By alexandra kuskowski on Nov 27, 2015
It’s time again for another “Exploring Open Collections” installment! This week we’re holding a demeanour during one of a biggest collections (and one that’s featured) B.C. Historical Books. Previous to a Open Collections launch B.C. Historical Books was famous as B.C. Bibliography and was a standalone site compared with Digital Initiatives – now it’s been incorporated into Open Collections for even some-more extraordinary hunt capabilities!
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Combining a collection of a bibliography (published work description) with a collection of a digital library, a we are charity a searchable database of a Bibliography of BC by digitizing as many works from this normal imitation bibliography (and some additional materials) on a area.
If that’s a bit of a swig for you, consider of it as an startling public of resources on British Columbia.
The collection is done adult of everything, from a apparent (almanacs, beam books, supervision reports) to a startling (albums, printings, diaries) to a officious weird (poems, scores!). But that’s not a many extraordinary part… keep reading to find out a best-kept tip of B.C. Historical Books!
To get into a collection there’s a lot of fun ways to try including looking during a cornerstone works. All of that are clickable on a collections’ main page.
The 1,158 equipment began with 3 cornerstone works: Volume I-Laying a Foundations 1849-1899 Volume II-Navigations, Traffiques Discoveries 1774-1848. Volume III-Years of Growth 1900-1950.
Or we can click by a visible illustration of a collection!
Browse by a object covers by genre on a interactive nifty timeline.
Use it too see maps or or books of poetry
Plenty to see stays even if we hang true to a books. Take a Klondyke souvenir a sketch book published in 1901. It has extraordinary high peculiarity scans for we wizz in, check out, and even download if a imagination should strike you.
But that’s not a best-kept tip about B.C. Books, not by a prolonged shot.
The best tip is that we can hunt a content whole collection- all 1,158+ items- in a categorical hunt bar. Any content we see has been submit into a complement and can be accessed during a moments’ notice. If that doesn’t conclude a information age, we don’t know what does.
What is your favorite thing in B.C. books? Let us know in a comments!
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