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Tuesday, 23rd October 2007

Briefs from The British Library: New 19th century British Library Newspapers website launched; National libraries join forces on bibliographic standard

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The British Library, in partnership with JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and Gale/Cengage Learning, today launches its 19th century British Library Newspapers website. The UK’s Further and Higher Education communities will enjoy free online access to a cross section of 19th century national and regional titles, greatly enhancing research into the society, culture and history of the UK between 1800-1900. HE and FE lecturers will be able to download material from the website and use it for teaching purposes.

For the first time, iconic historical events that shaped our present will be fully searchable online. Vital newspaper reports on the Congress of Vienna, the Slavery Abolition Act and the opening of the Suez Canal will become accessible from researchers’ desktops. Users will be able to read and repurpose the factual reporting of the Battle of Trafalgar in the Examiner and the gory details of the Whitechapel murders in the melodramatic Illustrated Police News. Alternatively, find reports on the first FA Cup final or the first England-Australia Test match; some of the most famous authors of the 19th century are represented, including Dickens and Thackeray.

The 19th century British Library Newspapers website, developed by Gale/Cengage Learning will enable users to search material previously only available in London-based reading rooms.

Learn More about newspaper digitisation at the BL

See Also: Chronicling America Database: Newspaper Digitization Project at the Library of Congress

Providing access to selected American newspapers from 1900-1910 and information on many more

See Also: NewspaperARCHIVE Special Collections (Free)
Thousands of Full Text, Full Image articles.

National libraries join forces on bibliographic standard
Four national libraries have joined forces to implement a new bibliographic standard for describing and accessing library resources that is designed for the digital environment in which libraries now operate.

The British Library, the National Library of Australia, the Library of Congress and Library and Archives Canada have agreed on the coordinated implementation of RDA: Resource Description and Access, the successor to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

Source: BL

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