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San Diego’s Musem of Contemporary Art and UC San Diego Form Partnership

11.17.09

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the University of California, San Diego, have formed a partnership that will expand student and faculty access to more than eight thousand visual-art catalogues and related materials and provide MCASD curatorial staff with access to the vast holdings of the UC San Diego Libraries, the largest academic-library system south of Los Angeles.

The transfer of these art materials from the museum to UC San Diego will integrate access to these catalogues and other materials with all the resources—more than seven million print and electronic items—of the UC San Diego Libraries.

Discussions leading to the MCASD–UC San Diego Libraries partnership began in 2004 when Dr. Hugh M. Davies, the David C. Copley director of MCASD, approached Brian E. C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian at UC San Diego. “While this project has been in the works for several years, now more than ever it makes sense to combine our resources where there are strong benefits and efficiencies to be achieved. MCASD’s curators will gain access to one of the great academic libraries on the West Coast. We are also pleased that this collection of visual-art books will be accessible to students and faculty at UC San Diego and will benefit teaching and research in the art,” stated Davies.