A Suffragette Belt TAGS: Edinburgh | Politics | Suffrage The CRC has recently acquired a rare belt previously owned by a Scottish suffragette. The belt has already been attracting lots of interest on Twitter so we’ve been exploring where …Continue reading →

Mockingbirds and Cuckoos TAGS: happylibrary The library’s most borrowed books are all textbooks. Of course it is important that our library acts as a resource, but what can it offer you after you have completed …Continue reading →

Launch of our first Knowledge Exchange Week Library and University Collections is delighted to announce its first Knowledge Exchange Week to take place 20 June -24 June 2016. The programme is aimed at Library and Cultural Heritage Professionals from …Continue reading →

Dating a Book For the last couple of months I have had the pleasure of both volunteering with the DIU and now working a bit more seriously through my work placement as part …Continue reading →

Nashriyah: digital Iranian history TAGS: Iran | Islamic | middle east The University of Manchester Library has just launched today, 1 Feb 2016, their digital project Nashriyah: digital Iranian history. It provides free access to 12,000 pages of digital versions of …Continue reading →