Not using this account regularly. Find me at https://xitter.cf/t.co/nk2dLqEKJx. Head of Research at Cambridge University Library (@theUL).
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Delighted to be supporting @samoore_ and others with this new @theUL project. Thank you to @ahrcpress, @wellcometrust and @UKRI_News RED find for making this possible.
@theUL has been awarded over £800,000 to investigate ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines: loom.ly/LVeJ_cI
Really delighted that @theUL is one of the winners of this funding call, for our project ArCH - the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub. Working with @CamGLAMresearch, @suz_paul, @CamDigLib and others.
🚨 New AI-deas winners 🚨
We're excited to announce our two winning projects for our second AI-deas cohort - this time within the #education & #cultural heritage sectors.
🖼️ AI for Cultural Heritage
📚 Opportunities & risks of AI in supporting evaluation
ai.cam.ac.uk/news/winners-of…
Just manage to squeeze this in before the holiday break: a reflection on the first 18 months of @UL's new Research Institute (ULRI). It's been - and continues to be - such a privilege to work on this with @CamUniLibrarian, @CamLibResearch, @orietta_darold and others.
The ground-breaking research centre setting the agenda for collections-led research: join us in celebrating the first 18 months of the University Library Research Institute (ULRI): loom.ly/VrhPmas 🧵
ALT Cambridge University Library staff looking at a book.
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The Illustrated Cairo Genizah is now available to buy in the bookshop @theUL!
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Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch left a significant collection of music books and manuscripts to Cambridge University Library, along with the archive of the musician and instrument-maker Arnold Dolmetsch and the Dolmetsch family.
philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/impac…
@MusiCB3t @YoursCambridge
Come and join @theUL! Closing date 20/10/24
Please retweet - a marvellous job for the right person - Senior Associate Director and Head of Development for one of the world’s great libraries, @theUL in Cambridge. Closes on 20 October, so plenty of time to apply. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48139/
Fab advisory board meeting today for the @ahrcpress-funded @HiPS_Project - new perspectives on @theUL's collections and new friends made!
Launching @theUL's new University Library Research Institute's Professional Development Programme for staff with a fabulous AI 101 delivered by the equally fabulous @NadiaAbouayoub
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ULRI showcasing event was a blast @theUL with @amelieroper @liamsims @mmpawlikowski thanks to @markboxphoto for the video and colleagues @MyBCU for #3d prints of the #typography punches. #imaginglab
The University Library Research Institute (ULRI) celebrated its first birthday yesterday with a Research Showcase celebrating our collections-led research. Thank you to all who came and celebrated with us and those who were with us in spirit! lib.cam.ac.uk/research-insti…
Sparkling company (manuscript and human) at this evenings @theUL Research Institute first anniversary event ✨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #ULRI #CULconservation
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Do you have DAMS experience, copyright and licensing knowledge? We are looking for Picture Library Manager to join our team in Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory @theUL #jobpost #glam
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46438/
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It’s wonderful to join colleagues from across the research community @wellcometrust to celebrate the role of libraries in research and the results of the @ahrcpress @RL_UK Research Engagement Programme tinyurl.com/3hnprmc2
Super excited to be heading to @wellcometrust today for the @RL_UK "Celebrating Research" event. I'll be presenting the findings of my @ahrcpress fellowship on "Documenting the Role of UK Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic". lib.cam.ac.uk/documentingcov…
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A recent blog post from the Royal Commonwealth Society team in @theUL about my fantastic department's hard work to catalogue their little-known 'Foreign colonies' collection.
FYI esp @TheSeeleyLib and @MMLL_Library
languagecollections-blog.lib…
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Do you want to learn about healing sore eyes with herbs and urine, conjuring demons, and the soul’s journey after death? Then read our #CuriousCures blogpost on a newly digitised fifteenth-century book of Middle English medical recipes!
specialcollections-blog.lib.…
ALT A medieval medical recipe for sore eyes written in brown ink and featuring a decorative fish.
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Medieval people who informally practised medicine were called “leeches”. Little is known about them but we have uncovered one of their names in a 15C book of medical recipes using multi-spectral imaging. Read more in our new #CuriousCures blogpost:
specialcollections-blog.lib.…
ALT Multi-spectral imaging on an erased owner's inscription in an English medieval book of medical recipes.
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Crime fiction is the UK's most read, borrowed and bought genre of fiction & @theUL is celebrating it in style with dozens of beautiful first editions and @agathachristie's typewriter, notebooks, Dictaphone and the typescript for her final #Poirot novel!
cam.ac.uk/stories/Murder-by-…
Humbled to have played a small part in planning this @ahrcpress-funded project. So great to see this project live - one of the first collaborations of @theUL's new Research Institute! With @mmpawlikowski @liamsims #Baskerville
A project which packs a punch! @theUL are thrilled to announce their part in a collaborative @ahrcpress funded research project unlocking the secrets of the Baskerville typeface. Discover more here: loom.ly/bIao_ws
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Our newest Zooniverse project is ready for citizen scientist volunteers! By transcribing herbarium specimen labels, volunteers add to biodiversity big data for research. Visit our Zooniverse page to get involved! tinyurl.com/4ary9fbp @plantsci @CamUnivMuseums @CamGLAMresearch
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of Lycium halimifolium showing a plant and a label
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of a herbarium specimen label for a Narcissus pseudonarcissus specimen from Herefordshire
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of Narcissus pseudonarcissus from Herefordshire including flowers, leaves and a label.
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