Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2016
Art history in the Netherlands is supported by a number of art libraries in addition to museum libraries, among them the Royal Library at The Hague, the libraries of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science, both at Amsterdam, university libraries, and libraries of Dutch establishments abroad. The combined art collections of these libraries are considerable; access, however, may be facilitated by the Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation (PICA) which aims to improve on the diversity of existing catalogues.
1. For PICA see the highly informative article by Bossers, A. ‘Kooperative Bibliotheksautomatisierung – das niederlandische Pica-System’, Bibliotek: Forschung und Praxis vol.10 1986, pp.62–66.Google Scholar