(3 February 2016) The British Library is currently selecting professional development projects for doctoral researchers, hosted by specialist curatorial teams and other Library experts. All applications for the PhD placement scheme must be supported by the applicant’s PhD supervisor and their department’s Graduate Tutor (or equivalent). Each placement (3 month or PT equivalent) has a…
(9 December 2015) The British Library has recently started an AHRC funded project in partnership with King’s College London and University of Southampton called Internet of Cultural Things: Creative Explorations of Data in Cultural Institutions. As the title suggests, the aim of the project is to explore new perspectives on the creation, use and understanding…
(28 November 2015, Kolkata, IANS) Heritage enthusiasts and tourists can now travel back in time to experience the grandeur of 19th century Kolkata through a unique mobile app that offers a glimpse of the city during the British Raj by a mere pointing of a smartphone at a monument. Christened ‘Timescape: Kolkata’, the app is…
(10 November 2015) The British Library will offer fellowships to professionals and scholars from around the world, thanks to a new collaboration with the UK Government announced today. The agreement is the first of its kind between Chevening, the international awards scheme funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and a cultural institution. Applicants from…
(12 November 2015) An international team is to digitise and give free online access to one of the world’s most important collections of South-Asian language printed books. A pilot project for a major digitisation initiative – Two Centuries of Indian Print – was announced today by the British Library, with the support of funding from…
(9 October 2015) The Chinese collections at the British Library consist of more than 100,000 printed books and 2,500 periodical titles. The material has been acquired or donated to the British Library since the Department of Printed Books in the British Museum was founded in 1753, the year of the foundation of the Museum itself.…
(22 September 2015) Applications are being accepted for the next round of funding. The deadline for the submission of preliminary application forms is 6 November 2015. Unless action is taken now, much of mankind’s documentary heritage may vanish – discarded as no longer of relevance or left to deteriorate beyond recovery. This website explains what…
(14 September 2015, Singapore) The Minister for Communications and Information Dr Yaacob Ibrahim will lead a study trip to the United Kingdom from Tuesday (15 September) to Friday. The purpose of the trip is to help the National Library (NLB) strengthen its collection on Singapore and the region, facilitate greater public access to these collections…
(28 August 2015) The British Library is refusing to store a collection of Taliban material because of UK anti-terrorism legislation. It took the decision not to store the archive, which has been compiled over the past three years, on legal advice. The library was told that it could be in breach of the law if…
(1 August 2015) In keeping with its ambition to become the world’s most open institution of its kind, the British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose. So far, these images, which range from Restoration-era cartoons to colonial…
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