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Celebrating 25 years of service to the arts information community – an international perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Philip Pacey
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Abstract

Although art librarians began to join together in North America in the 1920s, they did so in two distinct strands — museum librarians and public librarians. Art librarians of all kinds, including, significantly, art librarians in higher education, formed national associations from the late 1960s, and almost immediately began to establish the international links which culminated in the coming into being of the IFLA Section of Art Libraries. International cooperation, including networking of resources, is helping art libraries to serve users worldwide. Art librarianship is now so well established as an international enterprise that it can afford to admit other arts information professionals; nonetheless it needs to continue to work towards becoming a genuinely multi-cultural professional community which does not privilege any country, region, language, culture, gender, or point of view.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 1997 , pp. 4 - 6
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1997

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References

1. Wright, Jane. ‘Plea of the art librarian’. Public Libraries November 1908 p.348–349; reprinted in A Reader in art librarianship, ed. Pacey, Philip. Munich: K. G. Saur, 1985 p.3–5.Google Scholar
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5. I hope it is absolutely clear that this is purely a reference to a point of principle. No comment on any individuals is intended or should be inferred.Google Scholar