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Archive Management System update

Posted on 27 May 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We’ve been working on costs and a business model for […]

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Care in the handling of books

Posted on 15 April 2019 by James Freeman

A reminder of good practice by Henry Creswick (University Librarian 1949-67), courtesy of the University Archives:

Cambridge University Archives, Collection Care, librarians, Library history, Uncategorized

A new Archive Management System for Cambridge

Posted on 3 April 2019 by Special Collections

There is a healthy tradition of collaboration among archives in Cambridge. Local archival repositories vary widely in size from large (like the University Library’s Archives […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Posted on 13 March 2019 by Katrina Dean

Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]

Archives, Astronomy, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Darwin Correspondence Project, Engineering, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Science, Special Collections

‘A degree of a different character’: 100 years of the Cambridge PhD

Posted on 4 January 2019 by Sally Kent

On 16 May 1919, a specially established syndicate presented a series of revised regulations governing the admission and courses of study of research students and […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Theses

Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive: Framing the Letters Patent

Posted on 29 March 2018 by CUL Conservation

By Fay Humphreys Granted by Henry VIII in 1534, the Letters Patent (UA Luard 162) gave the University of Cambridge the right to appoint […]

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LGBT History Month at the UL

Posted on 19 March 2018 by Liam Sims

During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges and other institutions across town and University to mark LGBT History Month, an annual […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Collectors and collecting, Japanese, Library history, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection, Uncategorized

Silks, pearls and manuscripts

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Catherine Ansorge

On the wall of the Library’s fourth floor of landing hangs a portrait of a man dressed in a very fine silk or satin doublet […]

Cambridge University history, Collectors and collecting, librarians, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

The medieval University goes online

Posted on 11 December 2017 by Jacky Cox

The earliest surviving official set in Cambridge of the University’s medieval statutes is one of three treasures from the University Archives newly online as part […]

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