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Art libraries in Polytechnics

An ARLIS statement on the provision and exploitation of library resources for art and design courses in Polytechnics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Philip Pacey
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This statement has been developed from a paper submitted to the CNAA Working Party on Libraries and Related Resources by myself as a member of that Working Party, and discussed at its meeting on 12th June 1978. The purpose of that paper was to define the special needs of a particular subject area, art and design, and to show how those needs can be lost sight of if quantitative standards are overstressed by comparison with the quality of a library’s service to its readers. The Working Party welcomed this paper, took note of its emphasis on the ‘browsability’ of library materials, and suggested that it might be put before the CNAA Committee for Art and Design, ‘possibly in a revised version’.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 36 - 48
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1979

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