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The project will realize the uncompleted aim
of the 'Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue', namely "to
provide increasingly complete listings of British books printed
between 1801 - 1919" (NSTC series I, phase I, vol I, 1801-1815.
Avero, 1984, p. iv). the project will do this through upgrading
catalogue records for University of Wales and other libraries, and
combine them in a central online catalogue at the National Library
of Wales. This will correct the geographical and linguistic weaknesses
in the present NSTC, where there is a lack of Welsh language and
Welsh related records.
This will contribute to the vision of the Distributed
National Resource (DNR) as follows;
- Completing the NSTC geographically
- Accessing information on dispersed collections through a single
central catalogue
- Improving the awareness of the collections and their research
potential
- Providing a basis for cooperation on developing collections and
their conservation
- Contributing towards the proposed WHELF plan to map research resources
in Wales
- Contributing relevant records to the CURL database
- Supporting the National Library of Wales project for the 1821
- 1908 Welsh bibliography.
In order to include resources and their
records in the project at least one of the following guidelines
will be used;
- Welsh imprint (published in Wales)
- Welsh language text (wherever published)
- Subject matter related to Wales
- Authors listed in the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales.
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