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Our Special Libraries class visited the library at the St. Louis Art Museum last night. As a member of the Museum for about twenty years, I've surely heard about the library before, but it never registered. I had no idea that it was so amazing. Since it's in the modern part of the building, I assumed that the library would be in a modern style. Instead, the Reading Room has the classic and elegant feel of an English country house library with walnut shelf cabinets and furniture designed by the architect of the original building, Cass Gilbert.

Most of the collection sits in closed stacks and includes an astounding number of auction catalogs and folio-sized art books as well as many books about artists and the times and places where they lived. Besides the book collection, the library also has a large slide collection and access to several on-line art databases.
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