The door to the SafePod on the ground floor of the David Wilson Library The Library is now home to a SafePod: a local, safe environment where researchers can access sensitive datasets. Registered researchers can now use specialist data from the UK Data Service, SAIL Databank, Office for National Statistics, the Scottish Government and Health […]
In 2019 I attended an Oral History Society networker event at the British Library and was impressed with work that the Library had done with students from the Royal College of Art School of Communication. In particular, a ‘sonic quilt’, created by Karthika Sakthivel, used sensors in the fabric to trigger oral history sound clips […]
We are delighted to announce that University of Leicester is now an institutional supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ). As part of our commitment to supporting open scholarship, we have signed-up as an official supporter (in the sustaining category). DOAJ is an index of open access journals from around the world. It […]
16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month, an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people. Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some aspects of our collections relating to the history of disability. Some of the collection items […]
16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month, an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people. Over the next four weeks, we will be highlighting some aspects of our collections relating to the history of disability. Some of the collection items […]
In a second post related to World Digital Preservation Day, 3 November 2022, I thought I would share the tips that our University Records Manager, David Jenkins and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) gave at some informal sessions run on 3 November about managing your own digital archive. We are all dealing with a deluge […]
The theme chosen this year by the International Open Access Week advisory committee for International Open Access Week 2022 is “Open for Climate Justice” (October 24-30). As described on the OA week website: This year’s focus on Climate Justice seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing […]
I last wrote a blog about our digital preservation activity in 2018, nearly a year after I started at Leicester, and thought the forthcoming World Digital Preservation Day 2022 would be a good opportunity reflect back over the last few years and the progress we have made. Obviously, the pandemic changed our ways of working […]
Hello – my name is Eleanor Bloomfield and I am the (relatively) new library adviser for Archives and Special Collections. I look after the reading room every weekday morning (my role’s ‘other half’, Ian Swirles, covers the afternoons). Originally from New Zealand, my background is in teaching, research and historically informed theatre – mainly Shakespeare […]
By Lily Skelton 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 […]
