The Nineteenth Century: General Collection.
- Location: McKeldin Library
Location Code & Call Number: MCK-PER M-FICHE D351.N56 1986 - McKeldin Library owns microfiches 1.1.1 through 1.1.5236. Titles filmed in later releases may be borrowed from Johns Hopkins University through Interlibrary Loan.
Description
This collection is part of a series which reproduces a broad range of 19th century English-language books and pamphlets published in all parts of the world except North America between 1801 and 1900. Titles have been obtained primarily from the holdings of the British Library.
Titles in this series are arranged in numerical order, according to a three part numbering scheme. The first number indicates which of the subsidiary Nineteenth Century series a title belongs to. For General Collection titles this number is always a 1. The next number after the decimal point designates the originating library. The last number is a number unique to the individual title.
The Nineteenth Century: General Collection is one series of a multipart microfilming project which is expected to take thirty years to complete. In addition to the General Collection, McKeldin also has the initial releases of another Nineteenth Century series, Women Writers and the Art Library has the initial releases of a specialist collection called The Visual Arts and Architecture. Titles reproduced by The Nineteenth Century are selected primarily, but not exclusively, from the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog.
It is not the intention of the editors of The Nineteenth Century to reproduce every title published in Britain and its colonies during the 19th century, but to make available a comprehensive selection of British works published during that period. The result, it is hoped, will be a collection which will illustrate the institutional, intellectual and social evolution of Britain in the years between 1801 and 1900. Most fiction and poetry are excluded from the scope of the General Collection. Also excluded are parliamentary papers, periodicals, editions of Greek or Roman writers, textbooks, sacred scriptures and works published in North America, including Canada. Additionally, works already included in other major microfilm collections and works easily available in reprint editions have not been included.
Materials in the General Collection cover politics, economics, geography and topography, agriculture, history and archaeology, jurisprudence, philosophy, psychology, education, recreation, science, medicine, family life and household management, technology and the useful arts, and religion.
MARC records for each title in this collection have been loaded into OCLC. At the top of each Nineteenth Century OCLC record, it says "NO HOLDINGS IN UMC". However, if at the end of the record it says The Nineteenth Century: General, we will have the item as part of The Nineteenth Century: General Collection microfiche set.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:- MCK FOLIO Z2001.N561 1986
- The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalog. (in progress)
Although this is much broader in scope than the General Collection, it may be used to provide subject indexing to the microfiches of the General Collection. The NCSTC subject index gives item numbers in the main NCSTC volumes, where authors and titles are listed.
- REF AUTOM D351.N57
- The Nineteenth Century: General Collection: Society and Culture in the Nineteenth Century is a CDROM index to all items published so far in the microfiche collection. It comprises full bibliographic details of all records and includes Library of Congress subject headings for each record.
The Worldcat, a FirstSearch file available through the Libraries' homepage, contains the records of Nineteenth Century titles. To limit a search to these titles, type Nineteenth Century General Collection in the search space and click on Notes (Comments) in the Index box; and limit to microform.
