Integrated resource discovery and access of manuscript materials : the user perspective

Recent developments in ICT have given hope to users of manuscript materials that some of their old problems will now be solved. Their primary question is possibly to be understood by the librarians and archivists who, more or less jealously, keep the treasures they are interested in. Strangely enough, the world of users is very often not so familiar to them. The worlds of librarians and archivists often differ more by the methods they use, than by the material they manage. To know which manuscript materials are kept by who is not always simple. National traditions, the fortuities of history and legal regulations have produced intricate situations that cry for better cooperation between those two worlds. According to the manuals used in the education of librarians or archivists, the definition of ‘archives’ is clear and unambiguous, but if you compare the manuals used in different countries, you observe fundamental differences, even contradictions. The best-known example is what is mostly called in English, private papers, in German Nachlässe, in Italian spogli, but in French, Dutch and other languages you read archives privées or something similar. In fact these collections of letters, personal notes and other documents received or written by a single person and kept by him/her, are not considered archives in the true sense by most nineteenth-century archivists and in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, where ‘archives’ is synonymous with ‘public papers’ or better ‘public records’. Consequently, you rarely have to look for private papers in British archival institutions, but in libraries. In most cases the content of the collection is described according to the rules of manuscript cataloguing, whereas in those countries where private papers form an important part of archival collections, they are described according to archival standards

Integrated resource discovery and acess of manuscript materials : the user perspective

Présentation d\u27une communication au 32e congrès LIBER qui s\u27est tenu à Rome du 17 au 20 juin 2003. Problèmes de l\u27identification et de l\u27accès en ligne aux manuscrits du point de vue de l\u27usager

Daughter-Specific Transcription Factors Regulate Cell Size Control in Budding Yeast

The asymmetric localization of cell fate determinants results in asymmetric cell cycle control in budding yeast

Stad en universiteit

Geschiedenis: Nieuwe Tijd (OE)status: publishe

Het intellectueel leven

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Spanje, Habsburg en Europa: de Nederlanden onder Leopold Willem

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Onvrede en onrust in eigen rangen 1690-1759

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Lecture tools at the Leuven Faculty of Arts from its origin (1425) until the end of the seventeenth century

Thanks to university and faculty statutes and regulations, we are well informed about the way in medieval and early modern universities teaching was organized. College lecture notes, syllabi and other course materials provide a good insight into the structure and content of the courses taught. In this contribution we have elaborated on the teaching tools being in use at the University of Leuven during the ancient régime and on the changes that occurred in the course of time. We made use of some written testimonies of the learning process such as professorial course material, lecture notes, disputations, theses etc. that are kept in great numbers in the University archives and libraries of both the Louvain Universities and elsewhere. One of the striking facts is that students continued to write themselves lecture notes even after the introduction of the printing press. The use of illustrations, for its part, evolved in the course of time from merely illustrative to practical