Nice to see this today Cambridge University Library - the first private library catalogue to be printed in England (1726) of the collection of the Duke of Kingston at Thoresby Hall, Notts. A very rare book. Provenance: Sir Thomas Philips, Major J. R. Abbey, A.N.L. Munby. Fantastic engravings.

From children's literature to Greek manuscripts to medieval law compilations, this year's Fellows' Talk Series truly shows the diversity of research happening at Cambridge University Library. Book your free tickets now: loom.ly/BWO8MM0.

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We have a British Sign Language tour of our exhibition, Murder by the Book, on Sat 18 May, 11am-12pm. It's designed for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, and takes place at Cambridge University Library. Tickets are free, pre-booking is essential: lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/british-…

“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” Some pretty endpapers on a copy of the ‘Dialogen des Diogenes von Sinope’ (Leipzig, 1770), in which the German poet Christoph Martin Wieland gave a vindication of his philosophical views. A recent acquisition Cambridge UL Special Collections 7000.e.517.

Very happy to find Hoary cress growing in the staff carpark at Cambridge University Library. #WildflowerHour

Spent the morning at Cambridge University Library floating around just about the best exhibition I've ever been to. If you love crime fiction and are within, say, 1 to 2 thousand miles of Cambridge, you've got to go... and it's free to boot.

A Murder by the Book themed #Caturday !

Cat's Paw by Anne Hocking - one of the many first editions in their original dust jackets housed in Cambridge University Library's Tower collection.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Crime and Cocktails World Book Night Event on Tuesday 23 April. It was a murderously good evening of live jazz, library Murdle, book discussions, and board games – plus Sparkling Cyanide cocktails! What was your favourite part of the night?

UK Web archive colleagues from National Library of Scotland & Cambridge University Library presenting a panel - Striking the Balance: Empowering Web Archivists and Researchers in Accessible Web Archives.

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Love crime podcasts and TV programmes? Check out the Murder by the Book exhibition at Cambridge University Library! It features 100 famous crime novels, plus Agatha Christie's typewriter, Dictaphone, and notebooks. Book your free tickets now: loom.ly/ix0vIuI

Three successful oracle bone sessions Cambridge University Library. Grateful to Prof. Roel Sterckx FAMES_Cambridge for organizing and to Peichao Qin for expert instructions. Thanks to colleagues at the Chinese Section, Conservation, and Cambridge University LibrarySpecColl for their support. Attendees were highly engaged.

Gilt endpapers in a Victorian photograph album at Cambridge University Library.

Fantastic to see this teaching session on some of the great treasures of the Chinese collections Cambridge University Library - under the expert guidance of colleagues from FAMES_Cambridge and our very own Dr Yan He 何妍.

Our Book Club choice for May is Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier. To discuss the novel with us, we’ll be joined by special guest Dr Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at National Gallery of Ireland.
28 May 2024, 7-8pm. This is a free online event: lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/really-p…

Nice art deco detailing all over Cambridge University Library as I walk across to my next meeting.

Great presentation by Liz Emrich-Rouge at Cambridge University Library this morning, accompanied by a fantastic book display featuring visual materials discussed in the talk. It can always deepen my understanding of our collections through researchers. Thanks to Liam Sims for coordinating this event.

Presenting the improved provenance index to @theul's post-1500 printed books, now with links to iDiscover! Includes over 9,000 entries, with more to come. Additional information, corrections, etc. welcome. More at lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…