News and Views
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Published Date
- May 26, 2016
Travel Thursday – Great Western Railway
Written by Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian The Great Western Railway (GWR) was founded in 1833 and received an enabling…
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Published Date
- May 16, 2016
Archive or Objects: Cataloguing Ladybird Artwork
Written by Clare Plascow, Collections Officer How do you catalogue an artwork? That is the question I’ve been trying to…
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Published Date
- April 29, 2016
William Wordsworth: A letter to Longman, 1820
Written by Adam Lines, Reading Room Supervisor. Before I started working at the University of Reading Special Collections, I spent…
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Published Date
- April 28, 2016
Travel Thursday: Captain Cook and H.M.S Endeavour
Written By Louise Cowan, Trainee Liaison Librarian This month sees the anniversary of the first European ship landing in Eastern…
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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…
