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IFLA Satellite conference at the Rijksmuseum | 17 – 19 August 2023

Posted on 08/04/2023

The Rijksmuseum Research Library and the IFLA Art Libraries Section will organize a satellite conference from 17 – 19 August at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam...

Title-page HNB

Published! Copy census of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

Posted on 08/04/2023

Following a seminar on the book Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in October 2016, my colleague Jeroen Bos and started off an epic journey to lcoate al surviving cop...

CfP SHARP 2022: Three days left for proposals

Posted on 12/01/2022

There are just three days left to hand in a proposal for SHARP 2022 in Amsterdam. Please see the website of SHARP 2022 | Power of the Written Word for more info...

‘Wealth of Nations for a few bucks’

Posted on 06/01/2022

The first edition of the Wealth of Nations that made the headlines in the Old Library of the House of Representatives in 2018 turns out to have been the bargain...

CfP – Technology and Transformation

Posted on 06/01/2022

The Yearbook for Dutch Book History publishes Dutch and English articles on the book history of the Low Countries, in all time periods. For the 30th Y...

Season 2 of The Fagels: Unlocking the Collection

Posted on 15/10/2021

In the spring of 2021 The Library of Trinity College and the KB National Library of the Netherlands published a series of videos about the history of the Fagel ...

Fagel Videos: Traces of the family in The Hague

Posted on 13/07/2021

The Library of Trinity College and the KB National Library of the Netherlands are working together to open up the Fagel Collection. As a part of the project, we...

Rijksmuseum - 2014 - John Lewis Marshall

New Job: Curator of Library Collections at the Rijksmuseum

Posted on 26/02/2021

Press release Rijksmuseum 8 February 2021 It is with great pleasure to announce that I will be joining the Rijksmuseum as their new Curator of Library Collectio...

Five rare pamphlets from the Library of the House of Representatives

Posted on 19/12/2020

The Library of the House of Representatives in the Hague is a historical reference collection that has been used by generations of Dutch parliamentarians. One o...

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