Blogs about: Resource Discovery
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Summon: Training the trainer
Over a month ago Rebecca Price from Proquest delivered some training for our librarians entitled ‘train the trainer’ which was a useful overview on how Summon works and how to introduce it… more →
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Manchester Museum Archive
wrote 2 weeks ago: Dr James Peters writes: Special Collections has recently taken in the first consignment of the archi … more →
Quick update
wrote 2 months ago: Just a quick post to say that we’re still here and still working on making City a more open ac … more →
Alma @ UEL
wrote 2 months ago: On Friday I attended an open day – Alma @ UEL. Alma is a unified resource management system su … more →
The Thomas Allan Collection - A Major Resource for 19th-Century British Studies
wrote 2 months ago: Thomas Allan was a solicitor and political adviser to the Wesleyan Methodists and was considered one … more →
“Sisters in Christ”: A Significant New Resource for Gender Studies at the University of Manchester
wrote 2 months ago: The Wesley Deaconess Order was founded in 1890 in response to the realisation that an Order of dedic … more →
What's the problem?
wrote 2 months ago: Like every other university we now have access to a huge range of academic resources in the shape of … more →
JIBS User Group resource discovery event February 2013
wrote 2 months ago: The JIBS User Group event on resource discovery last month was really interesting. Whatever stage yo … more →
Buffalo Bill Scrap Book – A Hidden Treasure of the John Rylands Library
wrote 2 months ago: Buffalo Bill Scrapbook, English MS 1393. Considerable public and scholarly interest has recently bee … more →
Archive Fever! Cataloguing the Freud Family Papers
wrote 3 months ago: As part of her Masters in Archives and Records Management course at the University of Liverpool, Lou … more →
On the invisibility of edited collections
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wrote 4 months ago: Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee) last year argued that (at least in neuropsychology) ‘if you write a chapt … more →
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wrote 5 months ago: Reblogged from CHICC Manchester: Over 300 historical maps spanning 200 years of Mancunian history ha … more →
Multispectral Imaging at CHICC
wrote 5 months ago: CLICK for an animated gif showing the sequence of the light panels across the spectrum, from UV thro … more →
Manchester Contributes to the Friedberg Genizah Project
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wrote 6 months ago: The John Rylands Library has recently agreed to contribute high quality images and metadata of its G … more →
Digitisation of Ancient Cuneiform Texts
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wrote 6 months ago: We are excited to announce that the John Rylands Library Cuneiform collection is now available onlin … more →
Just over the horizon.....
wrote 6 months ago: For some years now, and in 2 jobs, I’ve been looking for a new search solution for the librari … more →
Super Mets ~ progressive roles... a Library 'thing'
wrote 6 months ago: It occurred to me recently yet again that on the whole to the general public, that library work is n … more →
More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
wrote 6 months ago: Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar … more →
Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
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wrote 6 months ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ cata … more →
Scarlet Brings Home the Silver: Award for Augmented Reality Project
wrote 7 months ago: Last year The University of Manchester and Mimas won a much-coveted Learning and Teaching Innovation … more →
