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The academic art library: some management problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2016

Gillian Varley
Gillian Varley*
Affiliation:
Kingston Polytechnic Art Library
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Abstract

Art libraries differ from other academic libraries in their stock provision and in the way they are used. The disadvantages of multi-site libraries are outweighed by the difficulties of fitting the art library into a large central library, and by the advantages to the user of co-ordinated decentralisation. The implications for art libraries of centralised cataloguing systems require careful consideration; other problems include staff structures, the use (and abuse) of quantification, and the degree and type of user education. (Text of a paper presented to the course for senior art librarians on ‘Managing the Arts’, organised by ARLIS and the Polytechnic of North London in December).

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 11 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1977

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References

(1) Fawcett, Trevor. ‘The compleat art librarian’. ARLIS News, letter, March 1975 pp 7-9.Google Scholar
(2) Copies of this bibliography are still available from Tony Coulson, Liaison Librarian (Arts), Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA.Google Scholar
(3) Smith, Gaye. ‘The problems of centralised cataloguing for users of art material’. ARLIS Newsletter, June 1975 pp 18–22.Google Scholar
(4) Line, Maurice. ‘Serving users in hard times’. New Library World. September 1976, pp 174-176.Google Scholar
(5) Hatt, Frank. ‘Our kind of library tutoring’. ARLIS Newsletter, June 1971 pp 12-13. See also ‘Whatever happened to tutor librarianship’ by Houghton, Beth in Art Libraries Journal, Winter 1976 pp 4‒19 (Ed).Google Scholar