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====== Abstracts and biographical notes ====== | ====== Abstracts and biographical notes ====== | ||
- | Flavia Bruni\\ | + | **Flavia Bruni**\\ |
//How to untangle historic libraries: illuminating collections through inventories// | //How to untangle historic libraries: illuminating collections through inventories// | ||
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__Abstract__.– After the dissolution of religious orders in Italy in the 1860s, several collections that had belonged to religious houses were merged in those of public libraries. As a result, the provenance of each item is often uncertain. Based on my research on the former Servite cloister of S. Pier Piccolo in Arezzo, this paper will show how inventories can prove helpful to identify books from a specific collection despite the absence of any clear ownership inscription.\\ | __Abstract__.– After the dissolution of religious orders in Italy in the 1860s, several collections that had belonged to religious houses were merged in those of public libraries. As a result, the provenance of each item is often uncertain. Based on my research on the former Servite cloister of S. Pier Piccolo in Arezzo, this paper will show how inventories can prove helpful to identify books from a specific collection despite the absence of any clear ownership inscription.\\ | ||
__The author__.– Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She is responsible for the survey of seventeenth-century Italian editions for the Universal Short Title Catalogue of the University of St | __The author__.– Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She is responsible for the survey of seventeenth-century Italian editions for the Universal Short Title Catalogue of the University of St | ||
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**Cristina Dondi & Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni**\\ | **Cristina Dondi & Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni**\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– The Biblioteca Augusta of Perugia is one of the earliest public libraries in Italy. Its core foundation is made up of the collection of Prospero Podiani, whose knowledge and interest in the book market led him to create one of the largest collections of 16th-century Italy, including some 300 incunabula. Panzanelli’s doctoral research approached documentary evidence pertaining to the collection in order to reconstruct the lively cultural context of the time and space it belonged to. Having transferred the incunabula data into MEI, we can now offer a richer and more complex | __Abstract__.– The Biblioteca Augusta of Perugia is one of the earliest public libraries in Italy. Its core foundation is made up of the collection of Prospero Podiani, whose knowledge and interest in the book market led him to create one of the largest collections of 16th-century Italy, including some 300 incunabula. Panzanelli’s doctoral research approached documentary evidence pertaining to the collection in order to reconstruct the lively cultural context of the time and space it belonged to. Having transferred the incunabula data into MEI, we can now offer a richer and more complex | ||
representation of the development and use of the collection, of the books’ survival, loss, and mobility, and of the methodology of the investigation involved. \\ | representation of the development and use of the collection, of the books’ survival, loss, and mobility, and of the methodology of the investigation involved. \\ | ||
__The authors__.– Cristina Dondi is the Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and principal investigator of a 5-year ERC Consolidator Grant on the ‘15th Century Booktrade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, | __The authors__.– Cristina Dondi is the Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and principal investigator of a 5-year ERC Consolidator Grant on the ‘15th Century Booktrade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, | ||
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+ | **Charles van den Heuvel**\\ | ||
+ | //The research librarian between computer agents and the crowd: reconstructing and creating past and future collections// | ||
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+ | __Abstract__.– The Internet Archive has been compared to older initiatives to bring the knowledge of world together such as the Library of Alexandria and the Mundaneum. The latter example is of particular interest since it proposed the combination of contemporary information technologies with | ||
+ | the domain expertise of researchers to produce knowledge. This paper discusses the question how librarians and archivists can collaborate with digital humanities scholars using a combination of new technologies such as computer agents and web archiving with crowdsourcing to reconstruct past and | ||
+ | to create future collections for research.\\ | ||
+ | __The author__.– Charles van den Heuvel is Head Research of History of Science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the chair on Digital Methods and Historical Disciplines (in particular the History of Scholarship and Information Sciences) at the University of Amsterdam.\\ | ||
**Kristian Jensen**\\ | **Kristian Jensen**\\ | ||
//Should we write library history?// | //Should we write library history?// | ||
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__Abstract__.– In this paper I will address some fundamental methodological issues around the writing of histories based on institutions. There evidently is such a thing as library history, but should there be? What are the distinctive characteristics that make it a genre or discipline of its own? These are questions which library history share for instance with the history of universities, | __Abstract__.– In this paper I will address some fundamental methodological issues around the writing of histories based on institutions. There evidently is such a thing as library history, but should there be? What are the distinctive characteristics that make it a genre or discipline of its own? These are questions which library history share for instance with the history of universities, | ||
__The author__.– Kristian Jensen is Head of Collections and Curation in the British Library. He has joined the rare books section of the Bodleian Library in 1985 and has been at the British Library since 1999. By academic background he is a classicist and a historian. His work around themes which may be defined as intellectual history has drawn on evidence derived from historical books, from collections and from institutional archives and practices. Among his more recent publications are Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780–1815 (CUP, 2011); ‘Reading Augustine in the Fifteenth Century’, in Cultures of religious reading in the late middle ages, edited by S. Corbellini (Brepols, 2013), pp.141-72 and ‘Printing at Oxford in its European Context 1478–1584’, | __The author__.– Kristian Jensen is Head of Collections and Curation in the British Library. He has joined the rare books section of the Bodleian Library in 1985 and has been at the British Library since 1999. By academic background he is a classicist and a historian. His work around themes which may be defined as intellectual history has drawn on evidence derived from historical books, from collections and from institutional archives and practices. Among his more recent publications are Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780–1815 (CUP, 2011); ‘Reading Augustine in the Fifteenth Century’, in Cultures of religious reading in the late middle ages, edited by S. Corbellini (Brepols, 2013), pp.141-72 and ‘Printing at Oxford in its European Context 1478–1584’, | ||
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**Richard Ovenden**\\ | **Richard Ovenden**\\ | ||
//A new history of the Bodleian Library//\\ | //A new history of the Bodleian Library//\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– Examining the historiography of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford, and exploring different approaches to a new history of this institution, | __Abstract__.– Examining the historiography of the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford, and exploring different approaches to a new history of this institution, | ||
__The author__.– Richard Ovenden is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian, and heads the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. He has worked at the National Library of Scotland and at Edinburgh University Library. He became Keeper of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, | __The author__.– Richard Ovenden is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian, and heads the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. He has worked at the National Library of Scotland and at Edinburgh University Library. He became Keeper of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, | ||
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**Yann Sordet**\\ | **Yann Sordet**\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– The author launched a project to virtually reconstruct the two successive libraries of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris. The first one, maybe the largest book collection of the western world at that time (from 40 000 to 56 000 books) being scattered during the Fronde in 1652 ; the second one | __Abstract__.– The author launched a project to virtually reconstruct the two successive libraries of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris. The first one, maybe the largest book collection of the western world at that time (from 40 000 to 56 000 books) being scattered during the Fronde in 1652 ; the second one | ||
being developped from 1653, and settled in a long gallery newly built in Mazarin’s Palace, of which very few architectural elements remain today. Current digital edition and the analysis of the 17th century inventories are combined with research on the history of the Palais Mazarin, to better know | being developped from 1653, and settled in a long gallery newly built in Mazarin’s Palace, of which very few architectural elements remain today. Current digital edition and the analysis of the 17th century inventories are combined with research on the history of the Palais Mazarin, to better know | ||
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**Jolanta Talbierska**\\ | **Jolanta Talbierska**\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– A library history is rarely a linear development, | __Abstract__.– A library history is rarely a linear development, | ||
events which determine its fate. In her lecture the author will focus on the study of rare and historical collections, | events which determine its fate. In her lecture the author will focus on the study of rare and historical collections, | ||
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__The author__.– Professor Jolanta Talbierska PhD is an art historian (MA and PhD) and certified librarian. She is the director of the University of Warsaw Library and Keeper of the Print Room. Her publications and lectures are about the history of European printmaking and drawing, collections of prints and drawings, book illustration, | __The author__.– Professor Jolanta Talbierska PhD is an art historian (MA and PhD) and certified librarian. She is the director of the University of Warsaw Library and Keeper of the Print Room. Her publications and lectures are about the history of European printmaking and drawing, collections of prints and drawings, book illustration, | ||
- | **Charles van den Heuvel**\\ | + | **Dirk Van Hulle**\\ |
- | //The research librarian between computer agents and the crowd: reconstructing and creating past and future collections// | + | |
- | __Abstract__.– The Internet Archive has been compared to older initiatives to bring the knowledge of world together such as the Library of Alexandria and the Mundaneum. The latter example is of particular interest since it proposed the combination of contemporary information technologies with | + | |
- | the domain expertise of researchers to produce knowledge. This paper discusses the question how librarians and archivists can collaborate with digital humanities scholars using a combination of new technologies such as computer agents and web archiving with crowdsourcing to reconstruct past and | + | |
- | to create future collections for research.\\ | + | |
- | __The author__.– Charles van den Heuvel is Head Research of History of Science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the chair on Digital Methods and Historical Disciplines (in particular the History of Scholarship and Information Sciences) at the University of Amsterdam.\\ | + | |
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- | Dirk Van Hulle\\ | + | |
//Digital Library History: The Virtual Bookcases of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett//\\ | //Digital Library History: The Virtual Bookcases of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett//\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– This paper investigates to what extent it is possible, not only to digitize a writer’s extant library, but also to reconstruct her or his virtual library. The central question is whether digitizing a | __Abstract__.– This paper investigates to what extent it is possible, not only to digitize a writer’s extant library, but also to reconstruct her or his virtual library. The central question is whether digitizing a | ||
writer’s library isn’t in fact a form of digitizing a library history, and whether this implies the possibility of interdisciplinary collaboration between library history and genetic criticism. \\ | writer’s library isn’t in fact a form of digitizing a library history, and whether this implies the possibility of interdisciplinary collaboration between library history and genetic criticism. \\ | ||
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**Dirk Van Miert**\\ | **Dirk Van Miert**\\ | ||
//Thinking classified: the 18th-century integration of librarianship and the historiography of learning// | //Thinking classified: the 18th-century integration of librarianship and the historiography of learning// | ||
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__Abstract__.– In the beginning of the 18th century a new historical consciousness of the value of recent traditions of learning, the spectacular growth in book production, and new ideals of learned sociability converged in stimulating the rise of a new historiographical genre: the history of learning or historia literaria. A host of encyclopedic books aimed at giving an overview of relevant literature to students who felt overwhelmed by the overload of information. Most of these handbooks provided a combination of knowledge classification, | __Abstract__.– In the beginning of the 18th century a new historical consciousness of the value of recent traditions of learning, the spectacular growth in book production, and new ideals of learned sociability converged in stimulating the rise of a new historiographical genre: the history of learning or historia literaria. A host of encyclopedic books aimed at giving an overview of relevant literature to students who felt overwhelmed by the overload of information. Most of these handbooks provided a combination of knowledge classification, | ||
turn benefit from the study of institutions.\\ | turn benefit from the study of institutions.\\ | ||
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**Bettina Wagner**\\ | **Bettina Wagner**\\ | ||
//Opening doors into the past. The library of the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel 1440-1514) and the modern world//\\ | //Opening doors into the past. The library of the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel 1440-1514) and the modern world//\\ | ||
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__Abstract__.– The library of the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel, well-known for his role in the production of the ' | __Abstract__.– The library of the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel, well-known for his role in the production of the ' | ||
outreach activities will also be outlined, which were undertaken on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Schedel’s death in order to enable a modern non-specialist audience to gain insights into the education and career of a late mediaeval German doctor, set against the backdrop of 15thcentury book production and distribution.\\ | outreach activities will also be outlined, which were undertaken on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Schedel’s death in order to enable a modern non-specialist audience to gain insights into the education and career of a late mediaeval German doctor, set against the backdrop of 15thcentury book production and distribution.\\ | ||
__The author__.– Bettina Wagner is currently head of the section Handschriftenerschließungszentrum and curator of incunabula in the Department for Manuscripts and Early Printed Books of the Bayerische | __The author__.– Bettina Wagner is currently head of the section Handschriftenerschließungszentrum and curator of incunabula in the Department for Manuscripts and Early Printed Books of the Bayerische | ||
Staatsbibliothek München. In recent years, she has been responsible for a range of externally-funded cataloguing and digitization projects. She has also been involved in the organization of exhibitions and conferences on the history of the book and libraries, particularly in the 15th century. | Staatsbibliothek München. In recent years, she has been responsible for a range of externally-funded cataloguing and digitization projects. She has also been involved in the organization of exhibitions and conferences on the history of the book and libraries, particularly in the 15th century. |
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