Abstract This paper was first presented at a session of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Buenos Aires, August 2004. The session, entitled 'Library research in Argentina: new approaches' was organized by IFLA's Education and Research Division and hosted by the Institute of Library Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires. The past development of the subject of the 'history of the book and libraries in Argentina' is divided into four periods. It is argued that, having previously followed a descriptive path, the subject is now influenced by the emergence of cultural history and consequently pays more attention than in the past to broader cultural contexts. As a result, it is now legitimate to refer to a 'new' history of books and libraries in Argentina.
{"title":"Towards a New History of Books and Libraries in Argentina: Background, History and Periods","authors":"Alejandro E. Parada","doi":"10.1179/174581606X93334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/174581606X93334","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper was first presented at a session of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Buenos Aires, August 2004. The session, entitled 'Library research in Argentina: new approaches' was organized by IFLA's Education and Research Division and hosted by the Institute of Library Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires. The past development of the subject of the 'history of the book and libraries in Argentina' is divided into four periods. It is argued that, having previously followed a descriptive path, the subject is now influenced by the emergence of cultural history and consequently pays more attention than in the past to broader cultural contexts. As a result, it is now legitimate to refer to a 'new' history of books and libraries in Argentina.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"22 1","pages":"55 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/174581606X93334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65565788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Sir Frank Francis was the most important figure in the history of the British Museum Department of Printed Books in the twentieth century. While he was one of the Keepers of the Department (1948–1959) he modernized many of the procedures which had remained virtually unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century. His greatest achievements were to devise a new method of producing very rapidly an updated version of the General Catalogue of Printed Books, and to initiate the process which led to the creation of the National Library of Science and Invention as part of the British Museum Library. During his time as Director of the Museum (1959–1968) there were many improvements to the buildings, and the British Museum Act of 1963 transformed the constitution of the Museum. He extended the opening hours of the reading rooms and began detailed planning of a new building for the library to the south of the Museum; this latter work was vitiated as a result of a volte-face by the Wilson Government in 1967.
{"title":"Sir Frank Francis of the British Museum, 1901–1988","authors":"P. Harris","doi":"10.1179/174581606X93299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/174581606X93299","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sir Frank Francis was the most important figure in the history of the British Museum Department of Printed Books in the twentieth century. While he was one of the Keepers of the Department (1948–1959) he modernized many of the procedures which had remained virtually unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century. His greatest achievements were to devise a new method of producing very rapidly an updated version of the General Catalogue of Printed Books, and to initiate the process which led to the creation of the National Library of Science and Invention as part of the British Museum Library. During his time as Director of the Museum (1959–1968) there were many improvements to the buildings, and the British Museum Act of 1963 transformed the constitution of the Museum. He extended the opening hours of the reading rooms and began detailed planning of a new building for the library to the south of the Museum; this latter work was vitiated as a result of a volte-face by the Wilson Government in 1967.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"22 1","pages":"26 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/174581606X93299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65565184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Considers the influence of North American libraries on Sir Frank Francis, Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum between 1959 and 1968, who visited the United States in 1946–1947, and rebuts Ian Willison's assertion, made in an article in 'Libraries and Culture' in 1989, that the Library of Congress was the dominant influence on Francis' thinking. Emphasizes that Francis was influenced by everything he saw on his visit, not just the operations of the Library of Congress. Argues that the changes be brought about when Director arose from a long-standing experience and understanding of the issues facing the British Museum Library; as well as from a keen awareness of wider developments, not least in the 'information field' in relation to the availability of scientific and technical documents.
{"title":"Comments on Ian R. Willison's 'The National Library in Historical Perspective'","authors":"J. Francis","doi":"10.1179/174581606X93307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/174581606X93307","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Considers the influence of North American libraries on Sir Frank Francis, Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum between 1959 and 1968, who visited the United States in 1946–1947, and rebuts Ian Willison's assertion, made in an article in 'Libraries and Culture' in 1989, that the Library of Congress was the dominant influence on Francis' thinking. Emphasizes that Francis was influenced by everything he saw on his visit, not just the operations of the Library of Congress. Argues that the changes be brought about when Director arose from a long-standing experience and understanding of the issues facing the British Museum Library; as well as from a keen awareness of wider developments, not least in the 'information field' in relation to the availability of scientific and technical documents.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"22 1","pages":"27 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/174581606X93307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65565340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract On 1 November 2005 the library of 'Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit De Witte' commemorated its one-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday with a symposium about local private libraries. In contrast to the club as a whole, the specific history of its book collection has never been researched. The club archive, now kept at the Municipal Archives in The Hague, is an important source for researching and disclosing the past of what still is one of the city's most impressive libraries. Before the First World War, the books, periodicals and newspapers of the library played a very important role not only in club life, but also in supplying knowledge to those engaged in civic and commercial life at a fairly high level: the members, often involved in government, politics, industry or commerce, came to the library and reading room for the latest news in their field of interest, and this was reflected in the library's acquisitions policy. In the 1930s the growing speed at which new publications appeared, the development of the Municipal and Royal Library and the establishment of specialized collections within ministries and enterprises changed the role of the 'Witte Bibliotheek'. It developed into an institution for leisure, still buying publications in the original fields of interest but in a more haphazard fashion, and from that time onwards focusing more on Dutch and foreign literature. The collection today, comprising some 27,000 books, is being reorganized, the Art Deco interiors are being restored, and for the first time computer facilities for members will be introduced in the reading room. But the old card catalogue system will also be continued, as the De Witte Library wants to protect its most important feature: the atmosphere of a pre-war Gentlemen's Library.
2005年11月1日，“Nieuwe of litt De Witte”图书馆举办了一场关于当地私人图书馆的研讨会，以纪念其150岁生日。与整个俱乐部相比，其藏书的具体历史从未被研究过。俱乐部的档案现在保存在海牙的市政档案馆，是研究和揭示这座城市最令人印象深刻的图书馆之一的过去的重要来源。在第一次世界大战之前，图书馆的书籍、期刊和报纸不仅在俱乐部生活中发挥着非常重要的作用，而且在为从事公民和商业生活的人提供知识方面也发挥着相当重要的作用:这些成员经常参与政府、政治、工业或商业，他们来到图书馆和阅览室获取他们感兴趣领域的最新消息，这反映在图书馆的采办政策中。在20世纪30年代，新出版物出现的速度越来越快，市政和皇家图书馆的发展以及部委和企业内部专业馆藏的建立改变了“写作图书馆”的角色。它发展成为一个休闲机构，仍然购买原始兴趣领域的出版物，但以一种更随意的方式，从那时起，更多地关注荷兰和外国文学。今天的馆藏约有27,000本书，正在重新整理，装饰艺术风格的室内装饰正在修复，阅览室将首次为会员引入电脑设施。但旧的卡片目录系统也将继续，因为De Witte图书馆希望保护其最重要的特征:战前绅士图书馆的氛围。
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Abstract The Dewey Decimal Classification has become almost universal in British public libraries. In the 1890s, however, most public libraries were arranged using a system of main classes. Gradually this system gave way to more systematic classification schemes, such as Quinn-Brown, Brown's Adjustable, and others. This article examines the spread of these schemes, including the longest lived of the rivals to Dewey, Brown's Subject Classification, which survived into the late 1960s and is still in use in a few local studies collections.
{"title":"Classification in British Public Libraries: A Historical Perspective","authors":"J. H. Bowman","doi":"10.1179/002423005x62196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/002423005x62196","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Dewey Decimal Classification has become almost universal in British public libraries. In the 1890s, however, most public libraries were arranged using a system of main classes. Gradually this system gave way to more systematic classification schemes, such as Quinn-Brown, Brown's Adjustable, and others. This article examines the spread of these schemes, including the longest lived of the rivals to Dewey, Brown's Subject Classification, which survived into the late 1960s and is still in use in a few local studies collections.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"21 1","pages":"143 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/002423005x62196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65473393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article highlights evidence regarding the use of public libraries by the working classes from the mid-nineteenth century until the Second World War. Although public libraries were used extensively by some sections of the working class, most notably autodidacts, use by working-class people was never a mass activity. The article was prompted by presentations made the conference on 'Libraries and the working classes since the eighteenth century', held at the School of Information Management, Leeds Metropolitan University, 16–17 June 2004, especially the keynote address of Jonathan Rose, author of The intellectual life of the British working classes, published in 2002. In his book Rose makes a number of references to working class use of public libraries; and this article draws attention to a selection of these.
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Abstract This paper is a synopsis of a recent successful doctoral thesis (University of Newcastle) on Edwardian public library architecture, and was given as a lecture to the Victorian Society in November 2004. Surveying the work of the most successful Edwardian library architects, when library building in England was at its peak, it argues for a thematic reading of the libraries, examining their architecture, sculpture, planning and building technologies, alongside the more abstract issues of authority, citizenship, imperialism and progress.
{"title":"'But the Empire Cannot Live by Muscle Alone': An Architectural History of the Edwardian Public Library","authors":"C. Sherriff","doi":"10.1179/002423005x62169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/002423005x62169","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is a synopsis of a recent successful doctoral thesis (University of Newcastle) on Edwardian public library architecture, and was given as a lecture to the Victorian Society in November 2004. Surveying the work of the most successful Edwardian library architects, when library building in England was at its peak, it argues for a thematic reading of the libraries, examining their architecture, sculpture, planning and building technologies, alongside the more abstract issues of authority, citizenship, imperialism and progress.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"21 1","pages":"195 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/002423005x62169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65473625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This is the second part of a study of Hebrew manuscripts deposited in the libraries of Cambridge and Oxford Universities. The first part, focusing on the collection in the Bodleian, was published in Volume 20, July 2004 (pp. 95–116) of this journal. The collection of about one thousand Hebrew manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library is one of three most important collections in the United Kingdom, alongside those of those of the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library. The manuscripts arrived at the Cambridge University Library first with the acquisition of collections of Christian Hebraists, but chiefly through an effort to acquire Hebrew manuscripts in the nineteenth century. With the publication of 'Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library: a description and introduction', by Stefan C. Reif (1997), we have for the first time access to the entire collection of Hebrew manuscripts preserved at the Library and we can fully appreciate how the present catalogue is not only a description and introduction to the collection of Hebrew manuscripts, but also how it can serve as model for other cataloguers to emulate.
这是对存放在剑桥大学和牛津大学图书馆的希伯来语手稿研究的第二部分。第一部分，集中在收集在牛津大学，发表在第20卷，2004年7月(第95-116页)。剑桥大学图书馆收藏的约一千份希伯来文手稿，与牛津大学图书馆、牛津大学图书馆和大英图书馆并列，是英国最重要的三个图书馆之一。这些手稿最初是在剑桥大学图书馆获得基督教希伯来语学者的收藏时到达的，但主要是通过努力获得19世纪的希伯来语手稿。随着《剑桥大学图书馆的希伯来手稿:描述和介绍》一书的出版，Stefan C. Reif(1997)，我们第一次有机会接触到图书馆保存的全部希伯来手稿，我们可以充分认识到，现在的目录不仅是对希伯来手稿收藏的描述和介绍，而且它如何成为其他编目人员效仿的榜样。
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Abstract Scholars have long noted the significance of Allegheny College's original library to American cultural and educational history. This article describes how the books in the original library have been housed and maintained by the college, and traces the evolution of the catalogue of the original library, from book format in 1823, through card format, and finally to online. The catalogue and its retrospective conversion was completed almost entirely in-house. It presented many challenges to the library staff due to the special nature of the collection.
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