hildesheimer
aeyptologische Beitrage |
unassigned
|
Iconography
of Religions |
Temple
University |
Institut
francaise d'archeologie orientale (Cairo). Memoirs |
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston |
Institute
of Classical Studies, University of London. Bulletin Suppl. |
Getty
Research Institute |
Italienische
Forschungen |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Kunst
und Altertum am Rhein |
Harvard
University |
Kunstwissenschaftliche
Studien (Munich) |
Yale
University |
Manchester
Studies in the History of Art |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Meroitica |
unassigned
|
Monumenta
bergomensia |
National
Gallery of Art |
Monumenta
Graeca et Romana |
New
York University |
Munchener
Archaeologische Studien |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art |
Notes
et documents de musees de France |
Harvard
University |
Nuit
de temps |
Harvard
University |
Osterreichische
Kunstmonographie |
unassigned
|
Pittori
bergamaschi |
Yale
University |
Primitifs
flamands |
Art
Institute of Chicago |
Publications
de l'Institut francais de Florence. IV. ser. Histoire de l'art |
unassigned
|
Publications
of the North American Print Conference |
American
Antiquarian Society |
Riggisberger
Berichte |
unassigned
|
Romische
Forschungen der Biblioteca Hertziana |
National
Gallery of Art |
Saggi
e studi di storia dell'arte |
National
Gallery of Art |
Schriften
der Kunsthalle zu Kiel |
unassigned
|
Schriften
des Salzburger Barockmuseums |
unassigned
|
Skanes
konstforening |
unassigned
|
Spatantike
zentralbauten in Rom und Latium |
unassigned
|
Storia
della miniature. Studi e document) |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Studia
Aegyptiaca |
unassigned
|
Studien
zur deutschen Kunstgeschicte |
National
Gallery of Art |
Studien
zur Kunstgeschichte (Hildesheim) |
Harvard
University |
Studies
in manuscript Illumination |
Frick
Collection Art Reference Library |
Studies
in Mediterranean Archaeology |
University
of Pennsylvania |
Studies
in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology |
Getty
Research Institute |
Sveriges
Kyrkor |
Harvard
University |
Villa
I Tatti |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art |
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