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Heritage of the Printed Book database

Heritage of the Printed Book database. 1. Heritage of the Printed Book database. bibliographic data for material printed in the handpress-era (i.e. c. 1455-c. 1830 ) Started in 1997 Aims to give a comprehensive overview on the entirety of Europe’s printed heritage

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Heritage of the Printed Book database

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  1. Heritage of the Printed Book database 1

  2. Heritage of the Printed Book database • bibliographic data for material printed in the handpress-era (i.e.c. 1455-c. 1830) • Started in 1997 • Aims to give a comprehensive overview on the entirety of Europe’s printed heritage • Mostly high-level bibliographical records created by book-in-hand cataloguing 2

  3. Users of the HPB Bibliographic reference tool for • Users from areas of study that use early printed books as source material • Librarians • Antiquarian booksellers • … More and more also directing to digitised versions

  4. Contents of the HPB Over 3.5 million records from 34 institutions with at least 5.000 libraries in 18 European countries and the US Hosted by OCLC (Dublin, Ohio) MARC21 format Files added and updated per batch load processing

  5. Access to the HPB Retrieval FirstSearch worldcat.org Editing Connexion client Connexion browser Derived cataloguing, remote querying Z39.50 5

  6. HPB in FirstSearch • http://firstsearch.oclc.org/ • IP-recognition access in member library‘s reading rooms • HPB specific enhancements to FirstSearch: • Annotation facility • Assisted Searching

  7. Record linking • MARC 21 76x-78x fields:Relationships between editions and items • E.g. • Hierachical records for multivolume works • Translations, parallel editions • Items bound together • same editions from different sources

  8. Recent additions • Dutch early printed material • Polish National Library • University Library Wrocław • Vatican Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

  9. Upcoming new files • Public Library Lyon • University Library Tartu • Czech National Library • Royal Library Brussels • French ABES networks • Leighton Library, Dunblane

  10. Provenance Index • OCLC is currently setting up a new keyword index based on MARC 21 fields • 70x and 71x with relevant relator codes • 561Ownership and Custodial History • 563 Binding Information

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