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Book Arts Collections / Archives UK and Eire
The Bristol Art Library
10 Maycliffe Park
Bristol
BS6 5JH
email headlibrarian@tantraweb.co.uk
The Bristol Art Library is a fully functioning
public library housed in a wooden cabinet the
size of a small suitcase. Annabel Other, the
artist, created the library in 1998 and is the
Head Librarian. The library’s volumes cover a
wide range of subjects, from palaeontology to
astronomy, with 170books (all 5 in x 4 in) made
by artists and practitioners from all areas of the
arts and sciences.
Membership of Bristol Art Library is free, and
once you have joined and received your manilla
reader’s ticket you may visit the library and
peruse its volumes anywhere in the world. The
library now has 4,500 members, a giftshop and
a friends’ organisation FOTBAL (Friends of
The Bristol Art Library). The Bristol Art
Library tours regularly and has appeared at
venues ranging from galleries and museums to
hairdressing salons and the seaside.
British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7000
Email: reader-services-enquiries@bl.uk
Website: www.bl.uk
Contact name: Dr Stephen Bury
Approximate number of books held: 5000
Public Access: By Reader’s Ticket
Opening Hours: Monday 10 am – 8 pm,
Tuesday – Thursday 9.30 am – 8 pm,
Friday and Saturday 9.30 am – 5 pm
Reference Collection
Catalogue Details: see www.bl.uk
UK National Library, receiving legal deposit
copies.
Centre for Artists’ Books
Visual Research Centre
Dundee Contemporary Arts
152 Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4DY
113
Tel: 01382 348060
www.dca.org.uk
Email: j.a.cumberlidge@dundee.ac.uk
Contact: Jane Cumberlidge
Opening hours: Closed Mondays,
Tuesdays By arrangement, Wednesday - Friday
10.30 am - 5.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday
12.30 pm - 5.30 pm (during projects)
The Centre for Artists’ Books has established
an archive, which includes work by young
Scottish artists such as David Shrigley,
Jacquie Donnachie and Graham Fagen.
The CAB archive includes an almost complete
collection of books by Weproductions, a large
collection of Pavel Buchler’s publications and a
comprehensive collection of prints and books
by Ian Hamilton Finlay, bequeathed by the
National Art Collections Fund in 2001. If you
would like a tour of VRC ‘behind the scenes’,
including the publishing and product design
facilities, information about projects, the
Centre for Artists’ Books, or would like more
general information, please contact Jane
Cumberlidge.
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Library
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Manresa Road
London
SW3 6LS
Tel: 020 7514 7773
Website: www.linst.ac.uk/library
Contact: Liz Lawes / Liz Ward
Approximate number of books held: 2,500
Public Access: Yes, by appointment
Opening Hours in term time: see website.
Vacation Opening Hours: Restricted, by
appointment only.
Reference Collection
Catalogue Details: www.linst.ac.uk/library for
the Chelsea OPAC (Online Public Access
Catalogue) artists’ books are identified by the
shelfmark ARTIST’S BOOK.
Artists’ books: the book as a work of art 1963-1995
by Dr Stephen Bury, (Scolar Press, 1995) also
documents much of the collection.
Summary of Collection: The collection was
started in the early 1970s to document work
produced by contemporary avant-garde artists;
it is strong on Fluxus, American conceptual
works, British artists and current and ex-
Chelsea staff and students.