Guest post by Jess Pascal, student volunteer. Hello, my name is Jess Pascal and I have been volunteering in the archives for the last two months. My task has been to write descriptive summaries of Students’ Union handbooks to make them easier to find in the catalogue. It’s been a really interesting task – reading […]
Funded by UKRI? Planning to produce a monograph, book chapter or edited collection? Join the Library Research Services team for a refresh on the latest changes to the UKRI Open Access policy for books, and to hear how Leicester authors can access the funds and advice available to them. When: Tuesday 9 Jan 2024, 12 […]
What if we could trust the ground under our feet? Museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability Our friends at the journal Museological Review have a new Call for Paper, which we would like to share with you. The submission deadline for abstracts/proposals has been extended to: Monday, January 29 2024. Sometimes it seems like the […]
To mark UK Disability History Month, which falls between 16th November and 16th December, Archives and Special Collections are showcasing items from our holdings which shed light on these often hidden histories. / Our collections span a wide time period and their content can contain language and terminology reflecting contemporary attitudes that today may be […]
The 2023 Mercian collaboration conference was hosted at the University of Birmingham Exchange conference centre, in September 2023. The theme of the conference was ‘Putting change into action: development, diversity and drive‘ and two LLS University of Leicester (UoL) colleagues, Alex Marshall (Content Discovery Manager) and Sheree Dewey (Content Services Manager) were both first time […]
The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort. This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day. It expands on the Library and Records Management’s wish to embed sustainable practices in their roles, explore efforts being made by the sector and examines how we can preserve files […]
Please note that this post contains content relating the Holocaust. If you are affected by this topic, please be aware of our available support information for students and support services in the community. / One of my current projects is translating the letters held in the Bejach archive, in order to improve accessibility for researchers who lack the language […]
International Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s theme, Community Over […]
Written by Huma Ahmed. Getting the chance to study at the University of Leicester just keeps getting better! As part of my undergraduate degree studying Ancient History and History, I was able to partake in a heritage project to redesign webpages for the East Midlands Oral History Archive, or EMOHA for short. This archive preserves […]
The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’. The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and will run from May 2022 to October 2023 with the objective of preserving, cataloguing and using EMOHA’s existing oral history collections. […]
