Keyword

private libraries

Description: Collections of books and other resources held by individuals or private organizations for restricted use, studied in library history and information science.

Primary topic: Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books (80%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q380829

OpenAlex ID: keywords/private-libraries

Frances Wolfreston and ‘Hor Bouks’: A Seventeenth-Century Woman Book-Collector

1989 · PAUL MORGAN · The Library · 188

As we may think

1996 · Vannevar Bush · interactions · 169

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BibSonomy: a social bookmark and publication sharing system

2006 · Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, et al. · Kobra (Universitätsbibliothek Kassel) · 167

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Under the hammer : book auctions since the seventeenth century

2001 · Robin Myers, Michael Harris, et al. · 167

The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton

1994 · Colin G. C. Tite · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 160

The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609

1957 · R. G. Thomas · English Journal of the English Association · 158

Gabriel Harvey : his life, marginalia, and library

1979 · Virginia F. Stern · 155

The books of an early eighteenth-century curate

1978 · JAMES L. SALTER · The Library · 138

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

2011 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 128

A Directory of rare book and special collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 123

Managing documents at home for serious leisure: a case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking

2010 · Jenna Hartel · Journal of Documentation · 122

Nietzsches persönliche Bibliothek

2003 · Giuliano Campioni, Paolo D'Iorio, et al. · De Gruyter eBooks · 121

The Eighteenth‐century Proprietary Library in England

1947 · FRANK BECKWITH · Journal of Documentation · 117

Information needs of rural health professionals: a review of the literature.

2000 · J L Dorsch · PubMed · 115

Private libraries in Renaissance England : a collection and catalogue of Tudor and early Stuart book-lists

1992 · Robert J. Fehrenbach, Elisabeth Leedham-Green · 113

Property of a gentleman: The formation, organisation and dispersal of the private library 1620–1920

1993 · The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 107

The Library of Pico della Mirandola

1937 · Minnie Clare Yarborough, Pearl Kibre · The American Historical Review · 102

A biblioteca de Machado de Assis

2001 · José Luís Jobim, Jean-Michel Massa · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 96

The English Country House Library: An Architectural History

2002 · Simon Jervis · Library History · 93

John Dee's Library Catalogue

1971 · A. G. WATSON · Notes and Queries · 91

The ‘Library’ of a Late-Fifteenth-Century Lawyer

1991 · C. E. MORETON · The Library · 89

The Scholar in his Study. Ownership and experience in Renaissance Italy

1998 · A. MacGregor · Journal of the History of Collections · 87

The library of William Byrd of Westover

1997 · Kevin J. Hayes · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 86

The Library of John Locke

1967 · Edwin Wolf, John Harrison, et al. · The William and Mary Quarterly · 85

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland

2006 · Gameson, R. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 84

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Citation count: 13,610