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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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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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Managing quasi-domesticity at the roadside: Postwar female moteliers and the space of reinvention
For postwar travelers, the motel offered a convenient lodging option for a newly mobile nation looking for contemporary, relaxed and auto-friendly places to rest. In response to travelers' needs, the motel industry flourished; between 1946 and 1957 the number of motels in the United States almost tripled, growing from around...Rodway, Cara
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Complicating the story of popular science: John Maynard Smith’s 'Little Penguin' on The Theory of Evolution
Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). Linking them to the state of evolutionary...Piel, Helen
popular science, science communication, Neo-Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and John Maynard Smith
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Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
West, Geoffrey
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Colecciones latinoamericanas especiales – colecciones desconocidas en el Reino Unido
El portal del "National Register of Archives" (http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/) brinda acceso a muchos materiales de posible interés para investigadores sobre Iberoamérica, aunque su enfoque lo constituyen los documentos relacionados estrictamente con la historia del Reino Unido y con personajes británicos. Desafortunadamente, no permite la búsqueda por materia; los índices están basados...West, Geoffrey ; Cazzasa, Julio ; Millum, Danny ; Topp Fargion, Janet
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Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Torres-García: dos artistas uruguayos y la vanguardia en Cataluña
West, Geoffrey
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Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Catálogo colectivo y bibliografía de impresos iberoamericanos hasta 1850: los fondos de las bibliotecas británicas
West, Geoffrey
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The best Spanish library out of Spain. El ideal de Panizzi, ayer y hoy
West, Geoffrey
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Los libros que fueron de la Biblioteca de Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Accident or by design. How and why did the British (Museum) Library acquire its holdings of Basque printed books?
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Más sobre los manuscritos de Frederick William Cosens
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía. Handmade Books from Cuba 1985-2007
West, Geoffrey
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El fondo vasco de E.S. Dodgson de la British Library: su identificación y catalogación
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts of Frederick William Cosens (1819-89)
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía: handmade books from Cuba
West, Geoffrey
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The British Library’s collection of Basque books: whose were they and how did they get there?
West, Geoffrey
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Los fondos vascos de la British Library: indagaciones sobre su procedencia
West, Geoffrey
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La adquisición del Amadís de Gaula, Libros I-IV (Zaragoza, 1508) por el Museo Británico
West, Geoffrey
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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