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Journal articles on the topic "Private libraries. Book collecting"
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Sachkova, G. S. "Private Libraries in Russia: A.S. Norov’ Library." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 11, no. 1 (2011): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2011-11-1-34-39.
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Private book collections – is an integral part of the cultural environment of the Russian educated society of the first half of the XIX century. The library of an outstanding state and political figure, a scholar, an ardent bibliophile A.S. Norov is a book treasury. In the article the process of the collecting his two libraries is considered. The article also considers the manuscripts and books of those libraries, discloses the reasons induced the owner of these magnificent libraries to sell them. It is noted that A.S. Pushkin used A.S. Norov’s library during his work on «The History of Pugachev». A collection of manuscripts by Norov, together with other private collections of the XIX century, made the manuscript stock of Russian state library.
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Lo, Patrick, Bradley Allard, Kevin K. W. Ho, Joyce Chao-chen Chen, Daisuke Okada, Andrew Stark, James Henri, and Chung-chin Lai. "Librarians’ perceptions of educational values of comic books: A comparative study between Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia and New Zealand." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 51, no. 4 (March 29, 2018): 1103–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000618763979.
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Comic books are becoming increasingly popular in the field of education. In the past, comic books were excluded from school libraries and classrooms. However, with the resurgence in the popularity of comic books and students’ increased demands for them, they are now considered as recreational reading with educational value. In response to this, school libraries have begun collecting comic books and including them as part of their regular collections. This research paper reflects on the current situation of comic books in primary and middle school library collections and examines school librarians’ perceptions towards educational values of comics. The investigation was launched in Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia and Japan – making comparisons amongst different levels (primary school and secondary school), and different types (public school and private school) of schools in five different countries. Questionnaire surveys were sent to selected school librarians and were the main method of data collection. A total number of 683 responses were collected for this study. Research results include librarians’ attitudes towards comic books in school libraries, adolescent readers’ use of school libraries, their reading and borrowing practices, as well as other problems encountered with the on-going maintenance of comic books as part of the school libraries’ regular collections.
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Shakherov, Vadim. "Merchant Libraries in the Cultural Heritage of Irkutsk." Journal of Economic History and History of Economics 22, no. 3 (August 26, 2021): 518–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2021.22(3).518-528.
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The article considers the role of merchant libraries in the history of the city. The reviewed books open a new publishing series of the scientific library of Irkutsk University, dedicated to merchant libraries of Irkutsk. Its publications provide an opportunity to get familiar with the old book collections of Irkutsk residents, know more about the interest in books and reading in our city as well as the history of private libraries. The first book in the series, published in 2019, was dedicated to the book collection of the largest Irkutsk merchant, the philanthropist and bibliophile V.N. Basnin, whose estate was one of the largest cultural salons in Irkutsk in the first half of the 19th century. The book under review contains the most complete catalog of Basnin’s library, which he had been collecting for more than 40 years. It should be noted that he was not only a reader, but also quite a professional bibliographer, ordered by mail novelty books, making their systematization and description. The second book in the series is dedicated to other merchant libraries. Its compilers have done a lot of research work to find these publications, systematize them and identify their owners. The catalog presented by the Irkutsk State University library most fully reflects the merchants’ interest in printed publications. It includes 969 book titles, reflecting 1 194 editions with exlibrises, autographs and notes of their owners. Despite the purely bibliographic nature of the peer-reviewed publications, which are considered in the research, they are of interest to different groups of people. The author notes the importance of the books not only to library workers, but also to all the readers who are not indifferent to the history of cultural life in Irkutsk, as well as to the role of books and home libraries in personality development and formation of human abilities.
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Ladozhina, T. N. "Development of academic libraries in Smolensk region in the early 20-th century (the case study of Smolensk first university." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 4 (April 22, 2023): 38–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2023-4-38-61.
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The author describes in detail the first years of the main scientific library in Smolensk Guberniya in the early 20-th century, namely Smolensk State University Library. The author was motivated by the absence of the complete picture of academic librarianship in the region; the issue is also insufficiently covered in the literature. The author applies the methods of comparative analysis and synthesis. The research is based on published and unpublished materials: documents in the State Archive of Smolensk Region; Rare Collection of Smolensk University Library; and scholarly papers. The author writes about the librarians who worked for the Library in 1918–1922, and its first director, privat-dozent I. E. Egorov. She also analyzes the history of the book collection development during the campaign of 1918–1921 in Smolensk Guberniya when the landed property and many manorial libraries were nationalized. She describes nationalized private collections in the Rare Collection of Smolensk University Library, and individual books from academic, public, scientific, estate, commercial, departmental, military and confessional libraries of prerevolutionary Smolensk. The role of Smolensk University Library as the richest book depository of the region and the value of its rare collections are emphasized. The vectors of the academic library activities of the above are explored. The research findings will contribute to the discipline “Library history” studied in the library higher schools and will be useful for modern academic libraries.
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Purcell, Mark. "The National Trust and its libraries." Art Libraries Journal 28, no. 2 (2003): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200013079.
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The National Trust’s many historic buildings range from country houses to vernacular architecture, industrial archaeology and literary shrines. More than 150 of these properties contain books, for the most part the historic collections of their original owners. Though, in common with other heritage bodies, the Trust has been rather slow to realise the importance of its books, these libraries together represent something equivalent to the rare books collection of a national library. They are an incomparable though extremely fragile resource for the history of private book ownership, besides containing many rare books, and others of great beauty and interest.
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Moroney, Nora. "Institutional Libraries and Book Collecting Practices in Ireland, 1960–2000." Irish University Review 52, no. 1 (May 2022): 22–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0539.
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The National Library of Ireland (NLI) became a legal deposit library in 1927, joining Trinity College which had been, since 1801, subject to British legal-deposit legislation. These two institutions were to form the backbone of the country’s large-scale collection and preservation of written heritage during the twentieth century. In augmenting their collections during this time, they faced similar challenges of space and finance, while also benefitting from the dispersal of major private libraries of big houses in the post-civil war era. This article examines the acquisitions policies of these two libraries in the context of broader trends in the rare book trade. It considers the shifting sands of public and university budgets for library-building during the latter half of the twentieth century and examines where books and archives of Irish interest were bought and sold. In particular, it addresses the impact of the growth of US universities and specialist libraries on the market for Irish material from the 1960s onwards. Responding to this increased competition, the Irish institutions managed their collections and acquisitions in new ways, often at increased cost and using selective buying practices. Drawing on catalogues of sales, auctions and library records, this article offers a broad appreciation of the literary-institutional landscape in a period of vast change in Ireland.
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Akolzina, Marina K. "History of private libraries of the Tambov Governorate in the research literature." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 184 (2020): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2020-25-184-121-128.
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We actualize the problem of studying private book collections of the estate libraries of the Tambov Governorate of the late 18th - early of the 20th centuries as a cultural environment elements. In the context of the special value of the Russia’s possessory libraries, the novelty of the work is determined by a comprehensive study of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and contemporary historiography. Interest in the book collections of the Tambov Governorate noble libraries is due to their importance as the book culture monuments of the 18th-19th centuries, their importance for verifying the private manors history. We show that among the works of pre-revolutionary historiography the history of personal libraries was considered a specific problem. Authors of that time were interested in questions of the book trade, the organization of free typographies, the largest libraries history. As part of the literature of this period analysis, we consider the works of N.A. Rubakin, I.I. Dubasov, K. Bogoyavlensky, I. Dobrotvorsky, G. Speransky, O.S. Lavrov, V. Simonov. Consideration by Soviet historiography the problem of private libraries formation made it possible to reveal the dominance of ideological attitudes in the cultural life assessments of the Russian province. We study the works of P.N. Chermensky, M. Belokrys, A.S. Chernov, N.I. Romakh. We reveal the contribution of Soviet authors to the study of the private libraries activities, the private collections reconstruction, the problems of reading culture of individual owners. Consideration of the contemporary period works is based on the latest results analysis of the identification of book monuments. We analyze the work of the Tambov Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A.S. Pushkin staff, who studies the works collection of L.A. Voeikov, G.R. Derzhavin, A.D. Khvoshchinsky and A.N. Nortsov.
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Bazarov, A. A., D. L. Dorzhieva, D. Yu Munkozhapov, and S. M. Naidanova. "Religious and philosophical libraries of East Siberian Buddhists: Tibetan «pocket» books." Bibliosphere, no. 2 (June 30, 2018): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2018-2-37-41.
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The problem of studying private book collections of the Siberian peoples is the most urgent in understanding the cultural diversity of Russia. In this context, the book culture of East Siberia Buddhists is of interest. The article objective is to analyze the book repertoire of Buddhists private libraries. Analysis of this repertoire allows us to reconstruct not only its structure but the level of book culture among local Buddhists in the XIX-XX centuries as well. The material for reconstruction is a collection of small-format Tibetan-language publications (SFTP) from the collections of the Center for Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This collection is an aggregation of numerous private libraries (PLs), widely distributed among the Buddhists of Transbaikalia and Prebaikalia. Books from the PLs are related to different areas of Buddhist knowledge: religious doctrine, philosophy, philology, astrology, medicine. The largest fields are religious doctrine and philosophy. The research results show that due to the texts of «Diamond Sutra» and Pramanavartika, it is possible to reconstruct not only the repertoire of Buddhists PLs in East Siberia, but elements of everyday Buddhist culture. In this culture, religious-doctrinal texts were involved in the daily ritual activity of laypersons, and philosophical texts in the system of monastic education. The texts ratio of Pramanavartika (5 copies) and «Diamond Sutra» (48 copies) available in SFTP is about 10%. This parameter can indicate both the approximate correlation of religious-doctrinal books to philosophical ones in this collection, and the real ratio of monks and laity number in the pre-revolutionary period in Buryatia. Thus, it can be argued that the «pocket» religious and philosophical libraries of Buddhists (each bundle of the studies collection) is the most interesting source of various scientific information on the book realities of Buddhist culture in East Siberia.
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Romero, Martha. "The JAPS Library: A collection about art." Art Libraries Journal 48, no. 1 (January 2023): 2–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2022.22.
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AbstractJuan Antonio Pérez Simón has built one of the most extensive art collections in Mexico and it is well-known around the world. One of the least known facets of Juan Antonio Pérez Simón's collecting is that of a bibliophile, a facet that has led him to form one of the richest private libraries specializing in art in Mexico, known for its great expanse and diversity of themes, as well as for the importance of the works that comprise it. The Juan Antonio Pérez Simón (JAPS) Library is the custodian of Pérez Simón's book collection and strives to manage, research, and preserve the collection in order to strengthen and enrich it.
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Zhitin, Ruslan M., and Aleksey G. Topilsky. "Landlord libraries in the provincial culture of the Central Black Earth Region (review of research interpretations and concepts)." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 6 (2022): 1437–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2022-27-6-1437-1445.
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The organization and existence of manor libraries in pre-revolutionary Russia as a condition for the transmission and dissemination of the culture of reading among the nobility remains an important issue of study and thus remains relevant at the present time. The pre-revolutionary historiography of the book collecting of estate owners, dedicated to estate libraries, both at the all-Russian and at the regional level, is considered. The features of the formation and development of book collections are characterized, the problems of studying the circle of reading of the nobles are indicated. The aspects of the influence of the socio-political situation on the study of book collections, which were most affected in the 20–60s of 20th century are indicated. The modern stage of development of the historiography of the noble manor libraries of the Central Black Earth Region, including the distribution of foreign book collections in them, is analyzed. The applied analytical and interpretive method made it possible to “inscribe” the personal libraries (or their fragments) of the region into the general panorama of scientific ideas about the phenomenon of a personal library. The structural-component method made it possible to present the owners’ meetings as a complex communication system, the basis of which was the “book-reader” relationship. An analysis of the historiography of the problem shows a variety of research approaches to the characteristics of private collections, a wide variety of author’s interpretations of the history of the formation of individual libraries of the nobility.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Private libraries. Book collecting"
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Baston, Karen Grudzien. "Library of Charles Areskine (1680-1763) : Scottish lawyers and book collecting, 1700-1760." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6417.
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The thesis uses the study of an individual’s book collection to examine wider themes in eighteenth century Scottish legal, social, political, and intellectual history. Charles Areskine’s library was made up of the books he needed as an advocate and judge, the texts he wanted to use to better understand the law and its history, and the books he used to enhance his ability to participate in the intellectual milieu of early eighteenth century Britain. Charles Areskine of Alva, Lord Tinwald (1680-1763) was an important Scottish lawyer and judge. Following a legal education in the Netherlands, he became an advocate and was called to the Bar in 1711. Areskine’s legal career was very successful and he attained high positions in the Scottish legal establishment becoming Lord Advocate (1737-1742) and Lord Justice Clerk (1748-1763). He was appointed to the bench as Lord Tinwald in1744. He served in parliament and developed his country estates at Tinwald in Dumfriesshire and at Alva in Clackmannanshire. Areskine is an interesting figure in the early Scottish Enlightenment not least because he began his career not in legal but in academic circles. He was a regent at the University of Edinburgh when he was barely out of his teens and from 1707 to 1734 he was the first Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations at Edinburgh. Areskine was also a traveller, a client of the earl of Ilay, a friend to philosophers, a patron of the arts, and a book collector. A manuscript which lists of the contents of Areskine’s library survives in the National Library of Scotland as NLS MS 3283. ‘Catalogŭs Librorŭm D. Dni. Caroli Areskine de Barjarg, Regiarŭm Causarum Procŭratoris. 1731’ lists 1290 titles divided into books on legal topics, which are not given any specific headings, and ‘Libri Miscellanei’. Although it is clearly dated as 1731, the manuscript was continuously added to and acted as a library catalogue throughout Areskine’s life. The list provides important evidence about Areskine’s participation in the legal, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the early Scottish Enlightenment. Areskine’s law books provide evidence for his scholarly interest in the history of law while showing the types of books lawyers turned to in order to fashion their arguments in the courts. His ‘miscellaneous’ books demonstrate his engagement with the wider cultural concerns of the first half of the eighteenth century. The books that eighteenth century Scottish lawyers owned provide evidence for their interests and influence. Areskine was not unique: his book collecting was part of a wider tradition among Scottish lawyers. Areskine’s legally educated patron, Archibald Campbell, had one of the largest private libraries in Britain and his colleagues on the Bench, Lord Arniston and Lord Hailes, created collections which they stored in specially built rooms in their houses. Because so many of them survive in the Alva Collections of the Advocates Library and the National Library of Scotland, it has been possible to examine Areskine’s books for clues about who owned them before he did and what happened to them after his death. Several inscriptions and bookplates survive in the Alva books which give evidence for a lively book market which was centred on the Scottish legal community. Advocates bought and sold many of their books at auctions. This study shows that books on topics of interest to Scottish lawyers changed hands and stayed in use for decades.
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Hodgson, John. "Class acts : the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford and their manuscript collections." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/class-acts-the-twentyfifth-and-twentysixth-earls-of-crawford-and-their-manuscript-collections(3ed36c16-23f9-4b9c-85d5-21070eea9984).html.
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Throughout Victoria's reign, Lord Lindsay and his son Ludovic, respectively twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford, created one of the largest private libraries ever assembled in Britain. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana included some six thousand manuscripts, which Ludovic sold to Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 for £155,000. The principal problematic that I address in this thesis is: Why did the earls of Crawford invest vast amounts of financial and cultural capital in this endeavour? In other words, what factors - both structural and specific - led to the formation of the library, what purposes did it serve, and what roles did its manuscript components in particular perform? Other questions include: How - and how successfully - did Lindsay and Ludovic maintain physical and intellectual control over the rapidly growing library? How did they position themselves within networks of connoisseurship and collecting in Victorian Britain? How was the formation of the Oriental manuscript collections connected with Lindsay's interest in racial classification and with wider racial discourses? And how did the library reflect and reinforce Lindsay's identity as a gentleman-scholar? Previous studies of this and other manuscript collections have adhered to an antiquarian, bio-bibliographical model, focusing on the detailed matter and mechanisms of collecting, rather than exploring the socio-cultural and epistemological contexts of their development. This thesis, by contrast, constitutes the first extended application of cultural theory to a manuscript collection, or indeed to any private library, in the nineteenth century. I combine close archival work with Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and habitus to reveal the complex structuration and signification of the library, and to investigate the imbrication between the earls' personal agency and wider forces operating upon the library. My examination of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana has uncovered several key issues and themes hitherto unexplored in this or any other major private library of the nineteenth century. First, I argue that the reasons for the library's development reside principally in various forms of classification, which preoccupied Lindsay and reflected wider societal trends and taxonomies: the classification of libraries and the ramification of knowledge; Lindsay's deployment of the library to corroborate his and his family's social and cultural distinction (i.e. social classification); and an interest in racial classification, which reflected Orientalist discourses associated with imperialism. Secondly, while the dispersal of aristocratic collections in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a familiar trope, this study is the first to contextualize the decline of a private library within the struggle between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Finally, this is the first examination of the impact of professionalization upon private as opposed to public libraries, revealing the tensions between amateur traditions and growing professionalism and specialization in the nineteenth century. I thus 'read' through the library some of the wider socio-economic and cultural issues operating in Victorian Britain and its empire.
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Kerr, Donald Jackson. ""Building monuments more enduring than brass" : Governor Sir George Grey, a study of his book collecting and the formation of his libraries." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/748.
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This thesis documents the book collecting activities of Sir George Grey (1812-1898) and the formation of his libraries in Cape Town (1861) and Auckland (1887). As this bio-bibliographical narrative unfolds, the variety and richness of each collection is revealed. Much of what is presented on Grey the bibliophile is new and detailed here for the first time. Importantly, it reveals another dimension to one who was the most important nineteenth-century governor in the Southern Hemisphere.
Coverage of Grey's life as a book collector extends from his early years at Bodiam, Sussex, to his last years in London, and includes those periods when he was governor in South Australia (1841-45), New Zealand (1845-53; 1861-68), and the Cape Colony (1854-186l). A bookish environment and a precocious willingness to engage in literary and antiquarian studies assisted a latent collecting instinct. This is nowhere more evident than in his early forays into the collecting of indigenous language materials and the collecting of natural history specimens in Australia. In his early years, Grey was fortunate to attract the attention of influential mentors such as Richard Whately, Richard Owen, and Sir John Herschel. Each played a part in encouraging his collecting. In later life, far removed from the centres of the book world, he continued to collect. As a committed bibliophile, it was a habit that he could not break.
The book dealer plays an essential role in the book collecting process. Grey was fortunate to gain advice and friendship from some of the most prominent antiquarian book dealers in nineteenth-century England, including Henry G. Bohn, T and W Boone, and Bernard Quaritch. Others included Asher and Heberle–the so-called 'German Connection'–and booksellers representing the growing colonial book trade in New Zealand and Australia. This study examines his relationship with these men, what type of books he acquired, what he paid for them, and when they were purchased. His chief method of acquisition was through dealer catalogues, but he also obtained books and manuscripts through private individuals and auction houses. If a buying pattern is evident, it is one that is continuous, with a gradual accumulation of books over long periods.
Grey also sought materials outside established book markets. His world-class collections of African, Maori, Pacific, and Aboriginal language materials were obtained by the patient development of networks with church officials, missionaries, explorers, linguists, and army and naval officers. Once again, each primer, catechism or word list was accumulated over a number of years. Full justice was given to these rare materials when they were documented in various printed catalogues that were instigated by Grey and completed by the philologist Dr Wilhelm Bleek.
There are no barriers to the persistent collector, and Grey's success in overcoming the frustrations of supply and the problems associated with distance is measured by the libraries he collected. His position as Governor assisted the collecting process, and once his collecting preferences were known, items flowed in for inclusion. That he gave both libraries away in his lifetime is remarkable, an unparalleled action in the annals of nineteenth-century book collecting. Both remain testaments to his persistence and vision.
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Leedham, Susan. "Curating a gentleman's library : practices of acquisition, display and disposal in the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/12176.
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This thesis examines the book and archival holdings of the Cottonian Collection – a national designated eighteenth-century collection of fine art and books – between 1791 and 1816, the period of William Cotton II’s custodianship. Prior to this thesis, the Cottonian Collection has not been the subject of a full-length academic study. Whilst the art holdings have received some attention, the book and archival contents have not been examined. This thesis addresses this imbalance by conducting a thorough examination of the archival holdings and the history of the book collection. Taking the actions of the collection’s penultimate private owner, William Cotton II, as its primary focus this thesis examines the curatorial practices of acquisition, preservation and disposal through three key lenses: the presentation of the collection as a symbol of gentlemanly status, the evolution of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism thought, and the rise of Anglican Evangelicalism during this period. In doing so, this thesis considers the effects of the broader societal, political and religion changes on a national designated collection during a period defined by ideological threat and revolutionary warfare. In the process, it seeks to embed the history of the Cottonian Collection within the broader context of late-eighteenth-century book collecting practices.
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Song, Shanpeng. "A book management system eLibrary." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/31.
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"eLibrary" is a book management software application that runs on Microsoft Windows platforms. The software incorporates a Windows Explorer like interface and XML/XSL to display book details. The purpose of this project is to build a full-featured, commerical-quality software package to help people manage their books (either printed or electronic). The goal is for eLibrary to be a complete solution for people who wish to build their own personal electronic library catalog.
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SECHE, GIUSEPPE. "Cultura e circolazione libraria in Sardegna tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266527.
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The aim of this thesis is that of contributing to improve the knowledge of the cultural history of Sardinia, with a particular focus on book circulation during a time of great intellectual, political and social change, such as the end of the XV and VI Century. Through the analysis of notary deeds, and particularly post mortem inventories, the first part of the study has reconstructed the structure and content of sixty-two private libraries, ten belonging to Church representatives, seven to lawyers, four to doctors or other categories related to public health, ten to women, seven to aricstocratic families and seven to other categories. The total number of volumes in this census exceeds 5000 units, while the different authors come up to almost 1260. In a number of cases the analysis conducted has allowed the investigator to outline brief biographical profiles, reconstructing family and professional relations as well as to bring to light the cultural context whereby Sardinian society evolved in those years. The second part of the dissertation has been devoted to the editorial production of the city of Cagliari between 1566 and 1600, with an emphasis on technical aspects of the typographic processes as well as on the circulation of the editions produced. Starting from 190 items and from archival sources, 86 editions have been described, 68 of which of secure identification and 18 for which ownership is probable or possible, two loose papers, which still today represents the only prove of draft printing.
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Graheli, Shanti. "The circulation and collection of Italian printed books in sixteenth-century France." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7809.
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This thesis is an examination of the circulation networks and the patterns of collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. Although the cultural relations between the Italian and French territory have been studied, a systematic survey to assess the impact of books on the shaping of the French Renaissance has never been attempted. The first section of this study examines the trade routes and networks which facilitated the circulation of Italian printed books across the French territory. Because of the nature of the French early modern book trade, focused primarily on two major centres (Paris and Lyon), a geographical division has been adopted in investigating this phenomenon. Chapter one explores the trade networks existing in sixteenth-century Lyon, from the powerful Compagnie des Libraires to the activity of the libraires italianisants in the second half of the century. Chapter two examines the importance of Italian editions in Paris. Chapter three is devoted to the circulation of Italian books in the provinces and the impact of large regional centres and trade routes on the availability of books locally. Chapter four investigates private networks and their importance in making specific texts available to French readers. The second section of this study investigates the status and importance of Italian printed books within French Renaissance libraries. Chapter five looks into the development of the French Royal library and the role played by Italian items in defining its identity as an institution. Chapter six examines the presence of Italian books in French aristocratic and courtly collections. Chapter seven is devoted to the libraries of the French literary milieu, analysing the extent to which Italian books were cherished as literary exemplars, particularly with regard to vernacular texts. Chapter eight examines the presence of Italian books in professional collections, with particular attention here given to texts in Latin and other scholarly languages imported from Italy. The conclusion draws all of these strands together, looking at the specific role played by Italian culture, through the printed book, on the development of the French Renaissance. A catalogue of about 2,400 Italian printed books with early modern French provenance is included as an appendix volume. This data provides the evidential basis for this study.
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HUANG, CHING-CHENG, and 黃敬程. "The Study on Private Book Collecting Activities in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72335279301691207455.
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The development of the literature of Chinese ancient books has a long history; the rise of the business of book collection started early and is well- developed. In Beijing, the collection by the courts has long been the cause of the mainstream in the book-collection business, followed by officials. Not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties has the private collection greatly developed. Since Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing has become the national political, economic and cultural center, with a high degree of economic prosperity; coupled with being the location of the nation's highest level of the imperial examination, Beijing had a strong cultural atmosphere: scholars actively engaged in study, discussion about knowledge and book collection. In addition, the Ming government did not put much restrictions on book production; as a result, engraving books by the government sector, private sectors or book publishers were all very prosperous. The central government's regular book-giving policies, coupled with the custom of giving books among local governments (Yamen) and courtiers in Beijing, made Beijing become one of the key national regions of the book related business; virtually, this has also led to the development the collection and circulation of books. On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing's book markets were nationally known. Beijing was a key city where scholars acquired books; although its engraved books could not be compared with those in the South, Beijing was the political, economic and cultural center with very convenient transportation. Through merchants, a great number of books were shipped from any parts the country. This transporation provided the main source for the local bibliophiles to collect books. For private book collection, in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing was the cultural blend of political and cultural center; along with prosperous book marketing, book collection extremely flourished. This paper attempts to, from the perspective of cultural lives, understand the regional cultures, to explore the historical contexts of the development of Beijing private book collection in the Ming Dynasty, through combing and analyzing historical data, and to conclude the depictions of Beijing bibliophile groups in the Ming Dynasty and their cultural lives. The depictions particularly include: a understanding of Beijing bibliophiles in the Ming Dynasty, features of the bibliophile communities and the interactions among them, the types and the characteristics of the collected books, book collection activities and the connotation of cultural lives, and the influence as well as the contributions of the book collection at that time and on the future generations.It is hoped to further understand the development of the culture of Beijing book collection in the Ming Dynasty.
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CHANG, WEI-EN, and 張維恩. "The Study on Private Book Collecting Activities in Sichuan during the Ming Dynasty." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5r9nf5.
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China has developed ancient book collection for a long history,with its achievement ranking the highest in world.The forms of the text carriar has been more diversity over time.Many textual carriars,such as Oracle bone,bamboosilk,manuscript,and woodblock printing,reflect completing different life features.Take booking collecting in Ming Dynasty for example,it mainly inherited the book collection theory and management system afterwards Song Dynasty.Both government library collection and private collection saw progress in terms of scale,quantity,quality,and value,all being unprecedented prosperity.Moreover,the development of protection and bibliographic compilation of books turned over a new leaf.This laid a foundation of book collecting theory. Sichuan has been known as the"the Land of Abundance"since ancient times.However, it had been plunged into the turmoil for successive years since Song and Yuan Dynasties,which directly damaged local local population,economy.Such depressed culture did not restore even in Ming Dynasty.Regarding the private book collection in Sichuan in Ming Dynasty,it did not return to the prosperity as usual.However, academic culture has revived gradually because Sichuan government and the local government worked together to propose many social policies that benefited local society.This has laid a good foundation for Sichuan's private collections,and it has grown most rapidly during the Jiajing-Wanli period,but overall,it still leg behind from that in the Jiangnan region. This research aims to both sort out the development of Sichuan private collections in the Ming Dynasty and investigate Sichuan collectors’ real life features,exploring relevant topics in bool collection history.It starts with rigorous literature review as well as recent findings,and simultaneously involves with relevant fields such as regional cultures.It is is divided into seven chapters:Introduction、Literature Review、Methodology、Analysis of Sichuan book collectors in the Ming Dynasty、The Impacts of Royal Family Publications of Ming Dynast on Sichuan book collection、Analysis of lifes of Sichuan book collectors in Ming Dynasty、Conclusion.
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Vanden, Dries William Robert. "Collaborative practices employed by collectors, creators, scholars, and collecting institutions for the benefit of recorded sound collections." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28273.
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There is a long history of collaboration between private collectors and collecting institutions. Literature that discusses collaboration between these two groups typically focuses on the donation or sale of a private collection to an institution. Existing research focuses less often on the collaborative practices these two groups use to create, preserve, and access their recording collections. Furthermore, there is no scholarly work that aggregates known public-private collaborative practices. As a result, these additional practices are consistently underdeveloped and underutilized. For the first time, this thesis compiles a list of collaborative practices employed by private collectors and collecting institutions. Data was gathered through a literature review and a series of semi-structured interviews with private collectors and information professionals working with recorded sound collections. The constant comparative method of qualitative analysis was used to analyze the data. This thesis finds and discusses twelve collaborative practices employed by private collectors and information professionals. This study also discusses factors that encourage and discourage the use of these collaborative practices, the potential for their continued use, and ways in which future studies can extend the exploratory research of this study. This study’s findings contribute to the efforts of both private collectors and collecting institutions to preserve and provide access to the vast body of sound recordings documenting the multitude of historic and cultural perspectives necessary for scholarly and personal research.text
Books on the topic "Private libraries. Book collecting"
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Farnhan, Luther. A glance at private libraries. Weston, Mass: M & S Press, 1991.
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1930-, Chambers David, and Private Libraries Association, eds. A modest collection: Private Libraries Association 1956-2006. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2007.
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Shaddy, Robert Alan. Books and book collecting in America, 1890-1930. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 2000.
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F, Averina N., and Gorbunov I͡U︡ A, eds. Uralʹskiĭ bibliofil. Cheli͡a︡binsk: I͡U︡zh.-Ural. kn. izd-vo, 1989.
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You, Xiaoping. Fujian cang shu lou. 8th ed. Fuzhou Shi: Hai xia wen yi chu ban she, 2008.
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F, Averina N., and Gorbunov I͡U︡ A, eds. Uralʹskiĭ bibliofil. Permʹ: Permskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1987.
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G, Zavalʹnai͡a︡ L., Koli͡a︡dina A. M, Fomicheva N. P, Administrat͡s︡ii͡a︡ Samarskoĭ oblasti. Departament kulʹtury., and Samarskai͡a︡ oblastnai͡a︡ universalʹnai͡a︡ nauchnai͡a︡ biblioteka. Otdel redkikh knig i rukopiseĭ., eds. Samarskie knizhniki, konet͡s︡ XVIII veka-XX vek: Ocherki o sobirateli͡a︡kh i met͡s︡enatakh. Samara: Samarskai͡a︡ oblastnai͡a︡ universalʹnai͡a︡ nauchnai͡a︡ biblioteka, 2000.
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Simion, Eugen, writer of forword and Corbu George-Junior author, eds. Comorile unui prieten tânăr: George Corbu-Junior. București: Editura MLR, 2016.
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Yang, Shaohe. Cang yuan pi zhu ying shu yu lu. 8th ed. Beijing Shi: Zhonghua shu ju, 2017.
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Russia) Lichnye biblioteki v sostave fondov rossiĭskikh knigokhranilishch: problemy izuchenii︠a︡ (Conference) (3rd 2020 Saint Petersburg. Lichnye biblioteki v sostave fondov rossiĭskikh knigokhranilishch : problemy izuchenii︠a︡: Materialy Tretʹego nauchno-metodicheskogo seminara, 13-14 okti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 2020 g. Sankt-Peterburg: Rossiĭskai︠a︡ nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ biblioteka, 2021.
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Weis, Joëlle. "“Fait à mes heures de loisir”: Women’s Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production." In Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe, 105–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44731-0_5.
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AbstractThe Duchesses Elisabeth Sophie Marie (1683–1767) and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1716–1801) both owned substantial collections of several thousand books. Elisabeth’s library primarily contained theological literature, including 1200 Bibles and a unique collection of texts by Martin Luther, which she used to compose theological pamphlets. In addition, she granted access to her collection to selected scholars who, in turn, used the holdings for their research. Although more diversified, Philippine Charlotte’s library functioned as a similar meeting place for scholars of the region and beyond. Moreover, her papers offer an insight into the interaction between her book use and the writing that she did in her free time. In contrast to the usage practices of the neighbouring ducal library, Philippine Charlotte was free to consult the books she wanted in the privacy of her chambers for as long as she wanted to and, most importantly, without fear of being judged. It is certain that, in both cases, the privacy of the library gave the women the freedom to pursue intellectual interests, which were hard to combine with their public role as Duchesses. The fact that both women expanded their libraries considerably after becoming widows only supports the observation that private and “leisure” time could take more space. Based on these findings, this chapter argues that women’s learning and knowledge production in the early modern period both benefitted from and, in many cases, needed privacy.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 195–214. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4450-3_8.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 179–96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5135-8_9.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 189–206. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2430-7_8.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 180–202. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2039-2_8.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 192–209. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2784-1_9.
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. "Bibliophily, Book Collecting." In ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, 191–209. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3689-8_9.
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Birrell, T. A., and Jos Blom. "Review of Private Libraries in Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists, eds R.J. Fehrenbach and E.S. Leedham-Green. Volumes I & II." In Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England, 109–14. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003555223-8.
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Curry, Edward, Sören Auer, Arne J. Berre, Andreas Metzger, Maria S. Perez, and Sonja Zillner. "Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value." In Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value, 1–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78307-5_1.
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AbstractThe continuous and significant growth of data, together with improved access to data and the availability of powerful computing infrastructure, has led to intensified activities around Big Data Value (BDV) and data-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI). Powerful data techniques and tools allow collecting, storing, analysing, processing and visualising vast amounts of data, enabling data-driven disruptive innovation within our work, business, life, industry and society.The adoption of big data technology within industrial sectors facilitates organisations to gain a competitive advantage. Driving adoption is a two-sided coin. On one side, organisations need to master the technology necessary to extract value from big data. On the other side, they need to use the insights extracted to drive their digital transformation with new applications and processes that deliver real value. This book has been structured to help you understand both sides of this coin and bring together technologies and applications for Big Data Value.This chapter defines the notion of big data value, introduces the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and gives some background on the Big Data Value Association (BDVA)—the private side of the PPP. It then moves on to structure the contributions of the book in terms of three key lenses: the BDV Reference Model, the Big Data and AI Pipeline, and the AI, Data and Robotics Framework.
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Pearson, David. "Cultures of collecting." In Book Ownership in Stuart England, 138–64. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870128.003.0007.
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Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.
Conference papers on the topic "Private libraries. Book collecting"
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Melnikov, Ilya A. "Collections of Old Believers Books of the Novgorod eological Seminary and the “Brotherhood of St. Sophia” in the Context of “Internal Mission”." In Лихудовские чтения — 2022. НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.34680/978-5-89896-832-8/2023.readings.11.
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e article introduces the history of the formation of collections of handwritten and old printed books that were kept among the Old Believers, which then were transferred in the libraries of the Novgorod eological Seminary and the missionary Brotherhood of St. Sophia. As in other regions, these collections arose in the second half of the XIX century due to the need to conduct polemics with representatives of the Old Believers and sectarianism, which was an important part of the so-called “internal mission” of the Greek-Russian Church. ey were based on manuscripts con scated in the Old Believers communities of the Novgorod province, as well as from private collections in the course of government persecution of religious dissidents. At present, some of the books have been preserved in the funds of the National Library of Russia, as well as the Novgorod State Museum-Reservation. ese collections, which include manuscripts and early printed books of the XVI–XIX centuries, are an important source base characterizing the book culture of the Old Believers in the Novgorod region, which in many respects was a continuation of the traditions of Medieval Russia.
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Moldovanu, Anastasia. "The Scientific Value of the Collection of “Tudor Arghezi” art Library. Heritage Documents." In Simpozionul Național de Studii Culturale, Ediția a 2-a. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/9789975352147.01.
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The written culture of a people is impressive in terms of heritage documents. These include books, the press, old prints and manuscripts, maps. According to their scientific importance, the Library’s collection includes current books, old books, books that, regardless of the year of publication, have special graphic qualities of the cover, title page, valuable content, atypical format, illustrations by well-known artists, and books with special bibliophile value with the signature or autograph of the author/donor. In libraries, such documents come from private donations and libraries; they are collected by professional people who activated in a certain period of time. These donations are managed in the form of special collections at the Arts Branch. In this context, the question of managing this special fund appears, i.e. the inventory, cataloging and preservation of the fund, the elaboration of a common Bibliography for all branches of “B. P. Hasdeu” Municipal Library, which would be permanently completed and therefore become everybody’s common good.
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Vladetić, Srđan. "Biblioteka Asinija Poliona (bibliotheca asini pollionis): prva javna biblioteka u starom Rimu." In XVI Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upk20.367v.
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Thanks to Greek influence, firstly through some individuals, and after that through conquests, Romans have come to contact with books and libraries. The first Roman libraries were private collections that belong to the military commanders and to the members of higher social class. Development of public libraries starts at the end of the 1st century BC with founding of Library of Asinius Pollio. In this work it would be pointed out on when, how and where this particular library was found. In addition, it would present overview of library collection and library staff. At the end in the article services that library has provided to its clients will be presented, as well as its influence and importance for the work of other public libraries in Ancient Rome.
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Vladetić, Srđan. "Biblioteka Asinija Poliona (bibliotheca asini pollionis): prva javna biblioteka u starom Rimu." In XVI Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upk20.367v.
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Thanks to Greek influence, firstly through some individuals, and after that through conquests, Romans have come to contact with books and libraries. The first Roman libraries were private collections that belong to the military commanders and to the members of higher social class. Development of public libraries starts at the end of the 1st century BC with founding of Library of Asinius Pollio. In this work it would be pointed out on when, how and where this particular library was found. In addition, it would present overview of library collection and library staff. At the end in the article services that library has provided to its clients will be presented, as well as its influence and importance for the work of other public libraries in Ancient Rome.
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Polak, Yuri Еvgenievich. "Digital Libraries as Information Source on the Evolution of Telegraph." In 23rd Scientific Conference “Scientific Services & Internet – 2021”. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20948/abrau-2021-4.
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The century before last saw revolutionary changes in the transmission of information. For the functioning of the optical telegraph, which appeared at the end of the 18th century, cumbersome towers were necessary for the line of sight of the semaphore signals. One hundred years later, telegraph lines were hundreds of thousands of kilometers long; at the turn of the century, the first experiments with the use of a wireless telegraph began. This is reflected in numerous brochures, books, periodicals of that time. A hundred years later, many of these materials became publicly available thanks to the development of the Internet and electronic libraries, which made the appearance of this work possible. Its goal is to trace the evolution of technologies and processes of information transfer in the 19th century using a wide variety of electronic libraries - from the grandiose projects of the Library of Congress and Google Books with their millions of digitized books to modest private collections dedicated to local topics. Used materials from 20+ electronic libraries.
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Lendvay, Miklós. "Országos Könyvtári Platform – központi könyvtári szolgáltatások együttműködő rendszere." In Networkshop. HUNGARNET Egyesület, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31915/nws.2020.10.
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In 2020/21, the collaborative distributed Hungarian library platform will be completed and introduced, revolutionizing library services with state-of-the-art IT solutions. The Hungarian National Library Platform (HNLP) puts the national library services, the common catalog and interlibrary loan, the services of the ISBN office, the digitization cooperation on a new foundation, and integrates the Hungarian National Namespace and opens up entity-based data connections beyond the library world. It expands the range of services provided to readers, providing legitimate digital content to both library visitors and remotely logged in online users. It provides modern interfaces for publishers and authors to expand the range of information about their publications with relevant data. It is open to libraries to replace, in part or in full, their existing IT solutions and, moving into the cloud-based system, use it as their own integrated library platform. The parameterdriven HNLP allows connected libraries to create a unique brand image, deliver their collections in the most diverse way, while becoming an integral part of an entity-based data model-based metadata repository and digital object repository. The collaboration between libraries, which began in 2016 with the design of the new platform, has now entered a new phase: our partners review the specifications, the libraries provide their data for the developed modules, test the system elements, and then the entire platform in an integrated way. The first module of the HNLP, the “old and rare books” module, was launched in October 2019, followed by the launch of the Library Science Library in 2020, and in 2021 the operation of the National Széchényi Library in this modern environment will follow. What are the main pillars of this platform? What secures the required flexibility? What makes it capable of accommodating any type of metadata and serving any type of library? How can all types of libraries be connected, small and large libraries, university and church, public and private libraries alike? How is the system open to the processing of archival and museum materials? What has been achieved so far and what are the next steps until the full transition?
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"Approvals, Slips, and DDA! Oh My! The Yellow Brick Road to Collaborative Approval and DDA Profiling." In Charleston Library Conference. Purdue Univeristy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284317172.
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In the last several years, approval profiling has changed significantly and grown increasingly complex, particularly due to the prevalent shift toward collecting in electronic formats. While approval profiles have been predominantly e-preferred for some time, the growth of demand-driven acquisition (DDA) has led to new license models, modes of acquisition, and tighter integration of DDA with approvals. With the advent of the DDA-preferred approval plan came options for the inclusion of multiple e-book platforms as well as complexities involving publisher embargoes. Additionally, the numerous approval and DDA profile parameters, workflow options, and administrator settings vary widely, resulting in a seemingly endless array of possibilities that can affect how titles are ultimately profiled. The task of creating a new profile or preparing profile reviews can be overwhelming, especially for those new to profiling or trying a new vendor. However, it can and should be a collaborative experience with vendors that leads to more than just great profiles. While library staff should strive to learn how to make the most of what a vendor offers, vendors should inquire about the library’s collection development strategies, issues, and needs. Vendors can also share current trends and offer advice modeled on how other libraries handle similar issues, as well as gather feedback for potential development. This paper supplies tips that will help library staff who are preparing to create or review approval or DDA profiles or to profile with new vendors, to be better prepared in order to maximize their time profiling with vendors.