Special Collections of Printed Music in the Digital Archive of the National Library of Estonia

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Heidi Heinmaa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archive ◽  
National Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Printed Music

Retour à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Bélaval
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
General Public ◽  
Storage Conditions ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Reference Library ◽  
National Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
System A ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Reservation System

The decision in July 1988 to build a new library in Paris has been the starting point of a deep change in every field of activity for the French national library, which combines the old Bibliothèque nationale in the Rue de Richelieu with the Bibliothèque de France in Tolbiac in what is now known as the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The collections will be divided between two sites: the Rue de Richelieu building will retain the special collections, in improved storage conditions and with better access; while the printed and audiovisual collections are being transferred to the new building at Tolbiac between the end of 1996 and the end of 1998. 370,000 books will be acquired specially to fill gaps in previously neglected areas such as law, economics and science. A new OPAC, due for completion in 1998, will provide access to merged files of the BnF, including 4.5 million converted records from the old hand-written catalogue. Next to the research reading rooms, which are for registered users only, will be ten reading rooms open to the general public for a fee, which will have 380,000 books on open access. The OPAC will be accessible remotely, as will the seat and book reservation system. A new preservation centre has been built in Marne-la-Vallée, 20 km east of Paris; there is a special emphasis on deacidification. There are two digitization programmes, for 100,000 texts and 300,000 pictures; negotiation is taking place with copyright holders. Experimental access to several bibliographic databases and digitized collections is already proving successful. The new reference library in the new building opened in December 1996 and the research library will open in 1998.

From Printed Score to Performance: Access and Collaboration in the New Zealand Orchestral Community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michelle Marie Bryant
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
National Library ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Printed Music ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
And Training

<p>Research into the practical needs and activities of orchestra librarians in New Zealand is rare. This study explores how orchestra librarians and conductors search for, access and manage printed music for the orchestras' players. The constraints of access and availability and the collaborative relationships that enable the sharing of resources are also examined. The research uses a qualitative approach with data collected from open-ended interview questions with eighteen participants who come from professional and amateur orchestras and the National Library of New Zealand. The findings show that orchestras in New Zealand access music from many different sources and the National Library plays a key role in this activity. The groups face constraints in accessing contemporary music (except New Zealand music) due to cost and copyright issues and there are constraints relating to the condition and use of printed hire music. The report concludes that there is a need for a national orchestra association in New Zealand to provide support for both amateur and professional orchestras. Cataloguing projects to increase the visibility and access of existing music resources and training programmes for performance librarians are other areas that are considered.</p>

scholarly journals Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Antonielli ◽  
Mark Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
William Blake ◽  
National Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Critical Notes

Edwin John Ellis’s and William Butler Yeats’s The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. A Manuscript Edition, with Critical Analysis presents, for the first time, the manuscript – in facsimile and transcription – of the so-called Quaritch Edition (1893), written and edited by Edwin John Ellis and W.B. Yeats. The relevant manuscript material is held at Special Collections of the University of Reading, within the “Papers of Edwin John Ellis” (MS 293/2/2), and at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin (NLI MSS 30,289 and 30,534). This edition, with a rich apparatus of editorial and critical notes, will yield new insights and discoveries about the genesis and the composition of The Works of William Blake, give the reader a sense of how the manuscript corpus relates to the published version, and thus provoke new critical discussions.

2. Recreating 19th-Century Stereography for a Scholarly Public

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Chan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Early Photography

Current digital archives of stereocards, a popular form of early photography, offer only 2D scans of the cards' fronts. Such archives make large numbers of stereocards accessible, retrievable and searchable, but lack the informed, interpretive guidance that non-specialist users might expect. They also omit the information on stereocards' backs and privilege the photographs on the stereocards without attention to context or interpretation. Drawing on techniques of new media "edutainment," my virtual exhibit contextualizes and interprets stereocards from the Queen's University Special Collections Library in a way that is friendly to non-specialist audiences while organically promoting humanities research through features such as textual popups and hyperlinks to sources (where available online or in QCAT). Animated GIFs of the stereographs allow users to see the image in three dimensions—something that was available to a 19th-century audience but not necessarily to a 21st-century one. My project looks beyond the popular assumption that new media seeks, or should seek, to uncritically reproduce the experience of past media. Rather, I examine how new media allows us to be critical of past perspectives and biases in ways that were previously unavailable—while still remaining critical of my project's own limitations and potential biases. With the advent of digital media and the Digital Humanities, I argue that the time is ripe to rethink new media's relationship to old media and the past, as well as how to communicate this knowledge in ways that push beyond traditional notions of an academic digital archive.

PORTA and NDL Search: digital archive portals at the National Diet Library

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Toshiyasu Ōba
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
National Library ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Facilities

The National Diet Library (NDL) is Japan’s national library, established in 1948 to provide research facilities for members of parliament, but now used most by the general public. Similar in purpose and scope to the US Library of Congress, the NDL is a deposit library, and collects copies of all publications that originate in Japan. For nearly a decade and a half the Library has been making digital reproductions of paper documents and printed material, but the pace at which it has added to its digitised content has speeded up remarkably in recent years. It has also developed and continues to enhance integrated search services that allow users to cross-search the databases of many other museums, libraries, archives and research institutes in Japan and retrieve information resources from them. A digital archive of records of the earthquake and related disasters that struck Japan in March 2011 is under way.

Momentous moment: Rediscovering Korean history through digitizing private letters

IFLA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-322
Author(s):  
Hye-Eun Lee ◽  
Hana Kim ◽  
Jisu Lee
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
National Library ◽  
Korean History ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Historical Manuscripts ◽  
The University

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the development of a digital archive for the Min Family Correspondence Collection of the University of Toronto Libraries, the first Korean historical manuscript collection in Canada. This strategic digitization project between the University of Toronto Libraries and the National Library of Korea accomplished the following: content analysis and annotation of manuscripts, metadata creation, and enhanced access to the resources. The results from this paper show that one of the crucial factors in successful digitization projects is building bridges between the two organizations as a partnership. Our main aim in this paper was to build a deeper understanding of how to develop a digital archive for Asian historical manuscripts and to explore how to improve the accessibility of rare historical records.

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