Bibliographical Society Lecture on Early Printing on Wed 30 May

Oxford Bibliographical Society Lectures – Annual General Meeting Wednesday, 30 May 2012 in the Freind Room, Lee Building, Christ Church, at 5.15 p.m Lotte Hellinga on  “Explorations in Early Printing Houses” Dr Lotte Hellinga was Deputy Keeper (The British Library) and is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Correspondent of the Netherlands Academy [...]

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Lyell Lectures 2012

The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived. Lyell Lectures 2012 Lukas Erne, [...]

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Early English Books Online offers free training webinar

Early English Books Online (EEBO) – Training Webinar   Hosted by Rebecca Price, ProQuest Training and Support Team   Digitised directly from the UMI Early English Books collection in microform, Early English Books Online (EEBO) presents classic early English works as they appeared in their original format and includes works ranging from Galileo to Purcell [...]

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OBS Lecture by Brian Cummings 23 Jan 2012

Details of the next Oxford Bibliographical Society lecture Date: Monday, 23 January 2012 Location: Taylor Institution, Seminar Room 3, at 5.15 p.m. Lecture: The Book of Common Prayer and the History of the Book – Brian Cummings Brian Cummings  is currently Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He specialises in many aspects of [...]

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Mon 21 Nov @ 5.30pm: Classifying the world: John Wilkins and the invention of the universal language

MAGDALEN LIBRARY SEMINARS ‘Classifying the world: John Wilkins and the invention of a universal language’ Dr. Tabitha Tuckett (Magdalen College, Oxford) Monday 21 November, 7th week, 5.30pm Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford Historians are warmly invited to the third in the new series of Magdalen Library Seminars on the College’s library collections and their [...]

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New: State Papers Online 2, The Spectator 1828-2000, Early European Books 2 and many more

It gives us great pleasure to announce some end-of-year purchases of major databases. They can all be accessed via OxLIP+ and will be added to SOLO shortly. Oxford users have remote access and should use their Single Sign-On username and password. All other readers are welcome to use the databases in any of the Bodleian [...]

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Early modern historians: Discover Early English Books Online

Early modern historians: Discover Early English Books Online (EEBO) Friday 17 June (week 7), 14:15-15:30 – BOOK HERE EEBO is an important database of early printed books from 1475-1700. If you need tracts, texts and pamphlets written in Britain and colonial America in this time, then this hands-on session will show how to search, manipulate [...]

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VD17: now able to locate digital German early printed books

VD17 (Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts)  is the national union catalogue for German imprints of the 17th century.  Since February 2011 is is now possible to locate digital copies of German early printed books via VD17.  >More on this.

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Database trials until 31/1/11: Early European Books and The Cecil Papers

Oxford users now have trial access to two databases until 31 January 2011: Early European Books - now with Part 2 (Italian imprints): Early European Books builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with providing online access to non-Anglophone early printed materials. It offers scholars new ways of accessing and exploring the [...]

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