A new Archive Management System for Cambridge
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 […]
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Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: a conference reflection
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 […]
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Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion
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 […]
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Codices, coding and cake: a medieval manuscript hackathon
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. […]
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Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney
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 […]
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Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber
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 […]
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Mapping the Maps – a guest post from Natasha Pairaudeau
Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]
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Bringing a hidden collection to light
By Anna Johnson Cambridge University Library may not often be thought of as a significant repository for papyri, but we do have a moderately […]
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A Theatre of Treasures
The third of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department: In 1968 an application was […]
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Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library
Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]
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