welcome to the british library the world's knowledge
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PP presentation for IMLR seminar on 23 November 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to the British Library– The World’s Knowledge Marja Kingma 23 November 2013
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The BRITISH LIBRARY National Library for UK
Useful pages:
About us
Catalogues
Readers Pass Registration
Help for Researches
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About the British Library
We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages
3 million new items are added every year
We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents
The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings
We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items
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Foreign Language Collections in the BL – WHY???
ANTONIO PANIZZI aimed to “build up the best collection of books in every European language outside the countries of origin". BL’s USP
Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879)
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Dutch Language Collections - Statistics
60,000 titles from 1500 – present day and growing
17,500 early printed works (15th – 17th Cent.)
Growth approx 1800 titles per year
Subjects: Art & Architecture, History, Literature, Language studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Contemporary Culture, Bibliography
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Dutch Language Collections - Acquisitions
Antiquarian and Second hand
Can be borrowed!
Suggestions Welcome!
Printed books published in Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans
About / from Low Countries, South-Africa (only in Afr.)
Research level / representing culture LC
Dutch Language Collections – Early printed works
Controversial titles
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Dutch Language Collections – Antiquarian Acquisitions
Filling the gaps
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Dutch Language Collections – Antiquarian cataloguing
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Dutch language collections – Collections, Activities, Projects
COLLECTIONS
MAPS
PAMPHLETS
SOUND
ACTIVITIES
EXHIBITIONS
EVENTS
DIGITIZATION PROJECTS
PROMOTION COLLECTION
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POSITION DUTCH LANGUAGE COLLECTIONS’ IN BL
HOW TO FIND STUFF FROM DUTCH COLLECTIONS?
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Dutch Language Collections
Explore / Archives and Manuscripts
Dutch pages on bl.uk
Leaflet European Studies
E-resources: Art Sales Catalogues online
AAS: India Office Records
Social Sciences (urbanisation)
No physical Dutch Flemish Collection
No easy way to identify what is ‘Dutch’.
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Dutch Language Collections
Special Collections
Pamphlets
Emblemata
Maps : Beudeker Collection
Newspapers: Dutch underground press 1940-1945
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Beudeker collection: maps and views of the Lowlands
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Dutch language collections Underground press
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MAGE ‘WA Man’ by Theun de Vries in: Publish and be Free Anna Simoni (BL), opp pag 203.
Open Access Rare Books and Music Reading Room RAR 098.12 General Reference Collection 2725.aa.1 / X.700/16639
Document Supply 77/1952
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Dutch Language Collections - Collaborations
British Library - University of Sheffield Concordat
PhD student projects – Torgrim Hannas collection
PhD student working with French curator on WWI project.
Dutch Language Collections- Collaborations… cont.
Universities UCL, KC
Organizations – ANS, Dutch Church
Governmental representatives
Individuals
BL projects
Europeana, Google Books , Web Archive
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Dutch Language Collections - Questions
ANY QUESTIONS
Dutch Language Collections - Contacts
CONTACTS
Tel.: 020 7412 7764
Leaflet European Studies
Follow us on Twitter! @BL_European
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Secondary colour palette
Images used courtesy of
Website publishers:
http://www.icob.nl/icob/index.php
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2280