"Art Documentation" covers a variety of visual phenomena produced by various human activities and deals with all processes of the activities concerning information and materials which have been produced by considerations on these visual phenomena. It is also the system of ideas and technologies that support the activities concerning art information and art materials. This "art" means wide coverage of all visual phenomena.
This paper presents a subject of art documentation from the following points of view: (1) how to systematize a number of information and materials that have been produced from various visual phenomena, (2) how to deal with those information and materials, and (3) how to grasp the type of users and to serve them.
My two plans of the system of information and the system of materials in art documentation are brought up in the first step. Next, the working methods of these systems are indicated at every stage of acquisition, organization, retrieval system, and conservation. Last, the actual situation of users, resource centers and databases are traced and the establishment of networking systems are proposed for the comprehensive organization of services.

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In this paper, problems of documenting exhibition catalogs are discussed.
In chapter one, the characteristics of exhibition catalogs are investigated. From this investigation, the following are revealed: catalogs tend to have rich contents, the needs for catalogs are various, and the form of catalogs also varies.
In chapter two, problems of documentation are discussed from the view points of strategy, physical and logical management. In the section of strategy, as what type of material exhibition catalogs must be treated is discussed. In the section of physical management, the matter of arrangement is discussed. In the section of logical management, problems of access and bibliographic description are discussed.
In chapter three, practices of documenting exhibition catalogs are introduced, such as a simple manual documentation system in a small art library, a sophisticated manual documentation system in a large art library, MARC projects concerning exhibition catalogs, a computer documentation system for catalogs and DIALOG files including information of exhibition catalogs.

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In Japan, there are several kinds of grey literature existed about art. In this paper, they are classified several types by subjects, and each characteristics are also described with a short list of reference tools and related libraries.
Toward a substantial grasp of many materials on art, the way to improve a present inconvenient situation about grey literature are discussed and proposed.

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It is very important for Japanese art librarians to get acquainted with overseas art libraries. This series presents their varying aspects in different countries. The first series is preceded by the discussion on the preparation for the library visit and survey. The author observed the art libraries in Moscow, Prague and Warsaw which he visited on the occasion of the 1991 IFLA Conference and immediately afterwards.

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Because the arts have been one of the last fields to make use of computers in scholarly research, this paper begins by discussing the traditional relationship of art scholars to technology, some of the reasons for resistance to technology, and changes that are occurring in the field. The remainder of the paper is a discussion of computerization in art research. Outlines of bibliographic databases that are now available are provided and their scope is described in terms of subject, geographical area, time period, cost, vendor, and retrospective conversion of records. Special needs and activities of user groups such as museum curators, art librarians, professors, art dealers and art collectors are investigated.
Recording information about art objects in an online catalog presents unique problems. These include such issues as discrepancies in titles, attributions, dates and the need for flexible information records. The specific types of databases and automated research tools that would be most useful to art researchers would enable them to do such things as search for records by patrons, collectors, artists, geographic areas, style, subject matter, iconography, exhibition, etc. Computerized projects that meet these needs and are currently being planned or implemented under the sponsorship of the Getty Trust include: the combining of RILA and the Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeology; the Avery Index; the Provenance Index; the Witt Library; The Art and Architecture Thesaurus and many others. The paper concludes by providing some examples of worldwide projects to computerize research in the visual arts and meet specific user needs.
from the article on the Gerd Muehsam Award 1989, in Art Documentation, vol. 8, no. 3 (Fall 1989), p. 119.

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The lecturer discussed four aspects of art librarianship in the United States: first, the historical background with brief description of the five types of art libraries - art division of college and university library, art and design school library, art museum library, art department in public library and business library, that have developed since the end of nineteenth century to the present; second, the formation and growth of the specialized professional associations, especially on ARLIS/NA; third, the education for art librarianship; and fourth, the use of new technology introduced into the fields and various libraries of arts and humanities. At the end of the article, she stressed the possibility of linking the libraries throughout the world via innovative bibliographic utilities such as RLIN and expects art librarians in both US and Japan to be sharing information and solutions to mutual problems by the end of this decade.

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Les modes actuelles de consultation par le public d'images fixes et animées clans Jes organismes culturels français et, en particulier, l'exemple de la banque d'images de la Bibliothèque publique d'Information du Centre Georges Pompidou mettent en valeur les besoins et les attentes de ce public pour de nouveaux produits culturels. Ceux-ci doivent apporter des informations complémentaires à l'image sous forme multi-media et interactive. Ils doivent prendre en compte !es droits d'auteur liés à l'image. Le projet d'interrogation adi stance de la banque d'images de la BPI est un projet novateur de télécommunications dans le domaine culturel. D'autres projets sont en cours d'élaboration en France et en Europe.

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On behalf of the first number of the periodical journal "Fashion Documentation," I'll give a review and explain information service of "Fashion."
At first, in order to survey the field on Fashion, the meanings of related terms are defined. Next, after grasping the historical process of subject, the characteristics of the literature on Fashion in comparison with that on Clothing are discussed.

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