Stuart Hall Library
The Stuart Hall Library is the special collections library and archive of InIVA (Institute of International Visual Art), located at Rivington Place in Shoreditch, London.
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.
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.
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.
Having been established in 1994, Iniva's library was renamed The Stuart Hall Library in 2007 when Rivington Place was opened as the new home of Iniva. It is named after the leading Cultural Studies theoretician, Jamaican-British writer Stuart Hall, who was the founding chair of Iniva.
Coordinates: 51°31′35″N 0°04′46″W / 51.5263°N 0.0794°W
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