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Digital libraries: going with the workflow
How do you digitise an entire library? I’ve been asking members of our Digitisation team to tell me about their part in the digitisation process. Name: Rioghnach Ahern What is your job title? Digital Ingest Coordinator And what does that… Continue reading
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Purses and foldouts – unexpected challenges of digitisation
How do you digitise an entire library? I’ve been asking members of our Digital Production team to tell me about their part in the digitisation process. Name: Deborah Leem What is your job title? Digital Support Team Manager How many… Continue reading
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Dirty but rewarding: contributing to the UK Medical Heritage Library
The Royal College of Surgeons, England was one of 9 institutions that contributed to the UKMHL. Their Collections Librarian, Dot Fouracre, tells us about what it was like to be part of the mass digitisation project. We were excited to… Continue reading
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Completing the UK Medical Heritage Library project
This summer we waved goodbye to the last of our nine partners who travelled with us on a short but intensive journey to digitise 15 million pages of 19th century health and medical culture over the past 20 months. These… Continue reading
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UK Medical Heritage Library: events for would-be digital scholars
As regular readers of the blog will know, we’ve been working with Jisc and a range of 9 partner institutions on the UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL) – a vast project to digitise 19th century texts from research libraries nationwide.… Continue reading
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The musings of melancholy
Can writing about melancholy help alleviate it? Under the pseudonym Democritus Junior, this is what a 17th-century scholar was attempting to achieve through his book The Anatomy of Melancholy. The title caught my attention while working on the UK Medical… Continue reading
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Burger’s Secret: discover an unexpected Conan Doyle story
As legions of Sherlock fans await a visit to Victorian London and an encounter with The Abominable Bride on British television in the New Year, we thought a little-known tale from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would further whet the appetite. Burger’s Secret is a… Continue reading
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100,000 digitised books in the Medical Heritage Library
The 100,000th item to has been added to the Medical Heritage Library. The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) brings together a huge curated collection of digitised works related to health and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, drawn from some… Continue reading
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Not by half! UK-MHL project 8 million page milestone
Pathology, surgery, therapeutics, anatomy, public health – these are some of the top subjects that are covered by the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) digitisation project. In July the UK-MHL project reached the halfway point, with over 26,000 titles digitised,… Continue reading
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The philosophy of beards
In recent years, beards have become a fashionable accessory among youngish men. Despite critics’ hopeful predictions of society reaching ‘peak beard’, their popularity has yet to decline. Like many fashions, society’s historical hunger for beards has been cyclical: it grows… Continue reading