Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’
During the six months of the current University Library exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ (18 Jan–16 Jun 2012) we’ll be […]
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Shelf Lives
The ‘mission’ of the University Library’s exhibition centre has always been to offer the public a chance to see some of its most beautiful, precious […]
Continue reading »The original Miss Austen: celebrating the bicentenary of ‘Sense and sensibility’
This month marks the 200-year anniversary of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and sensibility, which was published in October 1811 as an anonymous work, ‘by […]
Continue reading »Detective work
A significant part of rare books cataloguing work is documenting ‘copy-specific’ information—previous ownerships, binding, decoration, or imperfections—about the book in hand. Identifying and describing this […]
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