Members of the Library Research Services team (Will and Merinne) recently attended the first face-to-face meeting of the RLUK Open Strategy Network (OSN). RLUK OSN is a professional peer network for RLUK members leading Scholarly Communication, Open Science, Open Research, Open Scholarship and related activities within RLUK member libraries. Working and delivering services and tools […]
As the University has announced an exciting programme of Summer events at the Botanic Gardens in Oadby, we explore the art of botanical illustration through our Special Collections.
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. […]
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. […]
This week we are pleased to launch Views of England and Wales, the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. We have now published over 2,000 images of historic landscapes, buildings and monuments belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History. The majority of images are prints made in the […]
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. […]
The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body. It is doing this through the University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (ULIIHE) and through department and school initiatives like MedRACE. ULIIHE’s Racial Inclusivity Toolkit is full of […]
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 […]
