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The sad history of the Art Library at the Nationalmuseum: a case study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Magdalena Gram
Magdalena Gram*
Affiliation:
Kungliga Biblioteket/Sveriges nationalbibliotek, Box 5039, S-102 41 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

30% of the 40 Swedish members of ARLIS/Norden are museum libraries. Half of these are dedicated art libraries situated in the two major cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg. Most of them serve their parent organization as well as external users. Foremost amongst them is the Art Library at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, a somewhat tarnished crown jewel among Swedish art libraries, whose ability to serve this dual public has had a fluctuating history.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 20 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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1. This article is a short extract from a longer text by Gram, Magdalena about the Art Library, Kortstbiblioteket: en kronika och en fallstudie, which will be published as vol. 18 in the series Skrifter från Valfrid by the Swedish, School of Library and Information Studies (Bibliotekshögskolan/Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap) in 2000. (ISBN 91-973090-8-7, ISSN 1103-6990). Apart from a short essay by Påhlman, Sia.(‘Nationalmusei bibliotek’. Biblioteksbladet 33 1948, p.158–161), and one by Frendel, Yvonne about the old Library room (‘Historien om ett rum’. Nationalmuseum bulletin 8 1984, p.92–96), there is almost no literature about the Library. The most important sources can been found in the Museum archive at the Nationalmuseum and the Library archive at the Royal Library (Kungliga biblioteket).Google Scholar