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Graduate Trainee

Showcase

15th July 2016

General Confusion: Reclassifying the General & Comparative Section of

the Law Library

Lee Colwill Bodleian Law Library


General 510 B871a2

KN349.U4.BRO 2015

edition

publication order

unique author cutter

material type

jurisdiction/subject area

publication date

author cutter

specific subject matter

jurisdiction/subject

area

alphanumeric country cutter


Scope of the Project

Table II


Festschriften


Legal History


Religion and Law


Thanks for listening!

Hilda’s SWeeP 2016

St. Hilda’s College Library Weeding Project

Emma Quinlan

What is Hilda’s SWeeP?

Subject collection weeding project

Hilary & Trinity Term 2016

Books unloaned for 20 years

AimsIncrease shelving space

Keep collections modern & up to date

Continue book purchasing

Implement replacement editions procedure

Stage 1

Contacting tutors

Running Heritage reports

Sending subject collection lists

Stage 2

Editions procedure

Dispose of the oldest superseded edition when a new edition is purchased

Sent to all budget holders, regardless of subject collection

Stage 3

Withdrawing of texts

Trinity Term & Summer Vacation

Started with smaller collections in TT

No restrictions - sold in Library Booksale

ResultsWeeding statistics

25 subjects contacted

Response rate - 72%

Reminder Emails - 7

606 books weeded (so far)

18

7

Responses = Weeding

Yes No

Results

Editions statistics

27 subjects contacted

16

5

6

19%

59%

22%

Edition Statistics

Yes No Unresponded

Other Projects

Disability Common Framework

Stocktakes

Management Reclassification

Open Doors 2015

Posters

Updating Periodical Listings

Accessioning Library Equipment

Movement of Gallery Books

Future?

Masters - MA ILS @ Aberystwyth

Library & Information Professional

Astronomy?

Thank you!

Photo courtesy of Taylor Institution Library.

Photo by me

Scan courtesy of Google Books project

Photo of VET.GER.II.A.288 by me

A Year at the Taylorian: Philippa Edition

Gathering material

Shakespeare across languages and

media…

Creating labels and a catalogue

Individual text

labels using e-

Shelf

Case

summaries

and

background

Setting up the exhibition

Assembling the exhibition in the Voltaire Room

with Prof. Dr. Henrike Lähnemann

Publicising the exhibition

The exhibition was posted as an event on the

faculty website, and a poster was created using

Wordle

Social media

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylo

rian/

Find us on

Facebook and

follow us

@TAYOxford

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylorian/

Thank you for

listening -and for a

great year!

The Radcliffe Camera Staff Blog

Danielle Czerkaszyn,

HFL Graduate Library Trainee

A blog is an abbreviated version of ‘weblog’ which is a term used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information.

What is the reason/ purpose for the blog?

What standards and guidelines are in place for posting?

Who gets to post?

Should limits be set on the content of the blog?

How to tackle issues of privacy and data protection?

How to get staff input and make them feel included?

The motivation behind the staff blog is to improve communication within the Radcliffe Camera team.

By implementing the blog:

• Work practices and issues are documented, shared and easily referenced at a later date

• Information is consolidated in one place thus avoiding duplication

• Email inboxes are less crowded with routine emails

• Evening/weekend staff are better informed about what goes on during the week

• Everyone will feel part of a wider team

Special thanks to

Rachel D’Arcy-Brown

Craig Finlay

Isabel Holowaty

The Bodleian Libraries

And my fellow Trainees for a great year!

Consolidating catalogues: the Vaughan Papers collection

Claire Wilkinson (Codrington Library)

Sir Charles Vaughan

1774-1849Fellow of All Souls from 1798

British Minister Plenipotentiary to America 1825-1835

The Vaughan Papers

The Catalogues

• Calendar of the Vaughan Papers (John Andrew Doyle, c. 1902 [before 1920])

• Cátologo de los “Vaughan Papers” de la biblioteca de “All Souls College” de Oxford, relativos a España (Miguel-Angel Ochoa Brun, 1961)

• The American Papers of Sir Charles Richard Vaughan (1774-1849) from All Souls College, Oxford : Guide to the Microfilm Collection (Academic Microfilm Publishers, ©2002)

• The Papers of Sir Charles Richard Vaughan (1774-1849) (Microfilms for All Souls College)

• A new catalogue of the Vega Papers from the Vaughan Papers Collection in All Souls College, University of Oxford (Fernando Álvarez Garcia, 2007)

1837. July. 1. Florence.Contains a reference to Queen Victoria "her manner and deportment during the first ceremonies of the Reign." - Praise of William IV.

Florence, 1st July 1837

Dear Sir Charles -

I welcome you sincerely to Italy, and almost to Terra Firma, & I am delighted to find that you have not given up your visit to Florence.

I have not received any letter for you whatever, & any that may come hereafter, I will keep until you arrive.

You will have been already acquainted with the change that has taken place in England. Everything, up to my latest accounts from London, had passed off quietly, & the general opinion is highly favourable to our young Queen, as to her manner and deportment during the first ceremonies of her Reign.

The memory of the late King will be long and justly so, remembered by all classes in England, as a Sovereign during whose Reign the greatest benefits have been conferred.

Pray command me in any way, & believe me to be, Dear Sir Charles, Yours most faithfully,Ra. Abercrombie

A.2/1

A2A/4A

ARCHER (W.S.)

AP1.003 Reel 1 [General Correspondence]1835 October 29 Elk Hill, Virginia

1.012 Reel 1 [Section A: General Correspondence]

HAMILTON (James A.) 1830 February 9 New York.

AP1.044 Reel 1 [General Correspondence]Enclosing an autograph letter of his father Alexander Hamilton (dated May 5, 1796), with a signed note by Mr Rufus King.

A.022.05 A [General Correspondence]Enclosing an autograph letter of his father Alexander Hamilton, with a signed note by Mr Rufus King.

A.22/5

• Go through the remaining (33 3/4...) reels of microfilm and add to spreadsheet.

• Incorporate Ochoa Brun catalogue into spreadsheet

• Find out what the Library of Congress have, exactly.

• Look at the actual papers.

• Convert the spreadsheet into a searchable database.

• Digital copies?

Further work...

Used with permission from N and G Quantrell

The Art Kleiner Archive & the Oxfam Collaboration

Alan McKechnie

Interview with Herman Kahn, author of On Escalation, May 11, 1965

Pierre Wack, Shell, Group Planning

Department

Art Kleiner, Editor-in-chief of strategy+business

Oxfam Collaboration

References

Art Kleiner Archive

• Kleiner, Art, Age of Heretics, (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2008)• Kleiner, Art, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, (N. Brealey, London, 2008)• Khan, Herman, On Thermonuclear War, (Princeton University Press,

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1960)• ‘Guru: Pierre Wack’, The Economist, (Aug. 29th 2008) accessed online:

http://www.economist.com/node/12000502• Futures Library website, see:

http://oxfordfutures.sbs.ox.ac.uk/index.html• Strategy+Business, online publication, see: http://www.strategy-

business.com/

Images• O'Halloran, Thomas J. (photographer), ‘Interview with Herman Kahn,

author of On Escalation, May 11, 1965’, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)accessed online: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004666287/

• Wack, Eve (photographer) ‘Pierre Wack’, Futures Library, EgrovePark, Oxford

• ‘Art Kleiner’, strategy+business, (http://www.strategy-business.com/)

Oxfam Collaboration

• http://oxfam.org.uk• For annual reports, see: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-

do/about-us/plans-reports-and-policies/annual-report-and-accounts

• For Oxfam Publications, see: http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications

• Black, Maggie, A Cause for Our Times: Oxfam: the first 50 years, (Oxfam Publications, Oxford, 1992)

• Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime, (Penguin Books, London, 2005)

• Sumption, Harold, Yesterday’s Trail-blazing and Pointers for Tomorrow: Harold Sumption Remembers…, (Brainstorm Publishing, Ltd., Hertford, 1995)

• Warkentin, Craig, Reshaping World Politics: NGOs the Internet, and Global Civil Society, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York, 2001)

http://www.economist.com/node/12000502

http://oxfordfutures.sbs.ox.ac.uk/index.html

http://www.strategy-business.com/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=name&q=O'Halloran, Thomas J.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004666287/

http://www.strategy-business.com/

http://oxfam.org.uk/

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/plans-reports-and-policies/annual-report-and-accounts

http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications

89

A Year

of

Displays

at the

efl

Mary Atkinson

Does shelf height affect circulation?

Complex answers to simple questions

BACKGROUND

DATA GATHERING

DATA ANALYSIS

WHAT I’VE LEARNT + NEXT STEPS

Claire Audelan Library Graduate Trainee Showcase, 15th July 2016

St. John’s College Library

Do we need pictures? Illustration of the earliest printed books.

Insights into the preparation of an exhibition.

• A place to start… St. John’s College Library

• Ideas to put together… The preparation

• Choices to make… Highlights of the display







A place to start… St. John’s College Library

LegendLaudianLibraryOld LibraryLaw LibraryNew Study Centre





Old Library, 1596-1598 Laudian Library, 1631-1635





The Special Collections at St. John’s:

• Library collections dating from 1555;

• 400 manuscripts;

• More than 20,000 works printed before 1850;

• 143 incunables (i.e., books printed before 31st December 1500).





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20

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30

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1461-1465 1466-1470 1471-1475 1476-1480 1481-1485 1486-1490 1491-1495 1496-1500

Printing dates

Distribution of St. John's College Library incunables publication dates





Distribution of the places of printing of St. John’s incunables





Distribution of languages in St. John's College Library incunables

Anglo-Norman

English

Greek

Italian

Latin

Latin & Arabic

Latin & English

Latin & French

Latin & Greek

Latin, Arabic & Greek

Latin, English & French

English & French




Ideas to put together… The preparation of the exhibition




Choices to make… Highlights of the display

Geoffrey Chaucer ( -1400), Canterbury Tales, printed in Westminster by William Caxton (ca. 1422-1491/1492) in 1483 or 1484. 314 leaves in folio, in English.

St. John’s College Library, Safe, f. a8v-b1r.





Euclid, Elements, printed in Venice by Erhard Ratdolt (1477?-1527/1528) on 25th May 1482. 276 pages in folio, in Latin, Arabic and Ancient Greek.

St. John’s College Library, B-T / F-17 / EUC, f. c1v-c2r.





Abū Maʿshar ( -886) , Madkhal ilá ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm(Introduction to astronomy), printed in Augsburg by Erhard Ratdolt (1447?-1527/1528) on 7th Ides February 1489. 70 leaves in quarto, in Latin and Arabic.St. John’s College Library, HB4/6.a.3.25(1), f.a2v-a3r.

Scriptores astronomici veteres, printed in Venice by Aldo Manuzio (1449/1450-1515) in October 1499. 752 pages in folio, in Latin.St. John’s College Library, B-T / F – 31 / SCR, f. Iviiiv-Iixr.




http://15cbooktrade.ox.ac.uk/

Cristina Dondi

Thanks

to all for your attention

and to St. John’s College Library for your support throughout this project.

Do come and see the exhibition!

[email protected]




The Archive of Katherine Watson:poet, bookseller and nun

Rachael Gardner

Katherine Watson (1918-2008)

• Women’s Royal Naval Service, 1941-1946

• Postulant at Holy Cross Abbey, Stapehill, Dorset, 1949

• Pedallers to Rome, 1950

• The Source and Other Poems, 1956

• Nemo’s Almanac, 1959-1969

• Watson’s Bookshop, Burford, 1966-1980

• John Bayley

• Nancy K. Sandars

• Carolyn M. King Photo: Rob Judges/Rex

Photo: Mike Tomlinson

• ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description

• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm

Thank you!

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