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The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives holds approximately 300,000 volumes and over 3,000 linear feet of archives related to the history of the Museum and its collections. The Library collections comprise books, periodicals, auction catalogs, artist and institutional files as well as special collections containing photographs, sketches, artists' books, rare books and trade catalogues. The Museum Archives contains institutional records, curatorial correspondence, expedition reports, and other related textual and visual records dating to the founding of the institution. ==History== The Brooklyn Museum evolved from the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Association, founded in 1823 and the first free and circulating library in Brooklyn. In 1831, the Library acquired its first painting, joining a developing book collection. According to the Minutes of the Apprentices' Library from January 31, 1835: "Walter Whitman acting librarian presented a Report this evening, in which it is stated that there are now about 1200 volumes in the Library in a proper state for being drawn out; and that the number of Readers is 172." By the 1840s, the public demand for educational programs resulted in the reorganization of the Library with the adoption by the Association of a revised charter under the name of the Brooklyn Institute and the Library was housed in a new building. Evening classes were offered, the first exhibition of paintings was held and Library acquisition funds became available. The Library's accession records document early institutional interest in the world at large. An early acquisition is currently in the Museum's long term installation, ''Connecting Cultures''. Over the next forty years the Brooklyn Institute grew and was reorganized into the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences which eventually became the parent organization of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. During the late 1880s plans were established to revitalize the Institute in order ″to make the property of the Institute the nucleus of a broad and comprehensive institution for the advancement of science and art...″ After an architectural competition held in 1893, the firm of McKim, Mead & White was chosen to design a building to house the Brooklyn Museum and its library. The early 1900s saw reorganization of the original Apprentices' Library by the Museum Librarians who kept portions of the collection that supported research on the Museum's object collections and transferred the rest to other libraries in Brooklyn and other institutions. William Henry Goodyear, the Museum's first Curator of Fine Arts (1890-1923), founding Museum Librarian Susan A. Hutchinson (1900–35) and Stewart Culin, the Museum's first Curator of Ethnology (1903–29) laid the foundation of the research and object collections. Some of the rarest material in the library collection today, such as a set of documentary photographs of Mexico and Central America taken by Alfred P. Maudslay in the 1880s was acquired under their direction. After Stewart Culin died, the trustees acquired his archives and personal library of nearly 7,000 titles, focused primarily on the arts and culture of the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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