Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Mubil start

Mubil has officially started with the final contract being in place, inspiration flying and work plans designed. The frame for this is the town of Pisa in Italy, at the laboratory of Percro where being a guest is a high privillege with human contact, warm hospitality, the strong sun light, good food and hard work being the unmistaken inspiration source for creative exchange.

Statement of  Work
The MUBIL project is initiated by the NTNU University library and it will investigate the possibilities of creating a virtual learning space within the physical space of the library through an international collaboration with Percro laboratory and IDI at NTNU. The project will create an application of augmented books for the users of the library collections and an interactive laboratory for school students using 3D technology. The applications developed by Percro, in the framework of the MUBIL project will use XVR technology as the development framework and Microsoft Windows as the OS platform. Application data as agreed will consist of 3D models, images,videos,texts (likely in XML format). The final product will be in both English and Norwegian. The project is mainly financed by the NTNU in a joint cooperation between the University library and the IDI department. The project is also a response to the call of the National Library of Norway on projects that stimulate development of new digital dissemination strategies for libraries and is thus partly financed with NOK 460000 by the National Library. The rest is financed by NTNU and Percro as a research collaboration.
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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