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The Japan Art Documentation Society and art librarianship in Japan today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Takeshi Mizutani*
Affiliation:
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract

The Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS) was founded in April. Inspired by developments both within Japan and abroad, and by the IFLA Section of Art Libraries, JADS has set out to embrace the common interests of library and museum professionals as represented by an integrated concept of “art documentation”. Essentially, the Society represents a collective response to the challenge and potential of the computer - to the benefits it can bring to, and the methodologies it requires of, the organising of art objects, art images, and art information. (The Society’s “prospectus”, from its first Newsletter, is appended).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1989

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