Digital Developments
Find out about the latest developments on our website, including new web tools, library systems developments and digitisation projects. Also, watch out for opportunities to give us feedback and take part in website user activities.
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We come to no. 70,000: Landscape without rainbow
A new milestone has been reached in the cataloguing of the Wellcome Library’s prints, photographs, drawings and paintings: the 70,000th catalogue record has been created. The 65,000th record was noted on this blog on 18 March 2009. Both Library staff… Continue reading
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Full-text searching now available in the Library catalogue
The Wellcome Library has introduced full text searching for a proportion of our digitised items. You can now search inside the items themselves, in addition to searching across information about the items. Why have we done this? Simply because you’re… Continue reading
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Expose your research to the incurably curious
This week we’re launching a new scheme to help Wellcome Library users make their research freely available to everyone. The Wellcome Library is a free resource and is open to anyone who wants to use our collections. We know that… Continue reading
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Digitising our early European printed books: two years on
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
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Two million milestone for the digital library programme
Since the launch of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics in March earlier this year, we have continued to add content to our digital library at a growing pace. Our Medical Officer of Health (MOH) report project has seen nearly 500,000 images… Continue reading
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Call for participants: testing the Medical Officer of Health reports website
Interested in the public health history of London? Curious about quantifying disease? Enjoy having a chat about websites and how you might use them? We’re looking for 10 people to help us test a prototype of our JISC-funded London Medical… Continue reading
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Dr Cicely Williams speaks to the nation
There is something very special about hearing a person’s voice. Tucked away in the Wellcome Library’s Cicely Williams archive there are a few audio-recordings. These have recently been digitised and two of the best are now online, making it possible… Continue reading
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On Giant’s Shoulders #61: to iCHSTM and beyond
Hello, and welcome to On Giant’s Shoulders #61 the monthly online carnival of history of science blogging, this month hosted at the Wellcome Library’s blog. What follows is a selection of posts from the last month from the world of… Continue reading
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Digitisation Open Days at the Wellcome Library
Would you like to learn more about digitisation at the Wellcome Library? We are holding a series of Digitisation Open Days throughout 2013 to provide a behind-the-scenes view of our digitisation programme. We will cover: what is available digitally and… Continue reading
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Pixels and Passchendaele
In commemoration of the upcoming 100 year anniversary of World War I, all material within the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Muniments collection relating to the war is being digitised as part of the Library’s Digitisation Programme. The material will be digitised… Continue reading