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The Johannesburg Art Gallery Library: Looking to the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Lynnda Neethling
Lynnda Neethling*
Affiliation:
Johannesburg Art Gallery, P.O. Box 23561, Joubert Park 2044, Johannesburg
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Abstract

The Johannesburg Art Gallery opened in 1915. A collection of books intended for the Gallery, but housed elsewhere pending the completion of the building, became the separate Michaelis Art Library; the Gallery gradually formed its own library, for the use of the curators. In 1986 the Gallery Library was accommodated in a new wing. Selection for the Library has reflected the Gallery’s diverse collecting activities. Latterly, the Library has worked closely with the Gallery’s education department, and as a result its resources have been made available to the wider community. In 1994 the Library was given a major art slide collection by the Rand Afrikaans University; in the same year, it received funding for the computerisation of its catalogue, which will be accessible through SABINET. Work is in progress on an index of South African art.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 20 , Special Issue 4: Special issue: Art libraries and art librarianship in South Africa , 1995 , pp. 16 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1995

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