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The indivisibility of art librarianship revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Wolfgang Freitag  and
Martha Mahard
Wolfgang Freitag*
Affiliation:
Formerly Harvard Fine Arts Library, 43 Fair Oaks Drive, Lexington, MA 02421-6931, USA
Martha Mahard*
Affiliation:
Historical Photographs and Special Visual Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
*
Email: wolfgang.freitag@RCN.com
Email: mahard@fas.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Wolfgang Freitag’s seminal article, ‘The indivisibility of art librarianship’, published in the Art libraries journal in 1982, occasioned a revisiting of the premises of that article for the historic joint conference of ARLIS/NA and the Visual Resources Association in St. Louis in 2001 to see how his thesis stood the test of time. The two articles that follow, one each by Wolfgang Freitag and Martha Mahard, are reflections on the original article and the course of events in the intervening twenty years. They are published jointly, here and in Art documentation.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 2004 , pp. 5 - 9
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2004

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