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Artotheque activities in Swedish public libraries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Sven-Olof Svensson
Sven-Olof Svensson*
Affiliation:
Statens Kulturråd, (The National Council for Cultural Affairs), Sweden
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Abstract

In Sweden picture lending is not new but has been most successful in hospitals. Developments in the 1950s and 1960s involving some 70 municipal libraries were followed by withdrawal into the traditional book-centred role of libraries. Future development of artotheques must be based on the principles of quantity and renewal (ensuring ample choice), and of quality (achieved by professional selection of original prints). A campaign to foster art appreciation and visual literacy, paralleling efforts in the field of literacy, would nourish the role of artotheques. (Originally published in the Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly v.18 n.4 1985).

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , 1986 , pp. 22 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1986

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