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KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009, 16:06 - Rubrik: English Corner
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I am pleased to announce that Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE), in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, is now available online as the PLRE.Folger database. PLRE.Folger contains records of nearly 13,000 books drawn from book-lists compiled in England between 1507 and 1653, itemizing the collections of 196 owners. These records include the book-lists appearing in 162 probate inventories taken under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of Oxford University.
The material in the database is searchable in a variety ways, and thanks to the generosity of the Folger, access is free to the scholarly community. The current database is the beta version. Accordingly, users are invited to make comments and suggestions for improvement. Email addresses are provided for that purpose on the website's Contacts page.
This announcement of the PLRE.Folger release would be incomplete without the following comments:
PLRE.Folger and the printed volumes of PLRE are complementary presentations of the material in Private Libraries in Renaissance England. They are not substitutes one for the other. The use of PLRE.Folger will, therefore, be enhanced with the printed volumes on hand.
[...]
PLRE.Folger can be accessed at: http://plre.folger.edu Given the unique character of the database, the documentation is unusually heavy and detailed; users would be well-served to print the documentation for reference.
The PLRE Project website, which provides detailed information about Private Libraries in Renaissance England as well as material drawn from the published volumes not available at PLRE.Folger, can be accessed at http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rjfehr or via a link from PLRE.Folger.
I would be grateful if the recipients of this announcement would distribute it to other interested scholars.
R.J. Fehrenbach, General Editor
Private Libraries in Renaissance England
The material in the database is searchable in a variety ways, and thanks to the generosity of the Folger, access is free to the scholarly community. The current database is the beta version. Accordingly, users are invited to make comments and suggestions for improvement. Email addresses are provided for that purpose on the website's Contacts page.
This announcement of the PLRE.Folger release would be incomplete without the following comments:
PLRE.Folger and the printed volumes of PLRE are complementary presentations of the material in Private Libraries in Renaissance England. They are not substitutes one for the other. The use of PLRE.Folger will, therefore, be enhanced with the printed volumes on hand.
[...]
PLRE.Folger can be accessed at: http://plre.folger.edu Given the unique character of the database, the documentation is unusually heavy and detailed; users would be well-served to print the documentation for reference.
The PLRE Project website, which provides detailed information about Private Libraries in Renaissance England as well as material drawn from the published volumes not available at PLRE.Folger, can be accessed at http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rjfehr or via a link from PLRE.Folger.
I would be grateful if the recipients of this announcement would distribute it to other interested scholars.
R.J. Fehrenbach, General Editor
Private Libraries in Renaissance England
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Februar 2009, 22:35 - Rubrik: English Corner
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A list of Digital Collections. Unfortunately no meta-search.
http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php
http://library.mtsu.edu/digitalprojects/womenshistory.php
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 13. Februar 2009, 21:02 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11671723
A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's this week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what is considered the greatest collection of Judaica in private hands.
The Valmadonna Trust Library includes documents of unparalleled significance including a copy of a 16th-century Hebrew Bible once owned by Westminster Abbey. Some have burn or water marks or other signs of religious persecution.
"I don't know any other collection quite like it in private hands. It even rivals some of the great institutional collections in the world," Arthur Kiron, curator of Judaica collections at the University of Pennsylvania, said. "There are very few cultural moments like this one where a collection of such great significance is made available for sale."
The complete library, valued at more than $40 million, is being shown in its entirety for the first time at Sotheby's Manhattan galleries until Feb. 19. The trust has asked the auction house to facilitate the sale of the complete collection to a public institution or private collector. It will not break up the collection or sell individuals works.
The Valmadonna Library is the lifelong pursuit of Jack Lunzer, an 88-year-old collector from London who was in New York on Monday for the opening of the exhibition.
Lunzer will not benefit from the proceeds of the sale, which is being handled by the trust, which will also decide whether to accept an offer from a collector or an institution.
But Lunzer has made his wishes known. "I would like our library to be acquired by the Library of Congress," he said. "That would be my great joy."
Sharon Mintz, curator of Jewish art at the Jewish Theological Seminary, which owns the largest public collection of Judaica in the United States, said any institution that acquired the library would immediately be catapulted "to one of the top-tier places of study of Hebrew culture."
See also PR (PDF)
http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/event/valmadonnaTrustLibraryBrochure.pdf
Update: See also
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/books/12hebr.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
There is also an exquisitely preserved edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1519-23) made by the Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice, an edition created with the advice of a panel of scholars that codified many aspects of how the Talmud is displayed and printed. This set made its way into the collection of Westminster Abbey, where Mr. Lunzer saw it, covered with dust, perhaps untouched for centuries. He ultimately acquired it in a trade, offering a 900-year-old copy of the Abbey’s original Charter.
Update:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a084B5FRM1PY&refer=home
A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's this week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what is considered the greatest collection of Judaica in private hands.
The Valmadonna Trust Library includes documents of unparalleled significance including a copy of a 16th-century Hebrew Bible once owned by Westminster Abbey. Some have burn or water marks or other signs of religious persecution.
"I don't know any other collection quite like it in private hands. It even rivals some of the great institutional collections in the world," Arthur Kiron, curator of Judaica collections at the University of Pennsylvania, said. "There are very few cultural moments like this one where a collection of such great significance is made available for sale."
The complete library, valued at more than $40 million, is being shown in its entirety for the first time at Sotheby's Manhattan galleries until Feb. 19. The trust has asked the auction house to facilitate the sale of the complete collection to a public institution or private collector. It will not break up the collection or sell individuals works.
The Valmadonna Library is the lifelong pursuit of Jack Lunzer, an 88-year-old collector from London who was in New York on Monday for the opening of the exhibition.
Lunzer will not benefit from the proceeds of the sale, which is being handled by the trust, which will also decide whether to accept an offer from a collector or an institution.
But Lunzer has made his wishes known. "I would like our library to be acquired by the Library of Congress," he said. "That would be my great joy."
Sharon Mintz, curator of Jewish art at the Jewish Theological Seminary, which owns the largest public collection of Judaica in the United States, said any institution that acquired the library would immediately be catapulted "to one of the top-tier places of study of Hebrew culture."
See also PR (PDF)
http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/event/valmadonnaTrustLibraryBrochure.pdf
Update: See also
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/books/12hebr.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2
There is also an exquisitely preserved edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1519-23) made by the Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice, an edition created with the advice of a panel of scholars that codified many aspects of how the Talmud is displayed and printed. This set made its way into the collection of Westminster Abbey, where Mr. Lunzer saw it, covered with dust, perhaps untouched for centuries. He ultimately acquired it in a trade, offering a 900-year-old copy of the Abbey’s original Charter.
Update:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a084B5FRM1PY&refer=home
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009, 00:12 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1005
From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory
Author: John Ridener
Price: $22.00
Published: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9802004-5-4
Printed on acid-free paper
From Polders to Postmodernism is a broad ranging history of the conception and development of the theories that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Narrated through the controversial thread of archival appraisal theory, the book examines how archivists have engaged with theory through the tension between keeping records that reflect objective history “as it happened” and subjective decision making in the archive. Through an interpretive reading of archival theory, distinct periods emerge, with each paradigm contributing unique responses to difficult archival, historical, and theoretical contexts.
The book is written within the framework of paradigm change and discusses archival theory in terms of geographical, historical, historiographical, and technological contexts. Through these contexts and discussion of luminary archival theories, the development of distinct periods within archival theory is illustrated. The periods and associated archivists include: Consolidation (Muller, Feith, and Fruin’s Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives), Reinforcement (Jenkinson’s A Manual of Archive Administration), Modern (Schellenberg’s Modern Archives), and Questioning (the work of five archivists: Brothman, Cook, Heald, Ketelaar, and MacNeil from 1991 to 2004).
From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory
Author: John Ridener
Price: $22.00
Published: February 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9802004-5-4
Printed on acid-free paper
From Polders to Postmodernism is a broad ranging history of the conception and development of the theories that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Narrated through the controversial thread of archival appraisal theory, the book examines how archivists have engaged with theory through the tension between keeping records that reflect objective history “as it happened” and subjective decision making in the archive. Through an interpretive reading of archival theory, distinct periods emerge, with each paradigm contributing unique responses to difficult archival, historical, and theoretical contexts.
The book is written within the framework of paradigm change and discusses archival theory in terms of geographical, historical, historiographical, and technological contexts. Through these contexts and discussion of luminary archival theories, the development of distinct periods within archival theory is illustrated. The periods and associated archivists include: Consolidation (Muller, Feith, and Fruin’s Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives), Reinforcement (Jenkinson’s A Manual of Archive Administration), Modern (Schellenberg’s Modern Archives), and Questioning (the work of five archivists: Brothman, Cook, Heald, Ketelaar, and MacNeil from 1991 to 2004).
KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, 15:22 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/02/more-attacks-on-institutional-copyfraud.html (Peter Hirtle)
Excerpt:
Jason Mazzone's book Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property is due out from the Stanford University Press in 2009. Mazzone's 2006 article on the topic erred in suggesting that most libraries and archives claim copyright (rather than contractual rights) over the use of images from its collection. Nevertheless, Mazzone's indictment of the practices of cultural institutions is powerful. Libraries, archives, and museums will need to have reasonable practices in place if they wish to avoid criticism when the book does appear.
On Copyfraud see in this weblog
http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=copyfraud
Excerpt:
Jason Mazzone's book Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property is due out from the Stanford University Press in 2009. Mazzone's 2006 article on the topic erred in suggesting that most libraries and archives claim copyright (rather than contractual rights) over the use of images from its collection. Nevertheless, Mazzone's indictment of the practices of cultural institutions is powerful. Libraries, archives, and museums will need to have reasonable practices in place if they wish to avoid criticism when the book does appear.
On Copyfraud see in this weblog
http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=copyfraud
KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009, 14:59 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://niurarebooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/are-special-collections-libraries.html
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2009/01/libraries-and-copyfraud.html
http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2009/02/special_collections_and_the_public_domain.html
http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2009/01/libraries-and-copyfraud.html
http://stevelawson.name/seealso/archives/2009/02/special_collections_and_the_public_domain.html
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 7. Februar 2009, 21:47 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Recently I have seen the name Euronomos pop up in a number of archives blogs. The project is for example mentioned over at Archivalia and the news was picked up by Het Archiefforum and ArchivesBlogs. If you check out these postings, you will quickly discover that they have one thing in common: they won’t make you any wiser.
http://archivists.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/euronomos-european-archival-legislation-online/
http://archivists.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/euronomos-european-archival-legislation-online/
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 7. Februar 2009, 21:45 - Rubrik: English Corner
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