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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2019
Responding to widespread changes in the role of the museum library, the National Gallery Library is adapting to join the research conversations within the institution, as well as in the wider arenas of art history and library history. Using the historic Eastlake Library as a focus, the library has been embarking on projects on several fronts: cataloguing rare books online; selective digitisation; collaboration with the Digital Cicognara project; publishing our own research; and establishing an innovative Collaborative Doctoral Partnership as one way of creating research opportunities for others.
This article is adapted from a paper delivered on Friday 27 July 2018 at the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Conference, at the Architectural Association, London.
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