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FYI France: digital libraries -- old BN, new INHA.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:09:02 -0700
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FYI France: digital libraries at the old BN, the new INHA.
A new Paris institution has taken up residence in the old BN
premises, at the rue Richelieu -- for those of you who have been
wondering, since the BN books left for Tolbiac -- and anyone
interested in the history of art should take note:
The INHA / Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art -- "séminaires,
colloques, conférences et exposition", "publications",
"Département des Etudes et de la Recherche", "Un réseau pour
l'histoire de l'art" --- plus, as the new occupant of the
venerable Salle Labrouste, "La Bibliothèque" --
http://www.inha.fr/
http://www.fyifrance.com/fyi1pli3.htm#ParisINHA
* "La Bibliothèque" (tr. JK)
** "a research library, it will be up to date with the
latest techniques in use internationally, via a
significant investment in information sources and
networks of all types...
** "a digital library, it will offer distance access to
its principal digitized collections (manuscripts, rare
and old books, prints, photographs)...
** "the library will be installed, in the Salle Labrouste
and nearby stacks, on a surface area of 9600m2 [103,334ft2 JK]
There will be accommodation for 440 readers. Renovation
work will proceed from 2003 through 2007, with a final
opening scheduled for 2008...
** "acquisitions committees have been formed, which
include both librarians and researchers: for the initial
arrangement of the collections, at first, but then also
for reflections on the art and architecture of the 20th
and 21st centures, for example, during 2002. In 2003
committees were created on electronic publishing,
periodicals, sales catalogs... during the second half of
the year on archeology, decorative arts, and the question
of collecting theses... A plan to fill gaps, corresponding
to periods in which the acquisitions of the participating
libraries may have been impaired, has been established.
It will permit the acquisition of around 30,000 documents
within 5 years. 10,000 already have been acquired.
** "The union catalog is being developed by the Ever Team
company, using Loris software --
http://catalogue.inha.fr/loris/jsp/system/win_main.jsp
(click on "Rech. simple" etc. in the bar at the top. JK)
-- initially the catalog contains 540,000 entries
representing about 700,000 documents, primarily printed
books. It will be enriched during 2004 with the
retroconversion of sales catalog inventories representing
nearly 200,000 documents, then with the catalog of 13,000
modern prints in the Jacques Doucet collections.
** "Digitization. The protection and the quality of the
collections, and the efficiency and completeness of the
library's user services, in situ or at a distance,
require that great importance be accorded to electronic
documentation. In 2003 the following were undertaken:
*** digitization of the "Répertoire d'art et
d'archéologie", a bibliography essential to all
art history researchers and eagerly anticipated
by them (completion end-2004);
*** digitization of 2000 prints from the
Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet (completion end-2004),
*** a program of digitization of manuscripts and
catalogs of old museums, from the Bibliothèque
centrale des musées nationaux.
-- other projects to be undertaken during 2004-6 include --
*** digitization of classics in the history of
art, of livres de fête, of rare and ancient books
and manuscripts of the Bibliothèque centrale des
musées nationaux, of "cartons verts" (cartons
d'invitation aux expositions), of particular
photograph collections and particular manuscripts...
** "enriching the patrimonial collections... the
collection of sales catalogs is without any doubt the
most significant such collection in the world, and the
160,000 photographs, the designs and prints, the
manuscripts and ancient works, all are collections of
great value.
** "cooperation with the network of art libraries...
cooperative undertakings to be developed are of many
types: in documentation, in information techniques,
digitization techniques, patrimony, conservation,
resource sharing, etc... The Library is working with
several foreign institutions: the Getty at Los Angeles,
the Max Planck Institutes at Florence and Rome, etc. The
Library is developing such cooperative undertakings at
both the national and international level.
The collections:
** la Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie Jacques Doucet
(807,580 documents)
** la Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux
(252,160 documents)
** la bibliothèque de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des
Beaux-Arts
(128,000 imprimés)
** la bibliothèque de l'Ecole nationale des Chartes
(149,000 documents)
"Together the collections will represent an exceptional
total of about 1,340,000 documents.
"These collections and their attendant services will be
offered in the historic Salle Labrouste of the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France and in four floors of
the storage stacks nearby. A large portion of the
collections -- about 275,000 documents -- will be
available to readers in open stack access."
* "Un réseau pour l'histoire de l'art"
The INHA also sees itself as a member of an international
/ trans-national "art history network": (tr. JK) --
"The INHA unites, at its Vivienne and Richelieu sites,
40 institutions -- specialized schools, educational
groups, research and resource centers, libraries,
reviews, learned societies -- and offers these to the
national and international network of the history of
art." Links to all of these and more are offered at,
http://www.inha.fr/partenaires/index.html
* "Département des Etudes et de la Recherche"
Programmes de recherche
** Archives de l'art de la période contemporaine
(XIXe-XXe siècles)
** Histoire de l'archéologie. Techniques picturales et
architecturales anciennes
** Histoire de l'architecture
** Histoire du cinéma
** Histoire de l'histoire de l'art
** Histoire du goût
** Beaux-Arts / Musique / Théâtre
GAAEL : Guide des Archives d'Artistes En Ligne
-- le guide des fonds d'archives d'artistes, de
collectionneurs et de galeries du XXe siècle est une base
de données permettant de localiser des fonds ou des
pièces d'archives conservés en France --
http://www.inha.fr/gaael/recherche-fonds.php (persons)
http://www.inha.fr/gaael/recherche.php (collections)
http://www.inha.fr/gaael/recherche-etablissement.php (establishments)
* "publications"
** Catalogues d'expositions
** Collection "L'art et l'essai"
** Actes de colloque
** Collection "la galerie"
** Dictionnaire des historiens de l'art
** Collection "Italia e Francia. Studi di Storia dell'Arte"
** Aide à la traduction d'ouvrages fondamentaux
** bulletin: "Nouvelles de l'INHA"
http://www.inha.fr/nouvelles/index.html
* "séminaires, colloques, conférences et exposition"
[_Lots_ going on:]
** Conférences, Les origines des collections du Musée de
Naples, par M. Andrea Milanese - les 13 et 27 mai, les 3
et 10 juin
** Colloque international, Histoire de l'histoire de
l'art en France au XIXe siècle - 2 au 5 juin
** Colloque, « Fernand Léger - Hier et aujourd'hui, la
réception de son oeuvre et de son actualité » - 11 et 12 juin
** Conférence, Aesthetics and Globalization , par Mr.
Keith MOXEY - 21 juin
** Conférence, Stones of Solace, par Mme Michael Ann
HOLLY - 22 juin
** Conférence, Programme interdisciplinaire de recherche
"Art Architecture et Paysages" - 30 juin
** Symposium « Art et publicité » . Schweizerisches
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (Suisse) . 2 au 3 juillet 2004
** Colloque international Icone - Image - 8 au 10 juillet
** Colloque, « Ville, rêve et utopie » - Ecole des
beaux-arts, Toulouse - 8 et 9 octobre
...
http://www.inha.fr/recherches/seminaires.html
The History
The idea of a central repository, for the traditionally-scattered
Paris resources in the fine arts and their history, has been
current for a while: the following account is from the INHA
website (tr. JK) --
"Regarding the INHA : the key dates"
"First conceived in 1973 by Jacques Thuillier, advisor to
President Georges Pompidou, then formally proposed in
1983 by André Chastel, the Institut National d'Histoire
de l'Art was officially created on July 12, 2001.
1983
"In a report ordered by the government, André Chastel
emphasized the absolute necessity of creating a French
Institut d'histoire de l'art, unifying libraries,
documents and archives, capable of receiving both
researchers and students, and of developing the
discipline and disseminating the results throughout
France and beyond.
1990-1992
"The Benhamou and Encrevé Reports embraced the idea of
locating the Institute at the Richelieu site, left vacant
by the transfer to Tolbiac of the print collections of
the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and they defined
the concept of the Institute: one encompassing functions
of education, research, and documentation.
"The library of the Institute would unite existing
collections: the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie -
Jacques Doucet, the Bibliothèque centrale des musées
nationaux, and the Bibliothèque de l'École nationale
supérieure des Beaux-arts -- and to these would be joined
the Bibliothèque de l'École nationale des chartes, as well.
1996
"The Laclotte Report laid out detailed conditions for the
development of the project, insisting on the necessity of
providing research tools and on the creation of
collective and cooperative programs.
1999
"Creation of an 'association de préfiguration de
l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)', presided
over by Professor Alain Schnapp.
"In 2001, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art was
created by decree (Journal officiel du 14 juillet 2001),
as an 'établissement public à caractère scientifique,
culturel et professionnel'. It reports jointly to the
ministries of 'l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche'
[Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Recherche et
de la Technologie. JK] and of "culture' [Ministère de la
Culture. JK]. Alain Schnapp was named 'directeur général"
(decree of August 29, 2001)."
The institutional history of the INHA may be read online at their
website: all of the "textes officiels", plus _completion dates_ --
http://www.inha.fr/presentation/historique.html
Calendrier (tr. JK)
"The installation of the Institut national d'histoire de
l'art will proceed in two major steps:
2003 -- Bâtiment Vivienne
"Installation, in the renovated building at 2 rue
Vivienne (the "Galerie Colbert), of the office of
doctoral programs, the center for cooperative research,
and the reviews and learned societies, as well as the
administrative and scientific services of the INHA.
By the project's end -- Bâtiment Richelieu
"Opening of the Bibliothèque de l'INHA after the
renovation of the Salle Labrouste and those of its
storage areas which will accommodate the three art
libraries: the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie -
Jacques Doucet, the Bibliothèque centrale des musées
nationaux, and the Bibliothèque de l'École nationale
supérieure des Beaux-arts.
"The École Nationale des Chartes and its library will be
installed nearby, in the buildings extending along the
rue de Rcihelieu and the rue de Petits-Champs. This
second phase also will involve the relocation of the
départements spécialisés of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France."
And the director of the département de la Bibliothèque et de la
Documentation de l'INHA, Martine Poulain, has written a fine
presentation of the project, and of the library's role in it:
"Une grande bibliothèque d'art en préparation : La
bibliothèque de l'INHA", in Bulletin des Bibliothèques de
France, 2004, t. 49, n. 3, pp. 67-78.
http://bbf.enssib.fr/default.asp
http://bbf.enssib.fr/bbf/html/2004_49_3/2004-3-p67-poulain.xml.asp
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