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Jacques Flach Collection
Jacques Flach was born in Strasbourg, France, the capital of the Alsace region, on February 16, 1846. Flach studied classics and law at Strasbourg University, where he received a Doctor at Law in 1869. In his dissertation and writings, he endeavored to explain legal problems through historical analysis, which was a relatively innovative approach.
Flach wrote and collected books extensively throughout his life. His library supported his prolific writing and research. His collection has a wide breadth including texts on Irish politics, Mesopotamia, Russian history and the Alsace region of France. In total the University of Missouri Library purchased over 6,000 books from his estate in 1920.
The collection was purchased by Henry O. Severance, the University of Missouri library director. While he was working for the American Library in Paris, a service of the American Library Association, this collection came up for sale and he bought the Flach Library for about $6,000 including shipping.
The books from the collection were accessioned at the time of purchase, but the cataloging process continued for more than forty years. Currently only 814 titles of the approximately 6,000 have been identified as Flach collection books. The bulk of unidentified items have no Flach ex-libri. There is a continuing effort to search for the rest of the collection.
Currently there is a Flach book available for restoration support through our Adopt-A-Book program. This is Johann Weis’s elephant folio, Représentation des Fêtes Données par la Ville de Strasbourg Pour la Convalescence du Roi. This codex recorded Louis XV’s entry into Strasbourg in October 1744. Weis describes the events and supplies many of the illustrations. The elaborate plates depict the king’s entry into the city, fireworks and renders beautifully many of Strasbourg’s public buildings.
Please click here for a listing of the Jacques Flach books in MERLIN. Many of the books are located in the Rare Books Collection in Special Collections, but many of the Flach books are housed in the University of Missouri Depository (UMLD).
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Selected Bibliography
- “Columbia.” The Library Journal, 46 (1922): 418.
- Currie, Florence. “The Flach collection of the University of Missouri”. Bibliographical Society of America 17.1 (1923): 57-64.
- “Geofroi Jacques Flach.” The Encyclopedia Americana 11 (1919): p. 307.
Veterinary Science Limit in PubMed
Overwhelmed with “human” results in your PubMed searches? Try the Veterinary Science limit.
The Veterinary Science Subset has been added to the Limits screen in the Subsets area:
What does it search exactly? See the Veterinary Science Search Strategy.
Questions? Ask Kate.
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MU’s Archival Advantage: Digitizing Archival Resources on Campus
A Brown Bag Panel Discussion Organized by Print for the People
(Print for the People is a Mizzou Advantage Networking Group)
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010, 12-1 pm
Tucker Forum, MU School of Journalism
Panel Members: David F. Moore (Western Historical Manuscripts Collection), Sean Franzel (German and Russian Studies), Noah Heringman (English)
David Moore will discuss the challenges and issues with past and current digitization projects undertaken by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. He will also discuss how WHMC-Columbia has tried to prioritize the collections that are considered for digitization.
Sean Franzel and Noah Heringman will discuss their research on German-language holdings at WHMC and the State Historical Society in light of the challenges and possibilities of digitizing historical materials for use by students, scholars, and the broader public. Putting historical sources online represents an important way to make library holdings significantly more accessible, but it also requires renewed reflection on how to organize and present them. Franzel and Heringman will initiate discussion by presenting their preliminary research on local holdings produced by Missouri’s extensive German-language publishing industry in the nineteenth century. Our goal in this brown bag discussion is to focus on the process of selecting materials to digitize from MU’s collections.
New NCBI Images Database
Looking for a figure? Noticing image previews in your PubMed results? Check out the new NCBI Images database.
The Images database contains approximately 3 million images from biomedical literature in NCBI full-text resources. And you’ll see these images embedded in your PubMed results.
From the NLM Technical Bulletin:
PubMed® Display Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Database
[Editor’s Note added October 29, 2010: This change was implemented in PubMed on October 27, 2010 and the Images database was also released on October 27, 2010.]
The PubMed Abstract display for PubMed Central® articles will be enhanced to include an image strip generated from the soon-to-be-released National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Images database (see Figure 1).
The image strip will display thumbnails of the article’s first several images. The image strip will also include a See all images link to display all the article’s images in the Images databases, as well as a Free text link to the article. Right and left arrows on each end of the strip will allow you to rotate through the images.
Mousing over an image in the image strip will generate a preview display of the image with its figure caption (see Figure 2). Click on the image in the image strip, or the mouseover preview display, and go directly to the figure’s page in PubMed Central.
Images Database
The Images database will allow you to search millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources; the database initially includes images from PubMed Central (see Figure 3).
You will be able to search the Images database with terms or detailed search parameters, such as image height, width, and caption. The complete list of search fields is available from the Images Advanced search page. Image results initially display in a summary format (see Figure 4) but may also be viewed in a thumbnail display. Retrieval display order is based on a relevancy algorithm.
My NCBI preferences will be updated to allow you to change your Image database default display to Thumbnail.
By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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