Leadhills Miners’ Library is the principal collection of the Leadhills Heritage Trust, which manages the library. The library was founded in 1741 as the Leadhills Reading Society; is both the first and earliest subscription library to be founded in Britain; and is also the world’s first library for working people. Its stock peaked at around […]
The National Gallery Library was established in 1870 with the purchase of the private library, consisting of some 2,000 volumes, of Sir Charles Eastlake (1793-1865), first Director of the National Gallery. It now contains around 100,000 printed volumes relevant to the study of the history of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to […]
Who owns your library catalogue data? And what are you allowed to do with it? During the last few decades, many libraries have adopted a strategy where they have decreased their reliance on in-house cataloguing effort and have preferred to purchase the majority of their bibliographic records from a range of service providers. While sometimes […]
We are one of the NBK Community Data Group project groups, and our task is to consider the tools that the NBK might be able to offer contributing libraries to help improve the quality of our metadata. Our work is closely linked to that of the other 3 projects described in previous blog posts, looking […]
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CMCAB June 2018 Meeting
The Jisc Collection Management Community Advisory Board met on June 21st 2018. A summary of discussions is provided below: Board membership: Dawn Holland from the University of Hull is stepping down from the Board. Her colleague from Hull, Chris Awre, will be joining the Board at the next meeting. The University of Sydney have reported […]