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The Michaelis Art Library: Thirty Years in a Changing City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jonathan Frost
Jonathan Frost*
Affiliation:
Michaelis Art Library, Johannesburg Public Library, Market Square, Johannesburg
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Abstract

The Michaelis Art Library, part of the Reference Division of the Johannesburg Public Library Service, originated with a collection of books purchased for the planned Johannesburg Art Gallery in the 1920s. Temporarily and then permanently housed in the Public Library, the collection became the nucleus of a growing art library, the largest public art library in South Africa. In recent years usage of the library declined as a result of political tensions, but then increased in parallel with a surge of vitality in the arts which heralded the end of apartheid and the emergence of democracy. During 1995 the Michaelis Art Library was due to move into Johannesburg’s central library building.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: Special issue: Art libraries and art librarianship in South Africa , 1995 , pp. 13 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1995

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