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Cataloguing<br />

Audio-visual<br />

section<br />

Acquisitions<br />

information on the <strong>art</strong>ist at hand in the FCM, and further<br />

information as it is generated. In this vein, the <strong><strong>de</strong>p</strong><strong>art</strong>ment<br />

began to reference and digitise <strong>César</strong> <strong>Manrique</strong>’s personal files<br />

in 2003. The purpose is to guarantee the <strong>conser</strong>vation of<br />

materials either custodied or generated by the FCM itself —<br />

publications, photographs, sli<strong>de</strong>s, vi<strong>de</strong>os, cassettes — or<br />

produced by other institutions or publishers and ensure that<br />

they are available for consultation. At the same time, this<br />

<strong><strong>de</strong>p</strong><strong>art</strong>ment lends its support to the other FCM <strong><strong>de</strong>p</strong><strong>art</strong>ments<br />

to cover their needs for publications, archives and<br />

documentation.<br />

Mechanised cataloguing of the stocks, un<strong>de</strong>rtaken in 1998 with<br />

the purchase of the “Liber-Marc” Library Management System,<br />

was carried forward throughout 2003.<br />

Since the process was begun, 2,050 pieces of the approximately<br />

6,500 on file in the library have been catalogued.<br />

All the audio-visual and graphic materials that comprise the<br />

collection have been generated or received spontaneously as a<br />

result of institutional activities or as project records or<br />

working tools.<br />

Vi<strong>de</strong>os, CDs and cassette tapes: the section has a total of 286<br />

vi<strong>de</strong>o and 206 cassette tapes as well as 173 CDs that<br />

constitute a graphic record of all the institution’s activities.<br />

Moreover, approximately 4,000 sli<strong>de</strong>s have been classified,<br />

including material generated on the occasion of temporary<br />

exhibitions organised in the FCM and pictures of <strong>César</strong><br />

<strong>Manrique</strong>’s spatial work.<br />

Photographs: most of the 5,500 items in the archive are<br />

photographs of the different cultural activities conducted by<br />

the FCM; this material is organised both by subject matter and<br />

in chronological or<strong>de</strong>r.<br />

The <strong><strong>de</strong>p</strong><strong>art</strong>ment continued to purchase material related to the<br />

library’s areas of specialisation. Consequently, material has<br />

been received relating to <strong>César</strong> <strong>Manrique</strong>, contemporary <strong>art</strong>,<br />

environment and ecology (especially relating to the Canary<br />

Islands), museum science and museum affairs and, finally,<br />

environmental education.<br />

Seventy five new works were purchased or received as<br />

donations in 2003.<br />

155

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