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Rare Book Librarianship: An Introduction and Guide. By Steven K. Galbraith and Geoffrey D. Smith. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2012. 185 p. $55 acid-free paper (ISBN: 978-1-59158-881-8). With unique perspectives and specializations developed through working with modern European books in an independent research library and modern American books at a large public university, Galbraith and Smith's Rare Books Librarianship provides a broad overview of the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary for the successful professional. The work offers twelve chapters, each containing footnotes, suggested further reading, and in some instances, images, diagrams, and links to recommended websites. A brief biographical summary of each author as well as an ample index are provided. The book opens with a brief overview of the history of rare book libraries involving the origin of book production, growth of book collecting, and types of rare book libraries. Chapter two, divided into two parts, describes the importance of rare books not only as texts but also as historical artifacts. Part one addresses the types of rare book bibliographies, particularly the components and terminology of a descriptive bibliography; part two discusses materials produced in the modern era (defined by the authors as 1800s to present), including types of collections, and the late nineteenth-century movement called fine printing (37) or the book as an art object. The following chapter covers the importance of researching the provenance of items in a rare book collection and the significance of appraisal values in evaluating and justifying the importance of a collection. Chapter four provides an overview of the concepts involved in rare book conservation and preservation including best practices for handling, storing, stabilizing, and treating fragile materials in the collection. The succeeding chapter describes the importance of rare book digitization as not only a way of improving research access, but also as a way of decreasing prospective handling of materials and thus preserving them for posterity. Chapter six discusses basic planning and preventive measures involving theft, damage, and potential disasters. The subsequent chapter defines the elements of rare book collection development, and examples of general policies and acquisition strategies are provided. Chapter eight discusses the vital role of timely accessioning and cataloging of materials, which not only provides judicious access for researchers, but also inspires the confidence of current and prospective donors. The ninth chapter provides a brief overview of the essentials of copyright law when managing rare book collections. …

PURLOINED PARCHMENTS AND BURGLARIZED BOOK ROOMS In 1969 there was a major theft of manuscripts, incunabula and other rare books from Holy Name College in Washington, D.C. Nothing has been recovered from that theft. In 1975 the rare book collection of Holy Name College was relocated to the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University. Most of the items which were stolen are listed here to reaffirm the legitimate claim of the owner in the hope that they may yet be identified and restored to the collection . Most items had a small (3 cm.) round stamp somewhere on them which read "Biblioth Collegii SS. Nominis Jesu O.F.M. Washington , D.C." MANUSCRIPTS Antonius de Bitonto. Sermones dominicales. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 42). Size: 178 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in modern half-vellum. Antonius de Bitonto. Tractatus de passione Domini [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 22). Size: 270 ff. (15x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern rough pigskin. Astesanus de Asti. Flores distinctionum. Italy. 14th century. (Holy Name Ms. 48). Size: 69 ff. (22 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in original wooden boards and scored leather. Bartholomew of Pisa. Liber conformitatum [etc.]. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 8). Size: 124 ff. (12x8.5 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in modern half-vellum. 374PAUL J. SPAETH Bernard of Clairvaux. Meditationes de homine cognoscendo [etc.]. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 47). Size: 114 ff. (20 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original wooden boards and red leather. Bernardine of Siena. Sermones [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 45). Size: 299 ff. (22 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum and paper, bound in original wooden boards and leather. Bernardine of Siena. Sermones de restitutione [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 16). Size: 2870. (14x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, written by different hands, bound in modern brown half-morocco. Bernardine of Siena. Tractatus de restitutionibus sub compendio redactus. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 5). Size: 34 ff. (15x11 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black, bound in German paper boards. Bonaventure. Breviloquium. Italy. Ca. 1400. (Holy Name Ms. 11). Size: 157 ff. (11x8 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red, blue and black, bound in original wooden boards and leather. Bonaventure. De compendioso modo proficiendi missa [etc.]. Germany. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 21). Size: 197 ff. (14x10 cm.). Desc: Paper, written by several hands, bound in original wooden boards and white leather. Bonaventure. De modo se praeparandi ad celebrandam missam [etc.]. Germany. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 40). Size: 29 ff. (21 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern paper boards. Bonaventure. Meditationes vitae Christi. France. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 38). Size: 154 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original wooden boards and rough pigskin. Purloined Parchments37g Bonaventure. Stimulus amoris [etc.]. Italy. 1470. (Holy Name Ms. 13). Size: 121 ff. (14x10 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black. Breviarium Minorum. France. Ca. 1430. (Holy Name Ms. 3). Size: 507 ff. (12 ? 9 cm.). Desc: Vellum, one small miniature, bound in French green morocco. Breviarium Minorum. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 12). Size: 267A1 (13x10 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black, bound in dark yellow paper. Breviarium Minorum. Italy. Ca. 1450. (Holy Name Ms. 23). Size: 547 ff. (17x12 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in original Venetian wooden boards and stamped leather. Les Constitutions Générales des Frères du je Ordre Saint François de l'Étroite Observance de la Congrégation de France. France. June, 1699. (Holy Name Ms. 7). Size: 106 ff. (11x7 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original black morocco. [Constitutions in Portuguese of the Conceptionist Nuns of Braga]. 1726. (Holy Name Ms. 36). Size: 80 ff. (17x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original calf. Expositiones evangeliorum dominicalium. Italy. Ca. 1400. (Holy Name Ms. 41). Size: 71 ff. (20 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern half-vellum. Francesco Moneti. [Poem in Italian on a Jesuit missionary at Cortona]. 17th century. (Holy Name Ms. 46). Size: 56 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in old Italian paper boards. Henry Suso. Horologium sapientiae [etc]. Charter House of Asti. May 13, 1435 or 1436. (Holy Name Ms. 17...

For many decades, there has been a of rise of West. At some point after 1000 AD--whether it was with medieval commercial expansion; or early Renaissance rediscovery of ancient Greek thought; or continental trade expansion based on Hanseatic league, Champagne fairs, Bruges cloth trade, and Italian banking and Mediterranean trade; or seafaring ventures of Portuguese and Spanish; or Reformation--not much later than 1500, the developed a new dynamic institutional and cultural framework that began to lift it out of its post-Roman Empire torpor, and launched it on path to modernity. Industrialization came as a later outgrowth of this earlier shift to capitalism or modernity, but it was a natural outgrowth of earlier dynamism of Europe. This contrasted with institutional and cultural stagnation in major civilizations of Asia--the Ottomans, India, China, and Japan--such that an increasingly advanced Europe was able to dominate and colonize Asian societies in 18th and 19th centuries. Against this view, a number of historians and historical sociologists of which I am one, and which I have identified as School, have argued that whatever their institutional and cultural differences, there was in fact no significant divergence of material living standards in Europe from those in advanced Asian societies until much later, c. 1800. (2) Despite very different cultural and institutional frameworks of major European states, Ottoman Empire, and China, which admittedly took different approaches to governance, religion, and political organization, we argue that they nonetheless shared very similar overall political and economic dynamics until about 1850. The only exception is Great Britain, which, starting in 18th century, embarked on a peculiar path of unique industrial innovations that gave birth to a modern world, which was quickly imitated and built upon by other European states and United States in 19th century, before spreading to rest of world in later 19th and 20th centuries. Moreover, this peculiar British move to industrial innovation was not simply an outgrowth of broad European patterns of culture and institutions, but a contingent outcome of conditions that happened to come together in Britain in a way that did not happen elsewhere, and very conceivably would not have happened in Britain either if it had followed a typical European trajectory. Joseph Bryant objects to this revisionist story as both empirically suspect and analytically incoherent. It is neither; rather Bryant misunderstands argument. What Bryant does exceptionally well is identify why debate is significant, what evidence is crucial, and which elements of California School causal story are suspect. It is thus with great respect for his essay that I respond. Bryant states that revisionists claim that the major societies across Eurasia were all progressing along a comparable course of modernizing development (p. 403). This is incorrect. Rather, revisionist claim is that none of major societies across Eurasia, including Europe, were progressing along a course of modernizing development. From 1500-1800 major states of Europe, China, India, and Ottoman Empire were all experiencing a similar course of advanced organic development, with absolutist bureaucratic states, highly productive agriculture, a sophisticated urban culture, and extensive long-distance trade in both luxuries and daily necessities. They all experienced periods of demographic expansion, price increases, and trade expansion from 1500-1850, interrupted by political and economic crises in periods 1590-1660 and again from 1770-1850. Yet in all of them, material standard of living c. 1800 was no greater than it had been c. 1500; no effect of cultural or institutional dynamics leading to a materially superior civilization in West is evident. …

Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume. Rare Book Librarianship for the 21st Century is the first new rare books handbook of practice in 25 years. Authored by two special collections experts with extensive field experience, this book is also the first to discuss the role of digital technologies in managing a rare book collection. After a fascinating discussion of the history and current state of rare book libraries, this handbook provides a comprehensive account of the core skills and knowledge needed to be a successful rare book librarian. Topics include best practices for handling, housing, and conserving rare materials; collection development techniques; and user education and outreach. This book will serve as a handbook for practitioners in academic settings, large public libraries, and special libraries, and as a textbook for students in MLIS courses on rare book librarianship and curatorship.

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For rare book collections, a considerable challenge is involved in evaluating collection materials in terms of their inherent value, which includes the textual and intangible information the materials provide for the collection's users. Preservation management in rare book collections is a complex and costly process. As digitization and other technological advances in surrogate technology have provided new forms representation, new dilemmas in weighing the rare book's inherently valuable characteristics against the possibly lesser financial costs of surrogates have arisen. No model has been in wide use to guide preservation management decisions. An initial iteration of such a model is developed, based on a Delphi-like iterative questioning of a group of experts in the field of rare books. The results are used to synthesize a preservation management framework for rare book collections, and a small-scale test of the framework has been completed through two independent analyses of five rare books in a functioning collection. Utilizing a standardized template for making preservation decisions offers a variety of benefits. Preservation decisions may include prioritizing action upon the authentic objects, or developing and maintaining surrogates in lieu of retaining costly original collection materials. The framework constructed in this study provides a method for reducing the subjectivity of preservation decision-making and facilitating the development of a standard of practice for preservation management within rare book collections.

Reviewed by: La figure du bibliomane: Histoire du livre et stratégie littéraire au XIXe siècle Robert P. Holley La figure du bibliomane: Histoire du livre et stratégie littéraire au XIXe siècle. By Daniel Desormeaux. Saint-Genouph, France: Librairie Nizet, 2001. 251 pp. €22,87. ISBN 2-7078-1254-4. The two sections of Daniel Desormeaux's La figure du bibliomane could very well have been separate books. The first part, "Les marginalités du bibliomane" (The Marginality of the Bibliomaniac) (19-79) is a fairly straightforward history of bibliomania and its social significance in France from the Middle Ages to the Bourbon Restoration. The second part, "Le bibliomanie et ses institutions" (Bibliomania and Its Institutions) (83-244) focuses instead on a critical analysis of five nineteenth-century authors whose literary works were influenced by the principles of bibliomania. In the historical section the author recounts that the bibliomaniac makes his first appearance in Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools (1494), where the bibliomaniac is the first to enter the vessel. (A woodcut of this fool from a 1497 edition appears on the cover of the book.) He is a fool because he values books as physical [End Page 471] objects rather than for the knowledge they contain, a theme that continues to this day, when the most valuable book is often the one in pristine condition that has never been read. In seventeenth-century France cultural power supported political power such that the nobles owned handsome book collections that were acquired and maintained by others. The emerging middle class then mimicked the upper classes in collecting books as a sign of social status, though the books seldom were considered differently from other collectible curiosities. In his plays Molière satirizes both the uneducated bourgeois who doesn't understand learning at all and the pedant who believes incorrectly that book learning leads to social and political power. Desormeaux begins his chapter on eighteenth-century France by examining the definition of bibliomania in the multiplicity of dictionaries that appeared during this century. In the eighteenth century the distinction between the "bibliophile," who loves books for the knowledge they contain, and the "bibliomane," who values them for their rarity and physical attractiveness, begins to be made. The Encyclopedists attacked bibliomania for encouraging the publication of rare books that were too expensive to be read widely. Even more profoundly, the Encyclopedists did not believe that all books were equal but rather that the reader should systematically acquire knowledge not from random reading but from carefully distilled compendia, including the Encyclopedia itself. The French Revolution had a profound effect upon bibliomania, as suddenly the great book collections of the nobles and the Church became the property of the government. Desormeaux underscores the tension on the part of the revolutionaries between destroying books as a symbol of the monarchy and preserving them as part of France's cultural heritage. This chapter is especially fascinating in its recounting of the efforts of Abbé Grégoire to preserve as many books as possible by emphasizing the need to save France's treasures and to keep them out of the hands of the English, who sought to buy them cheaply. The second part of the book begins with a transition chapter that shows how bibliomania became socially acceptable in the early nineteenth century. The Société des bibliophiles was founded in 1820, with many other similar organizations to follow. Publishers and authors began to create instant rarities, with limited editions available only to the select few. An effort was made to republish scarce items that existed in unique or limited copies after the destruction of the Revolution. As the century progressed, the rare book market developed, with price lists and opinions about which contemporary authors were worth collecting. In addition, the chapter serves as a transition between history and literary criticism by showing how Charles Nodier both influenced book collecting and presented an accurate portrayal of a fictional bibliomaniac. Since literary criticism is not the focus of this journal, I will give a brief summary of how bibliomania influenced the five authors treated by Desormeaux in the second part of his book, except...

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This two‐part article examines the very limited engagement by philosophers with museums, and proposes analysis under six headings: cultural variety, taxonomy, and epistemology in Part I, and teleology, ethics, and therapeutics and aesthetics in Part II. The article establishes that fundamental categories of museums established in the 19th century – of art, of anthropology, of history, of natural history, of science and technology – still persist. Among them, it distinguishes between hegemonic (predominantly Western) and subaltern (minority or Indigenous) museums worldwide. It argues that relations between hegemonic and subaltern museums are often agonistic, and are compromised by claims of universalism on the part of proponents of the former. The article observes that most discussion of museums focuses exclusively and misleadingly on their public exhibition function, and contends that scholarship – not exhibition – is central to all museums. However, that predominantly taxonomic scholarship, while innovative and central to a dominant epistemology based on the observation of tangible things in the 19th century, was compromised by the epistemic shift to abstraction and experimentation in the 20th, which resulted in a loss of initiative and authority. Although epistemological changes currently in progress favor a renewed attention to tangible things as complex matrices to which museums ought to contribute significantly, the fundamental taxonomy of museums by collection type is a clog on the ability of museum scholars to engage with and themselves produce big ideas. In order to function well as sites of scholarship in the future, museums will have to be far more adaptable and attentive to a wider range of things and ideas (including Indigenous ideas incompatible with Western assumptions) than their existing collection divisions permit.

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At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the world faced unprecedented changes driven by the rapid development of technology, industrialization, and growing urbanization. Technological progress impacted all aspects of life, particularly the social structure, economy, and culture. Millions of people moved to cities in search of new jobs, where new work opportunities were available, but they also encountered challenges associated with rapid industrial development. Along with these changes arose the need for new forms of education that could meet the demands of both individuals and entire communities. In response to this demand, the University Extension movement emerged in Great Britain and the United States. Its goal was to overcome the limitations of traditional university education and make scientific knowledge accessible to people. This article explores the historical context of the emergence and development of the University Extension movement in England and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines the social and economic conditions that contributed to the formation of this movement and the impact it had on adult education development. In particular, key aspects of the movement are analyzed, including how it contributed to increasing access to higher education for people from different social backgrounds and how it influenced the rise of social mobility in society. The study's conclusions indicate that different social and economic conditions, educational systems, and cultural characteristics in England and the United States were decisive factors in shaping the differences in the development of the university extension concept in these countries. The article also highlights the role of University Extension in promoting educational innovations. Thanks to this movement, new teaching approaches emerged, which gradually transformed the higher education system, making it more flexible and adaptable to society's needs. Today, the ideas laid down by the University Extension movement continue to evolve, taking on new forms. Thus, the article not only explores the history of this educational movement but also emphasizes its relevance in the modern world, where access to education remains a crucial issue.