by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
Dr Matthew Shaw, Joanna Ashe, David Gee and Dr Raphaële Mouren, reflect on the challenges faced by the School of Advanced Study’s (SAS) libraries during lockdown, and look ahead to the way things will change. Among the novel activity of the...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Libraries & Publications, Publications
Dr Karen Attar, curator of rare books and university art at Senate House Library, explores the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American industrialist who set up more than 2,800 libraries around the world before he died on 11 August 1919. In accordance...
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,...
by aseifert | Nov 20, 2014 | Archives & Libraries, Events
Senate House recently hosted a multi-disciplinary conference exploring the role libraries have played in restricting access to published works and archival materials deemed ‘erotic’. In this post, research librarian Richard Espley reflects on the...
by aseifert | Jul 15, 2014 | Being Human festival, Digital, Public Engagement, Publications
Dr Martin Paul Eve–co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities and editor of the open access journal Alluvium—reflects on “open access”, engagement, and the politics of information management in a digital age. The academic disciplines that constitute the...