The Department of Art History Library was established in 1919 at the same time as the Art History Department by Dr Izidor Cankar, based on the private library he had purchased from August Stegenšek of Maribor. The library subsequently grew with many subsequent donations, and its last reorganisation took place in 1993. The specialised library collection of around 20,000 items is freely accessible, and since 1995 it has also been computerised. The library offers databases on CD-ROMs, collects all diploma papers and MA/PhD theses, and purchases current literature on the history of art, art theory and monographs. The collection has old and new bibliographies (Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)), encyclopaedias, lexicons (Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon, Thieme-Becker Kuenstlerlixikon) and biographies (A Venturi, Storia dell’Arte Italiana). The library also holds some books of historical value, eg Crux Triumphans et Gloriosa by Bossius (1617), Topographia Archiducatus Carinthiae (1688), Prospettiva de Pittori e Architetti (1799) and Albect Duerers Schriftlicher Nachlass (1908). The Department has prepared a collection of photographic reproductions (also on CD-ROM), which enables comparative studies of Slovene, Austrian and Italian medieval fresco painting, sculpture and architecture.