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The altermodern library?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Sara Wallace
Sara Wallace*
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Sackler Library, 1 St. John Street, Oxford OX1 2LG, UK
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Email: sara.wallace@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

At the 2009 Tate Triennial Nicolas Bourriaud declared that postmodernism was dead and that the world was now altermodern. Many papers have been written on the effects of postmodernity on libraries, yet three years on there has been little about the post-postmodern library. This short article, adapted from a Master’s dissertation, looks at whether the 21st-century library could be seen as an altermodern library. Recent changes at Bodleian Libraries are discussed to highlight how an altermodern paradigm could better fit today’s academic libraries.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , 2012 , pp. 4 - 7
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2012

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