You have been very helpful in sending me messages in reply to my request "compar
e museums to
library". Since this research wasn't for us but for someone working in a library
 in the museum
environment and who does not have access to internet, you will find her message
enclosed.
 
Alexandra HAUCHECORNE
Centre de Documentation
Direction des muies de France
6, rue des Pyramides
75001 PARIS FRANCE
Email : [log in to unmask]
 
 
 
Message from Nicole Picot :
 
To Jack Kessler, Robert A. Baron, Dean Debolt, Carol A. Ely, Terry Grose, Suzann
e Quingley,
Eric Siegel, Linda Young and Dr Leonard Will
 
 Alexandra Hauchecorne gave me the result of our question "Relationship between
museums and
libraries : co-operation and partnership". Thank you so much for your interestin
g discussion and
for periodicals and book references. I am art librarian in Le Louvre museum and
prepare a course
on that subject in Grenoble : in that town the library network is very important
 ,readers are more
and more interested in museums and art history. Libraries offer large book colle
ctions. I do agree
with Leonard D. Will "We should not be looking for differences which divide but
for similarities
which unite". This will be the philosophy of my course.
Libraries and museums are two elements of the national and local "politique cult
urelle". They
share funds and have common missions. They have to collect, catalogue and offer
to the public
art objects or documentation. museum libraries, public art school and academic l
ibraries can build
their document collections to offer the widest choice possible, sharing funding
more efficiently.
International standards, MARC format for cataloguing have improve co-operation.
Library
authority file may be far broader and richer if we also controlled vocabulary ma
de for databases
and museum catalogues. French museums have now image database, some with remote
access :
very useful for libraries : Joconde . As well as videodisk about museum collecti
ons. Both
museums and libraries have the aim in welcoming their public : quality. Librarie
s and museums
are bridges between artists and the society;
Co-operation between libraries and museums educational services is important for
 staff training :
they receive the same persons , asking the same questions. the bulletin des bibl
iothhques de
France has a special issue "bibliothhques, musies, archives, histoire croisies.
tome 39, N0 5, 1994
(Ecole nationale supirieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothhques.
17/21 Bld du 11
novembre 1918 -69623 Villeurbanne Cedex. France 80 F. F.
Please,  escuse my english
 
Nicole Picot
Biliothhque et archives des musies nationaux
direction des Musies de france
6 rue des Pyramides
75041 Paris cedex 01
FRANCE