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Viewpoint: Exiles and émigrés, libraries and image collections: the intellectual legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jaś Elsner  and
Clare Hills-Nova
Jaś Elsner*
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JF, UK
Clare Hills-Nova*
Affiliation:
Bodleian Libraries, Sackler Library, 1 St John Street, Oxford, OX1 2LG, UK
*
Email: jas.elsner@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Email: clare.hills-nova@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , 2013 , pp. 3 - 6
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