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Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books
Taylor, Barry
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The Satow Collection of Japanese Books in the British Library: its history and significance
The aim of this article is to outline the history and importance of the collection of Japanese books which were acquired by the British Museum from the diplomat and scholar Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) and which passed to the stewardship of the British Library on its creation in 1973....Todd, Hamish
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Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection
This chapter discusses the open access digitisation programme undertaken by Living with Machines, exploring the range of constraints that inform digitisation strategies and selection priorities. Because the landscape of digitised newspaper collections is so complex, and research and digitisation processes operate on different timelines, we have focused on opportunities to...Tolfo, Giorgia ; Vane, Olivia ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
interdisciplinarity, digitised newspaper collections, digital corpus, research workflows, and digitisation strategy
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Digital Comics and Critical Librarianship: What, Why and How: A Perspective from the UK
Digital comics are at the cutting edge of how imaginative, immediate, and emotionally engaging stories can be told in the twenty-first century. The creators of digital comics harness new and emerging technologies to create and distribute innovative forms of storytelling. The ways digital comics are created, published, and consumed means...Gebhart, Thomas
webcomics, critical librarianship, collection development, digital comics, and web archiving
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UK Non-Print Legal Deposit: From Regulations to Review
Legal deposit is the statutory requirement for any publisher to deposit a copy of their publications with designated libraries. It plays a critical role in ensuring preservation of the nation’s cultural heritage by allowing systematic collection of the published output. It is the record of human memory, creativity and discovery...Arnold-Stratford, Linda ; Ovenden, Richard
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Part II: Sub-Area Lower J
The paved courtyard of the cultic complex of Levels J-2 and J-3 was first excavated by the University of Chicago in the late 1930s (Fig. 2.4). The pavement was preserved in three segments: Locus 4118 in the central part of the complex, Locus 4064 in the southern part, and Locus...Keinan, Adi
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Scandinavian printing in London in the eighteenth century and its social background
A mere twenty-five items in Scandinavian languages have so far been identified as printed in London during the eighteenth century. Nine of these are in Danish, published between 1705 and 1793; one is in Icelandic, printed in 1788; while the rest are ephemera in Swedish that appeared during the years...Hogg, Peter
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Greek printing in England, 1500-1900. 1. A survey. II. Stephanos Xenos, a Greek publisher in nineteenth-century London
Unlike Venice, Florence, or Paris, London has never been one of the major centres of Greek printing. The vast majority of Greek books printed in England during this period were devoted to the classical Greek writers, the Bible, the Church Fathers, Church history or religious controversy. There were, however, two...Michaelides, Chris
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Italian printing in London 1553-1900
Although the number of books published in London in the Italian language over the course of the 350 years of this survey (1553 - the date of the appearance of the first book in Italian - and the end of the nineteenth century) is substantial, as revealed by a preliminary...Parkin, Stephen
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