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Australian visual arts: libraries and the new technologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

John Thomson  and
Joye Volker
John Thomson
Affiliation:
National Gallery of Australia Research Library, Canberra
Joye Volker
Affiliation:
Institute of Arts Library, Australian National University, Canberra
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Abstract

Electronic networking has been welcomed in Australia not least because of its potential to help solve problems of distances within Australia and of the isolation of Australia. In the world as a whole, the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular, is transforming the communication of art information and access to art images. Three Australian Web servers focus on the visual arts: Art Serve, Diva, and AusArts. A number of initiatives intended to provide online bibliographic databases devoted to Australian art were launched in the 1980s. More recently a number of CD-ROMs have been published. As elsewhere, art librarians in Australia need new skills to integrate these products of new technology into the art library, and to transform the latter into a multimedia resource centre.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 1996 , pp. 4 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1996

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