Cambridge University Library’s Map Department in Lockdown
120 days in Lockdown and counting … Read a Blog Post commissioned by the Cambridge Library Group describing what Cambridge University Library Map Department staff have […]
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‘The finest place in the University’: George Herbert (1593-1633), Public Orator
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 […]
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Archive Management System update
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, […]
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Archive Management System project update
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 […]
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‘Thousands of little loose papers without any order at all’: Material signs and afterlives in the UL’s earliest Arabic acquisitions
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 […]
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Nineteenth-century dialect writing
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 […]
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Some Islamic manuscripts from Africa
In among the very varied items which constitute Library’s Islamic manuscript collection there is a small number of texts originating from the Saharan and sub-Saharan […]
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Archive Management System update
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 […]
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‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special collections in lockdown
I dared not dream that this dream had come true:That I was bending over that yellow pageLit with his words – our boy, our poet, […]
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Coping with isolation: Ernest Shackleton & the Cambridge University Press publication of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Given permission to depart in a telegram from the Admiralty with the single word ‘Proceed’, the Endurance sailed from Plymouth on 8 August 1914 to […]
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