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Source: The Chicago Tribune (Free Registration Required) Learn About the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago
From the article, "Just how extensive is the Ryerson and Burnham collection? According to Jack Brown, director of the libraries for almost 20 years, there are a quarter-million books, which take up 220,000 inches of shelf space. (Brown knows this for sure because he measured them to prepare a report on the library's need for more storage room.) That doesn't include 70,000 art auction catalogs, 1,500 current periodical subscriptions, 440,000 slides and 35,000 pamphlet files." One of the priceless things about the Ryerson is its ephemera," said Wendy Greenhouse, an independent art historian and former curator at the Chicago Historical Society. "It has these tiny catalog pamphlets and one-of-a-kind manuscripts relating to individual artists. And the Ryerson Index is an incredible resource for articles from periodicals." See Also: Direct to the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Web Site See Also: Search the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Catalog
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