Stuart Hall Library

The Stuart Hall Library is the special collections library and archive of InIVA (Institute of International Visual Art), located in Pimlico, London, on the campus on Chelsea College og Arts.[1]

Library resources

The library has a collection of over 10,000 holdings including a multi-media collection comprising books, monographs, periodicals, slides, DVDs, CDs, film and video, photographs and sound recordings. Pride of place goes to over 4,000 exhibition catalogues from around the world.[2]

The focus of the collection is on British, European and American contemporary art by artists predominantly with an African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, South Asian, East Asian, Oceanic and Latin American heritage. The collection also has a specialist focus on contemporary art produced in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania.

Access

Users need to make an appointment to visit, and the library is reference only (books and other resources can be read, but not borrowed). However, the catalogue of the library's holdings is available online and registration, as well as use of the Library itself is free to the general public.

History

Having been established in 1994, Iniva's library was renamed The Stuart Hall Library in 2007. It is named after the leading Cultural Studies theoretician, Jamaican-British writer Stuart Hall, who was the founding chair of Iniva.

References

  1. ↑ Siobhan Wall, Quiet London, Frances Lincoln, 2011. ISBN 978-0711231900.
  2. ↑ Thea Lenarduzzi, "Save Our Unique Libraries", The TLS blog, 5 July 2012.

Coordinates: 51°31′35″N 0°04′46″W / 51.5263°N 0.0794°W / 51.5263; -0.0794

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