British Library offers e-classics app for iPad
BBC – “The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books available for the iPad. Texts appear in fully digitised form, complete with original page markings and drawings, as...
View ArticleBritish Library puts 19th C newspapers online
AP – “The newspaper coverage was troubling: London’s huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes – and the transport was a mess. It sounds like the 2012...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4’s Listening Project to capture the voices of the nation in...
British Library – “The Listening Project will invite people across the UK to share an intimate conversation. Some of these conversations will be broadcast by the BBC and curated and archived by the...
View ArticleThe British Library and Qatar Foundation unveil project to digitise half a...
“The British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transform people’s understanding of the history of the Middle...
View ArticleBRITISH LIBRARY SETS OUT TO ARCHIVE THE WEB
“Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, pamphlet,...
View ArticleBook containing 1000 beautiful paintings from the Song Dynasty period is...
“The British Library’s Asian and African department is home to a vast collection of Chinese artefacts, books and manuscripts. These include the oldest items in the Library, the oracle bones – some 3500...
View ArticlePath breaking partnership helps national library preserve thousands of...
“The British Library and digital preservation specialist Portico announced today that they will be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal titles will be collected, preserved...
View ArticleBritish Library acquires W.H. Auden’s previously ‘lost’ journal
“The British Library has acquired one of just three journals kept by W H Auden. The journal, which provides a fascinating juxtaposition of personal and political preoccupations, gives an intimate...
View ArticleCRL and British Library To Digitize Foreign News
“The British Library and the Center for Research Libraries have formed a path-breaking partnership to digitize and make accessible historical news content from Africa, South Asia, and Latin America of...
View ArticleBritish Library to partner with National Library of Singapore to digitise...
“Today (19 August) at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) 2013 meeting, Roly Keating the British Library’s Chief Executive signed an agreement with Mrs Elaine Ng the Chief...
View ArticleThe nation is captured in conversation as over 350 recordings from The...
“Over 350 intimate conversations recorded by people across the UK have become part of history this week, as they are made available in full for the first time on the British Library’s Sounds website....
View ArticleBritish Library maps are the inspiration for a winning videogame concept
“A team of students have won a prestigious competition after using videogame technology to turn historic maps and engravings from the British Library into a stunning 3D environment. Pudding Lane...
View ArticleVoices of Science: The lives of British scientists recorded in full for the...
“A major oral history project to gather the life stories of British scientists has culminated today in the launch of a new online archive by the British Library. Voices of Science is drawn from a...
View ArticleA million first steps – British Library Uploads Over 1 Million Images onto...
“We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft...
View ArticleBritish Library acquires Hanif Kureishi archive
“Screenwriter and novelist Hanif Kureishi, who has charted ructions in British society from punk rock to radical Islam, has sold his personal archive to the British Library. The library said Wednesday...
View ArticleThe Academic Book of the Future: a major new research project from the Arts &...
“The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the British Library are launching a two-year research project which will explore the future of academic books in the context of open access...
View ArticleEuropeana 1914-1918: A new website that brings all sides of World War One...
“The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in Germany, Monika Grütters, today launched Europeana 1914-1918, an online resource that opens up hidden stories of the First World War and...
View ArticleDCMS re-appoints Baroness Blackstone as Chairman of the British Library
“The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Rt. Hon Maria Miller MP, has re-appointed Baroness Blackstone as Chairman of the British Library for a further four year term. Tessa Blackstone has...
View ArticleMozart Manuscripts Online
“250 years ago, on 23 April 1764, the eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in London with his father Leopold, mother Anna Maria, and sister Maria Anna (Nannerl). The visit formed part of an...
View ArticleBritish Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room
“Dismissed by some as tomorrow’s chip paper but indispensable to others as a first draft of history, nearly 400 years of newspapers will be available for perusal on Monday in the British Library’s new...
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