Abstract
This second article in the series opens with brief discussions of the activities of the !FLA Section of Art Libraries and the different types of art libraries in India as well as the general situation with libraries and museums in that country.
The author observed the operations at art libraries in New Delhi which he visited on the occasion of the 1992 IFLA General Conference. He interviewed persons in charge and other members of the staff at the National Museum Library, the Slide Library of the National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology, the Art Reference Library of the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Reference Library of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. One notable fact about these libraries is that, despite the relatively high social status endowed to the position and the advanced education boasted by those in head positions, there is an absolute shortage of qualified librarians.
