4. 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 19thcentury cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings
We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Dutch Language Collections - Acquisitions
Printed books
published in
Dutch, Frisian
and Afrikaans
About / from
Low
Countries,
South-Africa
(only in Afr.)
Research
level /
representing
Antiquarian
and Second
hand
Can be
borrowed!
Suggestions
Welcome!
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13. 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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16. Dutch language collections Underground press
I
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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17. 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.
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18. 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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20. 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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21. Secondary colour palette
Images used courtesy of
Website publishers:
http://www.icob.nl/icob/index.php
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2280
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Notes de l'éditeur
BIG CALL -
Legal Deposit
Lending Library
Research Library
Selections: printed books published in Low Countries, and /or about the Low Countries of academic level, or representing important cultural
Antiquarian / Second hand – GAPS
Suggestions welcome
You can borrow foreign language books!
DUTCH LANGUAGE COLLECTIONS (SPECIAL COLLECTIONS / MATERIALS (spec topics / published in…)
ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS (Breaking the Rules , Propaganda, WWI , Eur Lit Night)
Promotion collection _ Twitter !
FUTURE
Explore: cities AND low countries- 66 results- Sort by year.
Dutch pages on bl.uk : web coordinator
AAS: search Dutch East India Company / refine by language Dutch: 36 hits