An online database of chapbooks created and managed by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Cover Image

Internetová databáze kramářských tisků Etnologického ústavu Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i. v Praze
An online database of chapbooks created and managed by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Author(s): Markéta Holubová
Subject(s): History, Archiving, Cataloguing, Classification, Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval
Published by: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: popular culture; Czechia; chapbooks; broadsides; electronic databases; MARC 21;

Summary/Abstract: Chapbooks as a very specific genre of printed materials are a unique type of a society‘s material memory, one that is currently under threat due both to its physical medium and its ephemeral nature and bibliographic uniqueness. The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, as one of the bodies tasked with the preservation of the nation‘s cultural heritage in the area of popular culture, has undertaken to process and make publicly available its collection of chapbooks by first publishing them as books and then by digitizing them and cataloguing them in a publicly accessible online database using the MARC 21 format.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-158
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech