Thalia Knight, Director of Library and Surgical Information Services at The Royal College of Surgeons of England and Beth Astridge, Library, Museum and Archives Projects Manager highlight some of the remarkable library, archive and museum collections at The Royal College of Surgeons of England, which have recently been awarded Designated status. Last month The Royal […]
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Books, media, social groups, and French culture – Ophélie Ramonatxo of La Médiathèque of the French Institute tells us about what they have to offer. Where do you work? Tell us a bit about what you do. I (Ophélie Ramonatxo) am the head-librarian of La Médiathèque of the French Institute in the United Kingdom. We are currently […]
Ed Potten, Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library, tells us about their recent project to catalogue their internationally renowned incunabula collection. In October 2009 Cambridge University Library launched a cataloguing project which will make records for its collection of 4,650 incunabula available and searchable online for the first time. The incunabula collection […]
Second-hand books can have fascinating histories. Renae Satterley, Senior Librarian at The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple tells us about their rare and early printed books collections, and how they came to have such interesting and varied provenance. On the 20th of September 2012, Middle Temple Library hosted the Historic Libraries Forum Workshop on Provenance in Special Collections. […]
Edward Weech, Deputy Library Manager, Bishopsgate Library tells us about his favourite items, and some new and exciting developments and acquisitions. Where do you work? Tell us a bit about what you do. Bishopsgate Library is an independent library that holds specialist and reference collections, and is situated between the City of London and Spitalfields. The […]