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"Looking for the Needle in the Haystack: Small, Unique Collections - How to find
hidden gems?"
Knowledge by Networking Conference, Berlin, June 21st 2007
Maria Sliwinska
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Important national institutions
• National and university libraries
• National museums
• National archives
• National galleries
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Big names
• British Museum,
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Big names
• Louvre
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Big names • Uffizi in Florence
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Big names • Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden
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Tools for collections location
• printed guides,
• catalogues,
• Inventories,
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Researchers situation
• Necessity to travel
• Difficult to locate all necessary materials
• Cost of time and money
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Time of change
• Digital collections
• Websites
• Registered by search engines
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Difficulties
• Millions of hits on Internet
• Information not available on-line
• Metadata not adequate
• Too many single catalogues to search
• Lacking information where to look for
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Discoveries
• Documents in unexpected places
• „Kazania Świętokrzyskie”
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Small but interesting • Victorian Museum in Tiverton
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Famous object in small place • Gutenberg Bible available in a small museum in
Pelplin
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From country to country • Mathias Corvin, available in public library
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Famous people in small places • Amos Comensky’s archival materials available in
Leszno
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Historical monuments • Polish king dauther Regelinda -XIII century in
Naumburg
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Interesting census records • University Ingolstadt closed more than 200 years
ago
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Hollywood star from Lipno • Pola Negri
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Not only in France • Maria Curie Skłodowska Museum in Warsaw
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Big names • Wit Stwosz altar
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Union catalogues
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Important initiative
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Important initiative
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Important initiative
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Important initiative
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Joining forces?