Visit of the President of Ireland
Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, visited the John Rylands Library on 23 November, accompanied by his wife Sabina, theContinue Reading
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Multispectral Imaging at CHICC
CLICK for an animated gif showing the sequence of the light panels across the spectrum, from UV through visible toContinue Reading
Manchester Contributes to the Friedberg Genizah Project
The John Rylands Library has recently agreed to contribute high quality images and metadata of its Genizah Collection to the Friedberg Genizah ProjectContinue Reading
Digitisation of Ancient Cuneiform Texts
We are excited to announce that the John Rylands Library Cuneiform collection is now available online via the Cuneiform Digital LibraryContinue Reading
Catholic Archivists Congregate at the John Rylands Library
The curatorial and technical expertise of Special Collections staff was on full display recently as we hosted a training day for the CatholicContinue Reading
More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar. It reminded me that many cataloguesContinue Reading
Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ catalogues of our manuscript collections, and these are now available as searchableContinue Reading
Scarlet Brings Home the Silver: Award for Augmented Reality Project
Last year The University of Manchester and Mimas won a much-coveted Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant from JISC to developContinue Reading
‘Good sport for collectors’ – Some Recent Ashendene Press Acquisitions
The golden age of the early English private press movement in the 1890s corresponded with the building and foundation ofContinue Reading
Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012)
We were greatly saddened to learn of the death in August of Sir Bernard Lovell, at age of 98. SirContinue Reading