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CHAPTER V - EXAMPLES, INDEXES, AND ESTIMATES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Edward Edwards
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Q. Are you aware whether there is any collection on the Continent, which, from its size and value, bears any analogy to the collection in the Museum, in which a printed Catalogue exists or is in contemplation? Ans. ..… It is no reason, in my apprehension at least, why the printed books in the British Museum should not be enrolled in a printed Catalogue, that I find no such Catalogue at Dresden or at Stuttgart.

Sir R. H. Inglis (Minutes of Evidence on British Museum, 788).

To the argument in favour of a MS. Catalogue drawn from the example of the great Continental Libraries, we have ‥ replied: What to us is the authority of .… Russia, of Prussia, or of Austria? The British Museum is the People's Museum; the Library is the People's Library; .… it is not a London Library, it is a National Library.

The Athenœum (1850), 499.

BOOK III. Chapter V. Examples, Indexes, and Estimates.

Within the brief period that has elapsed since Lord Ellesmere's Commission recommended manuscript catalogues as preferable to printed, for great and increasing Libraries, there has been remarkable activity in several such Libraries, either in printing Catalogues or in preparing them with the avowed intention to print. But if no one such instance could be pointed to; if no great Library in Europe either had, or sought to have, a printed catalogue; the worth and desirableness of such a Catalogue would be just what they are.

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Memoirs of Libraries
Including a Handbook of Library Economy
 , pp. 869 - 886
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1859

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