1. Update on Japan Art Catalog Project

2. JAC’s 3 Components Asian Art Catalog Collection at Freer Gallery of Art Western Art Catalog Collection moving to Columbia’s Avery Architectural and Art Library JAC II Exchange Collection of US Catalogs of Japanese Art relocated to the National Art Center, Tokyo

3. JAC Asian Collection Reiko Yoshimura, Curator reiko.yoshimura@asia.si.edu reiko.yoshimura@asia.si.edu Current holding 4,297 collected since 1996 Available on site or nationally through ILL

4. JAC Western Collection Paula Gabbard, Curator gabbard@columbia.edu gabbard@columbia.edu Catalogs of Western Art Exhibitions held in Japan, catalogs are in Japanese and will be cataloged by Hideyuki Morimoto of Columbia’s CV Starr East Asian Library

5. JAC II Exchange Collection Transferred from the Japan Association for Cultural Exchange (ACE Japan) to the library of the National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT 国立新美術館 ) The National Art Center will open in Roppongi in early 2007.

6. New Location of the NACT The National Art Center will contain the largest indoor exhibition space in Japan and will be located in Roppongi near the Nogizaka stop on the Chiyoda Line The Art Library will be located on the third floor of NACT adjacent to the Art Commons, Restaurant, Roof Garden and Exhibition Spaces

7. Please help us gather catalog donations for JAC II Please contact Marianne Fritz mfritz@fas.harvard.edu mfritz@fas.harvard.edu With catalog donation suggestions