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Trust is the key to crowdsourcing search terms for museums

Trust is the key to crowdsourcing search terms for museums

by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Research & Resources

For the best search for online collections, museums and cultural heritage institutions need to reflect the voices of the people they serve and collaborate in how they describe collections, says Jessica BrodeFrank, a doctoral student at the School of Advanced Study and...
Books, buildings and big data

Books, buildings and big data

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Professor Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, introduces a cluster of essays on the future of libraries. The library is dead, long live the library. At once in vogue and under threat, libraries are under pressure as never before. Here in Britain, budget...
Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

Books and buildings, if not big data, the Durning-Lawrence Library

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Senate House Library’s rare books librarian, Dr Karen Attar, considers the move of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence’s library from his home in Carlton House to its place in Senate House. How do books and the areas designed to hold them interrelate? How does the physicality...
Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

Metadata: giving new access to old books and images

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources

A digital library needs to be housed with as much care and attention as its physical counterpart, even if the bricks and mortar of its buildings are no more than bits and bytes, says  Dr Richard Gartner, Warburg Institute’s digital librarian. A solid, carefully...
‘De-silting’ libraries – releasing space to future-proof for the digital age

‘De-silting’ libraries – releasing space to future-proof for the digital age

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Interviews, Libraries & Publications

Elizabeth Flower, an associate at Haworth Tompkins, the architectural practice working on the ‘Warburg Renaissance’ project, explains what goes into designing a library today. Which library projects has your practice worked on? How do they fit into your overall...
Research libraries as sites of collaboration

Research libraries as sites of collaboration

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s professor of digital humanities and director of the new Digital Humanities Research Hub, describes her work on a joint report on libraries as sites of collaboration. In 2021, Research Libraries UK, in partnership with the...
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