{"id":1891,"date":"2010-05-21T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2010-05-21T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:08:50","slug":"on-may-21st-2010-the-midway-contemporary-art-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2010\/05\/21\/on-may-21st-2010-the-midway-contemporary-art-library\/","title":{"rendered":"On May 21st, 2010, THE MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART LIBRARY&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/library\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1890\" title=\"Midway Contemporary Art Library\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010-05-211-225x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010-05-211-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2010-05-211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midway Contemporary Art Library in Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;is worth a visit if you are in Minneapolis &#8211; and where I went today &#8211; with an extensive collection non-circulating books, periodicals, and videos open to the public, and just one part of this non-profit art center which also includes exhibitions, publications, events, and education &#8211; more information on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About the Library: <\/strong>The Midway Contemporary Art Library serves to document, present, and  preserve the recent history of contemporary visual art in a public  context. Founded in 2007, its objectives are to research, collate, and  catalog published material in an effort to provide the most  comprehensive and accessible resource for research into contemporary art  in the region. A non-circulating collection, the library contains  thousands of titles from a wide range of publishers from around the  world. While group exhibition catalogs and monographs form the core of  the library\u2019s collection, the library also contains reference material, a  selection of artist books, DVD\u2019s, and an extensive selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/library\/periodicals.php\">periodicals and  journals<\/a>.  We are currently subscribed to a number of monthly and  quarterly publications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Using the Collection: <\/strong>The library is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm. If you  wish to use the library outside of these hours, please <a href=\"mailto:info@midwayart.org\">contact us<\/a> to make special  arrangements. The library is maintained and run by a dedicated group of  volunteers and interns who will be glad to assist you. It is a  non-circulating facility; all library materials must stay in the  library. The library\u2019s holdings are organized according to two systems:  Monographs are arranged by artist\u2019s last name, and all other books are  arranged by Library of Congress call numbers. You may come in and  browse, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/library\/library_catalog\/opac\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">use our online search<\/a> to find a specific volume.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Donate Books: <\/strong>We are always looking for new and exciting volumes to add to our  library\u2019s collection. We welcome book donations, but ask that you please  contact us before donating books to see if they are what we currently  need. We also encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/registry.html?ie=UTF8&amp;type=wishlist&amp;id=2L5C1C6H9NVBO\" target=\"_blank\">donate books through our amazon.com wish list<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Book Club: <\/strong>Midway has a book club, which meets every month to discuss fiction, art  books, or anything else they choose. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/library\/bookclub.php\">More about the book  club&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Exchange Program: <\/strong>We welcome the opportunity to establish catalog exchanges with other  publishing institutions. If you would like to set up a regular exchange,  please <a href=\"mailto:library@midwayart.org\">contact the library<\/a>.  You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayart.org\/library\/exchange.php\">see  a list of institutions currently exchanging titles with Midway<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- end of container div and subpg content div --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is worth a visit if you are in Minneapolis &#8211; and where I went today &#8211; with an extensive collection non-circulating books, periodicals, and videos open to the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,69],"tags":[1725,1734,384,385,100],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-books","tag-art-2","tag-books","tag-library","tag-midway-contemporary-art","tag-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}