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+===FoAM library (Brussels)===
-<blockquote> A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive.</blockquote>
+The [[http://fo.am/library/|Brussels FoAM library]] contains a growing collection of [[books]] of [[:types_of_books|various types]], journals and magazines, a [[:foam_material_library|materials library]], a potpourri of audiovisual material and archaic software, and a vast archive of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_literature|grey literature]]. Much of this has been digitally catalogued online at FoAM's [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Zotero group library]].
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+The purpose of these pages is to offer a rough guide to navigating and using the library – both online and in situ. It offers hints and tips on [[general usage|how to use the FoAM library and catalogue]], and includes [[cataloguing notes]] and overall [[library notes]] for those curious about our particular approaches to the library's information plumbing.
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-===FoAM library (Brussels)===
-  * contains [[:books]] (various [[:types_of_books]]) and the [[:foam_material_library]]
-  * [[library_notes]] from Lea Simpson and [[cataloguing_notes]] in-process
-  * FoAM's [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|Zotero group library]]
 ===FoAM library (Amsterdam)===
 ===FoAM library (Stockholm)===