Tag: library catalogues

From today you can login to your Wellcome Library account witha username of your choice. Set your username to something more meaningful to you thanyour Library barcode to make future logging in quicker and easier. How? To set your new… Continue reading

…search your browser! Ever wondered if the Wellcome Library held something but couldn’t really be bothered to check? Ever wanted to have our search just a little more within your reach? The Chrome browser’s omnibox gives you that help at… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library’s quick search is great for finding out what we have if you’re already on our web site. But what do you do if you find a book on another web site, like Amazon? Do you open up… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library’s quick search (also known as Encore) now has a new, cleaner look and feel. Our quick search helps you by giving you one place to search across and dig into the WellcomeLibrary’s collections.  These new features can… Continue reading

This month’s new cataloguing bulletin from the Archives and Manuscripts department releases a large tranche of material for researchers to work upon: five collections of twentieth-century papers, totalling over 230 archive boxes of material or over 1000 new database records.… Continue reading

Robert Gooch by John Linnell, 1831. Wellcome Library no. 3701i Some 9,000 of the Wellcome Library’s portrait-prints and -drawings are catalogued in the Wellcome Library catalogue, but most of the records are very brief: they omit much of the information… Continue reading

Today the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of its controlled vocabulary called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). MeSH is used in the Wellcome Library catalogues for subject access. Subject access to the medical… Continue reading

Elena Pierazzo, from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London describes a new metadata schema for Arabic manuscript cataloguing. The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership, as previously announced, is working toward providing greater access to the… Continue reading

Today we’re bringing wish list functionality to the library catalogue with the roll-out of a new feature: My Lists. What is My Lists? Maybe you need to create a list of items to consult on your next visit to the… Continue reading

We mentioned in the last round up of new archives and manuscripts cataloguing that there is considerable overlap between May’s work and June’s: data released to the public in early June included a large amount of material created in May.… Continue reading