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Cultuurnetwerk Nederland/Expertisecentrum kunsteducatie/Studiecentrum

Cultuurnetwerk Nederland/Expertise centre for arts and cultural education/Study Centre

Size 19,000 books; 175 current and 80 discontinued periodicals
Character and emphasis The LOKV / Nederlands Instituut voor Kunsteducatie was founded in 1984 as the national institute dedicated to stimulate arts education and art-appreciation and to support its teaching. Its Information and Documentation Centre consists among other things of the Data Bank for Art and Arts Education and the Library/Project Bank. The Data Bank for Art and Arts Education comprises a computerized collection providing full information on the visual and performing arts programmes aimed at children and young people offered in the Netherlands; the Library/Project Bank holds a specialized collection in the field of arts education, including both Dutch and foreign books, reports and papers on practical, theoretical and policy-making aspects of the field, and documentation of individual institutions for arts education and the amateur arts.

Special collections

• The Project Bank for Arts Education is a special collection within the library, making available Dutch and foreign material from teaching practice in art education: about 2,000 project reports, teaching materials and activity models relating to programmes practised in primary and secondary schools or in institutions for arts education.

Publications

• Cultuur(net)werk: nieuwsbrief van Cultuurnetwerk Nederland
• Cultuur + Educatie, a bi-monthly magazine commenting on policies and practice in arts education
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