Re: What Will Happen to Lothar Schmid’s Library?
I recently returned from Australia, where I saw the Magnus Victor Anderson collection in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. Several thousand volumes are in view to the public - I posted some photos on Facebook, including the shelf where a couple of dozen "recent" issues of Chess Canada Echecs rest. Here is what the library does:
Collection and Resources
Development Policy
M.V. Anderson Chess
The Library’s Chess Collection is one of the three largest public chess collections in the world. The
Collection was originally donated to the Library in 1956 by Magnus Victor Anderson, a Melbourne
accountant and keen chess player. Anderson personally looked after the collection for the next ten
years, continuing to purchase books for it. By the time he died in 1966, the M.V. Anderson Chess
Collection had expanded from 1500 to over 6000 volumes. It now comprises more than 12,000
volumes.
Collection overview
The Library has continued to acquire at a comprehensive level materials relating to chess. This
includes:
• all works published in Australia regardless of format
• most books in English and major works in other languages
• chess magazines in many languages
• reports of tournaments from every country
• a range of manuscripts and ephemera
• novels and other creative works which feature chess.
Material not generally collected
• chess sets, except for a few examples
• chess internet sites.
More detail about this interesting gentleman and his collections (art as well as chess books):
http://www.mvanderson.com.au/sites/d...on-Profile.pdf
I recently returned from Australia, where I saw the Magnus Victor Anderson collection in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. Several thousand volumes are in view to the public - I posted some photos on Facebook, including the shelf where a couple of dozen "recent" issues of Chess Canada Echecs rest. Here is what the library does:
Collection and Resources
Development Policy
M.V. Anderson Chess
The Library’s Chess Collection is one of the three largest public chess collections in the world. The
Collection was originally donated to the Library in 1956 by Magnus Victor Anderson, a Melbourne
accountant and keen chess player. Anderson personally looked after the collection for the next ten
years, continuing to purchase books for it. By the time he died in 1966, the M.V. Anderson Chess
Collection had expanded from 1500 to over 6000 volumes. It now comprises more than 12,000
volumes.
Collection overview
The Library has continued to acquire at a comprehensive level materials relating to chess. This
includes:
• all works published in Australia regardless of format
• most books in English and major works in other languages
• chess magazines in many languages
• reports of tournaments from every country
• a range of manuscripts and ephemera
• novels and other creative works which feature chess.
Material not generally collected
• chess sets, except for a few examples
• chess internet sites.
More detail about this interesting gentleman and his collections (art as well as chess books):
http://www.mvanderson.com.au/sites/d...on-Profile.pdf
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