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{"title":"Saved from 'Oblivion': The Organization and Management of the Douce Collection at the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, 1834–1934","authors":"J. Topper","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.183","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is an historical survey of the organization and management of the Francis Douce Collection at the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, from its bequest in 1834 to the Douce Centenary Exhibition. Though certain portions of the bequest were overlooked during the first Douce catalogue project, Bodleian and Ashmolean administrators and staff brought this large, diverse collection into order by 1934 with invaluable assistance from local and visiting scholars, both paid and volunteer, from undergraduate assistants, and from their counterparts at the British Museum. They laid a broad foundation for subsequent catalogue-projects and management decisions involving the Douce bequest. In the absence of a comprehensive digital library and online-catalogue for the Douce Collection, knowledge of its physical arrangement and catalogue accessibility remains essential to researchers and research facilitators.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"183 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Common Roots of Library and Museum in the Sixteenth Century: The Example of Munich","authors":"Franz Georg Ialtwasser","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.163","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the sixteenth century, big libraries developed in close affinity with Kunstkammern (cabinets of curiosities, art cabinets) and collections of antiques from the private study chambers, the so-called studioli, of the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century popes, dukes and humanist scholars. Within the scope of the art policy pursued by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, this development gained particular importance in Munich. At first, a close connection based on the study of antiquity was established between the court library and the collection of antiques by the Antiquarium, a separate Renaissance building which at the end of the sixteenth century on its upper floor housed the library comprising 17,000 volumes in a hall which was 60 metres long. When this building was used for different purposes, the library moved to another building next to the newly constructed building for the Kunstkammer, with which it was interconnected by an archway mirroring the close connection between these two institutions functionally as well. The common encyclopaedic concept uniting both the Kunstkammer and the library had been developed by Samuel Quichelberg from the material example set by the two collections in Munich and published in 1565 with Adam Berg in Inscriptiones vel tituli theatri amplissimi |...|, also known as Theatrum Quicchebergi. This was the beginning of museology in Germany. The Munich example is representative of the common development of museum and library in theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"163 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early British Public Library Annual Reports: Then and Now Part I","authors":"G. Peatling, C. Baggs","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.223","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Of the 566 library authorities functioning in Britain and Ireland by 1918, most seem to have published annual reports on their progress, at least at some point following their establishment. So far as they survive and can be traced, these documents, though varying greatly in length, commonly contain a narrative or textual commentary on the progress of the institutions during the report period, statistical and tabular details about the institutions such as information regarding stock, issues, and borrowers, and lists of data such as committee members, donations received and periodicals taken. Some published annual reports documenting the working of public libraries also contain data as to the progress of allied cultural institutions such as museums, art galleries, technical and adult education facilities, and parks and recreation grounds. They were often signed by the local public library committee chairman and addressed to a local council, although some were signed by a librarian or curator and addressed to the library or other committee. In both cases they were accessible to members of the public, and it seems fair to assume that the staff of the institution concerned would commonly have had a hand in their writing. Following the acquisition by the Thomas Parry Library at the University of Wales Aberystwyth of a large collection of historic public library annual reports which the Library Association was on the verge of discarding, the AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) agreed to fund a fifteen-month project between April 2000 and July 2001 to examine the utility of these documents to historians of the period ca. 1850–1919. In view of the lack of thematic historical work on public library annual reports (and indeed on annual reports as a wider genre), this two-part essay will address the genesis and character of these documents from a broad perspective, and assess their impact and significance for contemporaries and for historians in a range of disciplines. After describing the evolution of the public library annual report as a genre, this first paper will discuss the nature of their use to date, and will argue that current common historiographical assumptions as to the limited utility of these documents are flawed. The second paper will assess the value and contemporary importance of the documents in the expansion of the public library movement.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"223 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Books and Libraries in German Micronesia 1885–1914","authors":"D. Spennemann","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper will review what is known about public and private libraries in Micronesia during the period of the German colonial administration in the Marshall Islands (1886–1914) and the rest of Micronesia (1898–1914) with the exception of Guam. In the following we will briefly address the nature of public libraries in the German colonies in Africa and the Samoa:J before we concentrate on the situation in Micronesia.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"207 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.3.207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Don't Have a Library Rate Thrust Upon You': The Libraries Acts Debate in Whitby, 1878","authors":"John Webster","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.117","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the doomed attempt to adopt the Libraries Acts in Whitby in I878. Comparatively few detailed accounts of the actual debates through which the ratepayers of Victorian Britain decided whether to adopt the Acts have been published. Whitby's stormy free library debate cut across religious and political affiliations. The deciding factor in the town's decision to reject the adoption of the Acts appears to have been class. Whitby's shrinking and almost exclusively male elite were predominantly in favour of adoption, whereas the majority of Whitby's broader middle classes (including most women) and its working-class ratepayers remained unconvinced. The free library supporters were more organized, comparatively more eloquent and generally more principled. Nevertheless, they were defeated largely over the single issue of the cost of providing something mainly perceived by Whitby's ratepayers as an unnecessary luxury. By examining the people involved, and looking at what they said and did in some detail, this paper on the Libraries Acts debate in Whitby uncovers how a fundamental educational and cultural battle was fought out in the past. It shows how different people in a declining British industrial town saw themselves, and outlines the different things they considered to be important in their society. The debate demonstrates graphically that in a climate of economic and industrial decline, arguments in favour of free public provision of services for the whole community can be decisively rejected by the public.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"19 1","pages":"117 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65633907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humphrey Chetham 1580–1653: fortune, politics and mercantile culture in seventeenth-century England","authors":"I. Green","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"154 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vsemirnaia istoriia bibliotek ['World history of libraries']","authors":"P. Hoare","doi":"10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"147 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Libraries to the people: histories of outreach","authors":"Christine Pawley","doi":"10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.150","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"150 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Foreign-language printing in London 1500–1900","authors":"D. Stoker","doi":"10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"151 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/LIB.2004.20.2.151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725) of Leeds, Books and Libraries","authors":"P. Morrish","doi":"10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.83","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reworks a presidential lecture delivered to the Thoresby Society, Leeds, on 22 March 2003. It examines how Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725), bibliophile and antiquary, acquired, borrowed and lent books, and visited and used libraries and archives in connection with his study of the history of Leeds and district. It also examines how he managed his own collection of books and manuscripts. Despite his domicile in Leeds he was not isolated from intellectual activity in London or elsewhere. It notes, finally, the failure of local society to capitalize on his book-collecting, and the eventual dispersal of his collection.","PeriodicalId":81856,"journal":{"name":"Library history","volume":"20 1","pages":"83 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/lib.2004.20.2.83","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65634285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}