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SUNCAT - Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community

We are delighted to welcome the British Museum
(http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.aspx) as a new SUNCAT contributing library.  This addition brings the total number of contributing libraries to 99, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The British Museum has a number of departmental libraries, including those
of:
 
 - Anthropology Library and Research Centre
 - Ancient Egypt and Sudan
 - Asia, Pacific and Africa
 - Coins and Medals
 - Conservation and Scientific Research
 - Greece and Rome
 - Middle East

The Anthropology Library is one of the world's major specialist anthropology libraries. Formed by the amalgamation of the Museum's Ethnography library and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) it now contains over 120,000 volumes, covering all aspects of anthropology, but with a particular strength in material culture. The collection covers the whole world and the library continues to collect both domestic and overseas material, where appropriate. It is renowned for its extensive journal
collection: over 1,500 periodical titles are currently subscribed to with approximately 4,000 titles held in total. The holdings are used as the basis for the Anthropological Index Online which is produced by the RAI. 

The Library of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan ranks among the top five libraries for Egyptology worldwide and has a particularly strong collection of older material (including journals going back to the nineteenth century), museum and exhibition catalogues (around 1,800 items), auction catalogues, and the Nubia and Sudan section.

The library of the Department of Coins and Medals is one of the world's leading numismatic libraries, reflecting the scope of the department's comprehensive collections and interests. These range from the history of numismatics and its origins in antiquarianism to contemporary art medals and badges. The Library contains around 20,000 books, journals, pamphlets and sales catalogues representing a global coverage of numismatics, economics and associated background.

The Prehistory and Europe departmental library collection covers the Palaeolithic period around the world, the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages in Europe, the Roman occupation of Britain, Byzantium, the Early and Late Medieval period in both Britain and the continent and the European decorative arts from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. In 2010 the department created a new serials library to house its 600 runs of journals and periodicals. This part of the collection is particularly strong in European and British regional archaeology, with some publications going back to the eighteenth century.

The library of the Department of Prints and Drawings contains some 50,000 books and periodicals dealing with Western prints and drawings. The particular strengths of the library lie in oeuvre catalogues of printmakers'
work. There are extensive runs of most major art periodicals and an important collection of British and foreign art auction catalogues, ranging in date from the early 1700s to the present day.

The British Museum have contributed just under 5200 records to SUNCAT.

For a full list of the 99 libraries contributing to SUNCAT, please go to:
http://www.suncat.ac.uk/description/contributing_libraries.html 

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http://www.suncat.ac.uk
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Best wishes

Zena

Zena Mulligan
SUNCAT Project Officer
EDINA


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