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Open to all museum visitors: the Uris Library in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Emily Roth
Emily Roth*
Affiliation:
Uris Library and Teacher Resource Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, USA
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Abstract

The Uris Library and Teacher Resource Center is the only library in the Metropolitan Museum of Art open to all Museum visitors. Its 6,000 books, 900 videos and growing numbers of CD-ROMs and electronic resources serve ever increasing numbers of the Museum’s public. Students and teachers, Museum members, Museum educators and volunteers, as well as general Museum visitors all use the Library.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 26 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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References

1. Excellence and equity: education and the public dimension of museums. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1992.Google Scholar
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