Monday, September 6, 2010

A research seminar at Suhmhuset

The new Knowledge Centre at Kalvskinnet: Three Institutions at Trondheim (The Gunnerus Branch of the NTNU University library, the NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim (VM) and the Science Centre (Vitensenter)) have recently agreed to cooperate in establishing a new centre called the Knowledge Centre in the area of Trondheim, known as Kalvskinnet.

The Gunnerus library is thus extending invitations to a research seminar about:

“The Knowledge Centre at Kalvskinnet”,

Disseminating the past into the future!

22^nd of October

9.30-16.00

At the Suhmhuset

This cooperative project represents a new concept, a Science Centre-Museum-Library entity (with technology, science, archaeology and history as its main profile pillars), indicating a change in thinking and creating a need for farsighted planning.

One of the common purposes to be discussed is the potential to engage the interest of new social groups through different dissemination strategies and to be able to reflect on the diversity in age, interests and nationality of the user community.

The main questions the seminar will attend to discuss are:

· How can the centre increase its accessibility and engage the interest of new groups?

· How to best organise and coordinate the dissemination activities for the benefit of their prospective audience?

The seminar is financed by the globalization programme of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) in Trondheim as part of the research project “The role of libraries in the European future” organised by the Gunnerus library.

We invite all that might be interested in attending to send an email to Alexandra Angeletaki alexandra.angeletaki@ub.ntnu.no before the 10^th October 2010.

Programme: 09.30-16.00

9.30 Welcome by the library director: Lisbeth Tangen

9.45 - 10.00: Alexandra Angeletaki, Gunnerus library, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Disseminating the past into the future.

10.00-10.45: Chiara Evangelista, Perpertual Robotics Laboratory (Percro), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy: Information Landscape Project: New possibilities for user interaction in 3D Virtual Environments.

10.45-11.15: Letizia Jaccheri, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: ArTe – Art and Technology - Research and Dissemination activities at the intersection of Art and Technology

11.15-11.45: Håkon Fyhn, antropolog: Sniff the Rat: Dissemination as a process of

interdisciplinary creation.

11.45-12.15 Discussion

12.15-13.00 Lunch

13.00- 14.15: Library-visit with Stein Johansen, Ellen Alm and Rolv Jakobsen, NTNU library; Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Digital representation of objects from a 19th century private library, Knudzonsalen - the question of context.

14.30-15.00: Guro Jørgensen, Phd candidate at the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Digital Dialogue between the Museum and it‘s Public

15.00-15.30: Axel Christofersen and Morten Steffensen, The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Challenge and Renewal - NTNU University Museum. Trondheim meets the community.

15.30-16.00: Discussion

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Newton going Digital!

Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.

This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.

Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.

The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.

Zoom in the book here

The establishment of the library that is today called Gunnerus library belongs to the history of the DKNVS. The library today has initiated aprogram of digitization of its most valuable books, manuscripts and archives and is developing a open platform where its valuable documents can be accessed by the public. Using "Erez" one can actually browse through the book and zoom inn its pages and thus enjoy all the details as if one was holding the book in his hand.

Service terms and prices

The NTNU Gunnerus Library charges a use fee based on its ownership of the physical materials in its collections.

Photo colection

We have about 400 000 photographs from Trondheim in the early 1900’s until around 1940’s in our collection. We are in process of digitizing the material, and you can search our digital collection on the website “trondheimsbilder”. Here you can search by name, address or location. To order a photo you need to follow the link called “more options and information”, and then a link called “bestill bilde” (order photo) in Norwegian.

In case you wish to publish the photo we charge a use fee of 500 NOK for commercial publications, and 200 NOK for non-commercial publications each time the material is published.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us.

Photo services

Prints /analog development
13x18	170,-
18x24	170,-

Digitisation of photos or document scan, price per item:

Low quality
0 – 1 Mb	50,-

High quality
1 - 20 Mb	150,-
21 - 50 Mb	200,-
over 50 Mb	300,-

Shipping and handling:

E-mail	50,- per item
Download	50,- per item
CD	100,- + 50,- per item + postage
Paper	50,- per item + postage

The history.

The library was originally established by the the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters which was was founded in 1760 by Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Gerhard Schøning, a headmaster, and Councillor of State Peter Friderich Suhm under the name Det Trondhiemske Selskab (the Trondheim Society). It received the Royal Affirmation of its statutes in 1767 and was named Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab . The cultural heritage collections are going back to the 1760s when the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters began collecting natural history material and also material pertaining to cultural history. Today it includes Manuscripts, Libri Rari 400.000 pictures and documents together with many other collections of books and items of great value for the history of the area around Trondheim but as well as for the whole of Norway in general.

The Archives and Manuscripts of the Gunnerus Library