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In the most recent issue of LIBRARY QUARTERLY (vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 138-160)
John Cullars from the U. of Illinois at Chicago has produced a very
illuminating piece of research about the value of older art monographs.
From the abstract:
"The objective of this study is to document the characteristics of citations
in French and German fine arts monographs. Three hundred ninety citations
were randomly selected from 155 monographs published between 1982 and 1990
and indexed in RILA. Ciatations were classified as to source type; primary
or secondary source; language; date; and the author's motivation for making
the citation. .... The greatest number of citations is to works published
in the last twenty years, but there is a more even distribution of citations
to earlier decades than in most disciplines."
Floyd M. Zula
Coordinator, Acquisitions,
and Art Bibliographer
California State University, Fullerton
Tel: 714-773-2366
FAX: 714-773-2439
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