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The library as muse: using Liberty’s textile archive1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Anna Buruma
Anna Buruma*
Affiliation:
Liberty plc, Regent Street, London W1B 5AH, UK
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Email: aburuma@liberty.co.uk
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Extract

Liberty’s textile archive is probably unique in the way it is set up, both through its ownership and in its make-up. It shows only one aspect of the firm’s history, although arguably its most important one. It is of interest not only because of the Liberty fabrics, but for 19th-century textiles in general, as it includes material from most of that century. The main purpose of the archive is to act as a reference library for the in-house studios; however, limited access is offered to specialist users from outside the company.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , 2007 , pp. 32 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2007

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Footnotes

1.

Barbara Tuchman, ‘To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse’, http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/to_a_historian_libraries_are_food-shelter-and/200899.html.

References

2. Morris, Barbara, Liberty design 1874-1914 (London: Pyramid Books, 1989), 10.Google Scholar
3. Ibid., 17.Google Scholar
4. Minutes Book 2, 1901-1907, 54. Liberty Archive, Liberty & Co.Google Scholar