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The British Library (W3)

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries.

British Library (W3)

Die "British Library" ist die Nationalbibliothek des Vereinigten Königreichs. Seit 250 Jahren sammeln wir Publikationen und erhalten eine Kopie jeder Veröffentlichung in Großbritannien und Irland. Man könnte also sagen, dass wir in erheblichem Maße das Gedächtnis und die Erinnerungen unseres Landes bewahren. Darüber hinaus kaufen wir wichtige Werke aus aller Welt; unsere Kollektion enthält Publikationen in fast allen bekannten Sprachen.
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Facts and figures

• 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
• All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year
• If you see 5 items each day, it would take you over 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection
• The world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, is sometimes on display in our exhibition galleries alongside many other treasures
• We have on-site space for over 1,200 Readers
• Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online)
• Online catalogues, information and exhibitions can be found on this website
• We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world

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Sound maps

Use the interactive maps to find recordings of regional accents and dialects, wildlife and environmental sounds, and selected world and traditional music.

• Accents & dialects
• Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings
• Wildlife recordings
• Soundscapes
• Music from India
• Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
• Traditional music in England
• Your accents
• UK Soundmap

Crace Collection of Maps of London

Over 1200 maps and plans of the capital: a fascinating collection brought together by the Victorian designer, Frederick Crace.

Virtual books

Use our award-winning 'Turning the Pages™' software to leaf through our great books and magnify the details. Just choose the volume you'd like to see from the lists below.

• Mewar Ramayana (selection) - India's great Sanskrit epic (72 pages)
• Handel’s Messiah - From the draft score of the composer’s most famous work
• Leonardo da Vinci selection - A selection of his sketches (29 pages)
• Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll
• Mozart's musical diary - The composer's own notes, from 1784 until his death
• Codex Sinaiticus - Extracts from a 1,600-year-old-Bible courtesy of the Partners of the Codex Sinaiticus Project
• Jane Austen's early work - 'The History of England' in her own hand
• Baybars' magnificent Qur'an - Epitome of sumptuous Arabic calligraphy
• Bible from Ethiopia - Commissioned by Emperor Iyasu in around 1700
• Lisbon Hebrew Bible - Survivor of 15th-century Jewish culture

Aspects of the Victorian Book

Blackwell's Herbal - A Curious Herbal

Elizabeth Blackwell’s beautiful illustrations of medicinal plants would be notable enough in their own right, but the unusual circumstances of their creation make them doubly interesting.

Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal is notable both for its beautiful illustrations of medicinal plants and for the unusual circumstances of its creation.
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The British Library Board - Glossary of linguistic terms

Online resources Unique collection items and expert commentary related to History, English and Citizenship.

English

• Shakespeare Learn more about Shakespeare’s world through the images and ideas that shaped his imagination. Explore a range of critical views on each play, in 80 newly-commissioned articles.
• Romantics and Victorians Discover some of our greatest literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods, and learn about the historical, social and political contexts in which they were written and set.
• Sounds Familiar? Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? Sounds Familiar? captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the 20th century.
• Poetry and Performance Listen to well-known figures perform readings of poetry by some of Britain and America’s most distinguished poets. Access audio recordings, interpretations of the poems, and explore the connections between the poets’ lives and their work.
• English Timeline From the 11th century to the present day, follow the evolution of the English language and our literature decade by decade to uncover the richness and diversity of our poetry and prose.
• Texts in Context Texts in Contexts unites a rich, yet disparate collection of over 400 texts: from the first English dictionary, to cook books, shopping lists and song lyrics, explore how language is changed by context and through time.

History

• The Middle Ages Illustrated manuscripts reveal much about the everyday lives of people from across the social spectrum. Explore images of the rich and poor, men and women, the living and the dead and what they teach us about Medieval Britain.
• World War One Discover how World War One affected people on different sides of the conflict through the study of this unique collection of 500 historical sources contributed by libraries from across Europe, as part of a programme led by Europeana
• Victorian Britain The Victorian period in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease.
• Georgian Britain The Georgian period was a time a great change, as cities grew, trade expanded and popular culture blossomed. The Georgians witnessed the birth of industrialisation; radicalism and repression; and extreme luxury alongside extreme
• Timelines: Sources from History From medieval times to the present day, explore collection items chronologically in this beautiful interactive timeline. Discover a wide range of historical sources that reflect everyday life as well as major political events.
• Asians in Britain Uncover the rich and diverse history of Asians in Britain, from 1858 to 1950, through this collection of contemporary accounts, posters, pamphlets, diaries, newspapers and reports.
• Campaign for Abolition Learn about the origins and history of the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent campaign for its abolition. What can we learn from the abolitionists about equality and justice? How might their campaign inspire our own?
• Dreamers and Dissenters How do people respond to the world they live in when they disagree or dream of change? Do they act within society’s rules or against them? This site introduces some of the visionaries, dissenters and rule breakers of past centuries.
• Voices of the Holocaust During the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. Listen to clips taken from the oral histories of Jewish men and women who survived the horrors of Hitler’s reign. Citizenship
• Sisterhood and After Listen to the women at the forefront of Britain’s Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 80s. Learn about what motivated the movement and how women and society reacted to the fight for equality.

Religious Studies

• Sacred Texts What is sacred? How do we extract meaning from sacred texts? Where do religious stories come from? Explore these rich interactives to uncover the stories and meanings in some of the world's most complex texts. - See more at: http://www.bl.uk/learning/online-resources#sthash.NkgsBFLH.dpuf

"British Library", national library of Great Britain, formed by the "British Library Act" (1972) and organized by July 1, 1973. For much of the 20th century its holdings were divided among the "British Museum library" (with some 12 million volumes) and several other buildings, but in 1997-98 a new complex was opened in London near St. Pancras Station in order to unify its vast collections. The British Library holds more than 25 million printed books as well as hundreds of thousands of periodicals, microfilms, rare manuscripts, and titles in electronic form. Its special offerings include the "Oriental and India Office Collections" (transferred from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982), the "National Sound Archive" (formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound, incorporated into the library in 1983), printed music, a map library, and philatelic materials.
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The British Library - Alben

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The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix

British Library

Site Name: British Library Basement, Euston Road, St. Pancras, London N.W.1.

Sub Brit site visit 14th April 2005

6 members of Sub Brit visited the British Library basements in a visit arranged by Sarah Jenner, who works in the Preservation Department.
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Word Routes - Exploring the pathways of our lexicon

The Origins of Text-Speak, from 1828?

August 20, 2010

By Ben Zimmer

A new exhibit at the "British Library" on the evolution of English will feature some linguistic play that presages the age of "text-speak." As reported by The Guardian, the exhibit will display a comic poem printed in 1867 with lines like "I wrote 2 U B 4" ("I wrote to you before"). I've investigated this proto-text-speak and have found similar versified examples going all the way back to 1828. [Update: And see the note below for one from 1813!]
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Bodleian Library (W3)

Duke Humphrey's Library at the Old Bodleian Library
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries
Repositories of Knowledge
29 Jul 2010

E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Bodle’ian Library (Oxford).

So called because it was restored by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1597.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).

Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.

XIX. The Foundation of Libraries.

§ 6. Thomas Bodley.

Oxford and the Bodleian

Alphita a medico-botanical glossary from the Bodleian manuscript, Selden B.35 /
By: Mowat, J. L. G. - University of Glasgow.
Publication info: Oxford :Clarendon Press,1887.
Series: Anecdota Oxoniensia. Mediaeval and modern series ; v.1, pt.1.
Contributed by: University of Glasgow Library (archive.org)
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The poems of Thomas, third lord Fairfax, from Ms. Fairfax 40 in the Bodleian library, Oxford, by Edward Bliss Reed.
By: Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, - Reed, Edward Bliss,
Publication info: New Haven, Conn. :Pub. under the auspices of Yale university,1909.
Series: Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; v. 14 [part. IV]
Contributed by: University of California Libraries (archive.org)

Endocrine therapeutics; practical suggestions.

By: Scott, Thomas Bodley.

Publication info: London,Lewis,1922.

Contributed by: Gerstein - University of Toronto (archive.org)

Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library

"Bodleian" from Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), who in 1597 refounded the library at Oxford University.

Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933: In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays (English) (as Author)

Bodleian Library, Oxford University

Der englische Diplomat und Gelehrte Sir Thomas Bodley (* Exeter 1545, † London 1613) begründete durch seine Bücher- und Geldstiftungen 1598 die Universitätsbibliothek Oxford neu, die, 1602 in den wiederhergestellten Räumen des damals zerstörten Bibliotheksgebäudes eingerichtet, nach ihm "Bibliotheca Bodleiana" (Bodleian Library) genannt wurde. Sie ist die erste öffentliche Bibliothek Englands.

Der erste gedruckte Bibliothekskatalog in England wurde von der Bibliotheca Bodleiana (Bodleiana, Bodleian Library), Oxford, (gegr. 1598) 1605 herausgegeben.

Thomas Bodley (02-Mar-1545 - 28-Jan-1613), Bodleian Library

Limericks on "Bodleian"

Bodleian Libraries: Collective name for the University's integrated library service, formerly known as Oxford University Library Services (OULS).

Bodleian Library - www.bodley.ox.ac.uk

Also known as "the Bod"; named after "Sir Thomas Bodley", "the Bodleian" is the University’s main research library and the second-largest library in the UK after the "British Library". Together with its dependent libraries, it holds more than 8 million volumes. The Bodleian dates from 1602 and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

Bodleian Library

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Bradford's Law (W3)

Die Bedeutung des "Bradford’s Law of Scattering" für die Bibliothekswissenschaft
W. Umstätter
Ist das Bradford’s Law of Scattering ein Gesetz oder nur eine Regelhaftigkeit?
Die Bezeichnung „Bradford´s law of scattering“ stammt von Brian C. Vickery (1948 )
Die Bibliothekswissenschaft kennt bisher nicht viele wirklich nachweisbare Gesetzmäßigkeiten. Den Namen „Gesetz“ tragen aber mehrere funktionalen Zusammenhänge.

• "Bradford's Law of Scattering"
• "Power Law"
• "Zipf’s Law"
• "Lotka’s Law"

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Anwendungsbereiche des Bradford’s Law of Scattering:

• 1. Zeitschriftenerwerbung
• 2. Zeitschriftennutzung
• 3. Zitation („Garfield’ s Law of Concentration“ )
• 4. Interdisziplinaritätsbestimmung
• 5. Rechercheausgabe (Bradfordizing)
• 6. Erfassung von Zeitschriften in Bibliografien
• (Literaturdokumentation)
• 7. Entstehung neuer Zeitschriften
• 8. Entstehung neuer Sachgebiete
• 9. Wissenschaftsorganisation
• 10. Scientific collaboration (scientific assembly line)

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Bradford's law

Definition: Journals in a field can be divided into three parts, each with about one-third of all articles: 1) a core of a few journals, 2) a second zone, with more journals, and 3) a third zone, with the bulk of journals. The number of journals is 1:n:n².

Note: Bradford formulated his law after studying a bibliography of geophysics, covering 326 journals in the field. He discovered that 9 journals contained 429 articles, 59 contained 499 articles, and 258 contained 404 articles. Although Bradford's Law is not statistically accurate, librarians commonly use it as a guideline.

Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals. One formulation is that if journals in a field are sorted by number of articles into three groups, each with about one-third of all articles, then the number of journals in each group will be proportional to 1:n:n². There are a number of related formulations of the principle.
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Robert Cotton - Rose

Cotton, Robert Bruce

Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/1 - 6 May 1631) was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton library.
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Hofer, Candida
Libraries

Synopsis
Nobody photographs the splendid and intimate cathedrals of knowledge as beautifully as Candida Hofer. This superbly produced volume contains Hofer's famously ascetic images of the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, Villa Medici in Rome and the Hamburg University Library, among others. Umberto Eco contributes an essay on libraries.