Three million ancient Arabic manuscripts are jealously preserved in libraries, in conservation institutions and in private homes. A non-consulted document is like a dead document—its fate is related to its consultation by users. The access to this kind of document is very difficult because of two main reasons: first, the fragile state of the manuscripts that make them easily degradable, necessa...

Conservation libraries, which hold manuscripts and are willing to provide catalogues, face the problem of their diversity: each manuscript, document or archive has its own features, due to its history. Information technology helps librarians both to record ancient documents descriptions, dealing with highly non-standard data, and to allow their dissemination. Biblioteca Ambrosiana collaborates ...

Every university has a university library that has been there from the start. And at the start, the situation was relatively simple. There was a library, almost always located in one building, very often in the middle of the university buildings. It was the place where staff and students went to gather scientific information and to study. It was the pride of many universities. The library’s org...

works on philosophy, kabbala, and Talmud written in a fifteenth-century rabbinical Byzantine script. In cataloguing the microfilm copy of the manusclipt at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem," I was able to identify one short piece as a Hebrew adaptation of Hippocrates' oath, apparently the first such text to come to light....

The De Geer family established themselves in Sweden as iron industrialists during the early seventeenth century, but they maintained close contact with Netherlands. built up a prestigious library at Leufstabruk, northern Uppland. objects Leufsta Music Collection contained significant amount of music form printed sheet and manuscripts, which were most likely gathered long lifetime baron Charles ...

Reports in library information system involve bibliographic cataloguing cards. XML Schema for modelling the concepts of bibliographic cataloguing card is described. All concepts of the main bibliographic cataloguing card are shown. Analysis of the capability of XML Schema language for representing the concepts of all types of the bibliographic cataloguing cards is given too. Besides, the possib...