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Collection development and the acquisition of art materials at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

A. P. Gakhar*
Affiliation:
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
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Abstract

Collection development plays a pivotal role in all libraries, and should be guided by a library’s purpose and the needs of its users. The Reference Library at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts aims to provide material on all the arts, within a broad context, and acquires material in several formats and in many languages. Materials acquired include rare books, the collections of private scholars, journals, microfilm of mss, visual resources, videos, and sound recordings. It is hoped that some of the problems that have been encountered can be resolved by means of contact and cooperation with other art libraries in Southern and South-East Asia.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1993

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