The University of Cambridge has been awarded £3m from the AHRC's Capability for Collections Fund to invest in equipment and refurbishment that will enable researchers from across the UK and worldwide to undertake new research into its heritage collections.
Hot air balloon disasters, scandalous court records and a boom in digital collections all feature as we look back at some of Cambridge University Libraries' most popular stories of 2020.
Cambridge University Library’s collaboration with the people of Cambridge brings to light the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.
For many people, COVID-19 has meant remote working, but some jobs just have to be done in person. We meet the the technicians, gardeners, porters and others who have been keeping the University and Colleges going during the uniquely challenging circumstances of a global pandemic.
Cambridge University Library has launched a public appeal for help in tracking down two missing notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin - one of which includes his iconic Tree of Life sketch
What happens when you are a librarian without a library? This is exactly what happened with husband and wife Veronica Phillips, Assistant Librarian at the University of Cambridge Medical Library, and Matthias Ammon, Research Support Librarian at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library. Here they discuss their experience of living, and working, through the coronavirus pandemic.
Have you ever lost access to an important file? Or opened a file only to find that it doesn’t look as it should? These are challenges that collecting institutions also face but at a much larger and complex scale.
Cambridge University Library partners with Google Arts and Culture to open its world-class collections freely to a global audience becoming the first University of Cambridge institution to join the platform.
Cambridge University Library's joint project with the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, continues to reveal the secrets of crime and punishment in the Isle of Ely
With almost 40,000 items to browse there is something for everyone in the Cambridge Digital Library. Here we focus on four archives showcasing the diversity of the CDL.
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