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Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) / Bibliotheek van de UvA

University of Amsterdam / Library of the UvA

Size 4,000,000 volumes, of which 58,000 are art-historical by subject, 14.500 journals
Character and emphasis The University Library is the central library of the University of Amsterdam. Its collections reflect all fields of learning. About 50% of the total holdings are housed in faculty and institute's libraries, outside the main building.

Special collections
For art historians the following research collections are of particular interest:

• The Manuscripts and Archives Department holds approximately 200 medieval manuscripts, 70.000 more recent manuscripts and more than 500,000 letters from scholars, artists, politicians, and a reference library with over 15.000 publications.
  Opening hours Mon to Fri 9.30-17.00, tel : +31 20 525 2284, email mss@uba.uva.nl.
• The Rare Book Department has 130,000 pre-1800 imprints and 25,000 printed works that are of special importance in some other way. The nineteenth-century collection is much larger. The main category are collections related to Amsterdam as a place of printing and publication, in particular from the Dutch Golden Age, and the rich collection of seventeenth and eighteenth-century illustrated Dutch books.
  Opening hours Mon to Fri 9.30-17.00, tel +31 20 525 2473, email zkw@uba.uva.nl.
• The Book Trade Room (Library of the Royal Society of the Dutch Book Trade) holds one of the largest collections in the field of book production, distribution and preservation. This department has 50,000 books, ± 300,000 catalogues of antiquarian booksellers, publishers and book auctions, ± 700,000 documents in the personal archives, 16,500 portraits, bookillustrations and other reproductions, ± 13,000 examples of types of letters, 40,000 dust jackets of books, 35,000 documentation items related to the printing and graphic industry, and several thousands booktrademarks. There are also posters, bookplates (ex libri), graphics made for special occasions, calendars, paper samples, medallions and paintings and personal archives of bookseller and publishers.
  Opening hours Tue to Fri 13.00 to 17.00 and by appointment, tel +31 20 525 2056, email kvb@uba.uva.nl.
• The Map Room houses an extremely large general collection of maps (over 145.000), atlases (4,500) and globes (31), both early and modern, and provides a generous overview of the history of cartography and historical geography. It incorporates several earlier geographic libraries. The collection of hundreds of pre-1800 atlases is the largest in the Netherlands. The collection mainly features the work of Amsterdam mapmakers of the Golden Age.
  Opening hours Tue to Fri 13.00-17.00 and by appointment, tel +31 20 525 2354/2355, email maps@uba.uva.nl.
• The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana holds the largest collection Judaica and Hebraica in Europe, including 1,000 manuscripts; 2,000 engravings and photographs, mainly from the 18th till 20th centuries, drawings and photographs, 100.000 books, 1,500 periodicals, and 25 meters archival material.
  Opening hours Tue-Fri 13.00 - 17.00 and by appointment, tel +31 20 525 2366/2895, email ros@uba.uva.nl.
• Church History Collections / Mennonite Reading Room has four unique research collections on loan from various churches. They are the libraries of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, the Beguinage Foundation, the Remonstrant Church of Amsterdam, and the United Mennonite Congregation of Amsterdam. This group of collections together holds 25,000 works printed before 1800, ca. 200,000 later titles, 7,500 manuscripts and 1,500 prints and photographs. The Mennonite Library is renowned worldwide as the most important collection in the field of Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation. These collections are complemented by extensive reference libraries (bibliography, history of the book, history of script, cartography, printing techniques etc.).
  Opening hours Tue-Fri 13.00 - 17.00, tel +31 20 525 2452/2473, email menno@uba.uva.nl.

Catalogues of the Universiteit van Amsterdam

• The Catalogue of the Universiteit van Amsterdam include all periodicals; all books acquired by the University Library since 1981, and all books in faculty libraries acquired since 1978; earlier acquisitions are being entered in the automated catalogue. The catalogue is included in NCC and also accessible through Adamnet a union catalogue of Amsterdam libraries.
• The Catalogue of Master's theses contains a large number of Master's theses of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. This database was created in 1995 and a number of Faculties have been adding theses since then. Arthistorical master theses are also added.
• The Collections University Museum contain materials relating to education, research and student life at the Universtiteit van Amsterdam from 1632 to the present. These collections are held partly in the University Museum, partly in the faculties. Painted and sculpted portraits of scholars and professors; drawings of scholars and professors; prints of university buildings; 20th-century cartoons; posters and photographs are available.
• Systematic card catalogues, which is placed in the Reference centre.
• The Catalogues of the Special Collections (ISIS) offers access to numerous collections including the pre-1800 imprints. ISIS offers extra bibliographical infomation (as: printer, illustrator etc.).