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Developing NYARC: the New York Art Resources Consortium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Stephen Bury
Stephen Bury*
Affiliation:
Frick Collection, 10 East 71 Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Email: bury@frick.org
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Abstract

NYARC is a consortium of New York art resources, initially including the libraries of Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. The Metropolitan was not part of the Arcade (integrated libraries system) programme funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and withdrew its designation as a NYARC entity in December 2010. This article gives a brief history of NYARC and examines whether it achieved its aims of sharing resources, making them more accessible to the public, and saving money.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 36 , Special Issue 3: Special issue: the future of art bibliography , 2011 , pp. 25 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2011

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