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Overview
Arcadian Library Online presents ca. 400 items ("more than 90,000 pages") of content sourced from the privately-owned Arcadian Library, whose collection of ca. 10,000 items focus on the Levant and "the shared cultural heritage of Europe and the Arab World" (publisher's site). The collection includes books, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources in a range of languages including Latin, English, Arabic, French and other European languages.
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Contact arcadianlibraryonline@bloomsbury.com for more information.
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Arcadian Library Online presents ca. 400 items ("more than 90,000 pages of content" per the publisher's site) sourced from the privately-owned Arcadian Library in London, whose collection of ca. 10,000 items focus on the Levant and "the shared cultural heritage of Europe and the Arab World" (publisher's site). The collection includes books, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources in a range of languages including Latin, English, Arabic, French and other European languages.
Featured content (available for individual purchase) current includes "Europe and the Ottoman World" (196 items dating from between 1475 and 1874) and "History of Science and Medicine" (196 items dating from between the ninth and twentieth centuries).
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Arcadian Library Online includes full color page images, descriptive metadata, and authored commentaries. Users may search or browse using facets for topic, place, period, people, language or content type. Metadata is available in Arabic and English with transliterated titles. The site employs an integrated Arabic keyboard. MARC records are available.
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Arcadian Library Online is available for purchase by institutions on a perpetual access basis, per collection. The publisher will be gradually adding new collections to the digital library as they are digitised. Individual collections will not be updated.
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James Simon, CRL
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