Category: Digital Resources

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

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Library history, Special Collections

Codices, coding and cake: a medieval manuscript hackathon

Posted on 8 May 2018 by Suzanne Paul

Last week the UL hosted its first hackathon – to create web apps using glossed manuscripts from the UL’s collections, in just a few days. […]

Digital Resources, Events, Manuscripts

Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney

Posted on 8 December 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collection Care, Conservation, Digital Resources, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts

Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Special Collections

The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]

Anniversaries, Archives, Digital Resources, German