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Archive Management System Project update: September 2020

Posted on 9 October 2020 by Special Collections

This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for September. Migrations This month the AMS project achieved a significant milestone when […]

Archives, Uncategorized

A little manuscript in disarray: Add. 4085

Posted on 5 October 2020 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Suzette van Haaren, a PhD student at the Universities of St Andrews and Groningen. She is writing her dissertation on […]

Christian Works, Collectors and collecting, Digitisation, Fragments, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

‘The finest place in the University’: George Herbert (1593-1633), Public Orator

Posted on 4 September 2020 by Special Collections

By Jacqueline Cox (Keeper of University Archives) 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the election of the poet George Herbert as Public Orator, a post he held until 1627. First created by university statute […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 3 September 2020 by Special Collections

Migration The focus of the project remains migrating records from our legacy systems on to ArchivesSpace. Alongside ongoing work on the University Library’s AtoM data, […]

Archives, Special Collections, Uncategorized

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: When a Greek Manuscript is … German

Posted on 23 July 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

Archive Management System project update

Posted on 3 July 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Special Collections

‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions

Posted on 12 June 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Library history, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Nineteenth-century dialect writing

Posted on 9 June 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Rare Books, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 2 June 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Special Collections