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Conference paper (unpublished)
The British Library Philatelic Collections 1998 to 2005
This Paper is the third in a series that has reported to the Society and the philatelic world on the activities of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The first was given on 1st December, 1988 by my predecessor R F “Bob” Schoolley-West FRPSL and the second I gave on 9th...Beech, David R.
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The epic unwriting of Empire: a case study. Khlebnikov -nash edinstvennyi poet-epik XX veka
I was discussing with a friend the problems I was having in introducing my topic or theme. The friend in question is one of the artists who has been working on the film which I will show later. He had read through my text, which was, I thought, mainly finished,...Chadwick, Brian
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How to look after your Collection - A basic guide
Many philatelists understand that they are the guardians of the material in their collections for themselves and for future owners. It is unfortunate when some collectors show a disregard for looking after their collection and dismiss comment with a remark like “it will be OK in my life time”. It...Beech, David R.
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The Time of Place: Louis-Sebastien Mercier and the hours of the day
I was recently reading The White Cities, Joseph Roth’s reports from France, 1925–1939, when, amongst many other moments, I was struck by the following passage: The manufacturers have their villas on the other side of the Rhône. That’s where the workers live – not in villas, alas, but in tenements....Shaw, Matthew J.
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The sound of artists' books
Artists’ books – any books – are capable of sound, whether dropped, as in Keith Godard’s otherwise text-less and image-less Sounds (1972), or, fluttering noisily, drying out, in the chill spring wind, on the monastery roof in Sergo Paradjanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates (1969).Bury, Stephen
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Structuring curatorial responsibilities to incorporate sabbaticals, research etc
A.W. Pollard, a keeper of printed books at the British Museum at the beginning of last century and an important Shakespearean scholar in his own right, remarked that one of the incentives to his career as a published writer was the low pay of the curator. So the simple way...Bury, Stephen
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The AI will see you now
There are serious concerns about the rise of automation and robots taking our jobs. But AI entering the workplace also presents a unique opportunity to rethink how we live and work. Are we headed for a utopia in which intelligent machines do many tasks, enabling us to spend more time...Clayton, Naomi ; Grimes, Keith ; Hester, Helen ; Moore, Phoebe V ; Ojanpera, Sanna
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Bibliographic records as 'Big Data': seeking harmony in music metadata
The collaborative research project ‘A Big Data History of Music’ draws on a disparate array of music catalogues created over nearly two centuries. During that time, many different cataloguing rules have existed; national and international standards have developed for cataloguing printed materials, and, in many countries, separate protocols established for...Tuppen, Sandra