A private institution, the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, educates artists, graphic and environmental designers. The successful blending of library technical requirements and visual concepts in art education demystifies the automation planning and implementation processes. This paper reviews the unique perspectives confronting an art school library and provides suggestions for other libraries facing similar challenges.

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This article describes the Library of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, one of the world's premier libraries devoted to photography. As revealed in the article, the combined collections of the museum--photographs, films, apparatus and the library--offer extensive primary documentation of an incredible range of photographic activity.

This list of international architectural exhibitions, occurring in 14 countries in 1991, contains 194 entries for exhibitions and 133 bibliographic citations gleaned from the OCLC Online database.

Finding architectural plans can be a challenge for any information provider. Reference works and indexing tools which can be helpful are varied. Successful searches often depend upon how well known a work is unless there are other resources such as vertical files or archives which may be used. This guide serves as an example of how one major art and architectural information resource, the New York Public Library, provides user assistance with this kind of architectural material.

Research involving the financial value of an artist's work can be one of the most difficult areas of research. The following guide to auction sale indexes, price guides and catalogs, prepared for users of the New York Public Library, aims to make that research less complicated by organizing scattered information in a guide that is easy to use.

The design methodology of the urban designer is similar to that of the architect working on an individual building. Both are dependent upon the medium of drawings to explore problems and initiate solutions. For this reason, the types of drawings and their conventions of represnetation are of critical importance to the urban designer. The following article traces the difficulties of currently available urban drawings for the urban designer. The author identifies critical characteristics of useful urban design drawings, and elaborates on a number of cartographic representations that provide useful paradigms.

Architecture students are likely to be heavy users of map collections in educational institutions offering instruction in architecture. Recommendations of basic map resources needed to meet the information requirements of such students are given. Networking via electronic mail among and with map librarians is suggested as an effective means of gaining access for patrons to many may resources outside of the local library.