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Deutsche Handschriften 1100 - 1400
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 182.00Deutsche Handschriften 1100 - 1400: Oxforder Kolloquium 1985. more...
Double Fold
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 15.00The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country?s libraries?including the Library of Congress?have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original... more...
Library Off-Site Shelving
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 105.00As libraries strive to maintain collections with limited space, many have turned to high-efficiency, off-site shelving facilities. This work addresses virtually all major issues in planning, building, and operating high-density storage. Using the Harvard Depository model, but applying the issues and activities to other models as well, a host of contributors... more...
Brief Tests of Collection Strength
ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 158.00For purposes of accreditation, resource sharing, and institutional mission, librarians need to assess the strengths of their collections in particular subject areas. This book describes and illustrates a brief test for determining a library's collection strength. Though such tests are most often employed in academic libraries, the methodology outlined... more...
Primary Source Collections in the Pacific Northwest
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 70.00Primary source collections from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington are described and evaluated. Covering a broad cross-section of libraries, museums, historical societies, and government archives this book provides a detailed look at 175 institutions and their collections. Descriptive entries cover contact information, facilities, material types, and multiple... more...
Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 74.00The Muhammad Ali Hamdani Collection in the Library of The Institute of Ismaili Studies represents a large segment of the library collected over seven generations by an eminent family of scholars from the Da?udi Bohra community in India and the Yemen. The bulk of the manuscripts are Ismaili religious writings, but there are also a good number of interesting... more...
Directory of Museums, Galleries and Buildings of Historic Interest in the UK
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 360.00This unique and important directory incorporates some 3,200 entries. It covers all types and sizes of museums; galleries of paintings, sculpture and photography; and buildings and sites of particular historic interest. It also provides an extensive index listing over 3,200 subjects. The directory covers national collections and major buildings, but... more...
The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 155.00In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting ?Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work? in Hangzhou... more...
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
Wiley 2010; US$ 115.95A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010 Based... more...
A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 48.99In the first dictionary of its kind a leading expert on English manuscripts defines some 1,500 terms, including types of manuscript, their physical features, writing implements, writing surfaces, scribes, scripts, postal markings, and seals, as well as those relating to literature, bibliography, editing, dating, conservation, cartography, commerce,... more...









