The history, development and objectives of the Art Libraries Section of the Association of French Librarians are discussed. Recent achievements include the publication of the French Art Librarians’ Yearbook and the Directory of Art History Libraries and Documentation Centres in the Paris Area as well as current work on a computerised list of art periodicals.

A brief outline is given of events which in 1979 led to the Art and Design Library being moved out of the main faculty block at Grand Parade into an adjacent building. This is followed by a description and assessment of the improved facilities in the new library.

Acknowledgements are due to Leslie Willmot, site librarian from 1962-1977, for his help with information on the development of the Library. Photographs courtesy of Zul Mukhida.

In my previous article, published in the last issue of Art Libraries Journal, I described three large libraries which form parts of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunstbibliotheken: the Kunstbibliothek at Berlin, the library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum at Nuremberg, and the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek der Stadt Köln. I also wrote of the smaller Museumsbibliothek in Berlin, and I now go on to describe my visits to three other museum libraries.