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A drawing from the Merkelbach archives is being laid out in the reading room. NAi Collection / MELK t38-14
Items from the collection may not be borrowed, but you may consult them in the reading room. You may take items from the shelf yourself. A staff member will bring other material from the storage at your request. See below for practical guidelines on searching, requesting and viewing archive materials, books and magazines.
Requesting Documents from the Archives
You may request material from the archives by completing a request form at the information desk. The item identification number you must full in is variously given in the catalog or inventory as toegangsnummer, werknummer or inventarisnummer. The number generally precedes the description in the inventory or catalog concerned. Please do not fill in more than one number on each form. After submitting a request form, you may have to wait ten to twenty minutes until the requested item arrives.
You may request items until 16:00 on weekdays. No requests can be processed on Saturdays, so if you wish to consult a document on Saturday you must request it by Friday before 15:00. This is possible by telephone: +31 (0)10 440 1270.
Consulting Documents from the Archives
Please treat the documents with great care. It is forbidden to use a fountain pen or a ballpoint pen for making notes; please use only a soft pencil for this purpose. For protection of the material, you will be handed disposable gloves along with the archival document. Please place all items back in their correct covers after viewing. Some items are subject to viewing restrictions: documents in a fragile or damaged condition are not available for viewing. In some cases, viewing restrictions have been imposed by the lender or donator of the material concerned.
Books and Magazines in the Reading Room
Books and periodicals are for viewing only and may not be borrowed. Some books and periodicals are stored in the reading room. You may take these from the shelves yourself. The books in the reading room are arranged by subject. Each subject has a corresponding classification code, and each classification code corresponds to a specific location on the reading room shelves. To locate a book, find the classification code in the book catalog. You can then check the reading room plan to find out which bookshelf contains the book you are seeking. Periodicals issued in the current year may be found on the lower level of the reading room. Those from earlier years are kept on the upper level.
Requesting Books and Magazines from the Depots
Part of the library collection is kept in the on-site storage facility. This is true for rarely consulted books, antiquarian and rare editions, and brochures and periodicals from before 1900. These publications are identified in the catalog by the word magazijn. You may request library documents from the storage by completing the appropriate request form at the information desk.
Archival materials from the NAI collection. Photo: NAI Collection
The Reading Room offers various alternatives for reproducing images of collection items: photocoyping, scanning and photographing.
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This selection from the NAI Collection consists mainly of
sources of information on Team 10 as a group and on their meetings -
their main means of exchanging ideas and developing new approaches.
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February 2009 | A first, very basic version of the new Collection
Information System (CIS) can now be consulted online. The development
of the CIS is an ambitious long-term project designed to make the
entire NAI collection accessible. While this first version of the CIS
does not yet use all the system’s options, it will enable you to search
a large part of the collection from your own computer. The inventories
of the archives are available as full text in the CIS.
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In November 2000 the archives and library of architect Leo
Heijdenrijk (1932-1999) and his office, Architecten Kollektief
Heijdenrijk (AKH) in Amersfoort, were donated to the NAI. His private
collection of books is now added to the NAI library.
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Nominations were recently announced for the NAI Prize. The NAI library has added all the submitted schemes to its collection
and they can be consulted upon request in the NAI reading room.
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