The Catalan (National) Library is one of the worst and most surprising offenders. Here’s part of its exhibition loan policy:
Application form has to be done at least 4 months before the inauguration of the exhibition when the number of items required would be less than 20, and 6 months before if the number of items requested would be bigger than 20.
There are no links to English-language materials on the site from the library’s front page, and it provides even less for Spanish speakers, despite Spanish being one of the region’s two official languages. The library is well funded and the guys who work there are meant to be smart and worldly. It’s shameful.
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