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KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2009, 13:53 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.nagararesources.org/
The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) has launched an online document library which allows users to share archives and records management publications . Subject categories include: accessibility, advocacy, electronic records, disaster preparedness, electronic records, facilities, files management, grants, historical records, inactive records, local government records, microfilm, preservation, legal issues, retention, scanning & digitization, security, storage, training, and miscellaneous. Located at www.NAGARAresources.org , the library currently houses nearly 300 documents and expands in content almost daily. As content grows, site administrators will add new subject categories and/or subdivide existing categories.
No registration is required to download documents , however users who wish to upload documents must be registered. That can be accomplished by selecting “Add Documents” in the toolbar and clicking on “Registration.” Follow the steps outlined. Only documents in the public domain may be uploaded on this site, or copyrighted documents posted by the owner of the copyright.
The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) has launched an online document library which allows users to share archives and records management publications . Subject categories include: accessibility, advocacy, electronic records, disaster preparedness, electronic records, facilities, files management, grants, historical records, inactive records, local government records, microfilm, preservation, legal issues, retention, scanning & digitization, security, storage, training, and miscellaneous. Located at www.NAGARAresources.org , the library currently houses nearly 300 documents and expands in content almost daily. As content grows, site administrators will add new subject categories and/or subdivide existing categories.
No registration is required to download documents , however users who wish to upload documents must be registered. That can be accomplished by selecting “Add Documents” in the toolbar and clicking on “Registration.” Follow the steps outlined. Only documents in the public domain may be uploaded on this site, or copyrighted documents posted by the owner of the copyright.
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, 16:09 - Rubrik: English Corner
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At the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, one of Europe's
largest audiovisual archives, we invite "the commons" to document and
share their knowledge about our collection. To this end, we launched the
Sound and Vision Wiki ( http://www.beeldengeluidwiki.nl/ ) a year ago. Currently,
this semi-curated wiki (people have to register) features over 2.000
articles regarding programmes and 400 biographies of media-personalities
written by students, academics, curators, and other enthusiasts. We're
using the MediaWiki platform and aim to have 50.000 lemma's by 2014.
In collaboration with the University of Amsterdam we would like to
initiate a research project that will use state-of-the-art machine
translation technology to translate the contributions to other
languages. We are curious if there are other organisations that follow a
similar approach to gather information their holdings. All input is
highly appreciated.
Best wishes,
Johan Oomen
Head of R&D
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
http://tinyurl.com/oomen
Via INETBIB
largest audiovisual archives, we invite "the commons" to document and
share their knowledge about our collection. To this end, we launched the
Sound and Vision Wiki ( http://www.beeldengeluidwiki.nl/ ) a year ago. Currently,
this semi-curated wiki (people have to register) features over 2.000
articles regarding programmes and 400 biographies of media-personalities
written by students, academics, curators, and other enthusiasts. We're
using the MediaWiki platform and aim to have 50.000 lemma's by 2014.
In collaboration with the University of Amsterdam we would like to
initiate a research project that will use state-of-the-art machine
translation technology to translate the contributions to other
languages. We are curious if there are other organisations that follow a
similar approach to gather information their holdings. All input is
highly appreciated.
Best wishes,
Johan Oomen
Head of R&D
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
http://tinyurl.com/oomen
Via INETBIB
KlausGraf - am Montag, 2. Februar 2009, 20:44 - Rubrik: English Corner
http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/01/disaster-in-germany-royal-collection-of.html
The following message was forwarded to me by a French colleague:
Disaster in Germany: The Royal Collection of Hannover for sale !!!
In 1983 the coin collection of the Kings of Hannover was bought by the Deutsche Bank, who now plans to sell it to a coin dealer. The "Niedersächsisches Münzkabinett der Deutschen Bank" is one the most important feudal collections in Germany and one of the 25 most important collections in Europe. It was managed in close cooperation with the "Landesmuseum Hannover"and became one of the important numismatic institutions in Europe. It is well known for its exhibitions and publications. The head of the coin cabinet, Dr. Reiner Cunz, is chairman of the German Numismatic Commission, vice president of the International Committee of Money and Banking Museums ICOMON, board member of the German Numismatic Society, member of the Brunswik Academy of Sciences and other academic societies.
A wave with letters of solidarity was sent to leading politicians in Germany, such as Prime Minister Christian Wulff (Hannover) and Bundeskulturminister Bernd Neumann (Berlin) and to the CEO of the Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann (Frankfurt).
This is truly disturbing news. Several museum collections are currently being sold off on account of the recession and have been in the news recently, stirring much controversy. These decisions are often made by administrators and businessmen who are only concerned about the bottom line and willing to cut things like art collections, academic programs, and research positions.
The sale of this important numismatic collection would be a great loss to numismatic scholarship. It should not be simply be divided up among bidders. I encourage all readers to send letters to those responsible for the decision to sell the collection and to the named German politicians. Dr. Lucia Travaini (Milan/Rome) has a page on her website, http://www.luciatravaini.it// about the affair (click on 'Appello urgente per la collezione numismatica di Hannover,' which then takes you to a page in English with further links). You can also read her letter online.
Read more (in German) on this case at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5353032
The following message was forwarded to me by a French colleague:
Disaster in Germany: The Royal Collection of Hannover for sale !!!
In 1983 the coin collection of the Kings of Hannover was bought by the Deutsche Bank, who now plans to sell it to a coin dealer. The "Niedersächsisches Münzkabinett der Deutschen Bank" is one the most important feudal collections in Germany and one of the 25 most important collections in Europe. It was managed in close cooperation with the "Landesmuseum Hannover"and became one of the important numismatic institutions in Europe. It is well known for its exhibitions and publications. The head of the coin cabinet, Dr. Reiner Cunz, is chairman of the German Numismatic Commission, vice president of the International Committee of Money and Banking Museums ICOMON, board member of the German Numismatic Society, member of the Brunswik Academy of Sciences and other academic societies.
A wave with letters of solidarity was sent to leading politicians in Germany, such as Prime Minister Christian Wulff (Hannover) and Bundeskulturminister Bernd Neumann (Berlin) and to the CEO of the Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann (Frankfurt).
This is truly disturbing news. Several museum collections are currently being sold off on account of the recession and have been in the news recently, stirring much controversy. These decisions are often made by administrators and businessmen who are only concerned about the bottom line and willing to cut things like art collections, academic programs, and research positions.
The sale of this important numismatic collection would be a great loss to numismatic scholarship. It should not be simply be divided up among bidders. I encourage all readers to send letters to those responsible for the decision to sell the collection and to the named German politicians. Dr. Lucia Travaini (Milan/Rome) has a page on her website, http://www.luciatravaini.it// about the affair (click on 'Appello urgente per la collezione numismatica di Hannover,' which then takes you to a page in English with further links). You can also read her letter online.
Read more (in German) on this case at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5353032
KlausGraf - am Montag, 2. Februar 2009, 15:45 - Rubrik: English Corner
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P R E S S R E L E A S E
Utrecht, 30 January 2009
Digitisation of heritage collections comes closer
Unique agreement between libraries and right holders
Dutch libraries, archives, and museums recently reached agreement with right holders on the digitisation and accessibility of their heritage collections. The organisations representing the libraries (FOBID) and the right holders (VOI©E) reached agreement within the Digiti©E Committee (Digitisation of Cultural Heritage) that was set up when a Declaration of Intent was signed at the opening of Amsterdam World Book Capital in April 2008. The agreement is a major breakthrough in the discussion regarding the copyright aspects of digitising collections held by libraries and archives.
As far as is known, this is the first agreement of this type anywhere in the world between libraries and right holders. There is concern in many other countries too regarding how to deal with the rights of right holders who cannot be traced, i.e. the holders of rights in “orphan works”. If the arrangement that has now been accepted in the Netherlands is imitated in other European countries, it will have an enormous effect on the availability of recent works in the “Europeana” digital library.
Right holders
Libraries and archives manage large collections that are important from the cultural and historical perspective. The development of digital technology basically allows those collections to be made available to the general public via the Internet. The European Commission recently launched the “Europeana” digital library, which is hosted by the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague. The vast majority of the documents that have so far been digitised are from before the 20th century. The main reason for this limitation is that more recent works are still protected by copyright, meaning that they can only be digitised and distributed with the consent of the right holders. Tracing the right owner is a time-consuming and consequently costly process. Moreover, it often proves impossible to actually find the right owner, and so many libraries simply do not bother to try.
In their Declaration of Intent signed last April, the parties already noted that they recognised this problem and wished to cooperate in solving it; this is provided for in the recent agreement.
Essence
The essence of the agreement is that the libraries that are represented receive permission, on certain conditions, from virtually all right holders to digitise their collections and make them publically available on their own premises for teaching or research purposes. The works concerned must be part of the Dutch cultural heritage and no longer commercially available. The libraries do not need to pay the right holders as long as the works are only made available on their own premises.
Separate consent is required, however, if the digitised works are made more widely available, for example by means of remote access or via the Internet. In that case, an agreed payment must be made; agreements in principle can be made regarding payment by the Digiti©E committee. Even then, the library will not need to go in search of the right holders because this will be done by collecting societies such as Lira and Pictoright.
The organisations representing right holders will shortly be setting up a Registration Centre for digitisation where libraries and archives can register proposed projects and get in touch with right holders regarding how they should be implemented.
Individual right holders can naturally still object to their work being digitised and made accessible. In that case, the libraries and archives concerned are required to cease making the works accessible; in practice, very few titleholders actually object.
Kees Holierhoek, the chairman of the Lira copyright holders’ organisation and of the digital right holders working party, has this to say about the new agreement: “I’m very pleased about this agreement. It’s important for us that copyright should be respected, and that has been done in this case. At the same time, the agreement has done away with a major obstacle to making texts and photos accessible. Authors, freelance journalists, photographers, and publishers will all have a veto right if they do not wish to participate. If they do wish to participate, they can claim payment if their material is made accessible outside the institution’s own premises.”
Martin Bossenbroek, the acting General Director of the National Library of the Netherlands, says: “This agreement is a real breakthrough. It’s extremely good news for libraries like the National Library of the Netherlands whose core task is to manage nationally important heritage collections and make them available. The agreement regulates digitisation and the availability of digitised collections on our own premises. But that is only the first step, because we naturally want to also make the digitised collections available online. I think the real benefit of this agreement is that it shows how all the various interested parties understand one another’s positions and arguments. That constructive attitude will also make it possible to arrive at good follow-up arrangements for provision of material on the Internet.”
For more information, please go to the text of the declaration by the organisations of right holders: http://sitegenerator.bibliotheek.nl/fobid/overig29/overig50.asp
About VOI©E
VOI©E (Netherlands Association of Organisations for the Collective Management of Intellectual Property Rights) is the sector organisation that deals with copyright and neighbouring rights.
About FOBID
FOBID (Netherlands Library Forum) is the national alliance of Dutch library organisations:
• Netherlands Public Library Association;
• NVB (Netherlands Association of Professionals in the Library, Information, and Knowledge Sector);
• UKB (consortium of the thirteen Dutch university libraries);
• National Library of the Netherlands.
More information
Please contact
Michel Frequin, director of VOI©E
Tel. +31 (0)70 310 9109 or +31 (0)6 5144 2153
or
Nol Verhagen, chair of FOBID’s Legal Committee
Tel. +31 (0)20 525 2307 or +31 (0)6 1129 2816
http://www.sitegenerator.bibliotheek.nl/fobid/img/docs/DigitiCE%20Persbericht%20ENGELS.doc
Utrecht, 30 January 2009
Digitisation of heritage collections comes closer
Unique agreement between libraries and right holders
Dutch libraries, archives, and museums recently reached agreement with right holders on the digitisation and accessibility of their heritage collections. The organisations representing the libraries (FOBID) and the right holders (VOI©E) reached agreement within the Digiti©E Committee (Digitisation of Cultural Heritage) that was set up when a Declaration of Intent was signed at the opening of Amsterdam World Book Capital in April 2008. The agreement is a major breakthrough in the discussion regarding the copyright aspects of digitising collections held by libraries and archives.
As far as is known, this is the first agreement of this type anywhere in the world between libraries and right holders. There is concern in many other countries too regarding how to deal with the rights of right holders who cannot be traced, i.e. the holders of rights in “orphan works”. If the arrangement that has now been accepted in the Netherlands is imitated in other European countries, it will have an enormous effect on the availability of recent works in the “Europeana” digital library.
Right holders
Libraries and archives manage large collections that are important from the cultural and historical perspective. The development of digital technology basically allows those collections to be made available to the general public via the Internet. The European Commission recently launched the “Europeana” digital library, which is hosted by the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague. The vast majority of the documents that have so far been digitised are from before the 20th century. The main reason for this limitation is that more recent works are still protected by copyright, meaning that they can only be digitised and distributed with the consent of the right holders. Tracing the right owner is a time-consuming and consequently costly process. Moreover, it often proves impossible to actually find the right owner, and so many libraries simply do not bother to try.
In their Declaration of Intent signed last April, the parties already noted that they recognised this problem and wished to cooperate in solving it; this is provided for in the recent agreement.
Essence
The essence of the agreement is that the libraries that are represented receive permission, on certain conditions, from virtually all right holders to digitise their collections and make them publically available on their own premises for teaching or research purposes. The works concerned must be part of the Dutch cultural heritage and no longer commercially available. The libraries do not need to pay the right holders as long as the works are only made available on their own premises.
Separate consent is required, however, if the digitised works are made more widely available, for example by means of remote access or via the Internet. In that case, an agreed payment must be made; agreements in principle can be made regarding payment by the Digiti©E committee. Even then, the library will not need to go in search of the right holders because this will be done by collecting societies such as Lira and Pictoright.
The organisations representing right holders will shortly be setting up a Registration Centre for digitisation where libraries and archives can register proposed projects and get in touch with right holders regarding how they should be implemented.
Individual right holders can naturally still object to their work being digitised and made accessible. In that case, the libraries and archives concerned are required to cease making the works accessible; in practice, very few titleholders actually object.
Kees Holierhoek, the chairman of the Lira copyright holders’ organisation and of the digital right holders working party, has this to say about the new agreement: “I’m very pleased about this agreement. It’s important for us that copyright should be respected, and that has been done in this case. At the same time, the agreement has done away with a major obstacle to making texts and photos accessible. Authors, freelance journalists, photographers, and publishers will all have a veto right if they do not wish to participate. If they do wish to participate, they can claim payment if their material is made accessible outside the institution’s own premises.”
Martin Bossenbroek, the acting General Director of the National Library of the Netherlands, says: “This agreement is a real breakthrough. It’s extremely good news for libraries like the National Library of the Netherlands whose core task is to manage nationally important heritage collections and make them available. The agreement regulates digitisation and the availability of digitised collections on our own premises. But that is only the first step, because we naturally want to also make the digitised collections available online. I think the real benefit of this agreement is that it shows how all the various interested parties understand one another’s positions and arguments. That constructive attitude will also make it possible to arrive at good follow-up arrangements for provision of material on the Internet.”
For more information, please go to the text of the declaration by the organisations of right holders: http://sitegenerator.bibliotheek.nl/fobid/overig29/overig50.asp
About VOI©E
VOI©E (Netherlands Association of Organisations for the Collective Management of Intellectual Property Rights) is the sector organisation that deals with copyright and neighbouring rights.
About FOBID
FOBID (Netherlands Library Forum) is the national alliance of Dutch library organisations:
• Netherlands Public Library Association;
• NVB (Netherlands Association of Professionals in the Library, Information, and Knowledge Sector);
• UKB (consortium of the thirteen Dutch university libraries);
• National Library of the Netherlands.
More information
Please contact
Michel Frequin, director of VOI©E
Tel. +31 (0)70 310 9109 or +31 (0)6 5144 2153
or
Nol Verhagen, chair of FOBID’s Legal Committee
Tel. +31 (0)20 525 2307 or +31 (0)6 1129 2816
http://www.sitegenerator.bibliotheek.nl/fobid/img/docs/DigitiCE%20Persbericht%20ENGELS.doc
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 31. Januar 2009, 11:20 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://w.cali.org/lec
The Legal Education Commons (LEC) is the place to find and share legal education materials including syllabi, podcasts, presentations, and more. Faculty and librarians from CALI member schools can upload materials under a Creative Commons license that allows colleagues and students to find and use the materials.
The Legal Education Commons (LEC) is the place to find and share legal education materials including syllabi, podcasts, presentations, and more. Faculty and librarians from CALI member schools can upload materials under a Creative Commons license that allows colleagues and students to find and use the materials.
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 30. Januar 2009, 09:59 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
Update: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/date.html
Update: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/date.html
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009, 13:04 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009, 10:47 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Peter Hirtle wrotes in the LibraryLawBlog:
A continuing source of controversy is the desire of some archives, libraries, and museums to control through contract the downstream use of reproductions and digital files of public domain items. A number of recent news items make me wonder if there is much of a future for this common practice:
First, a working group of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science organized to address issues relating the to the use of images in scholarly research released early in January its final recommendations. While the report, "Scholarly Publishing and the Issues of Cultural Heritage: Fair Use, Reproduction Fees, and Copyrights," is concerned primarily with visual images, its conclusions would apply to all public domain archival material. Everyone should read it.
Among the many interesting recommendations for cultural institutions and scholars, perhaps the most important is the recognition that in order "to promote creative scholarship in the humanities and to foster a deeper understanding of cultural heritage, ...open access to visual sources not covered by copyright" is needed. That means that institutions should not use their ability to control access to limit non-commercial, scholarly use of public domain material.
The report also recommends that if scholars sign agreements to secure access to a public domain repository, they "must abide by the terms of use stipulated in the contract." Three relatively recent examples of users apparently ignoring the restrictions repositories attempt to place on the use of their holdings make me wonder whether there is any future for such restrictions:
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Internet Archive have announced a really interesting Mellon-funded pilot partnership to create an archival commons. As a pilot project, they are joining with the Zotero-Internet Archive New Orleans user group to develop a program in which individuals share primary source materials on New Orleans that they have collected. The announcement notes that they "are especially interested in material gathered from smaller archives in the New Orleans region that may now have limited access or even have been destroyed because of Hurricane Katrina." There is no mention in the announcement of possible limitations on use of these materials that may have been imposed by those same archives.
The Alexander Street Press has announced an expensive new digital collection on local history. The database consists of the images published in the local history books produced by Arcadia Publishing. It is quite likely that many of these images came from libraries and archives that in theory impose restrictions on downstream use, and they were provided for specific print runs. While seeking permission from authors to include their works, ASP is choosing to ignore archival ownership of the images and any restrictions on subsequent use that were imposed when reproductions were made. Instead of seeking permission (and paying additional fees), it is offering an "opt-out" program through which repositories can tell them not to include their images. (Let's hope that there are repositories that may actually own registered copyrights in some of these images. The copyright infringement fines they could secure would be substantial.)
The American Founding Era Digital Collection being offered by the University of Virginia Press is continuing to add to the digital versions of correspondence available through subscription. To the best of my knowledge, the initiative has neither contacted any of the repositories that originally provided copies of correspondence to the editorial team nor have offered to share revenues from the project. While it is possible that the original provisions of copies included permission to publish in electronic as well as print form, it is much more likely that permission was for print only (as was the case in Random House v RosettaBooks). I suspect that the project is ignoring rights accruing from physical ownership of the original material.
Given the that repository-based use restrictions are being ignored by scholars and at least two commercial products, one has to wonder what is the point of imposing them at all. Wouldn't scholarship be better-served if repositories sold reproductions for whatever the market would bear but allowed public domain material to be freely available via open access solutions? (my emphasis)
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/01/recent-news-on-open-access-to-archives.html
A continuing source of controversy is the desire of some archives, libraries, and museums to control through contract the downstream use of reproductions and digital files of public domain items. A number of recent news items make me wonder if there is much of a future for this common practice:
First, a working group of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science organized to address issues relating the to the use of images in scholarly research released early in January its final recommendations. While the report, "Scholarly Publishing and the Issues of Cultural Heritage: Fair Use, Reproduction Fees, and Copyrights," is concerned primarily with visual images, its conclusions would apply to all public domain archival material. Everyone should read it.
Among the many interesting recommendations for cultural institutions and scholars, perhaps the most important is the recognition that in order "to promote creative scholarship in the humanities and to foster a deeper understanding of cultural heritage, ...open access to visual sources not covered by copyright" is needed. That means that institutions should not use their ability to control access to limit non-commercial, scholarly use of public domain material.
The report also recommends that if scholars sign agreements to secure access to a public domain repository, they "must abide by the terms of use stipulated in the contract." Three relatively recent examples of users apparently ignoring the restrictions repositories attempt to place on the use of their holdings make me wonder whether there is any future for such restrictions:
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Internet Archive have announced a really interesting Mellon-funded pilot partnership to create an archival commons. As a pilot project, they are joining with the Zotero-Internet Archive New Orleans user group to develop a program in which individuals share primary source materials on New Orleans that they have collected. The announcement notes that they "are especially interested in material gathered from smaller archives in the New Orleans region that may now have limited access or even have been destroyed because of Hurricane Katrina." There is no mention in the announcement of possible limitations on use of these materials that may have been imposed by those same archives.
The Alexander Street Press has announced an expensive new digital collection on local history. The database consists of the images published in the local history books produced by Arcadia Publishing. It is quite likely that many of these images came from libraries and archives that in theory impose restrictions on downstream use, and they were provided for specific print runs. While seeking permission from authors to include their works, ASP is choosing to ignore archival ownership of the images and any restrictions on subsequent use that were imposed when reproductions were made. Instead of seeking permission (and paying additional fees), it is offering an "opt-out" program through which repositories can tell them not to include their images. (Let's hope that there are repositories that may actually own registered copyrights in some of these images. The copyright infringement fines they could secure would be substantial.)
The American Founding Era Digital Collection being offered by the University of Virginia Press is continuing to add to the digital versions of correspondence available through subscription. To the best of my knowledge, the initiative has neither contacted any of the repositories that originally provided copies of correspondence to the editorial team nor have offered to share revenues from the project. While it is possible that the original provisions of copies included permission to publish in electronic as well as print form, it is much more likely that permission was for print only (as was the case in Random House v RosettaBooks). I suspect that the project is ignoring rights accruing from physical ownership of the original material.
Given the that repository-based use restrictions are being ignored by scholars and at least two commercial products, one has to wonder what is the point of imposing them at all. Wouldn't scholarship be better-served if repositories sold reproductions for whatever the market would bear but allowed public domain material to be freely available via open access solutions? (my emphasis)
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/01/recent-news-on-open-access-to-archives.html
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009, 10:41 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Gloucestershire County Council is giving specialist collectors the chance to buy spare and unused books and texts that are gathering dust in the county’s libraries.
The items going on sale are either duplicates, unused and/or in poor and deteriorating condition. None of them directly relate to the county’s history or heritage. The money raised from the sale will be used to maintain and improve Gloucestershire’s library service.
The decision to sell these books has come about following a review of stock at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries.
The items are being sold by The Cotswold Auction Company, who have salerooms in Cirencester, Cheltenham and Gloucester. The sales catalogue can be viewed at www.cotswoldauction.co.uk from March 7th. The books will go on sale on March 17th at the Cheltenham saleroom, Chapel Walk. They include: - Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac (various years from 1864) - London Illustrated News (1842-1910) - Runs of antiquarian journals, e.g. Archaeologia (114 volumes) - A “Palestine Collection” of never used 19th century topological literature (350 volumes) - An “American Civil War Collection” 19th century (50 volumes).
Letters have been sent to Cheltenham and Gloucester City Museum in advance of these items appearing in the sales catalogue, so that they are aware of the opportunity to purchase these items.
Trevor Allen from Gloucestershire County Council’s Libraries & Information said: “All of these books and texts are either duplicates, unused or in a poor condition. They are taking up space in Gloucester and Cheltenham library and even though the items are listed on the public catalogue, very few people, if any in most cases, are getting any use or pleasure out of them.
http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/4071496.Books_set_to_find_loving_home/
The items going on sale are either duplicates, unused and/or in poor and deteriorating condition. None of them directly relate to the county’s history or heritage. The money raised from the sale will be used to maintain and improve Gloucestershire’s library service.
The decision to sell these books has come about following a review of stock at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries.
The items are being sold by The Cotswold Auction Company, who have salerooms in Cirencester, Cheltenham and Gloucester. The sales catalogue can be viewed at www.cotswoldauction.co.uk from March 7th. The books will go on sale on March 17th at the Cheltenham saleroom, Chapel Walk. They include: - Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac (various years from 1864) - London Illustrated News (1842-1910) - Runs of antiquarian journals, e.g. Archaeologia (114 volumes) - A “Palestine Collection” of never used 19th century topological literature (350 volumes) - An “American Civil War Collection” 19th century (50 volumes).
Letters have been sent to Cheltenham and Gloucester City Museum in advance of these items appearing in the sales catalogue, so that they are aware of the opportunity to purchase these items.
Trevor Allen from Gloucestershire County Council’s Libraries & Information said: “All of these books and texts are either duplicates, unused or in a poor condition. They are taking up space in Gloucester and Cheltenham library and even though the items are listed on the public catalogue, very few people, if any in most cases, are getting any use or pleasure out of them.
http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/4071496.Books_set_to_find_loving_home/
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2009, 09:58 - Rubrik: English Corner
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