Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition
In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]
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Salisbury Cathedral’s 800th anniversary and a medieval poem in Cambridge University Library
Guest post by Dr Francis Young. On 28 April 1220 Bishop Richard Poore laid the foundation stone of Salisbury Cathedral, which is unique among English […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System (AMS) Project for April 2020. The last few weeks have been a challenging time […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) project for March 2020. The last few weeks have been a period of extremely rapid […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: quires reunited
Cataloguing the Greek manuscripts of Cambridge in the context of the Polonsky Foundation project allows new insight in the collections. By examining the manuscripts one […]
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A census of sixteenth-century Venice
Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library) Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9461 is one of the more recent additions to our collections of medieval and early […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project. There are many significant milestones for the AMS project coming this year and […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular monthly update about the Archive Management System project Migration A preliminary set of catalogues has been successfully migrated from the UL […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Apart … together
In a previous #PolonskyGreek project blogpost Conserving fragments, conservators discussed their work on the fragments; this blogpost describes how cataloguers can deal with the challenges […]
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