CATALOGUE OF DANTON'S LIBRARY

Semantic Navigation in an online Library Catalogue

In this paper, an innovative ontology-based, information seeking process is proposed, capable of aiding searchers in their quest to fulfill their information needs. Such a process supports multilinguality and concept disambiguation in a way that prevents overcrowding the screen while exposing the expressiveness of the underlying ontology. In order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed app...

The Catalogue of the Library of John Webster

INTRODUCTORY NOTES In the original manuscript of the catalogue of Webster's library (Chetham MS. A.6.47), the works have been arranged according to subject and book-size with appropriate section headings. In the transcription that follows, I have attempted to preserve the original layout ofthe catalogue (and by implication, the library itself), but have altered the system ofnumeration in order ...

Catalogue of Medical Books in Manchester University Library, 1480–1700

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...

The Evan Bedford Library of Cardiology and its catalogue.

The history of doctors' private book collections was recently detailed by Thornton (1949) and started as early as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the majority disappeared upon the death of the collector and no lists remain. These were purely working libraries initially, but true collections soon evolved. Francis Bernard, physician to James I, left nearly 15 000 books that were sold by au...

Catalogue of Lewis's Medical and Scientific Lending Library