Archive Management System project update
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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Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849
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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‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions
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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Nineteenth-century dialect writing
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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Some Islamic manuscripts from Africa
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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Archive Management System update
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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Digitisation of the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a reflection on digital technologies and collective memory
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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“Here’s my photo diary of the impact of a small but incredibly destructive bug”: first transfers to the COVID-19 Collection
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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‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown
I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]
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“L’entreprise la plus vaste du dix-huitième siècle”: the Encyclopédie Méthodique
The Encyclopédie méthodique was the last and largest of the great French encyclopedias of the eighteenth century. Its first instalment appeared in 1782 and its […]
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