Bermuda National Library | |
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Location | Hamilton, Bermuda |
Established | 1839 |
Collection | |
Items collected | books, reference collection, newspapers, eBooks, magazines, DVDs, sound and music recordings, language Tapes, audio book CDs |
Size | 100,000 items |
Legal deposit | Yes, since 1832. |
Website | www.bnl.bm |
The Bermuda National Library is the national library in Bermuda and it is located in the capital city of Hamilton. It was founded in 1839 by British soldier, administrator and meteorologist Sir William Reid, who was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda from 1839 to 1846, and was at the time located in what is today's Cabinet Building. [1]
It is now located in Par-la-ville Park off of Queen Street and Par-la-ville Road, between Church and Front Streets in the capital. It is only open during traditional daytime hours Monday through Friday and on Saturdays. The library offers on-line services available to residents who register and obtain a membership number. The services include an online catalog, EBSCO, host of a collection of databases, a digital collection of archived editions of historic newspapers preserved on microfiche, eBook downloads, Freegal Music downloads, Project Gutenberg, Freading, Britannica Online and online tutoring services through Tutor.com for those that have library membership.
The digital collection offers an online archived repository of preserved works such as Bermuda Recorder dating from 1933 (although the paper began in 1925), the Royal Gazette with editions dating from 1784, the Bermuda Sun, Mid-Ocean News, the Workers Voice which is still published, Fame Magazine and Bermuda Sports (from 1951 to 1957). In addition, they will soon offer digital editions of the Bermuda Life and Times and the Bermuda Beacon.
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux was a French statesman and historian.
James Gairdner was a British historian. He specialised in 15th-century and early Tudor history, and among other tasks edited the Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII series.
Edward Bouverie Pusey was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement.
Francis William Bourdillon was a British poet and translator. He is known also as a bibliophile.
The Bermuda National Trust is a charitable organization which works to preserve and protect the heritage of Bermuda.
Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describes a voyage around the world.
The Corpus Reformatorum, is the general Latin title given to a large collection of Reformation writings. This collection, which runs to 101 volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, and Huldrych Zwingli, three of the leading Protestant reformers. Texts in the CR are written in either Latin, French or German.
Augustus Legge was Bishop of Lichfield from 1891 until 1913.
Henry Forster Burder, D.D. (1783–1864) was an English nonconformist minister.
John Percy FRS was an English metallurgist.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside.
John Randolph Sharpstein was an American lawyer and judge. He was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California for twelve years, and previously served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly.
James Macaulay was a Scottish medical man, journalist and author, best known as an anti-vivisectionist and periodical editor.
Augustus Austen Leigh (1840–1905) was the 32nd provost of King's College, Cambridge. Born at Scarlets, Berkshire, he entered King's College, in 1859, where earned the members' prize in 1862, and graduated with an M.A. in 1866. He was appointed a tutor at the college from 1868 to 1881, and was dean from 1871 to 1873 and 1882–5, and vice-provost from 1877 to 1889. He succeeded Richard Okes as provost on 9 February 1889. He held various other positions, including president of the Cambridge University Musical Society from 1883, and president of Cambridge University Cricket Club from 1886 to 1904.
Lancelot Ridley Phelps was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1914 to 1930.
The Association for the Education of Women or Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Oxford (AEW) was formed in 1878 to promote the education of women at the University of Oxford. It provided lectures and tutorials for students at the four women's halls in Oxford, as well as for female students living at home or in lodgings and was dissolved in 1920 when women were admitted as members of the university.
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