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Viewpoint: Is critical art librarianship actually a thing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2019

Leo Appleton
Leo Appleton*
Affiliation:
Director of Library Services, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW Email: l.appleton@gold.ac.uk
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If I'm being honest I still feel as though I am a bit of an imposter in the world of art librarianship. I often feel as though I have a very conservative, corporate and conformist approach to librarianship within the art library environments in which I work. I also often feel naïve when it comes to discussing and affirming ‘what makes art librarianship different?’ Acknowledging such naivety, I will also openly admit that until last year I had not heard of ‘critical librarianship’ as a concept, let alone ‘critical (art) librarianship’, which is how I was introduced to it at a day-long conference held by colleagues from the University of the Arts London in 2018 at Chelsea College of Arts.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 44 , Special Issue 2: Critical Art Librarianship , April 2019 , pp. 92 - 95
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© ARLIS, 2019 

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