Joan M. Benedetti was a Librarian-Cataloger at the L.A. County Museum of Art Research Library until she retired in 2002. Before that, she was the Museum Librarian (a solo position) at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) for 21 years, also serving as Director of CAFAM's Center for the Study of Art and Culture, 1989-1994. She has been an active member of the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Michael Brand has been director of the J. Paul Getty Museum since December 2005, after having served as director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond since 2000.

Ann B. Abid was the head librarian at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1985 until her retirement in 2004. Before that she worked for 22 years at the St. Louis Art Museum. She has been an active member of ARLIS/NA, serving as president in 1988.

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part I: The Many Facets of Art Museum Librarianship
Chapter 5 1 Outside In: Leading and Managing the Art Museum Library
Chapter 6 2 Reader Services, Reference, and the Art Musuem Library's Clientele
Chapter 7 3 Automating the Art Museum Library in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 8 4 A Delicate Balance: Access and Security in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 9 5 Cataloging and Technical Services in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 10 6 Space Planning in the Art Museum Library
Part 11 Part II: Building Collections: The Intellectual Content of the Art Museum Library
Chapter 12 7 Collection Development and the Acquisition Process: The Art Museum Librarian as Curator
Chapter 13 8 Curating Images: Visual Resources in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 14 9 The Invisible Made Visible: Collecting Ephemera in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 15 10 Special Collections in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 16 11 Institutional Archives: The Art Museum Library's Memory
Part 17 Part III: Promoting, Sustaining, and Developing Support for the Art Museum Library
Chapter 18 12 Fundamentals of Fund-Raising for the Art Museum Library
Chapter 19 13 Marketing, Public Relations, and Advocacy in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 20 14 Working with Volunteers and Interns in the Art Museum Library
Chapter 21 15 Professional Development: Investing in Art Museum Librarianship
Chapter 22 16 Solo Librarianship in the Art Museum Library
Part 23 Part IV: Thumbnail Sketches: Profiles of Fifteen Art Museum Libraries
Part 24 Appendixes
Part 25 Bibliography
Part 26 Index
Part 27 About the Contributors