{"id":772,"date":"2014-10-27T16:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=772"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:31:43","slug":"annual-accountabiltiy-almanacs-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2014\/10\/annual-accountabiltiy-almanacs-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Accountability – Almanacs in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever imagined living in another time and place?\u00a0 Finding out more about daily routines in the course of recorded history through the words of historians who chronicle the story of human experience are invaluable to the present day reader.\u00a0 Another useful aid is a publication(s) from the actual time period which documents the doings\u00a0of a person, place, or object\u00a0first hand.\u00a0 With this in mind, and more specifically, materials that allow for personal reference\u00a0from an annual perspective such as\u00a0directories, yearbooks, and most notably almanacs provide the researcher with useful data to learn from by word and number alike.<\/p>\n

An “almanac” (or\u00a0“almanack” or “almanach” as they are sometimes referred to) by definition is an annual publication that provides weather forecasts, tide rates, astronomical data, and other relevant information in tabular form.\u00a0 Modern day almanacs have evolved to include various statistical and descriptive information such as economics, government, religion, and political results\u00a0among other subject areas that touch not only upon local communities, but national and world issues in brief\u00a0line item and\/or summary form.\u00a0 The earliest known almanac published in the “modern sense” was\u00a0the Almanac of Azarqueil<\/i> written in 1088 by Ab\u016b Ish\u0101q Ibr\u0101h\u012bm, al-Zarq\u0101l\u012b in Toledo, al-Andalus.\u00a0 There have been several\u00a0subsequent examples from here as found in different countries, languages, and specializations.<\/p>\n

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One\u00a0example of an international almanac found\u00a0in our collection can be\u00a0located in our rare book collection if you\u00a0look back\u00a0280 years ago at a far different world than the one of today.\u00a0 This volume entitled:\u00a0\u00a0The Gentleman and Citizen\u2019s Almanack, For the Year of Our Lord (<\/em>Dublin: S. Powell, for John Watson, Bookseller to be sold at his shop on Merchants Key, near the Old Bridge, 1734) is a tome\u00a0that provides a look at 18th century life in Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0This book provides a traditional format with the following array of categories found in the index:\u00a0 “Tide Table, Table of Twilight,” “Table of Coin and Gold Weights,” “Table for a Company Foot,” “Table of the Price of Goods,” “Table fo the Weight of Bread,” “Masters and Wardens Quarterly Assemblies,” “Roads of Ireland,” “Fairs of Ireland,” and others.\u00a0 The attached illustrations provide further details on how the\u00a0consumers of that day and contemporary readers can relate alike can relate to the facts and figures found here including postal service and its value for communication links before cell phones and twitter for example.<\/p>\n

\"Almanac<\/a><\/p>\n

This particular publication provides an every day look at life in an Ireland that goes beyond the essay\u00a0 alone.\u00a0 This and other Irish “almanacks” from 1732-1838 and other books on the Irish experience both reference and beyond can be found here in the Monsignor William No\u00e9 Field Archives & Special Collections Center.<\/p>\n

For more information contact Alan Delozier, University Archivist at:\u00a0 Alan.Delozier@shu.edu, or (973) 275-2378.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever imagined living in another time and place?\u00a0 Finding out more about daily routines in the course of recorded history through the words of historians who chronicle the story of human experience are invaluable to the present day reader.\u00a0 Another useful aid is a publication(s) from the actual time period which documents the … Continue reading “Annual Accountability – Almanacs in Action”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,100,30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-and-special-collections","category-archives-month","category-rare-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}