Increasing Online Discoverability of a Mixed-Format Collection

• Autores: Lesley Parilla
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 17, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 32-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 2004, Smithsonian Libraries acquired the mixed-format Russell E. Train Africana Collection for its special collections division. This collection contained items that had broad public appeal and significant historical value. The collection�s diversity of materials has been a source of excitement and challenge since Smithsonian Libraries acquired it in 2004. Judge Russell E. Train created the collection around his decades-long fascination with the history of exploration and wildlife in Africa.

    Train acquired materials from historic figures like Theodore Roosevelt during his African Expedition in 1909�1910, as well as explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. The collection includes . . .