Clark Art Institute

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will digitize and provide enhanced cataloguing and metadata for images from 393 volumes in the Clark Library’s Mary Ann Beinecke Collection of Decorative Arts. Spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, the collection is particularly strong in costume history, handicrafts, and textile design. The use of authorized vocabularies and thesauri in indexing will provide comprehensive access to the collection to researchers in all arts and humanities disciplines as well as curators, students, critics, cultural historians, writers, and textile artists. The materials will be available through the library’s Digital Collections interface, the Internet Archive, and the Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth.