Collecting and curating for the public: the Cardiff rare books collection

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Presenation about the Cardiff Rare Books collection, presented at the CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections conference, September 2015

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COLLECTING AND CURATING
FOR THE PUBLIC: THE
CARDIFF RARE BOOKS
COLLECTION
Karen F. Pierce
Cardiff University

CARDIFF FREE LIBRARY, MUSEUM
AND SCHOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND
ART (1882-1988)
c.1900
2015 (soon to be a Welsh
language cultural centre]

NOTABLE LIBRARIANS IN THE EARLY DAYS
Sir John Ballinger
(1860 – 1933)
Chief librarian of Cardiff Public
Library (1884 – 1908)
First librarian of the National
Library of Wales (Aberystwyth)
(1909-1930)
Harry Farr
(1874 – 1968)
Chief librarian of Cardiff Public
Library (1908-1940)

ACQUIRING THE COLLECTION
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd
Marquess of Bute (1847-1900)
John Cory (1828-1910)

THE MODERN PERIOD
1988-
2006
2009-
"Cardiff Central Library 2006" by locus_imagination
source - Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via

A COLLECTION AT RISK
Roundtable Group
CyMAL
National Library of Wales
National Museum Wales
Glamorgan Record Office
Cardiff University
Cardiff City Council

SCOPING
10% scoping exercise
1,387 items examined
93% not already held in CU
75% not already held by National
Library of Wales
39% contained provenance
12% contained marginalia

CATALOGUING
Rare book cataloguing day
course
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
funding
3 year temporary post
Permanent rare book
cataloguer

Chivers’ vellucent binding - ‘vellum made
translucent’

CONCLUSIONS
Created & celebrated
Hidden & forgotten
Rescued, curated,
promoted

QUESTIONS?
Credit for information & various images:
Ken Gibb, Alison Harvey, Peter Keelan, Helen Price-Saunders, Alison Westmaas

CONTACT DETAILS
PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk
@Darklecat
SCOLAR blog:
https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/

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Collecting and curating for the public: the Cardiff rare books collection

1. COLLECTING AND CURATING FOR THE PUBLIC: THE CARDIFF RARE BOOKS COLLECTION Karen F. Pierce Cardiff University

2. CARDIFF FREE LIBRARY, MUSEUM AND SCHOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND ART (1882-1988) c.1900 2015 (soon to be a Welsh language cultural centre]

3. NOTABLE LIBRARIANS IN THE EARLY DAYS Sir John Ballinger (1860 – 1933) Chief librarian of Cardiff Public Library (1884 – 1908) First librarian of the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) (1909-1930) Harry Farr (1874 – 1968) Chief librarian of Cardiff Public Library (1908-1940)

4. ACQUIRING THE COLLECTION John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847-1900) John Cory (1828-1910)

5. THE MODERN PERIOD 1988- 2006 2009- "Cardiff Central Library 2006" by locus_imagination source - Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via

6. A COLLECTION AT RISK Roundtable Group CyMAL National Library of Wales National Museum Wales Glamorgan Record Office Cardiff University Cardiff City Council

7. SCOPING 10% scoping exercise 1,387 items examined 93% not already held in CU 75% not already held by National Library of Wales 39% contained provenance 12% contained marginalia

8. A NEW HOME Exhibition at the Senedd

9. CATALOGUING Rare book cataloguing day course Esmee Fairbairn Foundation funding 3 year temporary post Permanent rare book cataloguer

10. ACHIEVEMENTS

11.

12. Fore-edge painting

13.

14. Chivers’ vellucent binding - ‘vellum made translucent’

15. CONCLUSIONS Created & celebrated Hidden & forgotten Rescued, curated, promoted

16. QUESTIONS? Credit for information & various images: Ken Gibb, Alison Harvey, Peter Keelan, Helen Price-Saunders, Alison Westmaas

17. CONTACT DETAILS PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk @Darklecat SCOLAR blog: https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/

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