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Cooperative collection development and resource sharing among art libraries: past and present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Wolfgang M. Freitag
Wolfgang M. Freitag*
Affiliation:
Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusets, U.S.A.
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Abstract

An appreciation of the diversity of art library users and their information I needs, and of the literature of art, is a necessary prerequisite to consideration I of the objectives of cooperative collection development and resource sharing I among art libraries. The idea of cooperation gathered momentum after World I War 1, after it had become clear that no art library could ever be I comprehensive, and was put into practice after the Second World War, at I local and national levels. Local cooperative schemes were implemented at I Vienna and in Ohio State (ARLO); the Farmington Plan was by contrast an I example of a national programme. In the Federal Republic of Germany the I libraries belonging to the AKB operate a cooperative acquisitions scheme and I receive extra funding to allow them to specialise in particular subject areas in I addition to their normal acquisitions. The Fine Arts Library of Harvard I University participates in the Research Libraries Group Art and Architecture I Program. The concept of assigning different subjects and collection I responsibilities to different libraries in order to achieve comprehensive I coverage makes a lot of sense especially if in academic institutions links can be I developed between the library’s specialisation and the institution’s academic programme.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , 1986 , pp. 19 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1986

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