{"id":451934,"date":"2010-03-20T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6122382267362061925"},"modified":"2010-03-20T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:50:23","slug":"groundbreaking-partnership-unites-decades-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/451934","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.oneindia.in\/2009\/03\/07\/3000-year-old-noblewomans-tomb-found-in-egypt.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/18\/arts\/artsspecial\/18LIBRARY.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">MOST people associate museums with art and artifacts, not research libraries. But many of New York\u2019s most prestigious museums have extensive collections of books and papers. Four of them \u2014 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection \u2014 have combined forces to share resources, save money and make their holdings more accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Together these institutions make up the New York Art Resources Consortium, an integrated library system formed in 2007 that is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its Web site, nyarc.org, just went on line in February. Last year, three of the museums united their collections in one catalog, called Arcade (the Met has kept its catalog separate).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allows us to do some things collaboratively that we weren\u2019t able to do individually,\u201d said Milan R. Hughston, the chief of library and museum archives at MoMA. \u201cTogether we aggregate close to a million books, articles, periodicals and special collections that document art history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The database, at arcade.nyarc.org, is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ancient Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6122382267362061925?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times MOST people associate museums with art and artifacts, not research libraries. But many of New York\u2019s most prestigious museums have extensive collections of books and papers. Four of them \u2014 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection \u2014 have combined forces to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}