NEWS OF THE ARCHIVE

ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE FUTURE OF THE YALE-VAN RIJN ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN ART

After many years, since the Yale University Art Gallery received the Guy van Rijn Archive of African Art in 2001, we are planning to migrate the database to the Yale University Library Digital Collections available for cross-collection search by the Yale community of students, faculty, staff, and others who have access to the Yale digital system. As of August 1, 2012, the website http://yvra.library.yale.edu/ will no longer exist.

All researchers outside Yale are invited to visit Yale University to use Yale resources including the Yale-van Rijn Archive, which will be searchable through the Yale University Library Digital Collections, which offers across-collection search and retrieves results from over 500,000 existing images in selected Library Digital Collections. To this will be added the 180,000 images of the Yale-van Rijn Archive. The Yale University Library Digital Collections may be accessed at http://digitalcollections.library.yale.edu/Default.aspx. Yale University libraries and museums continue to be open and free to the public.

The Ross Archive of African Images remains available for general access at http://raai.library.yale.edu.
The Ross Archive is a comprehensive database of over 7,000 images. RAAI aspires to reproduce all the illustrations of figurative African objects published between 1600 and 1920 in books, periodicals, catalogues, newspapers, and other publications.