The British Library
in association with the
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
announces the launch of the Sloane Printed Books Project
At the British Library Conference Centre
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB UK
15 October 2008 | 17.30 - 20.00
The Sloane Printed Books Project has created an online catalogue
which lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753),
whose collections were one of the foundation collections of
the British Museum. Bibliographical records are enhanced with
Sloane's own numbers or other identifying marks, and with
information about previous owners. The catalogue can be used
in many different ways, including identifying individual books
from his library, displaying a range of items in the order in
which Sloane organised them, or searching for the previous
owners of books in Sloane's library.
Presentations on the historical background to Sloane's book
collection will be followed by a demonstration of the online
catalogue and an opportunity to search its content.
Programme
17.30 Welcome and opening remarks
Kristian Jensen
Acting Head of British Collections, British Library
17.40 Collecting information and advancing medicine
in the time of Sir Hans Sloane
Professor Hal Cook
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL
18.00 Sir Hans Sloane and the collection of knowledge
Arthur MacGregor
Ashmolean Museum
18.20 Sir Hans Sloane, founder of
the British Museum Library
Giles Mandelbrote
Early Printed Collections, British Library
18.40 An Introduction to the Sloane Printed
Books Catalogue
Alison Walker
Lead Researcher, Sloane Printed Books Project
19.00 Questions and discussion
19.15 Drinks reception
Attendance is free
But please register
your name with
Teresa Harrington
at the British Library
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Submitted by HJ Cook, Professor and Director, Wellcome Trust Centre,
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