During the University Library’s closure, the Royal Commonwealth Society department has continued cataloguing its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets, most recently concentrating upon Canada. So […]
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Not all Greek manuscripts are Greek. It may sound strange, but you only need to remember that many Greek manuscripts kept in libraries all over […]
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Migration The focus of our project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside work on the University Library’s AtoM data, this […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is delighted to announce that it has digitized one of the most fascinating items in its collection: a parchment roll […]
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In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]
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In the first in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Georgia Thurston (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) shares her research towards a […]
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In among the very varied items which constitute Library’s Islamic manuscript collection there is a small number of texts originating from the Saharan and sub-Saharan […]
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Milestones and project extension The AMS project team achieved some key milestones in May. 262,872 records from five University Library Cantab databases were successfully migrated […]
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My name is Raffaella Losito, and in March 2020 I had the great privilege to join the Digital Content Unit team as a Digitisation Technician […]
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Documenting what we do, what we see and how we feel, the first donations have arrived for the University Library’s COVID-19 Collection. Launched in April 2020, this initiative seeks to document the disease’s impact on the […]
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