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Ephemera and art libraries: archive or lucky dip?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Philip Pacey
Philip Pacey*
Affiliation:
Preston Polytechnic
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Abstract

Ephemera, the fleeting images of moments in time, are valuable for the historical perspectives, social insights and visual stimuli they can generate. The means of collecting are various and frequently cheap. Collections can be organised along simple or sophisticated lines depending on individual libraries’ resources.

These notes started life as a short paper, presented to audiences at Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart during a tour of Australia which the author made at the invitation of ARLIS/ANZ in September 1979; in this revised and extended form they were read to an inaugural meeting of an ARLIS North West of England group, at Preston Polytechnic on October 31st 1979.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1980, pp. 26 - 40
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1980

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