News and Views
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Published Date
- April 21, 2016
Incunables identified
Written by Erika Delbecque, UMASCS Librarian Last month we wrote about the process of identifying loose leaves from incunables, books printed in Europe…
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Published Date
- April 14, 2016
Memoir on the Dodo
Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian One of the interesting finds from our cataloguing and reclassification of the Cole…
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Published Date
- April 12, 2016
New exhibition: Ex libris – marks of ownership in rare books from the University of Reading Special Collections
Rare books often contain a variety of features which make them important and interesting historical artifacts beyond their texts. Marks…
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Published Date
- March 25, 2016
Cliveden House Exhibition
At the end of February, staff from Special Collections were joined by students of the history department at Cliveden House…
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Published Date
- March 24, 2016
Travel Thursday – A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter
Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian ‘A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697’ was written by…
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Published Date
- March 23, 2016
College Song No. 1, “The Song of the Shield”
Written by Guy Baxter, Archivist Since the University celebrated the 90thanniversary of the granting of its Royal Charter last Thursday, many…
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Published Date
- March 21, 2016
A relic of an 18th century poet to mark World Poetry Day
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian Tucked away in one of our archive boxes is an envelope which contains a…
