HAB 2.0 - Collaborative cataloguing for a Wolfenbüttel
gateway to early modern cultural history
Project description
As
a research library specializing in medieval and early modern
European cultural history the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB)
provides services for an international scholarly community
from all historically oriented fields in the humanities.
Its clientele includes not only academics making brief use
of the holdings but also its own research staff and members
of fixed-term research project groups with external funding,
and participants in scholarly conferences held at the library.
These groups are joined by the approximately 80 scholars
per year who make extended visits to the library funded
by the library's own international residential fellowship
programmes and the ca. 120 scholars with outside funding
who also form part of the programme. The purpose of the
project is to make use of the competence and knowledge of
this ever-changing scholarly community in order to improve
national and transnational information services and at the
same time to optimize local conditions for virtual research.
The plan is to involve those scholars working at the library
in its cataloguing processes in order to enhance the depth
and quality of the content indexing of the Wolfenbüttel
holdings - both of rare books and of secondary literature,
whether monographs or articles. The results will be made
available in the main library catalogue, which will thus
evolve into an innovative information gateway for the cultural
history of pre-modern Europe.
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