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Dodo, lame duck or phoenix, part 2? Can or should we preserve a slide library for research?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jenny Godfrey
Jenny Godfrey*
Affiliation:
Llandaff Learning Centre, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Western Avenue, CF5 2YB, Wales
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Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

In part one of this article, published in vol. 39, no. 3 2014, I described how the History and Theory of Art and Design Slide Library at Cardiff is to be reinvented as a visual resources collection by being put to new and creative uses. Here in part two I consider possible arguments for safeguarding at least one exemplar slide library to be preserved intact and exactly as it was when used for art school lectures. The arguments put forward are derived from the Florence Declaration to which ARLIS/UK & Ireland is a recent signatory. Were the arguments successful in persuading the art and design and library communities that such a collection should be preserved? I end by profiling the set of circumstances I believe would need to co-exist before any institution would find such a project to be practically, financially, culturally and intellectually viable.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , 2014 , pp. 12 - 20
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2014

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