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--- You wrote:
>A colleague of mine in a small academic library has just been
>charged with developing their collection to support their college's
>first BFA program.
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>Other than Books for College Libraries (which isn't alot of help
>to special areas like art) are their other sources she can consult
>to develop a good core collection in art that would pass muster
>with accrediting boards, faculty and students?
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>I've never had to start "from scratch" to develop an art collection.
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On a related issue, this summer two visiting faculty in studio art (from
academic insitutions that have no art library and I think also no art
librarian) asked me for guidance as to how they should go about recommending
art books for the library to buy. I suggested that they have their libraries
look into standing orders from publishers (Abrams, Abbeville) and possibly
approval plans (Worldwide now provides such a service for art books). I told
them that these would provide art history books and books on major contemporary
artists, but that selecting good technical books on studio art has always been
a challenge.
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Barbara E. Reed Art Librarian Dartmouth College 6033 Carpenter Hall
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