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 Talking Humanities | May 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
As the year-long calendar of events to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante gets underway, Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books, looks at Virgil, the prominent character in the great poet’s epic work, The Divine Comedy. The literary...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 10, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar is fascinated by a rare Senate House Library autobiography full of art, politics and scandal. Like any venerable institution, the University of London accrues a variety of artworks. For example, it holds various sculptures: marble busts of Victorian...
