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City As TextReading Kansas City’s HistoryOctober 1, 2014Presented by Amelia Nelson, Public Services LibrarianThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library

FoundersKansas City

Museum Directorscollections

Exhibitions

publications Other

scholarship

Museum Handbooks

critical response

Collection Catalogs

Museum History

ARCHIVES

The Arts

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Museum History

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Collection History

Collection Handbooks

Collection Catalogs

• Exhibition catalogs• Museum Bulletin• Artist Monographs• Catalogues raisonnes

Individual Works of Art

1• Visit the artwork in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Look at the label copy, and note

the title, artist, artist period and accession number.

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• Search the collections online from the museum's website, http://www.nelson-atkins.org/collections located under the Heading Art | Collections. This valuable resource may include label copy, size, medium, museum location and other information

3• Search the library's collection of books, auction catalogs and more in the online catalog

http://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org

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• After you've searched the collection database, museum publications and the online catalog, the next step is to search the library's databases at http://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org The databases include a comprehensive art encyclopedia, article citations, full-text articles, auction sales results and are available from the library's public computers.

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• Library staff is happy to help you further research. Please contact the reference staff at the Spencer Art Reference Library at 816.751.1216 or via the Museum's website at: http://www.nelson-atkins.org/education/Library.cfm

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Search the Collection

Public collection search

Staff collection search

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LibraryOneSearch

http://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org

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Journals

Subscriptions to over 500 print magazines and journals

Access to thousands more through subscription databases Jstor ART bibliographies Modern

(1960 – present) Art Source(1929 – present) Articlefirst (1960 – present) BHA (Bibliography of the

History of Art) International Bibliography of

Art Art Price Databases (Auction

Sales)

CriticismExhibition ReviewsInterviewsCurrent projects and workNew scholarshipFocused research

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New Artists’ File InitiativeDocumenting Kansas City’s Creative Community

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Expanding your Search

•Museum and Gallery Collections• Image Collections• Historical Archives• Libraries• Digital Collection• Local Newspapers• Interviews

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Expanding your Search

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Expanding your Search

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Expanding your Search

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Spencer Art Reference Library Welcome

We’re open to the public There is a sign-in sheet at the Reference Desk LibraryOneSearch – your access to a collection

of 240,000 volumes covering the history of art and design

Items are paged from the library stacks and brought to the reading room

Materials don’t check out but there are hold shelves in the library reading room

There is always someone at the Reference Desk that will be able to help you!!

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Spencer Art Reference LibraryContact:Reference Desk, 816.751.1216

Marilyn Carbonell, Head, Library ServicesAmelia Nelson, Librarian, Public Services Tracey Boswell, Catalog/Reference LibrarianRoberta Wagener, Assistant, Public Services

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Spencer Art Reference Library Reading RoomFREE and OPEN to all interested in the visual arts