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Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed Collections
Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. These essays explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library and cast new light on the individuals whose personal...Mandelbrote, Giles ; Taylor, Barry
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Microforms in Libraries: the Untapped Resource? Papers given at the National Preservation Office Conference held 13-15 October 1992 in Birmingham
Why hold a national conference on microfonns in libraries? (It was not, many told us, the most exciting subject for a two day debate). Since the late eighties, the National Preservation Office has been coordinating a national microfilming programme generously funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation of New York....British Library National Preservation Office
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Piecing Together the Jigsaw: the framework for a national preservation strategy for libraries and archives. Proceedings of the National Preservation Office Conference 18-20 September 1995, York
The National Preservation Office (NPO) conferences have gained a reputation for their wide-ranging topics. their sincere attempt to address issues which can be at times difficult to 'pin down', and their down-to-earth approach. Such was the case with the 1995 conference 'Piecing together the jigsaw: the framework for a national...National Preservation Office
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Foreign-Language Printing in London 1500-1900
The fourteen essays in this volume represent the first systematic attempt to document and to analyse the tradition of foreign language printing in London during the period 1500 to 1900. The surveys and case studies use a variety of approaches to document and describe this particular aspect of London printing...Taylor, Barry
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Guide to the National Reference Library of Science and Innovation
This Guide outlines the scope, contents and layout of the National Reference Library of Science and Invention and describes its various aids, services and practices. It is, however, only a brief guide and it cannot give all the details which those who intend to use the Library extensively might find...National Reference Library of Science and Invention
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Publications proscribed by the Government of India: a catalogue of the collections in the India Office Library and Records and the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library Reference Division
The books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, handbills and posters proscribed by the British government in India are an invaluable printed archive for the study of the Indian freedom struggle during its last four crucial decades from the 1910s to the 1940s. As such they also constitute perhaps one of the largest...Shaw, Graham ; Lloyd, Mary
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A Hand-list of the Manuscripts in Burmese Collection in the British Library
This list contains about 1000 manuscripts from Myanmar (Burma) in the British Library originating from the British Museum collections, and contains not only manuscripts in Burmese but also Shan, Mon, and Arakanese. All items are identified and described based upon a physical examination of the manuscripts, and a collation of...British Library
Pali manuscripts, palm leaf manuscripts, Myanmar, and folding books
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Quality Assurance Guide for the UK Web Archive: An introduction to reviewing the quality of archived websites through ACT
This guidebook contains strategies that can be used to support Quality Assurance (QA) undertaken with the UK Web Archive’s Annotation Curation Tool (ACT). The guide has several aims: to provide an introduction to web archiving generally and to the UK Web Archive in particular; to provide hints and tips on...Bingham, Nicola ; Byrne, Helena
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India Office Library (IOL) Burmese Manuscripts in the British Library
This IOL Burmese manuscript catalogue covers the numbers of Mss Burmese 73-212 (with many inexplicable gaps).British Library
palm leaf manuscripts, Myanmar, folding books, Mon language, and India Office Library
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The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination
William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how...Billingsley, Naomi
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