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LEIDEN

Universiteit Leiden, Kunsthistorisch Instituut / Bibliotheek en Prentenkabinet

Leiden University, Institute for Art History / Library and Print Room

Doelensteeg 16 / PO Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden
Print Room and Documentation centre for Photography (part of the University Library): Witte Singel 27, PO Box 9501, 2300 RA Leiden
Tel: 071-5272655 / Print Room: 071-527 27 00, Fax: 071-527 26 15, E-mail:A.Ouwerkerk@let.leidenuniv.nl
Librarian Ms A. Ouwerkerk
Opening hours Mon-Fri 9.00-17.00; Mon and Wed to 19.00
Conditions of use Free access; (restricted) loans on presentation of a library card, obtainable on the presentation of a valid ID
Services Reference assistance / bibliographic databases / ILL / photographic services / restaurant in neighbouring faculty complex
WWW-site http://www.kunstgeschiedenis.leidenuniv.nl

Size 80,000 books, 200 current and 150 discontinued periodicals
Character and emphasis The Print Room of Leiden University was founded in 1814, which is why its library is rich in older literature and is particularly strong in print-albums and 19th century periodicals. The Institute for Art History, founded in 1907, has its origin in the Print Room. After World War II its books, formerly kept in the professors' rooms, were placed together to create a library. Its collection documents Western art from Early Christian times to the present day, with particular emphasis on drawing, the graphic arts and photography, and on the decorative arts.

Special collections

  • The private library of D.P.G. Humbert de Superville, first director of the Leiden printroom, and several other legacies
  • The books on photography, prints and drawings are located at the Print Room, to be used in conjunction with the extensive collection of drawings and prints and the important collection on the history of photography (which was the first in this subject to be formed in the Netherlands)
  • Documentation archives on photographers: cuttings, leaflets, etc.
  • Microforms, CD-ROM's
Access In the Institute's library (Doelensteeg 16) part of the collection is available on open shelves in two reading rooms, one containing a student's collection (general art-historical literature on all topics), the other containing the periodicals and collection catalogues. All other books in closed stacks.
The Print Room's library (Witte Singel 27) is since 2004 part of the University Library.

Catalogues

  • The online union catalogue of Leiden University covers periodicals and all books held by the main University Library and the holdings of the various faculty's and institute's libraries, including the library of the Institute for Art History.
  • The online union catalogue is included in NCC
  • Alphabetical and subject card catalogues (including artist's and placenames for the exhibition and collection catalogues) up to May 1996
Publications
  • Periodical lists of acquisitions
  • Het Leidse Prentenkabinet: de geschiedenis van de verzamelingen. (Leids Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, volume 9, (1994).)
  • E. van Melis. 'Kunst, boeken en kunstboeken: de bibliotheek van de vakgroep Kunstgeschiedenis'. Boek en byte. (1994) no 3, 9-11
  • 'Wij waren de enige gekken die alles bewaarden'. In: A. Bergsma. Vakbibliotheken in Nederland en België. Haarlem 1993, 34-37

Kunsthistorisch Instituut / Diatheek

Institute for Art History / Slide Library

Doelensteeg 16, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden
Tel: 071-5272689, Fax: 071-5272615, E-mail: A.Ouwerkerk@let.leidenuniv.nl, I.Gerasimova@let.leidenuniv.nl
Head Curator Ms. A. Ouwerkerk
Slide librarian J. Gerasimova
Opening hours Mon-Thu 10.00-16.00
Conditions of use Consultation only; loan restricted to staff and students of Leiden University
Size 150,000 slides, videos
Character and emphasis The Slide Library primarily aims to serve educational purposes. It holds slides on all aspects of Western art, but foremost on painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts, drawing, printing and photography.
Access Open shelves
Catalogues Card catalogue. The slides about painting and sculpture are introduced in the computer. Material used in the curriculum is put on the Internet

Kunsthistorisch Instituut / Reproductiecollectie

Institute for Art History / Reproduction Collection

Doelensteeg 16, 2311 AJ Leiden
Tel: 071-5272756 (Iconclass), 071-5272747, E-mail: couprie@rullet.leidenuniv.nl
Curators L. Couprie, M. Groot
Opening hours and conditions of use By appointment; consultation only

Size 160,000 reproductions; press-cuttings
Character and emphasis The Reproductiecollectie has two main sections. The first is the iconographical part that consist of 80,000 reproductions, all filed according to the Iconclass-system. The second part contains 80,000 reproductions of works of decorative art. This section is filed according to material aspects.

Special collections

  • Documentation archives on microfiche: the Marburger Index (on art in Germany) and the Alinari Photo Archives
  • The Decimal Index of the Lower Countries (DIAL): a collection of black-and-white reproductions of Netherlandish art, published by the RKD.
Access Open files
Catalogues Card catalogues
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