Icelandic
Library Resources
1. Landsbókasafn
Íslands -
Háskólabókasafn
GEGNIR
- Telnet Search Engine. English interface is
offered.
2. Fiske
Icelandic Collection, Cornell
University
C.U.L.
- Web Search Engine
*
Interlibrary Loan Policy
3.
Icelandic
Collection, UofM -
E. DaFoe Library
BISON
- U of M Libraries Web Search Engine
*
Interlibrary Loan Policy
4. Antique
Maps of Iceland
5. The
Research Library of the Balch Institute For Ethnic
Studies
Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of:
Almanak Fyrir, Baldur, Framfari, Gimlungur,
Heimskringla, Leifur, Lögberg, Lögberg -
Heimskringla, Oldin, Timarit, Vorold.
6.
The
Center for Research
Libraries
Icelandic Newspapers from Manitoba Held by CRL.
To borrow materials held by The Center for Research
Libraries, contact the Interlibrary Loan Office at your
institution, or, contact CRL's Access Services Dept.
(312) 955 4545, ext. 313.
Heimskringla
Winnipeg (Man.), Canada
Freq: Weekly
Published: Sept. 9, 1886-July 29, 1959
Lang.: Icelandic/English
ABSORBED: Oldin, Mar. 2, 1892
MERGED WITH: Logberg, TO FORM: Logberg-Heimskringla
Summary holdings: Dec. 6, 1917-Oct. 21, 1925
Lögberg
Winnipeg (Man.), Canada
Freq: Weekly
Published: Jan. 14, 1888-July 30, 1959
Lang.: Icelandic
MERGED WITH: Heimskringla, TO FORM:
Logberg-Heimskringla
Summary holdings: 1918-Sept. 1927
7. The
Icelandic Heritage Library
Listings coming soon to the Internet. An Icelandic
community library located in New Westminster, BC -
containing over 4,000 Icelandic and English Books.
Numerous periodicals, videos, CDs and tapes are also
available.
Interlibrary Loan
Policies:
Cornell University
Library
- by Patrick J Stevens,
Curator Fiske Icelandic Collection
Please allow me to clarify Cornell's lending and
circulation policies in their general terms and as they
apply to the Icelandic Collection:
* Circulating CUL books (including the circulating
part of the Icelandic Collection) may be borrowed by
members of the campus community, i.e. anyone with an ID
that empowers him/her to borrow. The same books may be
requested by other institutions through interlibrary
loan, so that their constituents may borrow them for
designated time periods.
* Non-circulating CUL books, e.g. those in the
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, are
consulted in our reading room. They may also be requested
through ILL, but they need a curator's approval to go
out, and we tend to place appropriate restrictions (no
circulation outside of the borrowing institution, no
photocopy, time limits) on their use. A very significant
part of the Icelandic Collection falls into the
non-circulating category, including works of the greatest
historical and scholarly value.
* We are creating several thousand preservation
microfilmings of titles in the collection under a project
funded in part by the US NEH. We shall be able to lend
the resulting microfilms and/or sell copies thereof at
cost.
In a nutshell, public access to the holdings of CUL is
possible, under the general conditions outlined and under
more detailed, officially promulgated regulations. Any
party that is interested in the Icelandic holdings in
particular may feel free to contact me.
Fiske Icelandic Collection
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B60 Kroch
Library
Cornell University Library
Ithaca New York 14853-5302
(Reference queries welcome through
FISKEREF@CORNELL.EDU)
Patrick J Stevens, curator
pjs3@cornell.edu
(607) 255-3530 voice
(607) 255-9524 fax
University of Manitoba
Libraries
Sigrid Johnson, head librarian for the Icelandic
Collection at the Elizabeth DaFoe Library, reports
that about 50% of the collection is now searchable by
computer. If you cannot find the book you are looking for
using your computer, give her a call at (204) 474-6345
and she will check their card files.
Should you find a book at the U of M and not be able
to get there to read it or take it out on loan, consult
your local library and request an inter-library loan of
the book(s) you've found.