http://www.ekslibris.com/

39. PLUTARCHUS. Moralia. Opuscula (quae quidem extant) omnia,
undequaque collecta, & diligentissime iampridem recognita (Various
translators). Basel: Andreas Cratander, September 1530. $4500
Folio, [18], 249, [1] leaves; Cratander's woodcut device designed by Hans
Holbein the Younger on title and last leaf [see Christian Müller, Hans Holbein. Die
Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, No. 128]; numerous ornamental initials
from several Holbein alphabets [Müller, nos. 146, 148, and 153]; first page of text
(A1r) within Holbein's 'Bauerntanz' metal-cut border [Müller, no. 43], with the
upper section repeated on fol. Ff1r, and the lower on Kk3v and Nn4v; several
wood- and metal-cut headpieces, including the 'Bacchanal' by Hans Franck on
fol. Tt2r.
BOUND AFTER:
LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caelius Firmianus. Divinarum institutionum libri VII.
De ira Dei liber I. De opificio Dei liber I, etc. Basel: A. Cratander & J. Bebel, January
1532. [10], 149, [1] leaves. Cratander's woodcut printer's device on title, with
Bebel's at the end, both designed by Hans Holbein the Younger [Müller, nos. 128
and 131]; numerous woodcut initials, mostly from Holbein's 'Kinderalphabet'
[Müller, no. 157]; first page of text (a1r) within Holbein's 'Bauerntanz' metal-cut
border [Müller, no. 43]. The two works bound together in contemporary panelled
calf, covers with two ornamental blind tooled borders with gilt ornamental
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fleuron tools stamped at corners, central floral tool at center; gilt stamped
monogram 'TASEA' on upper cover, paper label to spine. Early ownership
inscription on front pastedown of P[hilip] Tengnagel and on the first title-page
(Lactantius) is the ownership signature of Gregorius Tengnagell; on the second
title-page (Plutarch) is the ownership inscription "Swallembergi et amicorum"
[see below]; small stamp of the Donaueschingen Library (faded) in lower margin
of Lactantius title-page and verso, as well on the last leaf of Plutarch; early
marginalia in both works; early two-line vertical titling on fore-margins: 'LACT.
PLV/TARC.' some binding wear. PROVENANCE: Philip and Gregory
Tengnagel were both lawyers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the
scattered marginal annotations in both works are presumably in their hands. The
Tengnagel library was left to the Court Library at Donaueschingen (see above).
The stamp 'TASEA' on the front cover, in combination with the inscription on the
title-page of the Plutarch ("Swallembergi et amicorum") may be interpreted to
stand for "Tengnagel ad Swallembergem et amicos".
Fine copy in its original binding of two important classical editions, both
handsomely decorated with elements from the work of Hans Holbein the
Younger.
I. Third, but hitherto most complete Latin edition of Plutarch's Moralia, in the
versions by the greatest lights of Renaissance humanism, including Poliziano,
Guarino, Erasmus, Budé, Pirkheymer, Melanchthon, et al.
This Basel edition incorporates for the first time several new translations by
Erasmus and Ottmar Nachtigall (Luscinius, 1487-1537), which the first two
editions (printed in Paris by Badius, 1514 and 1526) did not include.
The texts were edited by Cratander himself, whose preface to the reader,
dated September 1530, bemoans the decline of classical education. To contribute
to the revival of the culture Cratander states that he has set out to print the best
texts of Greek and Roman antiquity, including these famous essays of Plutarch,
in the purest Latin versions available; among these he singles out those of
Erasmus, several of which are here added for the first time.
II. First folio Cratander edition (preceded by two smaller format quartos in
1521 and 1524) of the works of the Christian apologist Lactantius (c. 240-c. 320),
the elegance of whose style made him a favorite author of the Renaissance and
earned him the title 'Christian Cicero.'
This edition includes a 9-page appendix consisting of a glossary of all Greek
terms found in the works of Lactantius.
§ Plutarchus: VD 16, P 3676; Hieronymus, Griechischer Geist aus Basler Pressen,
no. 95; Lactantius: VD 16, L 40.

See also
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=tengnagel+donaueschingen&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

http://ivrla.ucd.ie/ivrla10/main.html

Contains in the field of digitized books one XVIIIth century latin book and some titles from the XIXth century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Excerpt:

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

The Times said the project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying subscribers — out of 787,000 over all — and generating about $10 million a year in revenue.

“But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low, compared to the growth of online advertising,” said Vivian L. Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of the site, NYTimes.com.

What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYTimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/deathdates.html

See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3537378/

http://www.kgbdocuments.eu

The idea for this project was born a long time ago but was not finalised until 2006, when historians from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania met in Vilnius. The project aimed to make public KGB documents from the years of the occupation of the three countries.

There were more motives to prepare an online site. First of all, historians from the three countries have always been annoyed by Russian propaganda that there had never been any occupation of any of the three Baltic States. Many historians were tired of getting into polemics with allegedly non-partisan Russian print and broadcast media representatives on the subject. The more so that later the historians’ arguments were presented out of context, and separate comments were used according to the strict scenario useful to Moscow’s propaganda.

Another reason for the appearance of the site was to give students, historians, and all those who were interested, more possibilities to research KGB archives. One more important reason was the appearance of memoirs of KGB workers and their supporters in recent years. The authors of these reminiscences not only tried to whitewash their reputations, but also clearly rewrote modern history. In their publications, they called KGB workers true patriots, and portrayed dissidents, partisans, their messengers and their families as dunces who did not know why or what they were fighting for, and, even more, most of them were portrayed as common criminals. What information does the site www.kgbdocuments.eu carry?

First of all, it will be possible to read about the structure and work of the NKVD–NKGB–MGB–KGB in the Baltic States. Then, there are documents of different KGB departments, which show the differences in their work in the countries. All the documents, scanned from the originals, have descriptions. It will be possible to find them by name, place and date, KGB department, title of the document, and so on.

The descriptions are in English and Russian.

Visitors to the site will find news and articles about research into the work of the KGB.

Via
http://archieven.blogspot.com/2007/09/kgb-documenten-online.html

BL imposes bizarre copyright restrictions:

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=543

We are trapped in this Alice-in-Wonderland where the librarians are there to stop us reading public works. A Fahrenheit2007 where publishers make their living by preventing people reading articles. Where dissemination of public information is a heinous crime.

Source:
http://www.stipak.com/hageman/williambrown/IMG/DarthVadar.jpg

via library mistress:
Hansell Cook: "Librarians and Archivists, Archivists and Librarians: What's the Connection?". In: Feliciter 51 (2005) 2, S. 69 - 71
Michèle Battisti, Henri Zuber, Bernadette Ferchaud, Jean-Michel Rauzier: "One profession, several specialties : archivist, librarian, documentalist, convergence and differences". In: Documentaliste: Sciences de l'Information 42 (2005) 1, S. 48 - 57
Timothy J. Johnson: "Making It to the Major Leagues: Career Movement between Library and Archival Professions and from Small College to Large University Libraries". In: Library Trends 50 (2002) 4, S. 614
J. D'Orleans: The status of archivists in relation to other information professionals in the public service in Africa. Paris: UNESCO 1985 (Report No. ED 257 476)

http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2007/0705/0705vie2.cfm

By Joseph M. Turrini

Abstract:

Archivists, historians, and librarians have for decades disagreed about the appropriate placement of archival education in the university. Whether archivists should be trained in history departments or in library science schools has been a source of significant conflict and acrimonious debate. This unsettled quarrel resulted in two different educational tracks that persist to this day. Changes in the archival profession and in the academy, however, now appear to be accomplishing what the professional debates failed to achieve. Recent developments suggest that the archival profession, at one time dominated by history department graduates, will be staffed by library science graduates in the near future. Given the current trends, a more relevant question might now be: Can history-based archival programs survive in the changing archival environment?