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dc.contributor.authorXuereb, Paul-
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-23T11:16:40Z-
dc.date.available2019-07-23T11:16:40Z-
dc.date.issued1988-
dc.identifier.citationXuereb, P. (1988). Libraries and research in Malta: an outline history. In P. Xuereb (Ed.), Libraries and Research in Malta (pp. 9-14). Msida: Malta University Press.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45126-
dc.descriptionThis document contains Table of Contents and Prefaceen_GB
dc.description.abstractThe first major publication by a Maltese author based on a research library as well as on field-work was G.F. Abela's Della descrittione di Malta (1647). At the time there were no large institutional collections available to scholars, with the exception of the library in Valletta of the Franciscan Friars Minor and that at Floriana of the Capuchin Friars, both of which were largely theological and philosophical in nature. Abela, however, who was the Order of St John's Vice-Chancellor and Grand Prior, may have had access to the collection of books recovered from the estates of deceased Knights in terms of the Order's Rules, and which formed the core of the library established in the Conventual Church of St John in 1649. This library's collection was subsequently merged with that given to the Order by the Bailli de Tencin to form the Order's Biblioteca Tanseana (later Biblioteca Pubblica and now the National Library of Malta) in 1776, the first non-religious library in Malta accessible to all and furnished with a wide range of scholarly and general literature.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Maltaen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessen_GB
dc.subjectAcademic libraries -- Malta -- Historyen_GB
dc.subjectLibraries -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectResearch -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectAbela, Giovanni Francesco, 1582-1655en_GB
dc.subjectNational Library of Malta (Valletta, Malta)en_GB
dc.subjectRoyal Malta Library (Valletta, Malta)en_GB
dc.subjectZammit, Giuseppe, 1650-1740en_GB
dc.subjectPublic libraries -- Malta -- Historyen_GB
dc.subjectCaruana, Annetto A., 1830-1905en_GB
dc.subjectMagri, Manwel, 1851-1907en_GB
dc.subjectZammit, Themistocles, 1864-1935en_GB
dc.subjectSaydon, Pietru Pawl, 1895-1971en_GB
dc.subjectInguanez, Mauro, 1887-1955en_GB
dc.subjectCassar Pullicino, Guze, 1921-2005en_GB
dc.subjectUniversity of Malta. Libraryen_GB
dc.subjectCentral Bank of Malta. Libraryen_GB
dc.titleLibraries and research in Malta : an outline historyen_GB
dc.typebookParten_GB
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