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Book sales catalogues now listed

Posted on 7 June 2022 by Liam Sims

In the course of our work as curators we receive hundreds of booksellers’ and auctioneers’ catalogues every year, many now in digital form, but plenty […]

Collectors and collecting, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Read all about it! News in Georgian Cambridge

Posted on 12 November 2021 by Liam Sims

Among the items recently acquired by the Library (generously supported by the Friends of the UL) is a group of nearly fifty issues of an […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

Rose Book Collecting Prize 2022

Posted on 12 November 2021 by Liam Sims

Entries are open for the 2021/22 Rose Book-Collecting Prize, which offers students the chance to win £500 by writing and talking about their own book […]

Collectors and collecting

A new acquisition from Gabriel Harvey’s library

Posted on 4 August 2021 by Liam Sims

The Library holds many books formerly in the possession of significant historical figures. Other than the simple pleasure of knowing that a book was once […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Special Collections

William Morris & the book

Posted on 11 June 2021 by Liam Sims

To mark the 125th anniversary of the publication of William Morris’s edition of the works of Chaucer, 26th June has been designated ‘International Kelmscott Press […]

Anniversaries, Collectors and collecting, Historical Printing, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Word & image in a sixteenth-century prayer book

Posted on 8 February 2021 by Liam Sims

We all put things in books. Whether it’s bookmarks (old train tickets, receipts or some other bit of paper no longer required), related ephemera (magazine […]

Collectors and collecting, Illustration, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Spreadsheets, shelflists & scones: Special Collections works from home

Posted on 16 April 2020 by Liam Sims

On Wednesday 18th March the University Library closed its doors to readers, in line with government advice around COVID-19. That afternoon saw many of Cambridge’s […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Ely assizes, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 20 February 2020 by Liam Sims

This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. We have been making great progress since the last Archive Management System update […]

Archives, Special Collections

Erotica comes to Cambridge

Posted on 4 February 2020 by Liam Sims

When one thinks of the great collections which Cambridge University Library has built up over its six centuries, erotic literature is probably not very near […]

Acquisitions, Collectors and collecting, French, Illustration, Rare Books, Special Collections

Queering the UL

Posted on 5 February 2019 by Liam Sims

February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]

Exhibitions, Japanese, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections