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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...
‘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...
The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association and the London Rare Books School

The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association and the London Rare Books School

by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research

Laurence Worms, owner of Ash Rare Books since 1971 and past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, on a partnership that spans some 12 years. The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) has long had a problem with the lack of training opportunities...
Teaching on the London Rare Books School

Teaching on the London Rare Books School

by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research

Dr David Pearson, retired librarian and creator of the electronic database, Book Owners Online, talks about the rewards of teaching and how his summer school students helped to hone his thinking and knowledge. Teaching on the London Rare Books School (LRBS) run the...
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