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e-rara.ch

http://www.e-rara.ch/

The e-rara.ch platform makes digitized rare books from Swiss libraries available to the public, free of charge. The present focus is on 16th century Swiss prints. Further collections concern astronomy, architecture and urbanism, mathematics and physics.

All the documents are online available.

E-rara.ch is a national collaborative project forming part of the Swiss innovation and cooperation programme E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic library. The project is run by the Bibliothèque de Genève, the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich, the University Library of Basel, the University Library of Bern, and Zurich Central Library. Other Swiss libraries participating in the project are: the BPU Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque des Pasteurs, the BCU Lausanne, and the BCU Fribourg.

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E-Lib.ch
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
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Access: 
free of costs
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Review Date: 
27.07.2010
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E-Lib - Swiss electronic library
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Geneva Jewish Library - On-line Catalogue

http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/rechercheEng.htm

On-line catalogue of the Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann" with about 35'000 books and magazines.

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Publisher: 
Geneva Jewish Library
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
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free of costs
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Review Date: 
03.06.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann"

http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/defaulteng.htm
Characteristics
History

The library was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Labor Committee (AJLC) and the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

Inventory

The Geneva Jewish Library disposes of more than about 30'000 volumes. It encloses a part (about 1000 volumes) of the collections of the library of the rabbi's seminar of Wroclaw which was destroyed by the Nazis. It also owns a manuscript of David Gans, the Sefer Nehmad ve-naïm, resulted in 1613 in Prague.

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
Mo 16.00-19.00; Tu 16.00-19.00; We 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-17.00,

Postal address
21, av. Dumas
1206
Genève
Switzerland
Contact
http://biblio.comisra.ch/biblio/renseignementspratiques.htm
markishj@comisra.ch
Phone number: 
+41 22 317 89 70
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Review Date: 
03.06.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library - On-line Catalogue

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Cartographia Rappersviliana Polonorum - Old Maps of Poland

http://www.muzeum-polskie.org/muzeum/galeria.htm

Under the title" Cartographia Rappersviliana Polonorum", the Polish museum in Rapperswil offers a collection of historic maps of Poland, some of its cities and neighbouring countries.

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Editor: 
Polish Museum in Rapperswil
Publisher: 
Polish Museum in Rapperwil
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
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Contained in: 
Polenmuseum in Rapperswil
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free of costs
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Review Date: 
29.07.2010
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Abbey Library of St. Gallen

http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch
Characteristics
History

The library is attested for the first time by the Saint Galler Klosterplan (around 820). Major medieval centre of the writing and book painting. Since 1553 in a library building. In in 1758-1767 construction of the baroque Hall, which remains till this day the main depository of historical books.

Inventory

The Abbey Library of St. Gallen holds about 160'000 documents. 1650 incunabula, numerous early prints, important holdings from the 2nd half of 18. Century, but also from the time of late Humanism and Confessionalism. Main focuses in theology, history and the antique classics. About 2'000 manuscripts (400 Vols. from before 1000 A.D.). Irish manuscripts, Old German texts, archives from Aegidius Tschudi.
An overview of the collections is online available.

Remarks: 

The Abbey Library of St. Gallen is the oldest library in Switzerland. The Abbey Library and the entire abbey precinct in St. Gallen were included in the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage sites in 1983.

Postal address
Postfach
Klosterhof 6D
9004
St. Gallen
Switzerland
Contact
http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch/site/content.asp?typ=Kontakt%2FLinks&lang=DE&art=...
stibi@stibi.ch
Phone number: 
+71 227 34 16
Fax: 
+71 227 34 18
Additional contacts: 
Opening times: Monday to Saturday: 10 - 17 Sunday: 10 - 16
Staff
Direction
Abbey Librarian: Prof. Dr. phil. Ernst Tremp
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19.05.2010

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