Open Access<i>Portuguese and Brazilian Books in the John Carter Brown Library, 1537 to 1839: With a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries other than Portugal and Brazil</i>. Compiled and edited by Valeria Gauz. Providence, R.I.: John Carter Brown Library: Distributed in Brazil by Briquet de Lemos/Libros, 2009. 792p. ISBN 0-916617-69-6. $175
Author(s) -
Paula Covington
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
rbm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2150-668X
pISSN - 1529-6407
DOI - 10.5860/rbm.12.1.347
Subject(s) - portuguese , selection (genetic algorithm) , library science , colonialism , history , art history , classics , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence
The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) has amassed one of the world’s great collections of colonial Braziliana since its founding in 1846, and this catalog is a testament to its preeminence. Over 1,200 titles are painstakingly cataloged and described by Brazilian specialist cataloger Valeria Gauz. Two widely regarded experts in the field of early Luso-Brazilian printing, Laurence Hallewell and Richard Ramer, served as prepublication consultants for the project.Norman Fiering, the former JCB Director and Librarian, comments in the preface that printed catalogs of collections are now considered “outmoded products” in the computer age. He then goes on to make . . .