New York Art Resources Consortium

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) consists of the research libraries of three leading art museums in New York City: The Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection, and The Museum of Modern Art. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NYARC was formed in 2006 to facilitate collaboration that results in enhanced resources for research communities. Called a groundbreaking partnership,[1] NYARC also provides a framework for collaboration among art research libraries.

Objectives

NYARC objectives include:

History

The NYARC libraries have a long history of collaborating on projects, dating back to the 1980s and the establishment of the Art Museum Library Consortium. The collaborative efforts of the Art Museum Library Consortium resulted in the retrospective conversion of the Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston card catalogs into an online format.

In 2004 the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art were awarded a planning grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct an environmental scan and identify potential areas for collaboration. This grant resulted in a comprehensive planning document for NYARC, which serves as the consortium's roadmap.[2]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a founding member of NYARC, withdrew from the consortium in 2011; however, the NYARC libraries and the libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art continue to work together on collaborative projects on an ad hoc basis.

Projects

Since NYARC was formed in 2006 the members have been involved in a number of initiatives. Past and current initiatives are listed alphabetically below.

In 2011, records documenting over 125,000 cataloged works of art from the Frick's Photoarchive were added to Arcade, creating the first publicly accessible interface for this rich collection. The Photoarchive contains an estimated 1.2 million images and the cataloging of the collection is ongoing.[4]

References

  1. Pogrebin, R (2010-03-14). "Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades of Research", The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  2. Lawrence, D (2009). "New York Art Resources Consortium: A Model for Collaboration", Art Documentation 28(2). Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  3. "Arcade, A New Shared Catalog, Positions Three Major New York City Art Museum Libraries for the Future of Art Research" (PDF). Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  4. "Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive Records Now Online" (PDF). Retrieved 11 October 2011.

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