Author: Matt Brack

Would you like to learn more about digitisation at the Wellcome Library? The Wellcome Library presents another round of Digitisation Open Days for anyone who may be about to embark on a digitisation project, is already engaged in one, or… Continue reading

Two years on from the start of our early European printed books digitisation with ProQuest, we’re one third of the way through the project, with 4,649 volumes imaged as of today, and 2,447 books available to view for free from… Continue reading

More than 30 books produced by the Wellcome Library have been digitised in a project that opens Phase 2 of the Library’s digital development programme. These publications, which include catalogues of the Library’s Asian and Western collections, as a well… Continue reading

A full report on the Digitisation Doctor workshop of April 15 is now available, along with many of the presentations given on the day. A brief summary of the day with links to presentations can be found below: Introduction –… Continue reading

Wellcome Library are organising a free one-day workshop that will explore the practicalities of digitisation and facilitate conversation between those involved in digitisation projects. The workshop will take place on April 15, 10:00am-4:00pm at the Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building, 215… Continue reading

Beginning in July of this year, the Wellcome Library began to scan the first of some 15,000 early printed books in collaboration with the information provider ProQuest and the French data capture specialists Diadeis (a detailed outline of the project… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library is well known for its Asian collections, which characteristically deviate from the Library’s usual remit of the history of medicine. Its Oriental Topography component, the core of which consists of monographs written about the ‘orient’ by Westerners… Continue reading