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ANGLO-AMERICAN LITHUANICA KSETEEESAEEEEEMANI TLES AND See ESS CTENGCES COLLECTIONS SE LE piel tS EFBRARY JANET ZMROCZEK London The British Library was formed in 1973 from the library departments of the British Museum and a number of other formerly …
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onwards the firm of Adolph Asher (with offices in Berlin, St.Peterburg, and London) became the major supplier of books from Eastern Europe. Much of our earlier Lithuanian material, both from Europe and the USA, was supplied by Asher, though there is still …
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acquired up to 1975 and included in the General Catalogue of Printed Books, as this material is not as easy to identify as our more current holdings. Our whole catalogue is now in machine-readable form, but as the pre-1975 catalogue was converted by …
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Epistles and a booke in quarto set out in the yeare 1653 [he refers here to “Kniga nobaznistes krikscioniszkos”] but also for their fuller knowledge of the Christian religion...” He stresses that not only is Lithuanian used in those large territories but …
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inferiour to the Citty of London...having a great University, of almost an innumerous multitude of students who resort thither for learning and education, especially in the Romish religion, from all places and corners of the Kingdome, and who do replenish …
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Rankpelnis, and Išeivių Draugas to the historical journal Naujas Laikas published by the Lithuanian Educational Society of Scotland in 1930 (P.P. 1186 td), the Catholic monthly Ezys (P.P.3554. emr.) published at Shotts from 1915-17 and the journal Jaunoji …
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in a more generally known tongue, seem to be out of print: even as Lithuanian singing itself has retired to smaller and smaller circles amidst the great mass of the people and made progress only among the few educated who can appreciate what a venerable, …
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In the interwar period, general introductions to Lithuanian history, culture and society began to appear alongside contributions to the debate on Lithuania’s new status, her borders and relations with neighbouring countries. This is demonstrated by the …
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Nations and the US House of Representatives and Senate such as the 1948 publication Lithuania shall be free (8094.bb.11) and books published by Lithuanian exiles in other countries such as Germany, which sought to remind the English-speaking world of …
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acquired under the Copyright Act. Nida’s output was wide-ranging, with quality fiction and prose predominating. Its importance as a much-valued alternative to the output of Soviet Lithuanian publishers, whose plans were dictated by Party prerogatives, …
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merchant and the statesman whose purpose the student may affectually (sic) assist when the materials are ready to hand’. (3). Although the Lithuanian collections have been under-exploited in the past, we are witnessing an increasing interest in our …
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RARE BOOKS IN ESTONIA: PRO BIĖEMSEANIDE PERSU BIS INMAE S eles eels THRESHOLD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY TIIU REIMO Tallinn The remarkable jubilee — the 425 anniversary of the Vilnius University Library — gives us the full right to look back and speak …
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Dealing with rare book collections in Estonia, four libraries, two archives and one museum have to be named. These are: ¢ the Tartu University Library (founded in 1802) ¢ the Archive Library of the Estonian Literary Museum (founded in 1909) * the Estonian …
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literature up to 1710. In addition to printed material the department has impressive collection of MSS and autographs, personal archives of researchers from Tartu (about 25.000 items), photographs’ collection (ca 15.000 items) and the oldest engravings …
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The Estonian National Library has a relatively new rarities’ collection. It was formed after the World War II, mostly by uniting the libraries closed in 1940, by acquiring private collections that had lost their owners 1939-1944 and by intensive …
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were considered. This acquisition principle is also carried on at the present. After World War II, the collection of older Estonian literature was formed. Resulting from the long history and relatively few damages, the collection 1s rich in early …
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establishing an electronical library system, finding new rooms for the library and carrying on conservation work The Estonian Historical Archive has a library since 1922. The basis of the collections was the library of the Estonian Nobility (ca 7500 …
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researchers are served. In addition, the museum has the library, consisting of the older archive collection and the reference library, altogether about 13.000 storage units. The archive collection holds also a well-preserved major library of the Wrangell …
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Library has been designed in such a way, that the water pipe goes through the rare book depository. The Estonian History Museum has no money to finish the new museum complex. Both our archives have had serious damage of water caused by a disorder of …
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information about bibliographical work and typographic characteristics of old books. In addition, they usually not imagine the problems they will be dealing with, so they may not find the work interesting, not something they want to do, may feel …
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University library. Here such leading scholars as Arvo Tering, Ene Jaason, Mare Rand, Niina Vorobjova, Tatjana Schachovskaja, and Hain Tankler should be mentioned. The Library of the Estonian Academy of Sciences has developed research in three directions: …
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the inner market and foreign market are completely different. So, regarding the old books in Estonian language, an acquisition program exists. As to Western European rare books, the acquisition is quite occasional. The last ten years have brought the …
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problem — a vast part of the collections need recataloguing and the question is, how to do it? Should we start by creating a bibliographical database from A to Z or should we first of all provide information about the more interesting (or presumably more …
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millennium. Perhaps our successors will no longer have a printed book at the end of the next hundred years, but they will not escape any of the problems, as they will have the collections we have donated them — a witness of living history from mankind’s …
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9. Reimo T. Viron Tiedeakatemian Kirjasto ja sen Baltica-osasto // Helsingin Yliopiston Kirjaston Tiedotuslehti. 1989. N 8. S.152-161: il. 10. Robert K. Tallinna linna Oleviste raamatukogu ajaloost : [History of the Bibliotheca Revaliensis ad D.Olai] // …
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RETŲ KNYGŲ RINKINIAI ESTIJOJE. PROBLEMOS IR PERSPEKTYVOS PRIE XXI AMŽIAUS SLENKSČIO TIIU REIMO REZIUMĖ Retų knygų rinkiniai Estijoje sukaupti Tartu universiteto bibliotekoje (įkurta 1802 m.), Estijos literatūros muziejaus bibliotekoje (įkurta 1909 m.), …
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cB PB Oy GEE CASSAPTE HANA?” WEN eis NI VE RSI E TE ALMA BRAZIUNIENE Vilnius Sapiegų giminė nuo pat XV iki XIX amžiaus Lietuvai davė daug politikų ir valstybės veikėjų, karo vadų, vyskupų ir kitokių didžių vyrų. Sapiegos garsėjo kaip dosningi mecenatai, …
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knygų saugykloje" (2). Dar po pusės šimtmečio Kazimieras Kognovickis išleido “Sapiegų gyvenimus", kur pakartota ta pati mintis: “Kazimieras tai pačiai Vil- niaus akademijai savo didelę ir retų knygų Ružanų biblioteką, surinktą tėvo Leono Sapiegos bei jo …
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knygy yra 43, arba 18%. Vyrauja XVII a. I-IV dešimtmetyje spausdinti leidi- niai. Vadinasi, galėję būti komplektuoti tiek tėvo, tiek ir sūnų. Reikėtų neuž- miršti, kad tais laikais nebuvo didelio vargo įsigyti ir daug anksčiau leistų kny- gų, juo labiau …
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VYTAUTAS JUOZAPAS MAŽIULIS Bibliografijos rodyklė VILNIUS 2002 …