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The early history of the Stedelijk Museum library: the Kloet years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Michiel Nijhoff
Michiel Nijhoff*
Affiliation:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Postbus 75082, 1070 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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On 5 May 2007, the Stedelijk Museum library in Amsterdam was exactly 50 years old – although a collection of books known as ‘the library’ began long before that in the building on the Paulus Potterstraat. Louis Kloet was the first librarian. He founded and ran the library from 1953 until 1980, a period in which the collection and the number of visitors grew steadily and it evolved into one of the most important libraries of modern art in Europe.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , 2008 , pp. 14 - 16
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2008

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