RSLP

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• RSLP
• 19th Century Pamphlets
• Revelation
• Dr Marie-Pierre Détraz
• Project Manager

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Led by the University of Birmingham
• 19th Century Pamphlets CURL project to provide
  enhanced access to 19th century pamphlets
  collections (1801-1914). Director Clare Jenkins
• Revelation Unlocking research resources for 19th
  and 20th century church history and Christian
  theology. Director Dr. Clive Field

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Aims
• To increase awareness of the collections among
  researchers
• To enhance access to the collections
• To make the catalogues accessible online
• To provide online information about the
  collections

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19th Century Pamphlets

• Partnership
• 21 partners
• 19 CURL members Birmingham, Cambridge (UL,
  Haddon, Selwyn, Whipple), Durham, Edinburgh,
  Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, ICS, KCL, UCL,
  Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford, Sheffield and
  Southampton
• Bristol and Reading

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Revelation

• Partnership
• 9 primary partners (retrocon mapping)
• 7 CURL members Aberdeen Birmingham
  Edinburgh Glasgow KCL Manchester Nottingham
• 2 non CURL members St Andrews and Wales,
  Lampeter
• 30 secondary partners (mapping)

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Deliverables
• Retrospective conversion
• - Electronic records (177,000 pamphlets
  140,000 monographs)
• - Provision of networked access OPACs and
  COPAC (www.copac.ac.uk)
• Mapping component
• - Web-based guides

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19th Century Pamphlets

• Collections
• Nature of collections
• - named / un-named
• - small / medium / large
• - very specialised / broad range of subjects
• - variety of languages

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19th Century Pamphlets

• Collections
• Main subject areas
• - education - economics
• - foreign affairs - history
• - law - medicine
• - philosophy - politics
• - religion - social issues

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Revelation

• Collections
• (Retrospective conversion)
• Christian theology
• moral, devotional, social, ecclesiastical
• third world, liberation and feminist theologies

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Revelation

• Collections
• (Retrospective conversion)
• Church history
• English, Scottish, European, Asian and African
• Early Church Reformation
• Church of Scotland
• Anglican tradition
• Religious orders and denominations

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Retrospective Conversion - Methodology
• Distributed cataloguing operation
• Shared cataloguing - CURL database
• Minimum bibliographic standards
• AACR2/MARC
• LCSH

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19th Century Pamphlets

• Retrospective Conversion - Progress So Far
• Number of records produced 64,462
• ie 36 of overall target
• Hit rate 32.62
• CURL 50.78
• TALIS 4.79
• RLIN 27.55
• OCLC 16.60
• Others 0.28

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Revelation

• Retrospective Conversion - Progress So Far
• Number of records produced 40,104
• ie 27 of overall target
• Hit rate 72.48
• CURL 65.45
• RLIN 18.28
• OCLC 10.06
• TALIS 6.11
• Others 0.10

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Mapping Component
• 19th Century Pamphlets
• Web-based guide searchable by institution/collecti
  on and by subject
• Tested by partners and user panel
• To be available on CURL web site
• Revelation
• Project officer Linda Needham

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19th Century Pamphlets Revelation

• Dissemination
• Web sites
• - www.is.bham.ac.uk/rslp/pamphlets.htm
• - www.is.bham.ac.uk/rslp/revelation.htm
• Publications
• Leaflets
• Events
• Contact m.detraz_at_bham.ac.uk
• 0121 414 4741