Download or read book How to Catalog a Rare Book written by Paul Shaner Dunkin and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.

Download or read book Cataloguing Culture written by Hannah Turner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations – much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over two hundred years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage.

Download or read book Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe written by Arthur der Weduwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Contributors discuss the role that these catalogues played in bookselling and book auctions, as well as in guiding the tastes of book collectors and inspiring some of the greatest libraries of the era. Catalogues in the Low Countries, Britain, Germany, France and the Baltic region are studied as important products of the early modern book trade, and as reconstructive tools for the history of the book. These catalogues offer a goldmine of information on the business of books, and they allow scholars to examine questions on the distribution and ownership of books that would otherwise be extremely difficult to pursue. Contributors: Helwi Blom, Pierre Delsaerdt, Arthur der Weduwen, Anna E. de Wilde, Shanti Graheli, Ann-Marie Hansen, Rindert Jagersma, Graeme Kemp, Ian Maclean, Alicia C. Montoya, Andrew Pettegree, Philippe Schmid, Forrest C. Strickland, Jasna Tingle, Marieke van Egeraat, and Elise Watson.

Download or read book A Short title Catalogue of Books Printed in England Scotland Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475 1640 written by Alfred William Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rules for the Cataloguing of Printed Books Published Before 1920 written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Reference Department written by Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Bookseller s Complete Reference Trade List and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in this Country written by Alexander Vietts Blake and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi With Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi and Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 and Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker written by Frans Korsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Korsten provides a biographical sketch of Thomas Baker and reconstructs his library of 4300 titles.

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