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It is more different than you think: Art libraries in Germany and the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2021

Erica Foden-Lenahan*
Affiliation:
Librarian, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Reinhold-Frank-Str. 67, 76133Karlsruhe, Germany Email: bibliothek@kunstakademie-karlsruhe.de
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Firstly, it is an honour to be asked to contribute to this anniversary issue. AKMB is celebrating 25 years as an organization supporting and representing art and museum librarians and libraries (1). ARLIS/UK & Ireland celebrated 50 years in 2019 and the Art Libraries Journal (ALJ) celebrated 40 years in 2016, so I have spent a lot of my 7 years as editor of the ALJ reflecting on how far we have come. The past couple of generations have overseen tremendous achievements in the profession worldwide and these milestones are an opportunity to reflect on those changes and to look forward. This is a personal perspective and is intended to be (often) light-hearted, it also is limited to what I have observed within the limitations of having attained my education outside of Germany and of operating in a second language environment.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

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1. Originally published as “It is more different than you think: Art libraries in Germany and the UK; Nicht so einfach wie man denkt! Kunstbibliotheken in Deutschland und im UK”, AKMB-News Bd. 26 Nr. 1/2 (2020): 10–17. Ed. Note.