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Harvard’s Fine Arts Library: collections and services over 100 years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Amanda Bowen
Amanda Bowen*
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Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, 1805 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Abstract

The Fine Arts Library at Harvard University has served the needs of teaching faculty, art museum staff, art and architectural students, researchers and historians since the founding of the Fogg Art Museum in 1895. Library collections have been enhanced by gifts from faculty, museum publications received on exchange, and by the transfer of arts-related materials from other Harvard libraries. Although founded in the spirit of a museum library, the Fine Arts Library has increasingly developed its collections and services for a wide community of users in fields across the academic spectrum.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , 2012 , pp. 29 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2012

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