The Copyright Cup
06 June 2007Books were replaced by boots as a team from Cambridge University Library travelled to Edinburgh last weekend for the inaugural Copyright Cup football tournament.
5000 Darwin letters go online
17 May 2007"The scheme is a most magnificent one. We spend about two years in South America, the rest of time larking round the world," said a young Charles Darwin in a letter to a friend, written as he waited to board the Beagle.
Researchers sniff out early signs of book decay
13 April 2007To date, it has been little more than a fad practised in quirky corners of the literature-loving world. Now the idiosyncratic ritual of book-sniffing is to be used scientifically to prevent future damage to texts at the University of Cambridge.
Schnitzler’s hidden manuscripts explored
01 April 2007Research into more than 30,000 unpublished drafts and letters casts new light on the inspirational Austrian novelist and playwright.
“Darwin's delay” the stuff of myth
27 March 2007New Cambridge research shows Darwin had no fears about publishing his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
Mrs Darwin's diaries join Charles' collected works online
16 March 2007<p>Diaries chronicling 60 years in the life of Charles Darwin's family can be viewed by the public for the first time online.</p>
Teachers’ conference helps de-mystify Cambridge admissions
19 January 2007Teachers from state schools all over the country spent 24 hours in Cambridge last week learning more about the University, the colleges and the admissions process.
Librarians gather for inaugural meeting
19 December 2006‘Virtual scholars’, motivating students, and the potential of wikis and blogs were just some of the topics under discussion at a meeting of all of the University’s librarians.
Schnitzler’s hidden manuscripts
17 November 2006The literary legacy of one of Austria’s most influential and controversial playwrights is being explored at an international conference in Cambridge this weekend.
£500 and the chance of a trip to the USA on offer to students
01 November 2006Cambridge University Library is offering students the chance to win £500 by building their own book collections.
