Hendrik Edelman

Collection Development in an Interdisciplinary Context.

Abstract A steady erosion of academic disciplinary boundaries and a corresponding increase in interdisciplinary research have occured. These developments present a mounting but still imperfectly understood challenge for collection development and management in academic libraries. This paper examines interdisciplinary research in an academic library context and reports on a case study.

Nijhoff in America Booksellers from the Netherlands and the Development of American Research Libraries – Part II*

Abstract American libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteenth century and were among the world’s most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and their strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from the earliest efforts to about 1970, when the unprecedented growth came to an end. The building of the international library collections could not have been achieved without the enterprising efforts of many booksellers in England and on the European continent. Among those who made significant contributions, were three booksellers from the Netherlands: Frederik Muller, Martinus Nijhoff and Swets & Zeitlinger. This article describes their role, but concentrates on Martinus Nijhoff, publisher and bookseller of The Hague, who had by far the longest successful tenure in supplying American libraries with European books and periodicals. Between 1853 and 1971, three generations of the Nijhoff family – Martinus, Wouter and Wouter Pzn –, with their staff members, built one of the leading international publishing and bookselling houses in the Netherlands. Their legacy is permanently embedded in the collections of the great North American libraries.

International Publishing in the Netherlands, 1933-1945

International publishing in the Netherlands experienced a remarkable revival after 1933, when the German Nazi government forced many prominent writers and researchers into exile. In a series of bio-bibliographical portraits of major participating Dutch publishers, this book documents the impact of German exile and changes in scholarly publishing.

Scholarly publishing in occupied Holland. Kálmán Kollar, Tiefland and Pantheon Akademische Verlagsanstalt in Amsterdam 1937-47

In I937, Kalman Kollar and his fiancee Maria Theresia Veen, moved the operation of the Viennese publisher Franz Leo Verlag to Amsterdam. There they transformed it into two companies: Tiefland and Pantheon, which both operated from the offices of Dutch trade publisher LJ.Veen. Over the next decade an active scholarly publishing program emerged, issuing books and periodicals in the German language. This article describes this program, its authors and their books before, during and after the turmoil of the German occupation of The Netherlands.