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Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design: A decade of success and change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2017

Mark Pompelia  and
Carol Terry
Mark Pompelia
Affiliation:
Visual + Material Resource Librarian, Rhode Island School of Design, 2 College Street, Providence RI 02903, USA Email: mpompeli@risd.edu
Carol Terry
Affiliation:
Director of Library Services (1987–2016), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 02903, USA Email: cterry@risd.edu
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Abstract

The Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design is a successful reinvention of the art library through the adaptive re-use of an historic bank building in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to reviewing how the library's goals were met during its first decade, the most significant change, the transformation of the slide library into a material resource centre and the growth of a community of such collections and related initiatives, will be described.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 45 - 52
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Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2017 

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