----------------------------Original message---------------------------- announcement A Hundred Digital Highlights The Delft bible, the Blaeu atlas, sheet music in manuscript from Willem Pijper and 97 other treasures of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, can now be admired on the World Wide Web in a digital exhibition. This exhibition is based on the book "A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek", published in 1994. It presents a selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection, with explanatory notes, mainly provided by staff of the Department of Special Collections Just like the version of the Highlights published in book form, the digital "Highlights" can be browsed and provide an extensive introduction and index. Moreover, the digital exhibition offers you the opportunity of joining a number of selected guided tours. If you are interested in the ways the Library's treasures on paper or parchment were made, there are tours, for instance, of miniatures in medieval manuscripts, modern typography, bookbindings and paper making. For those interested in the contents of these works of art, there are tours of literary, religious, historical, art historical and other subjects. In order to provide easy access, a small version of every image (approx. 200 * 260 pixels) with the accompanying text is offered first. Subsequently, you can get a screenwide display of the work of art. These images are in JPEG-format and have been saved with a quality factor of 75 %. The average file size of these images is 120 kb (which is about 10 % of the original uncompressed TIFF- images). The digital version of the "Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek", designed and made by J. van Mourik and M.C. de Niet, staff members of the Library Research Department, can be found at: http://www.konbib.nl/100hoogte/hh-en.html The printed book can be purchased at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek for DFL 59,50: "Honderd hoogtepunten uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek / A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek." Eds. W. van Drimmelen, A. Leerintveld, T. Vermeulen & C. de Wolf. English tr.: L. Croiset van Uchelen-Brouwer. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1994. 223 p. Ill. ISBN: 90-6630-490-1 bound.