Posted in Collections, Uncategorized, tagged catalogue, digitizing on July 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Before the digital era filing cards were used to meticulously describe the library’s books. Nowadays these filing card catalogues remind us of the past. More information about the old card catalogue of the Central Library can be found here.
The card catalogue of the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University is used for a remarkable art project.
Posted in Collections, Current Affairs, Current global topics, Organization, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged Chronozoom, tool, visualize on July 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
While a student at UC Berkeley, Roland Saekow had the idea for 
a tool that would help people visualize history - all the way from the big bang to yesterday – and zoom in on whatever parts interest them. Called ChronoZoom, it is kind of like Google Maps for the fourth dimension, and it will get richer and richer as it’s fleshed out wiki-style. Microsoft Research has gotten involved in ChronoZoom, which will presumably accelerate the project. You can already take a peak at
http://www.chronozoomproject.org/
. Obviously, there is still some work to be done, but the concept is pretty intriguing. Here you can watch a video of Saekow demonstrating his nex invention.
Source:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/cool-new-history-tool/255008/
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Posted in Collections, Current Affairs, Current global topics, Manuscripts and old prints, Organization, Student/researcher, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged Atlas, returned, stolen, Sweden Royal Library on July 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A rare copy of an Atlas of the New World, stolen from Sweden’s Royal Library a decade ago has been officially returned. Published in 1597, the Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum was the first atlas do
cumenting the geography and natural history of the Americas. Belgian cartographer Wytfliet used the writings of geographers José de Acosta and Giovanni Battista Ramusio, among others, to create 19 exceptionally accurate maps of South America, Central America, North America and the Caribbean, among them the first regional map of California ever printed. The book is one of only nine complete copies known to survive. It was stolen by the former head of the library’s manuscript department, Anders Burius, who from the day he was hired in 1995 began to help himself to rare volumes which he would then sell. Wytfliet’s Atlas had been on the market for years and passed through several hands before a Royal Library librarian spotted it in 2011 for sale by New York map dealer W. Graham Arader II. The Royal Library and Arader determined that it was the stolen copy, so he returned it to Sotheby’s and got his money back. Sotheby’s in turn decided to give the book back to the library.
Posted in Organization, Uncategorized, Visitor, tagged culture, digital, exhibition on July 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new web exhibition of the library of the Amsterdam University takes you in twenty steps through three ages of prayer books with golden and silver mount. These missals form a part of the collection Van Noordwijk, a collector of book silver.
Typical about these books is the way in which they are richly decorated. They show how precious these books were for the owners.
The webexpo (Dutch) can be found here .
Source: Boekgeschiedenis.nl
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