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Tracking art historians: on information needs and information-seeking behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Deirdre C. Stam
Deirdre C. Stam*
Affiliation:
Museum Computer Network, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, Syracuse, NY 13244, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The information-gathering activities of art historians have been studied from three different perspectives: in terms of the books they use; through their own accounts of their working processes; and by informal, systematic observation, written up as ‘user studies’, by art librarians. While observation implies objectivity, a distance between observer and observed, in practice art librarians are very much involved with the art historian in the work of art history and in the development of its methodologies.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , 1989, pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1989

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