Senior Librarian, Systems & Services, National Art Library.
The National Art Library will close at 17.30 on Thursday 22 December and then re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023 You can request your books for when we re-open by specifying the...
As manager of the onsite public services at The National Art Library, I’ve greatly missed seeing all of our regular readers and meeting any new visitors who explore our reading...
We recently blogged about the works that are going to take place on the National Art Library’s glass roof. We are replacing some of the glazing and timbers to keep the roof...
The Twentieth Century Gallery is going to be refurbished and will be closed from November until May next year. This will bring a fresh look to Rooms 74 and 76 but will for a...
The National Art Library’s splendid glass roof has been in place since 1881. Installed to give as much natural light as possible to the readers below, it has now seen better...
A reminder that the National Art Library will be closed for the May bank holiday weekends. You can order your items ahead of your visit for when we re-open. Advance orders...
The National Art Library will be open until 17.30 on Saturday 22nd December. After that, we close for the Christmas break until Friday 28th December when we’re open during...
The National Art Library will soon close its doors for ten days to enable us to carry out our annual stocktaking exercise. This year the main focus of the closure period is...
The National Art Library will be closed from 17.30 on Thursday 29 March. We will re-open at 10.00 on Tuesday 3 April. If you place an advance order after 16.00 on Thursday...
The National Art Library will soon be implementing a new library management system. This system runs our cataloguing, membership and book ordering processes. Our current...
A reminder to our users that the National Art Library will close for our annual stocktake at 17.30 on Saturday 12th August and will re-open at 10.00 on Tuesday 29th...
A reminder to all our users that the National Art Library will be closed for the two bank holiday weekends in May: Closing at 18.30 on Friday 28th April, and re-opening at 10.00...
The V&A is a wonderful place to visit at Christmas, with lots of festive displays, activities, and events for all! One display that has just opened is Season’s...
Every year the National Art Library closes its doors for ten days to carry out a stocktaking exercise. The focus of the stocktake is always on ensuring the on-going security and...
A reminder to all our users that the second bank holiday in May will soon be upon us and that the National Art Library will be closed for the weekend. We close at 18.30 on...
A reminder to all our users that the National Art Library will be closed for the bank holiday weekend from 18.30 on Friday 29th April, and will re-open at 10.00 on Tuesday 3rd...
The National Art Library will be closed from 17.30 on Thursday 24 March. We will re-open at 10.00 on Tuesday 29 March. If you place an advance order after 16.00 on Thursday 24...
The National Art Library‘s collection grows at a rate of around 7000 items per year, meaning that we are constantly looking at ways of maximizing the space available in our...
Each year at the V&A, students, artists, book historians and anyone else with an eye for the beautiful, unusual and thought provoking come to visit the National Art...
The National Art Library Toshiba Gallery Store will be closed from the 30th May 2015 until mid-October 2015. This is so that essential work can take place to ensure that the site...
Beautiful, historic library interiors also mean historic library stores, and occasionally book storage areas will need some additional care and attention to ensure they continue...
Those of you who have used the National Art Library’s reading rooms, or who may even be sitting in them as you read this, will not have failed to notice how beautiful they...
We would like to thank all of the hundreds of people who completed the National Art Library’s recent user satisfaction survey. Each year there are around 35,000...
