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:
- Houston 2005
- New York 2004
- Baltimore 2003
- St Louis 2002
- Los Angeles 2001
- Pittsburgh 2000
- Vancouver 1999
- Philadelphia 1998
- San Antonio 1997
- Miami Beach 1996
- Montreal 1995
Please note: Web pages for RLG meetings prior to June 2006 have been archived and are available from the OCLC Corporate Library Collection in the OCLC Digital Archive.
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 |
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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 |