Digital Resources – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

From ‘Register of Readers’ to online requesting

Posted on 5 August 2022 by Emily Dourish

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 […]

Digital Resources, Library history, Rare Books, Special Collections

Spreadsheets, shelflists & scones: Special Collections works from home

Posted on 16 April 2020 by Liam Sims

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Ely assizes, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Special Collections

Archive Management System update

Posted on 2 April 2020 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, Digital Resources, Special Collections

Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition

Posted on 28 November 2019 by John C.

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 […]

Digital Resources, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods

Posted on 31 October 2019 by Emily Dourish

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 […]

Digital Resources, Special Collections

Archive Management System: October update

Posted on 3 October 2019 by Special Collections

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 […]

Archives, Digital Resources, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Archival revolution: how born-digital archives are changing the way we do research

Posted on 22 May 2019 by John Wells

On Tuesday 28 May, at 2.15 p.m., Lise Jaillant will give a talk in the Milstein Room, University Library, West Road, on “Archival revolution: how […]

Archives, Digital Resources, Events

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

Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: a conference reflection

Posted on 8 November 2018 by Emily Dourish

Venice showed itself at its most beautiful in late September when hosting a gathering of over 100 academics, librarians, members of the book trade and […]

Digital Resources, Incunabula, Library history, Rare Books