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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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The sociability of scientific knowledge exchange in British Farming, 1950-90
This is a single chapter from an edited collection that has the following abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural...Horrocks, Sally ; Martin, John ; Merchant, Paul
agrciculture, food, and farming
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Blue Heritage Among Fishermen of Mafia Island, Tanzania
Off the South-East coast of Tanzania, at the mouth of the Rufiji River, lies the Mafia archipelago. This chapter explores the concept of blue heritage by showing how the fishermen of Mafia have altered their language, perception of time and sense of community to include the sea and its animals....de Haan, Mariam
ethnography, Rufiji River, Tanzania, whale sharks, fishing communities, fishing, Mafia archipelago, and fish
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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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Library partnerships in an age of openness
Librarians are strong collaborators. As we move toward the “next normal,” partnerships and collaboration will play an even larger role. In our post-pandemic world, what does “open” mean in terms of access to libraries, their staff, and their services? National libraries, for example, are still, to some extent, fixed in...Jolly, Liz
public libraries, collaboration, hybrid digital, open libraries, COVID-19 and libraries, library partnerships, national libraries, British Library, library mission, and access
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Textiles
Garside, Paul
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The role of fibre identification in textile conservation
Accurate identification of fibres is vital to textile conservators. Such knowledge, in conjunction with an understanding of the properties and usage of textile materials, will inform conservation, display and storage strategies. It may further help to annotate biographical detail concerning the origins of the textile and related history. Microscopy has...Garside, P.
textile conservation, fibre identification, fibre microscopy, and fibre spectroscopy
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Rinpoche, Lama Chime Radha
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“Existentialist Hu-ha”?: Censoring the Existentialists in the British Theater
This chapter will look at the censorship of playwrights associated with existentialist thinking in the British theater, from the opening up of the London stage to French writers after the Second World War to the end of theater censorship in Britain with the passing of the Theatres Act 1968. Consideration...Andrews, Jamie
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How we got here
Wilson, Daniel C.S.
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Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval
In this half-day tutorial, we will review the basic concepts of, methods for, and applications of geographic information retrieval, also showing some possible applications in fields such as the digital humanities. The tutorial is organized in four parts. First we introduce some basic ideas about geography, and demonstrate why text...Leidner, Jochen ; Martins, Bruno ; McDonough, Katherine ; Purves, Ross
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Music and Print
This chapter surveys some of the major trends in music printing and publishing from the fifteenth century to the present day. From Ottaviano Petrucci's introduction of triple‐impression printing for polyphonic music in the sixteenth century to the global marketing of music in modern times, the history of music in print...Ridgewell, Rupert
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Artaria
Austrian firm of music publishers. It was founded in Mainz in 1765 and by 1768 was operating in Vienna, where it became the first important music publishing firm in the city.Weinmann, Alexander
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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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Maps, Knowledge and Resilience: Application of ArcGIS in Building Small Islands’ Resilience to Climate Change
Small, low-lying islands are one of the most vulnerable social-ecological systems to climate change. Inundation caused by storm surges and sea level rise makes habitability a serious concern for islanders. This chapter explores how co-production of knowledge through a collaborative local and scientific inquiry could contribute to small islands’ resilience... -
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Leadership for Change
Leaders, people who have a vision and the ability to empower others to make the necessary changes to transform the vision into reality, are in the business of change management by definition. Bringing about change is inherent in leadership, and managing change is an essential leadership skill. Leaders are often...Déri, Andrea
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Leadership for Change: How to Develop Personal Skills for Change
Force-field analysis of decentralisation in The Gambia Rationale The force-field analysis helps in visualising the opposing forces in a situation. It can assist in identifying the current balance between forces that help in moving towards the goal and forces that are a hindrance in reaching it. The visual representation of...Déri, Andrea
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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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The West Bank and East Jerusalem Archaeological Database: Narratives of Archaeology and Archaeological Practices
Since their occupation in 1967, the West Bank and East Jerusalem have been subject to extensive archaeological surveys and excavations, carried out mostly by Israeli archaeologists. Data on thousands of surveyed and excavated archaeological sites has been compiled into one comprehensive source of information, the West Bank and East Jerusalem...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
survey methodology, database, Israel/Palestine, GIS, West Bank and East Jerusalem Archaeological Database, and WBEJAD
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Russian revolutionaries in London, 1853-70: Alexander Herzen and the free Russian press
The opening passage of the section of Alexander Herzen's memoirs which describes his life in Britain reads: 'When at daybreak on the 25th August 1852, I passed along a wet plank on to the shore of England and looked at its dirty white promontories, I was very far from imagining...Rahman, Kate Sealey
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Early Italian printing in London
Despite the statement by the author Petruccio Ubaldini in the preface to the second edition of his Life of Charlemagne, Vita di Carlo Magno, printed in London by G. Wolfio, that is to say John Wolf, in 1581 (British Library pressmark G.9987) that this was the first book in Italian...Reidy, Denis V.
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Poetry and polemics: the Polish book trade in London, 1836-67
When invited to participate in the seminar on foreign printing in London, I had no idea of the wealth of Polish material to be studied and the many fascinating themes which would emerge. Initially, I experienced some disappointment at how little material in Polish had been printed in London before...Zmroczek, Janet
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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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Printers, publishers and proletarians: some aspects of German book trades in nineteenth-century London
To come to the history of German book trades in nineteenth-century London with any preconceptions is to see those preconceptions, if not dashed, then strangely distorted. Knowing that by the late nineteenth century Germans formed London's biggest immigrant community, with a wide range of clubs, societies and religious and educatiorial...Reed, Susan
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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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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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A king's last days: true and false memoirs of Louis XVI's valet
In the 1790s English society enjoyed the frisson of horror at events across the Channel. There were of course more serious concerns over the war with France, the high price of food and, among the upper classes, fears that Republicanism would spread to England. Emigres crowded into London. In such...Daniels, Morna
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The beginnings of Hungarian printing in London
Cultural contacts between Hungary and England go back to the second half of the sixteenth century, a time when visitors' interests and preoccupations already varied considerably. As Protestant clergymen or theologians, Hungarians studied in Wittenberg and Heidelberg and arrived in England via Leiden. Their peregrinations included London, Oxford, and Cambridge,...Guzner, Bridget
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Dutch printing in London. I. A survey. II. The strange case of Double-Dutch double vision: bilingual pamphlets of 1615
Printing in Dutch arose in London following the persecution of Protestants in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Britain in general and London in particular, then as now, became a place of refuge for the exiles. These refugees then clung together for mutual support, they created their own...Simoni, Anna E. C.
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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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Fat truck tyres: the notebook as relay
Bury, Stephen
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George III and his geographical collection
Barber, Peter
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Words in Process: Arc Editions
An account of the book artists associated with Arc Editions, a London-based collective who emerged from the artist's book press Circle PressPrice, Richard
book arts, artist's books, typography, poetry, and fine arts
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New York
The skyscraper profile of New York was inspirational for the European avant garde, who equated New York with modernity. It was also a refuge for European artists and writers fleeing First World War conscription or, later, Nazism and Stalinism. They mixed with the New York avant garde both there and...Holden, Carole
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Space: changing the boundaries
This chapter considers developments in collaborative approaches to the enhancement of academic library space. Brophy defined the purpose of the academic library as follows: Academic libraries are here to enable and enhance learning in all its forms – whether it be the learning of a first year undergraduate coming to...Jolly, Liz
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Éditions bilingues de textes espagnols’
Taylor, Barry
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Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books
Taylor, Barry
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Gaywaves: transcending boundaries - the rise and demise of Britain's first gay radio program
At the beginning of 1982, an array of conflicting forces was working to shape the landscape of Europe’s metropolitan radio services, and to alternatively control, commodify or liberate its gay communities.1 This paper examines the drivers, which inspired Gaywaves, a nascent weekly gay community radio program broadcasting to an inner...Wilson, Paul ; Linfoot, Matthew
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Rock-cut Buddhist Monasteries of the Southern Konkan
Whilst many rock-cut Buddhist monasteries in Maharashtra have been documented in detail, those located in the southern Konkan have not been published. Between the second century BCE and the fourth century CE several monasteries were cut close to the western edge of the Western Ghats mountains to the south of...Rees, Gethin
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The contributions of family and local historians to British history online
Community history projects across Britain have collected and created images, indexes and transcriptions of historical documents ranging from newspaper articles and photographs, to wills and biographical records. Based on analysis of community- and institutionally-led participatory history sites, and interviews with family and local historians, this chapter discusses common models for...Ridge, Mia
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Tractarian theology in verse and sermon
This chapter explores the role of poetry and sermons in propagating Tractarian theological ideas. The use of these two distinct genres was closely connected to the principle of reserve, a theory of knowledge holding that religious truth ought to be conveyed in accordance with the recipient’s ability to receive it....Boneham, John
biblical commentaries, sermons, Tracts for the Times, reserve, poetry, and preaching
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Isaac Williams and Welsh Tractarian theology
An important and often neglected aspect of Oxford Movement’s effect on the world beyond Oxford can be seen in the extent of its influence in Wales. Although historians have tended to dismiss the significance of Welsh Tractarianism, claiming that it was merely an English movement which had little effect on...Boneham, John
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Digital sources in Europe for African history
There are copious resources for the study of African history on the internet. They include manuscripts and documentary archives, maps, museum collections, newspapers, printed books, picture collections, and sound and moving images. The websites of European institutions provide a good proportion of this content, reflecting the long, entangled, and troubled... -
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A history of the Arabic language and the origin of non-dominant varieties of Arabic
To comprehend how Arabic became a pluricentric language, we need to navigate through its rich history. In this paper, I focus on three stages in the development of Arabic: Classical Arabic, Middle Arabic and Modern Arabic. I explain how the fate of Arabic was permanently sealed in the Classical period...Aboelezz, Mariam
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'Columen Vitae': pharmaceutical packaging, 1750-1850
Medical products, predominantly sold by newspaper and book printers, became the most heavily advertised branded good throughout the eighteenth century. Proprietary medicines were big business and so counterfeits were rife; protecting the brand was crucial. Proprietors aimed to convince consumers of the medicine’s authenticity, its reliability and, on occasion, its...Basford, Jennifer
promotional material, branding, material culture, proprietary medicines, and eighteenth century