Archives and Special Collections

La raccolta di canti popolari e melodie, da Michele Barbi definita "la più ricca e varia che in Italia si sia messa insieme"( 1 ) e ancora oggi considerata il più vasto ed importante corpus di letteratura popolare italiana di tradizione orale mai redatto, comprende, oltre a componimenti ascrivibili al genere 'canzone', testi appartenenti alla quasi totalità dei generi che rientrano nella letteratura popolare, tra cui testi teatrali e drammatica popolare, poesia minore quali preghiere, formule, scioglilingua, scongiuri, proverbi, filastrocche fino ai giuochi infantili, risultato del lungo lavoro di ricerca e siste-(1) Michele Barbi predispone fin dagli anni 1937-38 la donazione alla R. Scuola Normale del suo patrimonio librario e scientifico anche per "contribuire al nobile proposito di Giovanni Gentile", a lui legato da profonda stima intellettuale e amicizia, "di darle uno sviluppo che meglio corrisponda ai bisogni della scienza e dell'insegnamento" (cfr. SNS, Archivio storico, Verbali delle sedute del Consiglio direttivo, 5, Processo verbale del 25 maggio 1938; Fondazione Giovanni Gentile, Archivio Giovanni Gentile, Carteggio M. Barbi -G. Gentile, Donazione di biblioteca e di rendita con onere di prestazione vitalizia, 1938, minuta dattiloscritta).

Overview of Special Collections at the Menil Collection Library presented at the Library and Archives Study Day at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on January 17, 2017.  Presentation provided an overview of collections, how they are integrated with other museum collections, made accessible to the scholarly community and general public, how collection development is managed and digital projects.

As with much of the textile industry in the United Kingdom, carpet manufacturing in the West of Scotland was once thriving. Powder was ground, paint mixed, design papers painted, yarn dyed, spools set and carpets woven. The history of the carpet manufacturing innovators, Stoddard Templeton, dates back to 1845 when James Templeton, a Scot and then Alfred Francis Stoddard, an American, began to produce carpets from disused Paisley shawl mills. The story is one of growth, expansion, worldwide prominence and unfortunately eventual decline. Stoddard Templeton produced carpets for a highly prestigious array of events and interiors including royal coronations and weddings, ocean liners such as the Titanic and Queen Mary, for the Festival of Britain, for cathedrals, palaces and other significant residences including the White House. Carpets also graced the floors of many homes, hotels and offices. However, consumer trends and preferences for other flooring surfaces led to a decline in Scottish carpet manufacturing. Stoddard International PLC entered into receivership in 2005, with assets liquidated in 2009. At this time a consortium formed to purchase and safeguard the historically significant company archives. Within the remains were unique books, rare portfolios, textiles, intricate design sketches and exquisitely painted design papers. This paper describes a project that utilised this resource and in particular The Stoddard Design Library held by The Glasgow School of Art. By examining the past it has been possible to establish the workings of the Stoddard Templeton design studio, explicate the carpet design process, evidence utilization of design library items within the creative process and examine the impact of digital technology. Dissemination activities have been used to tell the story of this once significant industry and provide inspiration to learning, teaching and research. Examining the past continues to influence the designers and design researchers of the future.

La finalitat d'aquest treball és analitzar, organitzar i descriure el fons i la biblioteca de
Lluís Pasqual (Reus, 1951) actualment conservats a la Biblioteca del Teatre Lliure.
Lluís Pasqual, personatge de l’actualitat i home de teatre (destacat com a director,
escriptor, gestor de teatre, professor i comissari de projectes tan importants com la Ciutat del
Teatre i la Fundació del Teatre Lliure) és ben conegut per la seva activitat fonamental en la
reconstrucció del teatre català, espanyol i europeu i també per ser un dels responsables de la
reedificació cultural de la societat actual; en aquest sentit la seva aportació va ser i segueix
sent excepcional.
La seva vessant més coneguda i desenvolupada és la de director escènic, tant de teatre
com d’òpera. Els seus muntatges han nodrit els escenaris d’arreu, sempre amb èxit de públic
i de crítica. Ha treballat al Piccolo de Milà, al Teatro San Martín de Buenos Aires, al Teatre
Arriaga de Bilbao, entre molts altres. Ha dirigit obres de Federico García Lorca, Carlo
Goldoni, Anton Txèkhov, William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett i molts altres.
Com a reconeixement del seu treball ha rebut nombrosos premis i condecoracions, entre els
quals el Premio Nacional de Teatro y Danza, Cavaller de l’Ordre de les Arts i les Lletres de
França, Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, Creu Sant Jordi i Premio Nacional de Teatro del Ministeri
de Cultura espanyol, per citar els més coneguts.
Lluís Pasqual ha salvaguardat molta de la documentació derivada tant de la seva
activitat, tant intel·lectual i d'oci com de la professional; aquesta documentació, el seu fons
personal, permet conèixer i comprendre la seva trajectòria, les seves produccions artístiques i
també la història del teatre contemporani. L’estudi i organització d’aquest fons permet fer
una aproximació a l’estat de la qüestió dels fons personals en general (a escala institucional i
privada) i també conèixer les especificitats i diferències de la documentació teatral i les
dificultats concretes de la seva gestió.
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Aquest treball a més d’oferir teoria sobre el que s'ha esmentat inclou l'explicació de
totes les tasques pràctiques d’organització i descripció que s’han portat a la pràctica després
de reflexionar sobre les decisions que calia prendre.
En concret, aquest treball desenvolupa aspectes de la legislació actual que afecta els
fons personals; l’aplicació dels mètodes de control i valoració més adients per a aquests tipus
de fons; la tria i eliminació de la documentació; l’aplicació d’eines normalitzades de
descripció, l'elaboració d’un quadre de classificació per al Fons Lluís Pasqual (FLP). A més,
també s’ha treballat en la preparació del fons per a la donació oficial al Teatre Lliure (TLL),
lloc en el qual ja es troba actualment.
Finalment, per tal d'afavorir el coneixement del Fons Lluís Pasqual, s’ofereix una
proposta de difusió utilitzant AtoM, Access to Memory (anteriorment, ICA-AtoM),
plataforma que incorpora les normes internacionals de descripció arxivística del Consell
Internacional d’Arxius (CIA) i que alhora permet difondre el fons a través d'Internet i així
multiplicar-ne el coneixement afavorir-ne la utilització i assegurar-ne la preservació.
Paraules clau: arxius personals; documentació teatral; fons arxivístics patrimonials; Lluís
Pasqual; directors i productors teatrals; direcció d’escena; NODAC; ISAD (G); ISDIAH;
ISDF; ISAAR(CPF); Teatre Lliure.

In the year 1969, the oldest part of the school library of Herlufsholm in Næstved was sold to the newly
founded University Library of Odense, including the special Groothoff book collection, Bibliotheca
Groothoffiana. Today, the joint collections are administered by the University Library of Southern
Denmark.
The Herlufsholm library contains very many works of great historical value, including many first editions
of spectacular scientific books, priceless maps, and etchings/woodcuts, not to mention numerous
handwritten names and annotations, added in the books by prominent figures of the past.
Tycho Brahe, René Descartes, Otto von Guericke, Johannes Kepler and Andreas Vesalius are among the
many famous authors to be found in the collection. Among the previous owners of the books are several
members of the Danish and foreign aristocracy as well as leading Danish scientists and scholars of all
kinds.
This book explains important parts of the school library history and presents selected items from the
collection, drawing forth examples of exquisite materials of both Danish and foreign origin.

Boise State University's (BSU) digital collections were selected for this assignment because they are representative of a comprehensive history of Boise, ID, as well as the culture and background of the community the academic institution and library serve. INFO 281 Metadata has focused on digital repositories or registry’s, as well as different digital cataloging schemas for libraries, with explanation provided for when to utilize different metadata schemes. BSU’s digital collection, with its variety of preserved formats, effectively addresses the criteria for this assignment, supports the researcher’s interest in academic libraries near her and contains a collection of items for the city where the researcher resides.

This paper presents the methodological challenges that were faced in the analysis of collections of photographs from Argentina and Peru for the period from mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, that is the first hundred years of the use of photography in South America. Archival research was focused on the analysis of photographic images of native groups. An anthropological perspective to analyze the modes of representation of indigenous communities was proposed, posing a multidirectional reading of images and assessing whether they responded to a system of representation promoted by a nationalist discourse and/or if the images sought to describe the social identities of the photographed communities. Given that these countries have developed their national identities through different material and symbolic elements, differences in the modes of representation of indigenous groups elements were sought in the pictures (e.g. shots in everyday scenes, in harsh natural environments, rural landscapes or archaeological ruins, predominance of individual portraits or group photos, with work utensils, epic/ war objects, in religious or leisure situations, predominance of clothing, nakedness, type of position of the bodies).

In 2006, Rare Book School director Terry Belanger invited Christian Dupont to give a talk about his experiences and “advices” as the newly appointed director of special collections at the University of Virginia. He naturally turned to Thomas Jefferson, and drew upon his “Decalogue of Canons,” a series of ten aphoristic expressions of practical wisdom—some more common, some more obscure—like “take things always by their smooth handle.” Applying this maxim to his own career soon led Christian to join a library software development company to create the first automated system for managing special collections library services. And now it has led him back. In his talk, Christian will reflect on what he has learned about life and libraries and whether Mr. Jefferson would approve.

Following a six-year stint with Atlas Systems, the leading provider of time-saving solutions for libraries, Christian was recently appointed as Burns Librarian at Boston College. Formerly director of special collections at the University of Virginia and Syracuse University, he embarked on his service to libraries while completing his doctorate in theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research and publication interests range widely from Dante to continental philosophy and the history and management of libraries.

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Cover Page: ‎صورة الأرض، تأليف أحمد علامة، رسوم وإخراج محي الدين اللباد، دار الفتى العربي 1979

This essay explores the impact of digitized and born-digital
special collections on teaching, learning, and research, and,
through institutional case studies, considers the variety of collaborative
opportunities made possible by the digitization of special
collections. Given that there is likely to be an increasing demand for
using special collections in learning and an increasing number of
collections will be born digital, it would be advisable for academic
libraries to determine methods to make learning with digital collections
as engaging as learning with physical materials, and to create
space and staffing to accommodate the greater use of physical collections.
Both digital and physical collections offer their own particular
opportunities for users to look closely at unique, primary source materials
and engage with them in ways that support cross-disciplinary
research and collaboration in teaching.
To begin, it is helpful to query what

In the wake of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act), museums and archives are acutely aware of cultural property issues. Cultural intellectual property remains legislatively neglected. Ethical precedent does exist, however, for museums and archives to treat intangible heritage with the same respect as tangible property. Recorded sound collections in many libraries, museums and archives in the United States hold ethnographic recordings of indigenous American cultures. These recordings are of immense value to the cultures and peoples they document as well as to those who study the history and development of humankind. Often they require special treatment or restricted access.

Through the development of collections management policies and procedures, a responsible institution can identify sensitive
recordings in its collections and isolate them for further investigation. By doing so, an institution can allow broader access to non-sensitive recordings and can begin the process of determining how to properly manage those that are culturally sensitive.

in Bibliothecae.it 9/1 (2020), 417–453.  Online: https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/index

This article outlines the history of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Tirol (University and Provincial Library of Tirol at Innsbruck, ULB Tirol) in
Innsbruck from the initial idea for its establishment arising in 1731 through its actual foundation in 1745, as well as its connection, shaped by various interactions, with the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck founded in 1669.
The text also provides general information on the modern-day ULB Tirol,
including data on its general tasks and mission, its holdings and numbers of users, and the individual departments of the library. The main focus of the article lies on the Department of Special Collections and its manuscript holdings, however. It offers an overview of the cataloguing projects conducted over the past fifty years and the status quo of those projects, as well as discussing their boundaries and the possibilities they have opened up. Finally, three specific projects are presented that are either currently being implemented or will be
undertaken in the coming years and will substantially expand existing knowledge on the department’s manuscript assets. A bibliography lists all modern manuscript catalogs published between 1987 and 2017 as well as the essential literature on the history of the library’s holdings from 1874 to 2019.

In this article, the authors present a case study on a teaching and learning initiative in digital humanities at Connecticut College. The article outlines a project in which students in a mid-level history course collaborated with library staff and faculty to develop a digital exhibition on a nineteenth-century journal in the College's collection. The cooperative approach and institutional support that the team received provided an effective and flexible means for achieving common goals. As students applied emergent technologies to college collections, they were able to conduct meaningful research and bring archival resources to new audiences.

As with much of the textile industry in the United Kingdom, carpet manufacturing in the West of Scotland was once thriving. Powder was ground, paint mixed, design papers painted, yarn dyed, spools set and carpets woven. The history of the carpet manufacturing innovators, Stoddard Templeton, dates back to 1845 when James Templeton, a Scot and then Alfred Francis Stoddard, an American, began to produce carpets from disused Paisley shawl mills. The story is one of growth, expansion, worldwide prominence and unfortunately eventual decline. Stoddard Templeton produced carpets for a highly prestigious array of events and interiors including royal coronations and weddings, ocean liners such as the Titanic and Queen Mary, for the Festival of Britain, for cathedrals, palaces and other significant residences including the White House. Carpets also graced the floors of many homes, hotels and offices. However, consumer trends and preferences for other flooring surfaces led to a decline in Scott...

Invited remarks presented for the opening panel “Acknowledging the Past” at “Acknowledging the Past, Forging the Future: A National Colloquium on Library Special Collections,” at Case Western Reserve University, Oct. 21, 2014. Conference website: http://library.case.edu/ksl/collections/special/colloquium/schedule/

Semester-long team assignment designed to familiarize lower division students with sites and methods for research in literary studies. Students work collaboratively to define and collect a wide range of primary and secondary sources.

As part of their work, teams explore the campus library, subscription databases, open-access resources, and special collections.

Decentering myself as the source of this knowledge has yielded terrific results. Students take ownership of their learning, generously share the knowledge they acquire, and meet many amazing, brilliant librarians in the process.

Assignment includes several check-ins during class where students tell each other what they’ve learned, how they’ve found certain sources, and who they asked to find out what, for instance, counts as an “edited collection.”

This presentation was given at the annual meeting of the Colorado Academic Library Summit (CALC). May 20-21, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. It offered insight to how Colorado School of Mines' Center for Oil Shale Technology and Arthur Lakes Library combined resources to create access to the Tell Ertl Oil Shale Repository's special collections on oil shale. The synergy of timing is apparent in this successful collaboration.

W pracy omówiono źródła dotyczące historii leśnictwa, edukacji leśnej i jej rozwoju oraz najważniejszych uczonych związanych z ośrodkiem krakowskim w oparciu o materiały archiwalne zebrane w archiwum uczelnianym i zbiorach Biblioteki Głównej. Dotyczą one okresu od drugiej połowy XIX wieku do czasów najnowszych. Nauczanie leśnictwa wywodzi się z lwowskich szkół wyższych oraz Wydziału Leśnego funkcjonującego na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim po II wojnie światowej. Na Uniwersytecie Rolniczym Wydział Leśny istniał z kilkuletnią przerwą pomiędzy 1953 a 1963 rokiem, dlatego największy zbiór archiwaliów stanowią materiały związane z jego profesorami, studentami, działalnością naukową – dydaktyczną, organizacyjną i wychowawczą. W zasobie archiwum znajdują się także liczne dokumenty dotyczące okresu międzywojennego i pierwszych lat po II wojnie światowej. Celem pracy było ukazanie dużej wartości tych archiwaliów oraz przedstawienie najważniejszych postaci i rozwoju nauk leśnych w XX wieku w oparciu o dokumentację aktową i fotograficzną, stanowiącą zasób Archiwum UR.

Studies regarding the design process tend to come from outside of textile and fashion design. Existing literature suggests a need for further investigation of design processes in these disciplines to advance understanding. Designers collect inspirational images and information to inform design development, often utilizing historical and archive resources; however, minimal insight is provided regarding application within the creative process. The Awaken Project investigated the conceptual possibilities of reinterpreting archive material for contemporary textile design and related work. Resulting from the project, this paper describes case studies with fourteen creative practitioners, to enhance understanding of the textile design process, specifically related to archive utilization. Each of the creative practitioner participants produced a creative process journal (CPJ). The CPJ comprises text, visuals and other media forms to provide insight into the creative journey. Archive inductions, subsequent archive visits and focus groups were central to the study and encouraged critical reflection on the work in progress. The case studies highlight varying approaches to working with archival resources in the textile design creative process. Discussion of the research project findings highlight factors for future consideration when working with archives. The research methods adopted are reflected upon and opportunities for further research are identified.

Sanskrit is a global phenomenon—a language that has captured the intellectual imagination of historians and linguists in nineteenth-century Europe, and contemporary students of yoga and āyurveda, alike. While Sanskrit is commonly studied as a literary form, its influence has extended to shape rituals, fables, images, performances, and architectural forms that together inspired a shared world of culture linking diverse regions of Asia across the centuries. The aim of the exhibition, Sanskrit—Across Asia and Beyond (Leiden, 18 May-5 Sept 2017), is to materialize some of the complexity and cultural dynamism of Sanskrit by featuring materials from the Special Collections of Leiden University Asia Library.

chapter in Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts, ed. Harriet Phillips and Claire Loffman. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2016. Update following Ashgate takeover:  published as Routledge, 2017 (official date 2018, but certainly appeared in July 2017.)

Apresenta-se o projeto Censo-Guía de fondos y colecciones fotográficas de instituciones públicas de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica, iniciativa promovida pelo grupo de investigação Griweb, da Faculdade de Ciências da Documentação da Universidade Complutense de Madri (Espanha) cujo objetivo é a difusão na Internet do patrimônio fotográfico conservado em centros e instituições públicas da Espanha, de Portugal e da Ibero-América. São expostos a justificativa do projeto, os objetivos e a equipe responsável pela investigação.

The detection of forms of growth in the use of the Cultural Heritage by the a large community, has established, in its valorisation process, the need of characterising the intent of popularising the knowledge, with methods able to set involving communication channels and more comprehensible contents. As regard to this picture and in occasion of a collaboration with the Pinacoteca Civica of Ascoli Piceno, the contribution intends to relate to the results of some studies oriented to investigate the opportunity of reading the transformation happened in the '800s of some urban glimpses of Ascoli Piceno, through the artistic production of the painter Giulio Gabrielli from Ascoli. Starting from a traditional work of analysis, cataloging and comparison of iconography and historic cartography, aimed at verifying the reliability of the urban modifications depicted by the artist, the process ended up investigating the opportunities offered by the technological methods of 3D animation, directed to the communication of such documentary value.

This brief presentation describes an attempt to determine whether it is possible to design a condition survey instrument to gather reasonably detailed information about the completeness of and damage to mutually-held book copies in a select group of institutions within SCELC, a California-based library consortium.

The historical importance of carpet design and manufacture to the West of Scotland is now largely forgotten, eclipsed by heavy industries such as shipbuilding for which Glasgow is justly famous. Yet, in their heyday, carpet manufacturers A. F. Stoddard of Elderslie, Renfrewshire and James Templeton of Glasgow Green provided employment for thousands of workers. Indeed, by the 1950s Templeton was Glasgow’s largest single employer. For decades the companies supplied carpets to the world’s ocean liners, heads of state, royalty, corporations and state institutions, yet in 2005 the combined companies filed for bankruptcy. This paper describes efforts to save and interpret the historical collections, principally concentrating on the design library now held at the Glasgow School of Art. It follows a recent research project, exhibition and publication that explored the development of the Library and its use within the design process.

Program Description: "Listen to the voyages of the Wisconsin Area Research Centers and Cornell University as these institutions boldly go where few archivists have gone before: beyond the final frontier of inter-institutional space to explore strange new worlds inhabited by interlibrary loan services. Learn how new guidelines from the Association of College and Research Libraries can help you develop policies and procedures to support responsible archival lending and digitization-on-demand services for enhanced research access to your unique collections."

My presentation focused on the revision of the ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Interlibrary and Exhibition Loan of Special Collections Materials; see: http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/specialcollections

The articles in this issue were all originally delivered as papers at the 47th annual preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the Association of College and Research Libraries held in Austin, Texas, June 20–23, 2006. Christian Dupont served as program planning chair for the preconference.