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...
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...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Amy Kaufman, head law librarian at the William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University, Ontario, remembers her first London Rare Books School. I had been a law librarian at a Canadian university for about ten years when I first heard about the Institute of...
by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources, Training and Research
Katherine Hindley, assistant professor of medieval literature at Singapore’s Nanyany Technological University, discusses the advantages of studying palaeography as a cross-institutional community. My interest in manuscript studies began as a postgraduate student on a...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Research & Resources
By Professor Eve Patten, director of Trinity College Dublin’s Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute When the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin was invited to contribute to this blog, it gave...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study
By Professor Christopher Smith, executive chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council In truth, things move slowly, but here are some of the changes we may be starting to see already … More porous I see the arts and humanities as transforming, not declining....
