On October 8^th, 2018, twelve of the fourteen PHAROS institutions gathered for a meeting at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisches Documentatie in The Hague.  This meeting followed the 8^th International Conference of Art Libraries Conference in Amsterdam that many members attended and at which Louisa Wood Ruby gave a presentation on PHAROS.

The meeting was planned as a stock taking of where the consortium stands after five years, and what might lie in its future.  It was agreed that the...