Thaddeus Mason Harris' working documents regarding subject-based library catalog, ca. 1790

Thaddeus Mason Harris, who served as interim librarian of the Harvard College Library in 1787 and as its librarian from 1791 through 1793, is believed to have created these notes while helping compile the library's first printed subject-based catalog. The catalog, Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, was published in 1790 and represented a significant change in approach to the cataloging of the library's collections, which had formerly been cataloged alphabetically. These documents, many of them on small scraps of paper, contain the titles and bibliographic information of books on a range of topics, from "Anatomici" to "Rhetorica."

A source book in theatrical history (Sources of theatrical history)

Bibliography: p.593-601.

The free library; its history and present condition /

book 1. General history [libraries in Great Britain]--book 2. Brief histories of typical libraries.--Appendix (statistical tables)--Index.

The John Carter Brown library; a history.

Mode of access: Internet.

The library and history study,

Read at the meeting of the Minnesota Educational Assoc., St. Paul, October 23, 1914.

The library of original sources; ideas that have influenced civilization, in the original documents,

v.l. The ancient world. - v.2. The Greek world. - v.3. The Roman world. - v.4. Early mediaeval age. - v.5. 9th to 16th century. - v.6. Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800. - v.7. Era of revolution. - v.8. 1800-1833. - v.9. 1833-1865. - v.10. 1865-1903. Indexes.

Public use of the library and other sources of information,

"Presents the major findings of a survey undertaken by the Survey Research Center for the Public Library Inquiry."

A catalogue of books [donated by Jasper Mauduit] in the library of Harvard College [at]: Cambridge in New England, 1765

This leatherbound volume lists books donated to the Harvard College Library by Jasper Mauduit, who served as an agent in London on behalf of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Entries are arranged alphabetically and by format; i.e. the first page lists all folios whose author, title, or keyword begin with "A," the next page lists all quartos beginning with "A," and the following page lists all "octavo &ca" volumes beginning with "A." The volume continues in a similar manner for each letter of the alphabet. Following a devastating fire in 1764 which destroyed most of the books in the Harvard College Library, Mauduit donated books, as well as money for the purchase of books, to the College. He also acted as an agent of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent, using the £300 they donated for the rebuilding of the College library to select and purchase a large number of books. It is not known if the books listed in this catalog are those donated by Mauduit himself, or if they are the donations he purchased on behalf of the Society. The creator of this volume is unknown; although all entries are made in the same hand, the identity of the writer has not been determined. The label attached to the front cover, which refers to the Lime Street address of Mauduit's business in London, suggests that the list might have been prepared by Mauduit himself.

Library catalogue notes of Isaac Smith, ca. 1789

Thirteen slips of paper with fragments of handwritten alphabetical lists created by Isaac Smith presumably in his capacity as Harvard Librarian. Most of the entries are surnames or single-word subjects. For example, one slip with "M" entries includes: milway, miracles, miraculous, Mitchell, and Mitchell. Some of the lists have struck-through words or have entries annotated with numbers and the abbreviations "o" and "bk." The verso of one leaf has a brief, undated note regarding the transfer of books between Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Smith.

Author and title list of the most important accessions to the War Department Library : with subject entries in biography, military history, and military science, and index of periodicals received during the calendar year, 1904.

"Office of the Chief of Staff, Second (Military Information) Division."

Sources of the Constitution of the United States, considered in relation to colonial and English history,

Mode of access: Internet.

Bulletin of literature, history, biography and travels. October, 1897.

Advertising matter interspersed.

In Praise of Library History

This article marks the decline of the historical study of the Library meet the increase in studies on technology-driven globalization and the predominance of technicality in the discipline, but it is essential to return to that historical knowledge if the Library want instituted as a fully scientific field of knowledge. Emphasized in the beginning of the Library from orality to the written record preserved by the archives and libraries and its close relation to the development of the science of history. It also establishes the link between documents librarians and historians to understand the past and present society.

Sources to study Antiquity: Between texts and material culture. Abstract Book

FCT

Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow.

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