Library and Archives / National Gallery
On behalf of the LPM Collectors’ Group, I am very pleased to invite you to a tour of the Library and Archives of the National Gallery of Canada on Thursday 20 March at 3:30 pm.
We will begin with a tour of the Library and Archive’s current exhibition, The Library of Fritz Brandtner, with Jonathan Franklin, Chief, Library, Archives and Research Fellowships Program, and will then see some of the Library and Archives’ Artists’ Books and other works in the collection with Peter Trépanier, Head, Reader Services.
The Library of the National Gallery of Canada houses the most extensive collection of visual arts literature in Canada. The collections include 275,000 books, exhibition catalogues, and bound periodicals; 900 current periodical subscriptions; 58,000 auction catalogues; 95,000 microforms; 76,000 documentation files; 362,000 study photographs; 203,000 slides; and 1,000 linear meters of institutional archives and private papers.
The Library’s collections and programs support the requirements of the National Gallery’s library, curatorial, education, conservation and research staff, and the work of the scholars of the National Gallery’s Research Fellowships Program. The Library’s mandate extends as well to the national and international scholarly communities, and to a varied clientele of museum professionals, students, artists, journalists, collectors, dealers, and the general public.
For more information about the Library and Archives, please go to the following site: http://www.gallery.ca/en/library/
Security at the National Gallery has requested that I provide a list with the names of each person who will be attending the talk. Could you please confirm your attendance by Wednesday 12 March and let me know, as well, if you will be bringing a guest.
Thank you and best wishes,
Julie Hodgson
Development Maven
La Petite Mort Gallery
julieh.lpm@gmail.com