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Towards total provision of visual arts literature?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2016

Trevor Fawcett
Trevor Fawcett*
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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Abstract

Total provision of art literature almost certainly requires international co-operation. It depends too on effective and systematic coverage at the national level, not only of traditional printed books and periodicals but also audiovisual media, microforms, manuscripts and ‘grey literature’. National provision must allow for geographical, political and economic factors and patterns of usage. Various recommendations are made to stimulate discussion of a possible British system.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 1977 , pp. 4 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1977

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References

(1) National Libraries Cttee Rep; 1968-9 Cmnd 4028 (Chairman F.S. Dainton). Paragraphs 288-291 deal with the Victoria & Albert Museum Library, here referred to as the British Library of Art.Google Scholar
(2) Information about the present state of art library co-operation in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, France (Paris), and the Netherlands, as well as a general background to this article, is given in my report to the British Library Research & Development Department of a study tour to the countries named above undertaken in November 1976.Google Scholar
(3) The National Art Slide Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum has a valuable loan collection but is not of course part of the British Library Service.Google Scholar