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 ====== British Library, London ====== ====== British Library, London ======
  
-Link to the [[http://www.bl.uk/|British Library, London]]+Access the [[http://www.bl.uk/|British Library website]] 
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 +Access the [[http://gso.gbv.de/DB=1.77/CLK?IKT=8486&TRM=gbuk|BL's dataset within the HPB]] (login required)
  
 [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue| - ISTC file]]\\ [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue| - ISTC file]]\\
 [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#K17 file| - K17 file]] [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#K17 file| - K17 file]]
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 ==== ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ==== ==== ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ====
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 === Name and coverage of file === === Name and coverage of file ===
    
-The Incunable Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) is a computerised file of short-title records for fifteenth-century books together with other material printed from movable type which is being compiled at the British Library. Work started in 1980 by keyboarding the whole of F.R. Goff's Incunabula in American Libraries: a third census (1973, including the Supplement), restructuring the entries in order to use the Machine-Readable Cataloguing format (MARC). +The Incunable Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) is a computerised file of short-title records for fifteenth-century books together with other material printed from movable type which is being compiled at the British Library. Work started in 1980 by keyboarding the whole of F.R. Goff’s Incunabula in American Libraries: a third census (1973, including the Supplement), restructuring the entries in order to use the Machine-Readable Cataloguing format (MARC). 
  
-Currently the primary objective of ISTC is to incorporate new entries for incunabula not yet listed and to add further locations to the 27,500 editions already included in the system, covering c. 95% of the estimated number of surviving incunabula. These entries have been taken in the first place from union catalogues and catalogues of a number of individual libraries, while the main additional contributors are centers which establish or update the national census of incunabula in Germany, Italy, the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan. Other co-operating libraries the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian Library, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Harvard University, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The Royal Library at The Hague has in addition contributed records for all the incunabula printed in the Low Countries that were not yet included. All these entries are made using Goff's style, and keeping largely to his abbreviations for the bibliographical reference works quoted.  +ISTC’s continuing priority is to incorporate new entries for incunabula not yet listed and to add further locations to the 30,300 editions already included in the system, covering more than 95% of the estimated number of surviving incunabula. These entries have been taken in the first place from union catalogues and from reports and catalogues from individual libraries, with important contributions from centres which establish or update the national censuses of incunabula in Germany, Italy, Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan. ISTC entries have been correlated with the website of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke in Berlin, which has enabled the removal of duplicated records and misreportings from both projects and for linking to be set up between the ISTC and GW websites. Other co-operating libraries have included the National Library of Scotland, the Bodleian Library, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Harvard University, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The Royal Library at The Hague has in addition contributed records for all the incunabula printed in the Low Countries that were not yet included. All new entries are made using Goff’s style, and keeping largely to his abbreviations for the bibliographical reference works quoted. 
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-Following Goff's practice, a number of sixteenth-century imprints appear in the file: such entries are made where an undated edition has formerly been regarded as an incunable, having been listed in a widely-cited bibliography or catalogue as being printed before 1501. A note by way of explanation should normally be found added to the record. +Following Goff’s practice, a number of sixteenth-century imprints appear in the file: such entries are made where an undated edition has formerly been regarded as an incunable, having been listed in a widely-cited bibliography or catalogue as being printed before 1501. A note by way of explanation should normally be found added to the record. 
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 === Mode of cataloguing === === Mode of cataloguing ===
    
-Goff's style is taken as a basic standard, although where appropriate a fuller title or more expanded account of contents is given to make best use of the capabilities of the computer for retrieving information from the file. Goff's order has also largely been adhered to except, mainly, where more recent scholarship on an author or text has made a new arrangement or a new heading seem desirable, or where a new chronology of editions has been established as a result of recent research. This means that the author headings and titles used in ISTC fall within the tradition of incunable bibliography, as Goff largely followed the practice of Ludwig Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) and BMC (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum), with the result that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues, the British Library General Catalogue as well as subject literature. ISTC includes notes recording widely diverging forms of names, and these different forms can easily be retrieved by the computer.  +Goff’s style is taken as a basic standard, although where appropriate a fuller title or more expanded account of contents is given to improve retrieval. Goff’s order has also largely been adhered to except, mainly, where more recent scholarship on an author or text has made a new arrangement or a new heading seem desirable, or where a new chronology of editions has been established as a result of recent research. This means that the author headings and titles used in ISTC fall within the tradition of incunable bibliography, as Goff largely followed the practice of Ludwig Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) and BMC (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum), with the result that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues, the British Library General Catalogue as well as subject literature. ISTC includes notes recording widely diverging forms of names, which are indexed for searching.  
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-Centres for compiling or updating a national census for Germany, Italy and Japan make use of and contribute to the ISTC. +
  
 === Present/Absent fields === === Present/Absent fields ===
-The basic information contained in an ISTC record consists of author (or other heading), title, imprint and date, format, bibliographical references and locations, to which ISTC adds a note of the source of the record. Other information which may be present in an ISTC record includes a British Library shelfmark and copy notes as well as notes on the production of the edition and on the authorship or text. This includes noting the results of more recent scholarship on the attribution of anonymous texts or anonymous editions, and the dating of undated editions. +The basic information contained in an ISTC record consists of author (or other heading), title, imprint and date, format, bibliographical references and locations, to which ISTC adds a note of the source of the record. Other information which may be present in an ISTC record includes a British Library shelfmark and copy notes as well as notes on the production of the edition and on the authorship or text, noting the results of more recent scholarship on the attribution of anonymous texts or anonymous editions, and the dating of undated editions. Reference is made to online and printed facsimiles, and to the microfiche published by Gale / Cengage.
  
-The preferred form for locations in ISTC is place name followed by library name, usually abbreviated in the form adopted by the national union catalogue, if it exists, for the country concerned. Place names with a well-known English form are, however, often given in that form (e.g. The Hague rather than Den Haag or 's-Gravenhage). United States locations are an exception in that they follow Goff's practice and consist solely of a library code (click here for details translating full names to codes, and codes to full names). For the United Kingdom, locations are meant to be self-evident: Place names are given in full, and the only abbreviations used are CL for Cathedral Library, PL for Public Library, RL for Royal Library and UL for University Library. A similar approach has been adopted for other foreign locations, so that the meaning of abbreviations should be quite clear. BN, for example, stands for Bibliothèque Nationale and for Biblioteca Nacional, while UB stands for Universitätsbibliothek as well as Universiteitsbibliotheek and Universitetsbiblioteket. RL has been used for royal libraries throughout. +The preferred form for locations in ISTC is place name followed by library name, usually abbreviated in the form adopted by the national union catalogue, if it exists, for the country concerned. Place names with a well-known English form are, however, often given in that form (e.g. The Hague rather than Den Haag or ’s-Gravenhage). United States locations are an exception in that they follow Goff's practice and consist solely of a library code (click here for details translating full names to codes, and codes to full names). For the United Kingdom, locations are meant to be self-evident: Place names are given in full, and the only abbreviations used are CL for Cathedral Library, PL for Public Library, RL for Royal Library and UL for University Library. A similar approach has been adopted for other foreign locations, so that the meaning of abbreviations should be quite clear. BN, for example, stands for Bibliothèque Nationale and for Biblioteca Nacional, while UB stands for Universitätsbibliothek as well as Universiteitsbibliotheek and Universitetsbiblioteket. RL has been used for royal libraries throughout. 
  
-As well as adding records for editions not recorded in Goff, records are being enhanced by the addition of references to catalogues and bibliographies either not available to, or not quoted by Goff, such as the more recent parts of the Gesamtkatalog, the French regional union catalogues, the Polish, Hungarian and Spanish national union catalogues of incunabula, and other catalogues and supplements to catalogues published in the last 25 years. These are quoted in abbreviated form. Click here for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC. +As well as adding records for editions not recorded in Goff, records are being enhanced by the addition of references to catalogues and bibliographies either not available to, or not quoted by Goff, such as the more recent parts of the Gesamtkatalog, the French regional union catalogues, the Polish, Hungarian and Spanish national union catalogues of incunabula, and other catalogues and supplements to catalogues published in the last 35 years. These are quoted in abbreviated form. Click here for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC. 
  
-Although all ISTC records are provided with a code showing the main language of the work, country-of-publication codes have not been added, to avoid the confusion between fifteenth-century and modern boundaries. +Although all ISTC records are provided with a code showing the main language of the work, country-of-publication codes have not been added, to avoid the confusion between fifteenth-century and modern boundaries. 
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 === Recommendations for searching == === Recommendations for searching ==
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-== Author names == 
-It was noted above that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues. It is recommended that you search the Notes field for variant forms of a name, call up an ISTC record, check what the ISTC standard form of the name is and search for this term in the Author Word and Author Phrase fields.  
  
-== Bibliographical references == +<box round orange 75%> 
-The Bib. ref fields are indexed in HPB, so you can do phrase searching for Goff M122, for example.  +This section will be available soon 
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-RLIN: The NRP is the citation phrase index and the NRW is the citation word index. Thus, FIND NRP GOFF M122 will find only those records with that phrase in the RLIN 510 field (where the bibliographical references are held), while the search FIND NRW GOFF will find any record with that word in the RLIN 510.  +
-Eureka/Telnet: Same as RLIN. +
-Eureka/Web, Advanced Search scre: +
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-Search field:                     Word from Citations                           Goff +
-Boolean connector          AND/OR/AND NOT,            choose AND +
-Search field:                     Words from Citations                          M122 +
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-This will retrieve three records. The first contains "Goff M122", the other two contain "Goff" and two references to other reference works which also contain a reference to "M122", or even "M-122". +
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-A word of warning when searching for Hain numbers. Because Hain references are frequently amplified by references from Copinger's or Reichling's supplements, distinguished by various permutations of H, HC, HR etc., it is advisable to use the number on its own when searching for them. +
  
 Interpreting abbreviations in the ISTC on HPB Interpreting abbreviations in the ISTC on HPB
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 Click [[bibliographical references|here]] for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC. Click [[bibliographical references|here]] for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC.
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