Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Our latest blog post just went live:

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Preserving IFAR’s Record - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expanding access to a landmark provenance and cultural heritage resource.

Check out our latest blog post about library cataloging!

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Think Globally, Catalog Locally - The Metropolitan Museum of Art How libraries share cataloging information throughout the world.

Check out our latest blog about designer Issey Miyake

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Regarding Issey Miyake through the Costume Institute Library’s Ephemera - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion ephemera from the designer Issey Miyake paint a picture of his career and ethos.

Check out our latest blog post about a facsimile of a Toulouse-Lautrec sketchbook:

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More Than a Facsimile - The Metropolitan Museum of Art On reproducing Toulouse-Lautrec’s sketchbook Album de Marine.

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Expanding the Lens - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Global perspectives on Black fashion and dandyism.

Check out our latest blog post about "simple solutions for fitting nontraditional book formats upright on library shelves":

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Thinking Inside the Box - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Simple solutions for fitting nontraditional book formats upright on library shelves.

Check out our latest blog post about "edible books" (and how we conserve them).

Shelf Life - The Metropolitan Museum of Art The conservation of edible books.

Check out our latest blog post, Amplifying Underrepresented Voices: Recent acquisitions and highlights in The Costume Institute Library."

Fashion Beyond Borders - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrating BIPOC creativity in The Costume Institute Library.

Check out our latest blog post about nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.

At Home in a Book - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.

Check out our latest blog post about some of Watson’s acquisitions from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Fair Game - The Metropolitan Museum of Art A glimpse inside Watson’s acquisitions from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.