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Artists in Canada: a national resource1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jo Nordley Beglo and
Cyndie Campbell
Cyndie Campbell*
Affiliation:
Library, National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive P.O.Box 427 Station A, Ottawa, Ontario KIN 9N4, Canada
*
E-mail: Jbeglo@gallery.caandCcampbel@gallery.ca
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Abstract

Artists in Canada is a bilingual union list of documentation files on Canadian artists held by the National Gallery of Canada Library, and by 22 libraries and art galleries across the country. More than 42,700 artists are represented, with biographical information as well as locations for files. Originally compiled manually, Artists in Canada has been automated since the late 1970s and, as well as appearing in print format, has been accessible internationally on the World Wide Web since 1995.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 2001, pp. 38 - 42
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2001

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