AIB Library

700 Beacon Street
617.585.6670

Deb Verhoff
Head Librarian | email

Raye Yankauskas
Library Assistant | email

Chris Ford
Visual Resources Curator | email

Art & Art History Research Guide

Art Images Research Guide

The Art Institute of Boston Library maintains a focused collection, specializing in the fields of fine arts, art history, illustration, design, and photography.

Our collection of more than 11,000 books is focused on modern and contemporary art and design themes. The Library has subscriptions to more than 80 current art journals and provides online access to scholarly articles through our full text art databases. Videos and a special collection of rare artists' books are available for use in the library.

The Library's Visual Resources Collection contains slides and high quality digital images, which support the art curricula. We participate in the ARTstor project, a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.

Access to the Library's digital collections of images, scholarly articles and ebooks is available online. Print book collections can be searched, requested, and renewed online.

Lesley University Library Privileges

For research in non-art disciplines, students and faculty have access to the Lesley University Sherrill Library located near Harvard Square in Cambridge. The collections of the library are strong in all curricular areas, with an emphasis on education, psychology, human services, management, and expressive arts therapies.

Visit the Lesley University Libraries website.

Research Beyond Lesley

Lesley is affiliated with the Fenway Libraries Online, which allows direct online borrowing privileges and book delivery from additional Boston art libraries, including Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Lesley is a member of the Fenway Library Consortium, which provides walk in borrowing privileges at 16 nearby libraries.

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