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Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Scholarship at Penn Libraries Penn Libraries January 1991 Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries Martha L. Brogan University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers Recommended Citation Brogan, M. L. (1991). Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/43 Reprinted from Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, compiled by Martha L. Brogan (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991), pages 1-90 and 519-526. NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Martha L. Brogan was affiliated withale Y University. Currently June 2007, she is the Associate University Librarian for Collection Development and Management at the University of Pennsylvania. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/43 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries Abstract This guide, eight years in the making, owes its existence to the Council of European Studies (CBS) at Columbia University. Conceived in 1982 as part of the CBS "research resources" series for scholars planning a first research trip abroad, it complements pre-dissertation grants awarded by the Council to doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Earlier volumes in the series, Research resources: libraries and archives in Germany (1975) and Research resources: libraries and archives in France (rev. ed., 1979), both authored by Erwin K. Welsch of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, served as a model and source of inspiration. Although it resembles the earlier CBS guides, this one hopes to appeal to seasoned scholars as well as newcomers by consolidating information into a single source. In recent years the National Endowment for the Humanities has fostered a new program, "Travel to Collections," which provides travel stipends for researchers using library and archival collections abroad. For these and other scholars, the guide intends to substitute groundwork at home for legwork abroad by helping them to plan their itineraries abroad in advance. Placed on the reference shelf in European libraries, the guide may also serve foreign researchers in identifying additional collections of interest to their quests. Comments Reprinted from Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, compiled by Martha L. Brogan (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991), pages 1-90 and 519-526. NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Martha L. Brogan was affiliated withale Y University. Currently June 2007, she is the Associate University Librarian for Collection Development and Management at the University of Pennsylvania. This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/43 Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries Compiled by Martha L. Brogan Bibliographies and Indexes in Library and Information Science, Number 5 Greenwood Press New York • Westport, Connecticut • London Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I Field Guide for Research in the Low Countries Detailed Outline 9 National Bibliographies 11 Union Catalogs 21 National Biographical Dictionaries 24 Directories and Guides to Collections 26 Subject Guides and Bibliographies 43 Part II Guide to Libraries and Archives Detailed Outline 91 Belgium 93 Netherlands 229 Luxembourg 477 Appendixes A: Provinces and Towns 497 B: Public and Religious Holidays 501 Indexes Author and Title Index (To Part I) 503 Institutional Index (To Part II) 519 Subject Index (To Parts I & II) 527 Introduction This guide, eight years in the making, owes its existence to the Council of European Studies (CBS) at Columbia University. Conceived in 1982 as part of the CBS "research resources" series for scholars planning a first research trip abroad, it complements pre-dissertation grants awarded by the Council to doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Earlier volumes in the series, Research resources: libraries and archives in Germany (1975) and Research resources: libraries and archives in France (rev. ed., 1979), both authored by Erwin K. Welsch of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, served as a model and source of inspiration. 1 Although it resembles the earlier CBS guides, this one hopes to appeal to seasoned scholars as well as newcomers by consolidating information into a single source. In recent years the National Endowment for the Humanities has fostered a new program, "Travel to Collections," which provides travel stipends for researchers using library and archival collections abroad. For these and other scholars, the guide intends to substitute groundwork at home for legwork abroad by helping them to plan their itineraries abroad in advance. Placed on the reference shelf in European libraries, the guide may also serve foreign researchers in identifying additional collections of interest to their quests. The guide does not attempt to cover all fields, however, deliberately excluding technical, scientific, and medical disciplines, and focusing instead on the humanities and social sciences. Nor does it attempt to cover all types of libraries and archives, omitting collections held privately, or not readily open to the public, collections belonging to business enterprises, and most collections devoted to a single author or historical figure (except when they are part of a larger library or archive). Research guide to libraries and archives in the Low Countries is the first tool of its kind, to be written in English and aimed primarily at U.S. scholars. It draws information about indigenous research collections together with major 2 Introduction bibliographic aids for conducting research in the humanities and social sciences about the Low Countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. A variety of published and unpublished sources were used to compile the guide in addition to three site explorations abroad and continual correspondence with institutions in the Low Countries. The quest began in 1982 with an attempt to identify u.S. scholars in the field in order to learn about their experiences with collections abroad and their research needs. Names were gathered from foundations, learned societies, and agencies such as the German Marshall Fund, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and the Institute of International Education. Notices were also placed in the Low Countries Newsletter, the AANS Newsletter (American Association for Netherlandic Studies), and the European Studies Newsletter (Council for European Studies). Recent Ph.Ds whose dissertations focused on the Low Countries were tracked down via alumni offices and faculty directories. In 1983 a survey was sent to all these scholars and agencies inquiring about their experiences abroad, the collections they used and the relative significance of these collections to their research. The scope of the guide was shaped, in part, on the basis of the more than 50 thoughtful replies to the survey. The book consists of two major parts: a field guide for research in the form of an annotated bibliography and an extensive guide to 216 collections found in Benelux libraries and archives.2 The bibliography, while serving as an introduction to research in each of the three countries under study, also aims to augment the second part of the guide by pointing out additional sources of information. It seeks to identify reference tools which will aid scholars in carrying out their research and to acquaint them with those who share similar research interests. It is assumed that serious scholars will have a working knowledge of the indigenous languages: Dutch and French predominate. 3 Nonetheless, an effort was made to include articles, directories, and research tools in English as well. The first section of the bibliography lists the retrospective and current bibliographies which form the national bibliography for each of the three countries, beginning with incunabula (works printed before 15(0) and ending with lists of forthcoming publications. These bibliographies represent the printed national heritage of the country and, in their current form, are based on materials deposited under copyright in the respective royal libraries. This section is arranged chronologically under each country. The second section identifies the major national union catalogs. Citations are arranged by type of publication under each country. These catalogs serve to alert scholars to the locations of specific works. In the Netherlands, the 50­ called "central catalogs" are available online via "PICA" and will no longer appear in printed form. PICA, or Project for Integrated Catalogue Automation, is a national library network, established in 1968, that also serves as a shared cataloging system. In addition, PICA carries a number of other Introduction 3 important bibliographic databases, such as the Soon-titlecatalogue, Netherlands; the Bibliograjie vande Nederlandse tool- en ltteratuurwetenschap; the manuscript letter project, the so-called "Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum"; and the grey literature database, GLIN ("Grijze Literatuur in Nederland"). In Belgium, a pilot project is underway to create an online union catalog that represents the holdings
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