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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

The Bibliographical Society decided in 2005 that it would use its website to offer space for bibliographical work-in-progress and additions and corrections to bibliographical reference works, especially those published by the Society. In 2006, the Society came to an agreement with the School of Advanced Study at the University of London to make use of the SAS e-Repository for storage of databases and other electronic documents. The Society’s Council invites both members and non-members of the Society to take advantage of these two facilities to offer electronic documents for publication on the web. We hope that this facility will be of particular use for work-in-progress, which can be updated as required.

The items currently available at www.bibsoc.org.uk are

  • • John Dee’s Library Catalogue: additions and corrections

  • • The London Book Trades: A Bibliographical Resource

  • • English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century

  • • Coffee-House Library Short-Title Catalogue

  • • British Book Illustrations, 1604–1640

  • • An electronic version of McKerrow’s Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices

  • • Not in McKerrow

An Electronic Version of McKerrow’s Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices

One of the resources listed on the Electronic Resources pages is a link to a digitized version of R. B. McKerrow, Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices in England & Scotland 1485–1640, which was prepared for the Society by the Royal Library, Copenhagen, through the good offices of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).1 The pages were scanned sequentially from a printed copy of McKerrow so that the electronic version of the book can be consulted in full. The images of the individual devices are also available as links in the entries for each bookseller or printer in CERL’s Thesaurus of names of persons, places, owners, etc. for the history of the printed book up to c. 1830.2

Not in McKerrow

A further section has been added to the Electronic Resources to record devices that are not in McKerrow, drawing on additional datings and new devices recorded in articles by Craig Ferguson3 and J. A. Lavin.4 The device newly identified by Hope Johnston and documented in the note on pages 468–473 has also been added. [End Page 472]

The Bibliographical Society invites further contributions of references and images of devices that were not recorded by McKerrow for the period to 1640. Please contact Dr David Shaw by email at david@djshaw.co.uk or via the Society’s London office.

THE ARCHIVES OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

The Bibliographical Society’s Archive is now at the Bodleian Library and can be used by scholars and by members of the Society. All researchers wishing to use the Archive must have a valid Bodleian reader’s ticket, but Members of the Society who are not otherwise eligible should bring to Bodleian Admissions their current signed Society’s Programme Card together with proof of identification.

A finding list of the contents of the archive is available on the society’s website (www.bibsoc.org.uk) and in the Special Collections Reading Room of the Bodleian Library; a full catalogue will be available in due course.

For enquiries email: enquiries.sc@bodley.ox.ac.uk

THE LIBRARY, VIRTUAL ISSUE

The Library announces the launch of an annual ‘Virtual Issue’, to accompany the journal’s four print issues every December. This virtual issue will comprise a retrospective gathering of key articles in a particular field that have appeared in the pages of The Library since the journal’s first appearance. These will be chosen by a guest editor, who will also supply an editorial reflecting on the field, its history, and its prospects, here and beyond. This virtual issue is available, free of charge to any interested reader, on The Library’s page on OUP’s website (http://library.oxfordjournals.org). The articles will remain freely available for three months, but the editorial permanently.

ONLINE ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY

The Library is now also available in online format, from Oxford University Press, via the web address http://www.library.oxfordjournals.org/. Access to the electronic version comes at no extra charge to members of the Bibliographical Society, and is available to those non-member subscribers who [End...

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