RLUK_Mike: That's all folks! Thanks v. much 2 Michael Emly & Alison Faraday, & all our speakers today (especially given the train situation!) #rluksafe
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RLUK_Mike: David Prosser - other major themes, adapting the #UKRR for monographs, addressing a digital surrogate register for the UK #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: RT @speccollbrad: Hard at work on #rluk #oclc survey - I'm commenting on #borndigital bit - well, I like a challenge!
RLUK_Mike: David Prosser: some key themes - the necessity not just the choice of collaboration; advocacy; evidence (metadata & case studies) #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: Would a next generation solution be 2 rapidly digitize title pages & use visual pattern recognition 2 deduplicate our collections? #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: How should we take the #rluksafe work forward: can we expect a top-down model or are we the community the likely operative force here?
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Copac update: National Trust libraries records loaded
We are pleased to announce that the records of the libraries of the National Trust have been loaded onto Copac. This is the first time that the National Trust's catalogue has been available to search online.
The National Trust owns 140 historic libraries, containing around 230,000 titles, generally preserved in the places where they were originally assembled and read. Many are country house libraries, some collected by wealthy bibliophiles, others containing more practical everyday books, including rare provincial printing. Other collections reflect the interests of middle-class readers; some were assembled by literary figures, such as Kipling and Shaw.
Together these libraries provide an unparalleled resource for the study of the history of private book ownership in Britain and Ireland. The collections will be of interest to researchers from a wide range of disciplines, and include a huge variety of materials, from illuminated manuscripts to picture postcards.
We are confident that exposure of these exciting resources will be of great benefit to the education and research communities.
Copac would like to highlight the contribution of RLUK in securing the addition of these records. (http://www.rluk.ac.uk/)
Details of other libraries to be added to Copac are available from the Forthcoming Libraries pages on the Copac website
(http://copac.ac.uk/libraries/forthcoming/)
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