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Heritage of the Printed Book database

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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

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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

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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

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Access to the HPB

• Retrieval– FirstSearch– worldcat.org

• Editing– Connexion client– Connexion browser

• Derived cataloguing, remote querying– Z39.50

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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

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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

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Recent additions

• Dutch early printed material• Polish National Library• University Library Wrocław• Vatican Incunabula Short Title

Catalogue

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Upcoming new files

• Public Library Lyon • University Library Tartu• Czech National Library• Royal Library Brussels• French ABES networks• Leighton Library, Dunblane

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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