S&S LIBRARY UPDATE

The biggest achievement for me in the last few months was getting the BCD auction catalogs all on the shelves. It was no small feat and I feel compelled to thank a number of people who helped. The most important is my husband, Rainer, who helped to measure, design and coordinate construction of the bookshelves that house nearly 800 linear feet of catalogs. Next is Tyler Rossi, my dedicated and hardworking assistant, who unpacked hundreds of boxes, sometimes all on his own and put them up on the shelves in the correct order. Finally, my sons Jakob and Leo, who during their holiday break from studying, broke down those boxes and brought them out to the trash. It was a big affair but finally the library is starting to look like……well, a library!

 

Scanning project - Newman Numismatic Portal and S&S Library

I want to remind all my subscribers that there will be an excellent new opportunity for you to access numismatic literature for free. The Newman Portal (NNP) and S&S Library entered into a cooperation recently of historic proportions! We are scanning the entire S&S Library, currently close to 9,000 volumes and still growing, and making anything out of copyright available for public consumption. This will be transformative for the NNP as there will now be much more available on ancient coins than ever before. We aren't quite ready yet to give detailed information to you but be on the lookout for that. It will be a great way to access numismatic literature with a click of a button.

For more on Shanna Schmidt Numismatics, see:
https://www.shannaschmidt.com/

Newman Portal and S&S Library, LLC Team to Digitize Literature of Ancient Numismatics

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) and the S&S Library today announce an initiative to digitize over 6,000 volumes from the S&S Library, which is primarily focused on ancient numismatics. We are excited to expand the scope of our content to include world and ancient numismatics, said NNP Project Coordinator Len Augsburger. Shanna Schmidt, a partner in S&S Library, LLC noted The literature of numismatics began with ancient coins, and the appreciation of all numismatics will be enhanced by knowledge of our earliest coins. We are pleased to partner with Newman Portal on the broad scale digitization of the literature related to ancient numismatics.

The S&S Library, housed in Chicago, is jointly owned by Shanna Schmidt Numismatics and a leading, U.S.-based collector in the field of classical and ancient numismatics. The library includes core holdings in all fields of numismatics, with a concentration on literature related to ancient coinage. Library highlights includes E. J. Haeberlin's Aes Grave (1910), Dattari's Monete Imperiali Greche (1901), and the first six volumes of The Numismatist (1888-1893), one of perhaps ten copies in private hands. The S&S Library was recently the subject of a video produced by Newman Portal, available at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/630666.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
BCD CATALOGS ARRIVE IN CHICAGO (https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n52a07.html)
NNP TO DIGITIZE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT NUMISMATICS (https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n39a09.html)

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