Peter Freshwater wrote:
>
> Many congratulations on getting the Library History Group website up and
> running. Already useful, it has great capabilities, as a weel-kent man
> once said of most of the estates in England.
>
> Has the Group any plans to mount the British Library History
> bibliography online and to create access via the website?
>
> (There is always someone who wants jam and cream on the scone!)
>
On the bibliography question: BHO (Book History Online), which is to be
an on-line version of ABHB rather than the LHG bibliography, which is in
suspension anyway, is to be launched from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in
The Hague late this year or early next. I am on the discussion gropup
monitoring this, following a panel discussion at SHARP in July, and will
keep people posted. I hope it will be possible to improve on the rather
uneven treatment of library history in ABHB as time goes on - and even
to include pre-Gutenberg libraries!
There should certainly be a link from the excellent new LHG website.
Regards
Peter
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