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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Digitisation of the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a reflection on digital technologies and collective memory
My name is Raffaella Losito, and in March 2020 I had the great privilege to join the Digital Content Unit team as a Digitisation Technician […]
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“Here’s my photo diary of the impact of a small but incredibly destructive bug”: first transfers to the COVID-19 Collection
Documenting what we do, what we see and how we feel, the first donations have arrived for the University Library’s COVID-19 Collection. Launched in April 2020, this initiative seeks to document the disease’s impact on the […]
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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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“L’entreprise la plus vaste du dix-huitième siècle”: the Encyclopédie Méthodique
The Encyclopédie méthodique was the last and largest of the great French encyclopedias of the eighteenth century. Its first instalment appeared in 1782 and its […]
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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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Women at Cambridge portraits exhibition
In October 2019, The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge opened at the University Library. This consisted of a programme of exhibitions and events focused on […]
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Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of Ely
… ‘base beggarly rogue’, ‘false perjurer’, ‘knave and rascal’, ‘errant thief’, ‘pick-pocket, cheating whore and cut-purse’, ‘forsworn man’, ‘witch’, ‘night-walker’, ‘rank rogue’ … At first glance the insults listed above may have been lifted directly from one of Shakespeare’s […]
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When time to relax is just what the (parchment!) doctor ordered…
Although the Cambridge University Libraries conservators have been working in new and innovative ways since being physically separated from our collections a number of weeks […]
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Salisbury Cathedral’s 800th anniversary and a medieval poem in Cambridge University Library
Guest post by Dr Francis Young. On 28 April 1220 Bishop Richard Poore laid the foundation stone of Salisbury Cathedral, which is unique among English […]
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