Art libraries of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and Yokohama Museum of Art started the cross retrieval OPAC in the web (http://alc.opac.jp) on March 1st, 2004. These three museums' art libraries formed Art Libraries' Consortium: ALC that is hoping to promote cooperation between art libraries in Japan. Beginning of 2007, members of ALC will include art libraries of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and The National Art Center, Tokyo, which will be opened in that time. Author described the necessities of cooperation between Japanese art libraries/librarians and pointed out that sharing bibliographic information on art resources, especially exhibition catalogs, is essential and necessary condition, and also ALC would be the basic functions for the sharing art information.
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