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Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on January 23, 2023
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 […]
Posted in Research data | Tagged ESRC, SafePod |
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on December 12, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Sounds for the future | Tagged East Midlands Oral History Archive, Urban |
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on December 2, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Open Access | Tagged DOAJ, Museum and Society |
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library and Learning Services on November 24, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Archives and Special Collections, UK Disability History Month 2022 | Tagged collection highlights, rare books |
Posted by Lily Skelton in Library and Learning Services on November 18, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Sounds for the future, UK Disability History Month 2022 |
Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on November 7, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archives, digipres, digital preservation, World Digital Preservation Day |
Posted by Laurian Williamson in Library and Learning Services on October 20, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Open Access, Uncategorized | Tagged Figshare Leicester Research Archive, International Open Access Week, LRA, OA, open access |
Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on October 19, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Digital preservation | Tagged digipres, digital archiving, digital preservation |
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on October 3, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Staff profiles |
Posted by Lily Skelton in Library and Learning Services on September 29, 2022
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 […]
Posted in Sounds for the future | Tagged Cataloguing, Changing Leicester, East Midlands Oral History Archive, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Sound archives |