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Tillsammans: co-operation among art libraries in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Sonia French and
Tom French
Sonia French*
Affiliation:
ARLIS/UK & Ireland, 18 College Road, Bromsgrove B60 2NE, UK
Tom French*
Affiliation:
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
*
Email: sfrench@arlis.demon.co.uk
Email: tom.french@bl.uk
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Abstract

Following the ARLIS/UK & Ireland study visit to libraries in Stockholm in June 2002, this article reports on the many fascinating aspects of the libraries visited, with particular emphasis on co-operation amongst them and especially the central role of the Royal Library/National Library of Sweden. Swedish colleagues have been most helpful in providing some of the details below, which are supplemented by data drawn from the web pages listed. Some information has also been adapted from reports by colleagues on this visit.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , 2003, pp. 32 - 40
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2003

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References

1. ARLIS/UK & Ireland Study Tour – art libraries of Stockholm, 10-13 June 2002. ARLIS news-sheet no. 159 September/October 2002, p.9–13.Google Scholar
2. The Royal Library/National Library of Sweden. Sweden’s memory. Stockholm: [2001]. 12p.Google Scholar
3. A book or book-like object in which an artist has had a major input beyond illustration or authorship: where the final appearance of the book owes much to an artist’s interference/participation: where the book is the manifestation of the artist’s creativity: where the book is a work of art itself. (From: Descriptive cataloguing of artists’books. Notes compiled by the ARLIS/UK & Eire Committee on Cataloguing & Classification 1987-8.)Google Scholar
4. In her presentation ‘Electronic access to art and archaeology information and resources in the Nordic countries’, given at Glasgow on 15 August 2002 as part of the ARLIS/UK & Ireland pre-IFLA Conference, Kerstin Assarsson-Rizzi of the Library of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities included the following web addresses for the Nordic countries:Google Scholar

Finland

Finnish National Electronic Library www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/english Google Scholar
Finnish Virtual Library www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/english Google Scholar
University of art and design Helsinki www.uiah.fi/english/shtml Google Scholar
The BIBSYS subject gateway (BIBSYS is the national union catalogue) http://emneportal.bibsys.no/cgi-bin/ep (Norwegian language only)Google Scholar
ARLIS/Norden in Norway www.arlisnorden.org/norge/norge.html – includes the Bibliography of Norwegian Art (KUNSTBIB)Google Scholar
National Library of Norway www.nb.no – includes image databases especially photographyGoogle Scholar
The ARKADE subject gateway for architecture, art and design www.arkade.dk (Danish language only)Google Scholar
DEF – the Electronic Research Library of Denmark www.deff.dl/index_eng.html Google Scholar
The Royal Library www.kb.dk/index-en.htm – includes the Bibliography of Danish Art 1981 - and ELEKTRA = e-pictures and photographyGoogle Scholar
The Iceland Academy of the Arts www.bokasafn.lhi.is/arlis (Icelandic language only)Google Scholar
AGORA – A Gateway to Online Resources in the Arts and Humanities http://agora.ub.uu.se/eng Google Scholar
The Royal Library/National Library of Sweden www.kb.se/ENG/kbstart.htm for LIBRIS and also SVESÖK, the database of Swedish web resources www.swesok.kb.se (Swedish language only)Google Scholar