Abstract
This article is to report results of survey conducted in March 1993 by the Survey Committee (Masaharu Taneichi, Chairman and Akiko Sumihiro, Vice-Chairman) of the Japan Art Documentation Society. Information was gathered through a questionnaire sent out to 1,118 Japanese institutions that are presumed to maintain art documentation. In the questionnaire we have asked for information on their present state of art documentation, as well as on facilities, staff and budget currently available at each institution. Breakdown of the 333 institutions that provided valid answers is as follows:
a) museums: 216 b) libraries and research institutions of art universities and colleges: 58 c) public libraries: 39 d) special libraries : 18 e) publishers and newspaper publishing companies: 2
Calculation and analysis was made based on the valid answers.
A book compiled from answers provided by about 280 institutions which approved publication will be available separetely.
