Queens College Art Library
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, 6th Floor
telephone 718.997.3770
fax 718.997.7356
artlibrary@qc.cuny.edu
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Queens College Art Library provides services and information resources in the visual arts and material culture, to fulfill the educational, research, and cultural goals of Queens College.
The Art Library collection originated with the founding of the original Library of Queens College in 1937. From these modest beginnings, the Art Library has developed into a leading Art library of the City University of New York (CUNY).
The Art Library supports undergraduate and graduate instructional programs offered by the Art Department in art history and studio art. It also supports programs offered by other departments and schools in related disciplines, including:
- Anthropology (archaeology)
- Communication Arts and Sciences (photography, video, computer art)
- Drama, Theater and Dance (costume, stage design)
- Education (art education)
- Family, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences (design, decorative arts, textiles, fashion)
- Film Studies (design)
- History (cultural history)
- Honors in the Humanities (art, cultural history)
- Journalism (art criticism, design, illustration)
- Media Studies (design, illustration)
- Music (music in art, cultural history)
- SEEK (art, cultural history)
- Urban Studies (urbanism, city planning, architecture)
- Weekend College (art, cultural history)
- Language, literature and culture departments (Asian, Classical, Comparative Literature, English, European, Hispanic).
- Science departments (illustration, images)
- Interdisciplinary and special studies programs (Africana, American, Asian, Byzantine and Modern Greek, Irish, Italian/American, Jewish, Latin American, Puerto Rican)
- Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (art librarianship, reference)
In addition, the Art Library supports faculty research and the functions of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College.
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