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"Looking for the Needle in the Haystack: Small, Unique Collections - How to find
hidden gems?"
Knowledge by Networking Conference, Berlin, June 21st 2007
Maria Sliwinska
Important national institutions
• National and university libraries
• National museums
• National archives
• National galleries
Big names
• British Museum,
Big names
• Louvre
Big names • Uffizi in Florence
Big names • Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden
Tools for collections location
• printed guides,
• catalogues,
• Inventories,
Researchers situation
• Necessity to travel
• Difficult to locate all necessary materials
• Cost of time and money
Time of change
• Digital collections
• Websites
• Registered by search engines
Difficulties
• Millions of hits on Internet
• Information not available on-line
• Metadata not adequate
• Too many single catalogues to search
• Lacking information where to look for
Discoveries
• Documents in unexpected places
• „Kazania Świętokrzyskie”
Small but interesting • Victorian Museum in Tiverton
Famous object in small place • Gutenberg Bible available in a small museum in
Pelplin
From country to country • Mathias Corvin, available in public library
Famous people in small places • Amos Comensky’s archival materials available in
Leszno
Historical monuments • Polish king dauther Regelinda -XIII century in
Naumburg
Interesting census records • University Ingolstadt closed more than 200 years
ago
Hollywood star from Lipno • Pola Negri
Not only in France • Maria Curie Skłodowska Museum in Warsaw
Big names • Wit Stwosz altar
Union catalogues
Important initiative
Important initiative
Important initiative
Important initiative
Joining forces?