Welcome to the British Library– The World’s Knowledge Marja Kingma 23 November 2013

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The BRITISH LIBRARY National Library for UK

Useful pages:

About us

Catalogues

Readers Pass Registration

Help for Researches

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About the British Library

We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland

The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages

3 million new items are added every year

We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents

The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings

We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items

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Foreign Language Collections in the BL – WHY???

ANTONIO PANIZZI aimed to “build up the best collection of books in every European language outside the countries of origin". BL’s USP

Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879)

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Dutch Language Collections - Statistics

60,000 titles from 1500 – present day and growing

17,500 early printed works (15th – 17th Cent.)

Growth approx 1800 titles per year

Subjects: Art & Architecture, History, Literature, Language studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Contemporary Culture, Bibliography

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Dutch Language Collections - Acquisitions

Antiquarian and Second hand

Can be borrowed!

Suggestions Welcome!

Printed books published in Dutch, Frisian and Afrikaans

About / from Low Countries, South-Africa (only in Afr.)

Research level / representing culture LC

Dutch Language Collections – Early printed works

Controversial titles

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Dutch Language Collections – Antiquarian Acquisitions

Filling the gaps

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Dutch Language Collections – Antiquarian cataloguing

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Dutch language collections – Collections, Activities, Projects

COLLECTIONS

MAPS

PAMPHLETS

SOUND

ACTIVITIES

EXHIBITIONS

EVENTS

DIGITIZATION PROJECTS

PROMOTION COLLECTION

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POSITION DUTCH LANGUAGE COLLECTIONS’ IN BL

HOW TO FIND STUFF FROM DUTCH COLLECTIONS?

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Dutch Language Collections

Explore / Archives and Manuscripts

Dutch pages on bl.uk

Leaflet European Studies

E-resources: Art Sales Catalogues online

AAS: India Office Records

Social Sciences (urbanisation)

No physical Dutch Flemish Collection

No easy way to identify what is ‘Dutch’.

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Dutch Language Collections

Special Collections

Pamphlets

Emblemata

Maps : Beudeker Collection

Newspapers: Dutch underground press 1940-1945

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Beudeker collection: maps and views of the Lowlands

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Dutch language collections Underground press

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MAGE ‘WA Man’ by Theun de Vries in: Publish and be Free Anna Simoni (BL), opp pag 203.

Open Access  Rare Books and Music Reading Room RAR 098.12 General Reference Collection 2725.aa.1 / X.700/16639

Document Supply 77/1952

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Dutch Language Collections - Collaborations

British Library - University of Sheffield Concordat

PhD student projects – Torgrim Hannas collection

PhD student working with French curator on WWI project.

Dutch Language Collections- Collaborations… cont.

Universities UCL, KC

Organizations – ANS, Dutch Church

Governmental representatives

Individuals

BL projects

Europeana, Google Books , Web Archive

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Dutch Language Collections - Questions

ANY QUESTIONS

Dutch Language Collections - Contacts

CONTACTS

marja.kingma@bl.uk

Dutch-Enquiries@bl.uk

Tel.: 020 7412 7764

Leaflet European Studies

Follow us on Twitter! @BL_European

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Website publishers:

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