New Old Books: May 2016
Acquisitions in the Rare Books Department this month focussed mainly on popular literature for young and old, also including several items of Irish interest and […]
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Assistant Under-Librarian in the Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Department at Cambridge University Library.
Towel-Related Literature in the Holdings of Cambridge University Library
A towel … is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it […]
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New Old Books: April 2016
Additions to the stock of the Rare Books Department this month include a nineteenth-century book of College verse, a satire from the period leading up […]
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New Old Books: March 2016
Books added to the collections of the Rare Books Department this month include a French almanac, a further addition to our holdings of Enlightenment texts, […]
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New old books: February 2016
The second instalment of our monthly series listing additions to the Rare Books collections. This month we feature Greek philosophy as read in sixteenth-century France, […]
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New old books: January 2016
The Rare Books Department of the Library purchases over 200 printed books each year to enhance its historical collections. In the first of what we […]
Continue reading »Friends of the University Library event: Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding
On Wednesday, 3rd February, Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies at University College, London, will give a talk for the Friends […]
Continue reading »Friends event: ‘Melted into air, into thin air’: the radio scripts in the Deryck Cooke Archive
The 2014-15 programme of the Friends of the University Library gets underway on Wednesday, October 14th at 5:30 pm with a talk by Mark Doran […]
Continue reading »Friends talk: Cambridge poets and their papers
On Wednesday February 19, the Friends of Cambridge University Library are pleased to welcome poet and literary critic J.H. Prynne, together with teacher and author […]
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