You can specify that your KentLINK search retrieve only items that are housed in Special Collections & Archives
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This Subject search will get you started with discovering the medieval manuscripts available for students and researchers to access at Kent State Library:
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KentLINK includes a type of search called Genre/Form that is handy for this
A Genre/Form search for the term incunabula will give you a list of early European printed books in Kent State's collection:
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A search for the abbreviated term, "Chron." in the Subject search type retrieves a list of early printed books
This list is arranged alphabetically by country and city, and then by date:
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Under the Advanced Search tab, you have the option to specify PUBLICATION DATE(S) in your search
For example, this search will locate 19th-century geology books in Special Collections & Archives:
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You can use the Genre/Form search to look for specific genre
For example, this search will retrieve true crime materials in Special Collections & Archives:
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For example, this Genre/Form search locates miniature books in Special Collections & Archives:
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An important aspect in the history of the book are the methods and styles for binding and protecting the sheets of the text and for decorating and embellishing the finished codex, scroll, or other form of book
For example, this Genre/Form search will retrieve books in Special Collections & Archives that are bound in leather:
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Try an Author/Creator search for an individual printer or publishing business. For example, this search will give you a list of items in Special Collections & Archives published by the Logan Elm Press:
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EXPERT TIP: Change the Search Type to Keyword if the Author/Creator search does not produce results
Most books today have uniform, mass-produced bindings that are identical on each copy. This was not the case before the Industrial Revolution when bookbindings were often custom-made and created by hand. The art of bookbinding has also been kept alive by craftsmen up to the present day. KentLINK includes tags for the names of people and firms that created the bookbinding (whenever possible).
Try an Author/Creator search for an individual bookbinder or a binding company:
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KentLINK includes tags for the names of people and firms responsible for the illustrations and artwork of each book (whenever possible). This includes illustrators, book designers, silkscreen artists, photographers, engravers, and hand-colorists.
Try an Author/Creator search for an individual illustrator or artist; remember to enter a search for an individual person with the last name first:
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Throughout their history, manuscripts, books and other printed works have been illustrated using every medium available to artists and publishers. Students and researchers can use KentLINK to locate examples of works done in a specific medium for close study.
Try a Genre/Form search for an illustration medium:
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Many books carry with them information and clues about their past: who owned them or who sold them (both famous people and ordinary people), whether they were given as gifts and for what occasion, and even how well-loved or heavily-used they were.
For example, this Genre/Form search retrieves books that have been annotated with handwritten notes, some by historically important people, others by the author, etc.:
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Many of Kent State's significant book collections were assembled by a knowledgeable collector and/or have come to the Library through the generosity of a particular donor. A Keyword search for the name of the collector or the collection can provide a list.
Expert tip: phrases in quotation marks will be searched exactly in a Keyword search:
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