| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
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The Vancouver Public Library (VPL) maintains files on a number of
British Columbia artists at its Library Square Branch downtown. The
Library has posted an index to these files on their website. The actual
files have been relocated in the main downtown branch into Special
Collections, where they must be requested. Approximately 2015 the Library went through the artist files and discarded a lot of newspaper clippings, on the assumption that the Internet would provide all such information in the future. For example, the artist file on Josiah Howard Smith now contains only an early printout of my own biography of the artist. As of August 28 2010 there were approximately 1,350 artists listed in the VPL index, all of whom were cross-referenced into BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS with the abbreviation VPL. The VPL index, list of artists, content, and internet address are subject to change. The current URL as of November 2023 is below: https://www.vpl.ca/bcartistsfiles |