The document summarizes the services provided by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library in Portugal. The library has a collection of over 190,000 books and receives 190 journals. It houses the largest collection of art books in Portugal, including private collections from art historians and artists. The library is digitizing its collections, making over 160,000 images available online along with its catalog. It contributes collections to other online resources like Europeana and uses social media like Flickr to share materials.

1. Providingservices for thescholarlycommunityinthefield of Arts: the Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationArtLibrary 5th UNICA ScholarlyCommunicationSeminar Lisboa. Universidade Nova. 7-9 Novembro. 2010

2. CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION 1. The Founder: Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian Mr. Five-per-CentCollectorPhilantropist 2

3. 2. The Foundation ARTS CHARITY EDUCATION SCIENCE 3

4. 3. The Library 4

5. 3.1. Collections Calouste Gulbenkian PrivateLibrary Web site aboutthe Calouste Gulbenkian Collection http://bibliotecaparticular.gulbenkian.pt/en/sirius.exe/ 5

6. 3.1. Collections +- 190.000 monographictitles 190 currentjournals 2.600 NBM The largestArtLibraryin Portugal 6

8. Artists7

10. Raúl Lino

11. Cristino da Silva8

12. 3.1. Collections PhotoCollections Thematiccollections: Tiles, PortugueseWoodcraving, DecorativeStuccoes of theNort of Portugal, GothicArchitecture, etc., etc. PhotographicStudios: Mário Novais, Horácio Novais 9

13. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES CATALOGUE: http://www.biblartepac.gulbenkian.pt 10

14. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES WEB SITE: http://www.biblarte.gulbenkian.pt 11

16. Millions of files: 3 TB

18. File definition:

19. TIFF, 300 DPI, 8/16/24 bit, technical metadata

20. JPEG, 300 DPI, 8/24 bit

21. Naming: rules: callnumber+ file type + file extension12

23. PDF’swithJPEG’s(oneor more JPEG’saccordingly to thebibliographicdescription)

24. Files attatched to bibliographicrecord

25. Control of copyandpersonalrights

26. Searchableby “traditional” catalogue indexes13

27. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: thecollectionsinotherinformationenvironments 3.2.1. The bibliographicenvironment ARTLIBRARIES.NET The virtual catalogue for ArtHistory http://artlibraries.net 14

28. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: thecollectionsinotherinformationenvironments 3.2.1. The digital environment EUROPEANA The European Digital Library http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html 15

29. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: thecollectionsinotherinformationenvironments 3.2.1. The social networkingenvironment FLICKR The COMMONS Project http://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/ 16

30. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: the catalogue as a startingpoint for theinformationlandscape GOOGLE BOOKS API + “Link Searches” byauthor to Google Booksand Google Scholar 17

31. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: tools for user’s RSS CHANNELS Everysearchmadeby a user Digital collections Newtitles Newjournals User’s interest 18

32. 3.2. ONLINE SERVICES: tools for user’s WIDGET for Aquisitions (newtitles) 19

33. QUESTIONS? TANK YOU! pjleitao@gulbenkian.pt 20