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Rijksdienst voor Archeologie, Cultuurlandschap en Monumenten (RACM) / Bibliotheek en Documentatie

National Service for Archaeology, Cultural Landscape and Built Heritage (RACM) / Library and documentation

Size 60,000 volumes, 600 current and 100 discontinued periodicals
Character and emphasis In 1903 a commission was initiated to compile a nation-wide inventory of historic buildings and monuments in the Netherlands. Subsequently the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg was founded in 1912. It maintains the national register of protected monuments, and advises national, regional and local authorities on matters of conservation, and it documents and researches the individual monuments. The library has its origin in the collection of the architect and architectural historian Jan Kalf, acquired in the 1930s. It focuses on the topography of the Netherlands, its former and present territories overseas (Indonesia, Surinam, Dutch Antilles) and its surrounding countries, architecture and (historic) building technology, town planning, garden architecture, and the preservation of monuments and historic buildings. It is particularly strong in regional topographical and historical publications.

Special collections 600 early editions of architectural treatises and historical-topographical books
Access Most of the books on open shelves

Catalogues

• Automated catalogue on author's name, subject, names of historic buildings in the Netherlands; periodical holdings are included in NCC (until 2001)
• Thematic entries for articles in periodicals and composite works are fully available in the automated catalogue

Foto- en Tekeningenarchief / Photographs and Drawings Department

Size 400,000 photographs, 20,000 slides; 250,000 architectural drawings, 4,000 topographical drawings and prints
Character and emphasis This department of the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg focuses on Dutch monuments and architecture as well as protected townscapes and other historical sites. It also collects visual material on monumental painting and sculpture and it has an important collections of photographs on the mutual heritage in countries like Indonesia, Surinam, the Dutch Antilles, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Ghana. The Photographs and Drawings Department owns a unique collection of photographs, architectural and topographical drawings and other visual material. The photographs, most in black-and-white, date from 1875 up to the present. Every year many new photographs are being made by own photographers to register the monuments and for research and publication purposes.

Access Most of the material on open shelves, arranged by place. Topographical drawings and prints in closed stacks

Catalogues

• Card catalogues
• A small part of the photographs and slides are entered in an automated catalogue

• Printed catalogue of the topographical prints
• Index on drawings and prints concerning architecture, found in Dutch archives