Many into one: problems and opportunities in creating shared catalogues of older books : papers presented on 11 November 2005 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome

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ICCU and the national collective catalogues SBN Index and EDIT16: from data gathering to fruition / Marco Paoli -- The language of the catalogue and the form of heading: vernacular, original, conventional / Mauro Guerrini -- Tribal lays and the history of the fingerprint / Neil Harris -- The early history of the fingerprint: a view from Edinburgh / Brian Hillyard -- A new resource for the hand printed book: MAR.T.E. -- marche Tipografiche Editoriali devices of the 17th-century Italian printers, publishers, booksellers / marina Venier / Old in the new: the XML database of the Hungarian Shared Catalogue of Old Books / Geza Bakonyi -- The Catalogue collectif de France (CCFr): today and tomorrow / Florent Palluault -- Helping researchers find what they don't know they are looking for: access points in catalogue records at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Edwin Schroeder.