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A major art library in preparation: the Library of the Institut national d’histoire de d’art*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martine Poulain
Martine Poulain*
Affiliation:
Directrice, Département de la Bibliothèque et de la Documentation, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2 rue Vivienne, 75084 Paris cedex 02, France
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Email: martine.poulain@inha.fr
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Abstract

The Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) is still little known among library professionals, and still insufficiently known by researchers and its other potential users. Created by decree in July 2001, it has been extremely slow in gestation and researchers in the field of art have waited for it for a very long time. The Institution’s Library, comprising the largely complementary holdings of three of the main art libraries in Paris, is expected to open within a few years, and readers will be housed mainly in the beautiful Salle Labrouste, formerly occupied by users of the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 2005 , pp. 4 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2005

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Footnotes

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Revised and updated version of article published in Bulletin des bibliothèques de France vol. 49 no. 3 2004, p.67-78.

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