Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45126
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Xuereb, Paul | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-23T11:16:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-23T11:16:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1988 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Xuereb, P. (1988). Libraries and research in Malta: an outline history. In P. Xuereb (Ed.), Libraries and Research in Malta (pp. 9-14). Msida: Malta University Press. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45126 | - |
dc.description | This document contains Table of Contents and Preface | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | The first major publication by a Maltese author based on a research library as well as on field-work was G.F. Abela's Della descrittione di Malta (1647). At the time there were no large institutional collections available to scholars, with the exception of the library in Valletta of the Franciscan Friars Minor and that at Floriana of the Capuchin Friars, both of which were largely theological and philosophical in nature. Abela, however, who was the Order of St John's Vice-Chancellor and Grand Prior, may have had access to the collection of books recovered from the estates of deceased Knights in terms of the Order's Rules, and which formed the core of the library established in the Conventual Church of St John in 1649. This library's collection was subsequently merged with that given to the Order by the Bailli de Tencin to form the Order's Biblioteca Tanseana (later Biblioteca Pubblica and now the National Library of Malta) in 1776, the first non-religious library in Malta accessible to all and furnished with a wide range of scholarly and general literature. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Malta | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Academic libraries -- Malta -- History | en_GB |
dc.subject | Libraries -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Research -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Abela, Giovanni Francesco, 1582-1655 | en_GB |
dc.subject | National Library of Malta (Valletta, Malta) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Royal Malta Library (Valletta, Malta) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Zammit, Giuseppe, 1650-1740 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Public libraries -- Malta -- History | en_GB |
dc.subject | Caruana, Annetto A., 1830-1905 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Magri, Manwel, 1851-1907 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Zammit, Themistocles, 1864-1935 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Saydon, Pietru Pawl, 1895-1971 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Inguanez, Mauro, 1887-1955 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cassar Pullicino, Ġużè, 1921-2005 | en_GB |
dc.subject | University of Malta. Library | en_GB |
dc.subject | Central Bank of Malta. Library | en_GB |
dc.title | Libraries and research in Malta : an outline history | en_GB |
dc.type | bookPart | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | Libraries and Research in Malta |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Libraries_and_research_in_Malta_an_outline_history_1988.pdf Restricted Access | 373.1 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open Request a copy |
Items in OAR@UM are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.