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New initiatives to solve old problems: collecting exhibition catalogues at the National Art Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Christine Love Rodgers
Christine Love Rodgers*
Affiliation:
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL, UK
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Abstract

Exhibition catalogues are a key resource for art and design research, but smaller and more ephemeral catalogues are difficult for art librarians to collect. In the late 1980s and early 1990s a period of interest in the UK in the problems of collecting and cataloguing exhibition catalogues sparked off research into fresh approaches to the problem. In line with the resulting recommendations the National Art Library, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, has developed two key initiatives. These are the Exhibition Catalogues Programme and a joint project with the British Library to increase access to smaller exhibition catalogues. Both are showing clear benefits for national access to published exhibition documentation.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 8 - 11
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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