In this final blog post, placement student Katie looks at the theme of support. But what do we even mean by “support”? […]

Follow our new campaign called #WomanOfTheWeek. Each week we will focus on a new, important, historical female writer and post about her and her work. We will […]

Three key themes run throughout the exhibition in this year’s Open the Door festival – Celebrate, Protest, and Support – and […]

Ever wondered about taking part in a Creative Writing for Fearties session? Want some idea of what happens in the sessions? Exchanging ideas, through writing. […]

I went (with Seeing Things), I saw (the Glasgow Zine Festival) and I created a zine (at Women Making It). […]

For the past few months, placement student Katie Fannin has been carrying out a research placement in the GWL archives as part of the Applied Gender Studies […]

Follow our new campaign called #WomanOfTheWeek. Each week we will focus on a new, important, historical female writer and post about her and her work. We will […]

Join GWL on the 10th of May from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm for a bite size learning session including African bead work, film screenings scrap booking, badge making […]

The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track […]

This week’s #WomanOfTheWeek is Agnes Owens […]

ProQuest has provided Early English Books Online (EEBO) on the Chadwyck-Healey interface for many years, but from summar 2019 will be migrating EEBO to the new […]

Last autumn, the University Library exhibited several books signed by major Russian authors such as Ivan Bunin.  Vera Tsareva-Brauner, of the […]

In anticipation of the Economic Consequences of the Peace Centenary Conference on September 9th and 10th, 2019, the Marshall Library is releasing a series of […]

Saturday sees the return of an annual music festival, which seems to be in equal measure loved or hated, the Eurovision song contest. Eurovision fans have […]

Cambridge University Library has just acquired a collection of about 230 French illustrated poetry books ranging from 1841 to 1970 and beyond. They were […]

Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition […]

This week (13th-17th May) is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the library, along with the wider Clinical School, is holding a range of events and activities. […]

Banner for 2019 Yerusha Lecture: Michael Rosen, 15 May 2019, 5pm, Runcie Rm., Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge The 2019 Yerushah Lecture will be given […]

Small people, Photo by Matt From London, on FlickR (CC 2.0) Every year we try to elicit feedback from our library users in a survey. As last year, when I wrote […]

Book covers The Library has acquired a substantial number of new titles in Old Testament (section 3 + commentaries in section 2) so far this year, and these […]

Come on in and recommend! OR…. It’s kinda like a low-tech YELP review for books! Hey MHMS Kids, Check this Out! This is a cool reading promotion […]

Re-posting this!  I just want to share a few coloring pages I curated online & made into PDF’s & JPEGS for our kiddos! I love adding new […]

Short Story: A wonderful 6th grade student & I teamed up and made this bookmark sheet and I want to share it with you. I made copies and gave several to […]

This One iPhone Trick Has Transformed My Life OK, that’s a kind of a big statement. You may have heard of this, but I found this out right before […]

As an educator I was touched by this timeless Huffington Post article from Mr. James Perry, once mayoral candidate and the the Executive Director of the […]

Hey there! To quote the musical philosophers the Spice Girls: So tell me what ya want. What ya really, REALLY want! Do you have a song that you’re dying […]

Here are some of our recent IG Highlights from the Holidays, Winter Smash, #MHTVNews, #makermondaycrafternoon, and our MHMS Memory Book Cover artist winner! […]

Winter Bazaar Help Needed: The Winter Bazaar is a small holiday shop where students can use their Gotchas to “buy” gifts for their friends and […]

“Did you know? Reading just 20 minutes a day exposes your child to about 1.8 million words per year. Reading helps students develop a stronger […]

This is a much needed update to a 2014 post. Over the years we’ve had a great educational partnership with our NYC friends at Flocabulary. I’m even […]

As the National Library launches its appeal to preserve and digitise some 7,000 pre-1950 posters held in the Pictures Collection, Emeritus Professor and author […]

Thanks to the generosity of donors during the 2018 appeal, preservation work continues on the extraordinary collection of PROMPT theatre scrapbooks in the […]

Working as reference librarians in Australia's largest library we get enquiries about all sorts of things. Some ask about subjects and items that are unique […]

Every three years Australians are bombarded with political ephemera in the run up to the federal election.  Over the course of the campaign we see this […]

The Royal Military College (RMC) graduating classes of 1966, 1967 and 1968 are funding the digitisation of early Royal Military College Duntroon Journals. The […]

Thanks to the generosity of donors during the 2018 appeal, preservation work continues on the extraordinary collection of PROMPT theatre scrapbooks in the […]

Well, if you heard me say ‘micro fish’ you may be forgiven for thinking I was talking about tiny aquatic creatures. However, the ’fish’ […]

What are acceptable risks you would take in a job? During my career in the library sector, I have gotten more than a few paper cuts, and once had a mishap with […]

Have you ever tried to talk to children about current affairs, politics or history? How did it go?  Presenting these subjects in easily accessible chunks […]

As a local historian, I’d already delved into Trove many times, but I’d never used this fabulous resource to explore a cold case murder before. […]

Happy 80th birthday (!!!) to Brooklyn boy Harvey Keitel, born May 13, 1939 to Jewish immigrant parents (Romanian mother/Polish father) in Brighton Beach. A lot […]

Congrats, Knowledge Unlatched and its partners on this major achievement. Great to see that there is a smart way to bring the world’s Open Access book […]

In an effort to draw attention to quality self-published literature and in agreement with BlueInk Review, NSR highlights reviews published on BIR’s […]

Below is the full introduction to the new No Shelf Required book, published by the American Library Association in Spring 2019. The book may be ordered via ALA […]

May 6, 1915: George Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A bit of a rough childhood, but he did okay for himself. Alas, he was great at starting […]

NSR is pleased to announce the publication (in Spring/Summer of 2019) of a new book in a series of books which NSR publishes in partnership with ALA: No Shelf […]

Happy 65th birthday to Jerry Seinfeld, born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn. Happy birthday to the man from Planet Zigzag, Willie Nelson, born April 30 (or 29), […]

From De Gruyter: To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected […]

In an effort to draw attention to quality self-published literature and in agreement with BlueInk Review, NSR highlights reviews published on BIR’s […]

What is a book review? Many have attempted to answer this question over the last few decades in a multitude of ways—from informed scholars, librarians, […]

“We’re the people—we go on.” April 14, 1939: Viking Press publishes Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. If that mythic beast, the […]

This NSR original three-part series on ebooks in K-12 or school libraries (written and researched by Peyton Stafford, an expert on school library-oriented […]

In an effort to draw attention to quality self-published literature and in agreement with BlueInk Review, NSR highlights reviews published on BIR’s […]

Since launching the Free to Read column NSR has morphed into a portal that no longer merely keeps up with press releases, emerging ebook and econtent […]

Listening to the then-and-now lives of people for whom childhood included a cataclysm from outside their family offers all of us two powerful precipitates at […]

In an effort to draw attention to quality self-published literature and in agreement with BlueInk Review, NSR highlights reviews published on BIR’s […]

Over 12 years ago, I co-wrote and edited an article for Library Journal with three librarians (during my days as Senior Book Review Editor for the magazine), […]

From The Bookseller: The EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) today agreed on a proposal which will allow all member states to give […]

From Quantum Storey: Quantum Storey’s VR studio combines combines AR & VR capabilities to immerse viewers in the 360° world of smash hit Hotel […]

On October 17th, Multnomah County Library began accepting e-book submissions from local authors for inclusion in the library’s OverDrive collection. The […]