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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...
Making an impact through research library collections: approaches and challenges

Making an impact through research library collections: approaches and challenges

by Talking Humanities | May 2, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Research & Resources

Christina Kamposiori, programme officer at Research Libraries UK (RLUK), examines the results of RLUK’s recent report on the role that special collections and archives play in enabling libraries to meet their impact goals. The special collections and archives held by...
Concept modelling for dummies

Concept modelling for dummies

by Talking Humanities | Mar 26, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features

Michael Pidd, director of the University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute, explains how, while trying to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English printed discourse between...
Dismantling white supremacy in archive and library collections

Dismantling white supremacy in archive and library collections

by Talking Humanities | Dec 13, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications

In this excerpt from ‘Radical Collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions’, a new book re-examining the roots of collections, Alycia Sellie, an associate librarian at City University of New York’s Graduate Center Library,...
The tolls of archival research and how it has made me a better historian

The tolls of archival research and how it has made me a better historian

by Talking Humanities | Jun 15, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources

Dr Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, bemoans the fact that although the poor made up well over half of the British population during the early modern period, archives contain very little information on them. For a historian...
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