Wilfred Court’s slide collection now digitised
Over 2,200 colour slides documenting the work and travels of the architect Wilfred Court in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon in the 1950s […]
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Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon
This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]
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The legacy of Francis Jenkinson: a symposium
‘The care of books is a difficult business’, remarked Francis Jenkinson in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Library Association in 1905 […]
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Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission
Post by Chloe Rushovich, Engagement and Communities Officer, RCS Carnegie Project As a part of a shared digital curation project, Creating New Connections, Cambridge University […]
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From ‘Register of Readers’ to online requesting
Eagle-eyed users of the Library’s iDiscover catalogue may have noticed a new feature when they log in and search for Rare Books; a small but […]
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Spreadsheets, shelflists & scones: Special Collections works from home
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 […]
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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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Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
The Award Ceremony for the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was held at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on […]
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The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods
The Consortium of European Research Libraries recently held its annual seminar for 2019 in the Historisches Gebäude of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen under the […]
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Archive Management System: October update
Commitment to the project: confirmation needed We are working towards making the system available to partner organisations for data entry from January 2020 and will […]
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