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Towards a network for visual arts libraries in Cuba*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Verónica Lavín Isax  and
Gretel Chinea Martínez
Verónica Lavín Isax*
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Trocadero Street (between Monserrate y Zulete), Havana, Cuba CP 10200
Gretel Chinea Martínez*
Affiliation:
Student of Library Science and IT, Media Faculty of the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
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Abstract

The creation of co-operative networks for sharing information has been one of the most significant advances of recent decades in Cuba; they have been set up in various areas of knowledge in order to solve the problems caused by the increasing accumulation of data, images, ideas, information and objects. The difficulties faced daily by libraries and their users in accessing this information have led to groups of libraries working together and sharing information, goals and users. But visual arts librarians have not yet formalised a network of this sort, although preliminary analysis has shown the benefits of such co-operation.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 30 , Special Issue 3: Special issue: Art libraries and art librarianship in Latin America , 2005 , pp. 30 - 32
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2005

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Footnotes

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Revised version of paper presented to the IFLA Section of Art Libraries workshop at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, 22 August 2004, organized by the Vitruvio network, the Fundación Espigas and the National Museum of Fine Arts Library.

References

1. For an account of the state of the Latin American and Caribbean arts collections in Havana a decade ago, see the article by Molinert, Zenaida Terry et al in Art libraries journal vol. 20 no. 3 1995, p.4–7.Google Scholar